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NEW YORK — Columbia University is canceling its large university-wide commencement ceremony following weeks of pro-Palestinian protests that have roiled its campus and others across the U.S., but it will hold smaller school-based ceremonies this week and next, the school announced Monday.

LIMA — A Shawnee Township man will spend at least the next five behind bars after being sentenced on drug-related charges Monday morning in Allen County Common Pleas Court.

JERUSALEM — Hamas announced Monday it has accepted an Egyptian-Qatari proposal for a cease-fire to halt the seven-month-long war with Israel in Gaza, hours after Israel ordered about 100,000 Palestinians to begin evacuating from the southern city of Rafah, signaling that a long-promised ground invasion there could be imminent.

NEW YORK (AP) — The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s hush money trial fined him $1,000 on Monday for violating his gag order once again and sternly warned the former president that additional violations could result in jail time.

LIMA — Residents gathered Sunday to recall the last steam locomotive built in Lima back in May 1949.

ELIDA — Elida schools will show sexual abuse prevention videos to students in kindergarten through sixth grade this week, in accordance with a new state law.

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — A church volunteer stood at an apartment door, beckoning inside a Congolese family for their first look at where they would live in America.

KENT, Ohio — Dean Kahler flung himself to the ground and covered his head when the bullets started flying. The Ohio National Guard had opened fire on unarmed war protesters at Kent State University, and Kahler, a freshman, was among them.

LIMA — Comic book fans young and old enjoyed Free Comic Book Day Saturday at Alter Ego Comics in downtown Lima.