News Archives - Page 1922 of 5424 - Daily Hampshire Gazette

A surviving ceramic statue is seen outside a house that burned along North Arm Road in Plumas County near Taylorsville, Calif., Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. Thousands of Northern California homes remain threatened by the nation's largest wildfire and officials warn the danger of new blazes erupting across the West is high because of unstable weather. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia)

News

Calif. fire threatens homes; blazes burn across West

by Eugene Garcia Associated Press, and Christopher Weber Associated PressAugust 16, 2021

An aerial view of the city center in Bozkurt town of Kastamonu province, Turkey, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021, after flooding. Turkey sent ships to help evacuate people and vehicles from a northern town on the Black Sea that was hard hit by flooding, as the death toll in the disaster rose Sunday to at least 62 and more people than that remained missing. (AP Photo)

News

Flooding death toll in Turkey up to 77

by Staff Report August 16, 2021

People rest after spending the night at a soccer field following Saturday´s 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Les Cayes, Haiti, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn)

News

Haiti braces for Grace, Florida for Fred as storms brew

by The Associated Press August 16, 2021

FILE - In this May 9, 2021 file photo, Rev. Joseph Jackson Jr. talks to his congregation at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church in Milwaukee during a service. Health officials have an unsteady partner as they try to get more people vaccinated against COVID-19 in the Bible Belt: churches and pastors. Some preachers are praying for more inoculations and hosting vaccination clinics. Others are skirting the topic of vaccines or openly preaching against them in a region that's both deeply...

News

Many Bible Belt preachers silent on vaccinations

by Jay Reeves Associated PressAugust 16, 2021

A collapsed home lays in ruins in Saint-Louis-du-Sud, Haiti, Monday, Aug. 16, 2021, two days after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck the southwestern part of the country. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

News

Search for quake survivors continues in Haiti

by Mark Stevenson Associated Press, and Evens Sanon Associated PressAugust 16, 2021

An helicopter drops water over a fire in Siderina village helicopter about 55 kilometers (34 miles) south of Athens, Greece, Monday, Aug. 16, 2021. Greek authorities have deployed dozens of firefighters, as well as six water-dropping planes and four aircraft to a wildfire that broke out Monday morning in the Keratea region southeast of Athens, near the national park of Sounion. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

News

Winds fan 2 new blazes outside of Athens

by Elena Becatoros Associated PressAugust 16, 2021

Northampton City Hall

News

Gold withdraws from Northampton School Committee race, candidate forums on tap

by Brian Steele Staff WriterAugust 16, 2021

Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton.

News

Area hospitals mindful of COVID uptick

by Bera Dunau Staff Writers, and Mary Byrne Staff WritersAugust 16, 2021

Hundreds of people run alongside a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane as it moves down a runway of the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday.

News

Kabul airport plunges into chaos as Taliban patrol Afghan capital

by Ahmad Seir Associated Press, Tameem Akhgar Associated Press, Kathy Gannon Associated Press, and Jon Gambrell Associated PressAugust 16, 2021

Marijuana plants

News

Cannabis connoisseurs called to choose cup champions

by Colin A. Young State House News ServiceAugust 16, 2021