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An Israeli soldier stands on top of a military vehicle as the sun rises in a staging area near the Israel Gaza Border, southern Israel, yesterday. Israeli aircraft battered the headquarters of the bank Gaza's Hamas leaders set up to sidestep international sanctions on their rule, as fitful efforts to negotiate an end to a week-old convulsion of violence moved to the highest reaches of diplomacy. The strike on the Islamic National Bank was part of a widening Israeli assault against Gaza militants, meant to quell rocket fire that has abruptly struck deep into Israel's heartland.

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  • superfund Danvers tannery site in line for cleanup The site of the former Creese and Cook Tannery has just joined a list of the nation's most complex and troubled hazardous waste sites. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency yesterday added the 17-acre site to its National Priorities List of Superf

    May 22, 2013 1 Photo

  • 130521_SN_KYU_BIKE_4 Bikes welcome on the T BEVERLY -- Steve Roberge is an evangelist of the bicycle. He promotes it as a way to "save money, save gas ... reduce carbon emissions and global-warming gases and get healthy." What's more, Roberge, 51, puts his pedals where his mouth is -- he regu

    May 22, 2013 4 Photos

  • bizrydzewski1 A helping hand for Peabody businesses PEABODY -- Mayor Ted Bettencourt went in-house choosing Julie Rydzewski as the city's first "business liaison," the person responsible for making it easier to make money in Peabody. Rydzewski, 30, grew up in Peabody and has worked at City Hall -- ini

    May 22, 2013 1 Photo

  • Peabody residents consider rezoning PEABODY -- The plan to change the zoning in the Pulaski Street industrial park is aimed at easing the plight of nearby residents fed up with the noise and traffic it brings, according to city officials. But some of those residents are holding their f

    May 22, 2013

  • Override passes for Linebrook Road project in Ipswich IPSWICH -- The $3 million Linebrook Road reconstruction project will move forward after voters yesterday approved a debt-exclusion override to fund the proposal at the annual town election. There were 662 votes in favor of the project and 585 ballots

    May 22, 2013