August 2019

ASTRO GRAPH

FROM ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION FOR RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2019 ASTROGRAPH by Eugenia Last If you take a practical approach to life, you will bypass emotional traps. Set standards that

Lead scrubbed from Paris streets as Notre Dame work resumes

PARIS (AP) — Specialists shoring up fire-damaged Notre Dame Cathedral returned Monday to the Paris site for the first time in nearly a month, this time wearing disposable underwear and

Wildlife roam where US once made nuclear, chemical arms

DENVER (AP) — From a tiny Pacific island to a leafy Indiana forest, a handful of sites where the United States manufactured and tested some of the most lethal weapons

Florida’s palm trees threatened by invasive disease

DAVIE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s iconic palm trees are under attack from a fatal disease that turns them to dried crisps in months, with no chance for recovery once they

Trump dismisses worries, says economy is strong

BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. (AP) — President Donald Trump dismissed concerns of recession on Sunday and offered an optimistic outlook for the economy after last week’s steep drop in the financial

Early Epstein accuser: Police could’ve stopped him in 1997

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — More than two decades before Jeffrey Epstein took his own life, a woman went into a California police station and filed one of the earliest

Former governor Kathleen Blanco dies

BATON ROUGE (AP) — Former Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, who became the state’s first female elected governor only to see her political career derailed by the devastation of Hurricane

Tech companies drive broad rally on Wall Street

Stocks marched broadly higher on Wall Street in midday trading Monday, building on solid gains from a rally late last week. Technology stocks accounted for a big share of the

WALMART LOSES ROUND IN BID TO SELL HARD LIQUOR IN TEXAS

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court says a Texas law that keeps Walmart from selling packaged liquor in the state does not violate the Constitution.

Texas allows privately held businesses — but not publicly held corporations such as Walmart — to own “package stores” where hard liquor is sold.

Thursday’s ruling by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans says a federal judge erred in ruling that the Texas restriction is discriminatory and violates constitutionally protected interstate commerce.

City, parish agree on jail space

The city will receive five beds at the new regional consolidated jail facility, after an agreement with the parish was reached over the terms this week.

The Jeff Davis Police Jury voted to enter into a cooperative endeavor agreement with the City of Jennings for jail space for city court misdemeanor prisoners on Wednesday.