Residents at Camelot Brookside were treated to a visit from Boss Moves. The group hand delivered chocolate chip cookies and warm socks along with smiles and Christmas wishes. Clockwise from right: Tyree Madden and Mekayla Jenkins visit with residents; Aidan Ward hands out Christmas goodies; and Kelvin King, Jr., hand delivers cookies.
The Jeff Davis Parish Prevention Coalition is seeking members to join in their effort to prevent underage drinking in the parish.
Coalition Coordinator Marilyn Pickles said the most common way teens get access to alcohol here in Jeff Davis is through people over the age of 21 – usually older friends and siblings.
“No one can drink too much if they can’t get it,” Pickles said. “Be aware. Know their source and then cut it off.”
WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa. (AP) — Thousands turned out Wednesday to watch the annual reenactment of George Washington’s daring Christmas Day crossing of the Delaware River in 1776 — the first time the crossing was completed in three years.
The event was scrapped because of bad weather the last two years, but historical interpreter Nancy O’Leary said at Washington Crossing Historical Park that the conditions this year “couldn’t be better.”
PARIS (AP) — The rector of Notre Dame Cathedral says the Paris landmark is still so fragile that there’s a “50 percent chance” the structure might not be saved, because scaffolding installed before this year’s fire is threatening the vaults of the Gothic monument.
Monsignor Patrick Chauvet said restoration work isn’t likely to begin until 2021 — and described his “heartache” that Notre Dame couldn’t hold Christmas services this year, for the first time since the French Revolution.
In 1994, state Rep. Frank Dermody was a backbench Democrat serving his second term in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
That year, the majority-Democrat chamber undertook a task it hadn’t undertaken in a century – the impeachment of a sitting member of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
(This column is an edited repeat of one I wrote about six years ago and believe this may be a good time to rethink some ideas and share with those who missed it the first time.)
Maybe it is the time of year or maybe I have just taken notice, but regardless, it seems recently that many of my friends and acquaintances are dealing with the death of a loved one. Of course, the fact of life is that death is a part of it. None of us are getting out of here alive.
New Year’s Eve is one of the most popular party days of the year. As the clock ticks down toward a new year, revelers across the globe raise glasses of champagne in celebration of what’s to come.
With the NCAA’s College Football Playoff (CFP) semi-finals a day away, two players have captivated the local enthusiasts in anticipation of the pair of match-ups between LSU and Oklahoma and Clemson and Ohio State.
A two-vehicle crash on La. 26 just north of Jennings saw a few individuals transported to an area hospital Monday evening, but no critical injuries were reported.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The rumors swirled for decades: A dark history long lay buried under the grassy knolls and manicured lawns of a country club in Florida’s capital city.
Over the years, neat rows of rectangular depressions along the 7th fairway deepened in the grass, outlining what would be confirmed this month as sunken graves of the slaves who lived and died on a plantation that once sprawled with cotton near the Florida Capitol.
