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Massachusetts lawmakers blocked a proposed ballot measure Thursday that would have let voters decide whether to amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage in the only state that allows it.

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People on both sides of the debate about same-sex marriage in Massachusetts returned to the state legislature Thursday, bracing for what could be their final showdown in the only U.S. state to allow gays and lesbians to marry. At issue is whether lawmakers will allow a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage to go before Massachusetts residents for a vote.

Once a place for gays to parade the outlandish and the outrageous, Halloween street parties have been overrun by college kids and gangbangers, appropriated by stroller-pushing moms and out-of-towners, and regulated by angry residents and city officials. Have we lost Halloween forever?

When Steven Haataja came to remote Chadron, Neb., it was supposed to be a new beginning for the mathematician who had just earned his doctorate. But just seven months later, in March, the college professor was found burned to death in the hills just south of the small school where he taught.