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LIMA — The Bradfield Community Center celebrated 85 years in the community on Sunday afternoon.

ATLANTA (AP) — Since Jimmy Carter entered hospice care at his home in south Georgia one year ago, the former U.S. president has celebrated his 99th birthday, enjoyed tributes to his legacy and lost his wife of 77 years.

MUNICH — A Republican opponent of new U.S. funding for Ukraine argued at an international security conference Sunday that the package stuck in Congress wouldn’t “fundamentally change the reality” on the ground and that Russia has an incentive to negotiate peace.

Katrina Cornish spends her days raising dandelions and desert shrubs. She harvests the stretchy rubber substances they produce and uses special machines to dip them into condoms, medical gloves and parts for trachea tubes. And she thinks those products could forever alter the landscape of agriculture in the United States.

CRESTLINE, Ohio — From its earliest days as a village, Crestline was synonymous with trains. A railroad station inspired this northern Ohio town, railroad workers populated it and the passengers who flocked here helped it grow.

TODAY IN HISTORY

LIMA — The earliest Black settlers of Allen County arrived by 1840.

DAYTON — A Florida man shot by Dayton police in early January following a chase and crash from Trotwood to U.S. 35 was discharged from a local hospital and booked into the Montgomery County Jail.

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Talks on a potential cease-fire deal in Gaza “have not been progressing as expected” in the past few days after good progress in recent weeks, key mediator Qatar said Saturday, as Israel’s prime minister accused the Hamas militant group of not changing its “delusional” demands.

MUNICH, Germany — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy invited Donald Trump to travel with him to the front lines of Russia’s full-scale invasion of his country so that the former U.S. leader can experience “real war.”