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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — Hamas has given its initial approval of a U.S.-backed proposal for a phased cease-fire deal in Gaza, dropping a key demand that Israel commit up front to a complete end to the war, a Hamas official and an Egyptian official said Saturday.

BROWNSVILLE, Texas — After hitting Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and downgrading to a tropical storm, Beryl is expected to once again become a hurricane as it hurtles towards southern Texas by Sunday evening. Hurricane Beryl’s explosive growth into an unprecedented early storm shows the literal hot water the Atlantic and Caribbean are in right now and the kind of season they can expect. Beryl smashed storm records even before its major hurricane-level winds approached land in Grenada. Experts say that’s mostly due to water temperatures as hot as the peak of hurricane season, in September.

The trend of the real estate market in Allen County is shown by the following report, for the week running June 27 through July 3. Figures reflect the selling price of the property, along with the address or lot number of same and are courtesy of Allen County Recorder Mona Losh’s Office.

When you purchase real property, you attend a closing (which is not always in person) and the seller(s) sign(s) a deed to you as buyer. This deed identifies the property (with a legal description approved by the county tax map office). Upon the deed getting executed the deed then gets recorded by the title company in the county recorder’s office. In most cases, the original deed then gets returned to the buyer after recording.

At this point in his life, Father Dennis Walsh looked forward to a slower pace of life.

As Independence Day approached this week, I started thinking about freedom and what that entails. This month, Lee and I will hit 18 months sober. And I couldn’t think of anything better to write about than the beautiful sober freedoms that we have encountered over the past year and a half.

I like to think I’m hot. I like to think I’m cool, too. In reality, I am neither — unless I have to stick a big, heavy air conditioner in the bedroom window and another in the office window, in which case, if I even survive, I am both.

LIMA — Two decades in business taught Jennifer Brogee to rely on her strengths, rather than imitate her competitors.

WAPAKONETA – Dan Shelley has owned his 1972 Nova “for around 25 years.”

BATON ROUGE, La. — Even as a legal challenge is already underway over a new Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms, the details of how the mandate will be implemented and enforced remain murky.