June 2021

2021 All-Parish Softball Team

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First Team

Arrive Alive aims to deter distracted driving

Louisiana currently ranks second in the nation for time spent on a mobile device while driving.

Cajun Country highlights the best of JDP

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Here at the Jennings Daily News, we get to be tourists in our own backyard every day.

Birth tourism thrives in New York City

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Businesses headquartered in New York City have, in large numbers, either relocated elsewhere or plan to leave, mainly to Florida or other welcoming locations in the Southeast.

La. sales tax bill draws enough opposition to kill it

BATON ROUGE (AP) — A key group of House Republicans announced Wednesday its objection to a Senate-led effort to permanently keep a 0.45 percent state sales tax that is otherwise scheduled to roll off the books in four years, opposition that could doom the proposal’s chance of passage.

Biden announces international COVID-19 vaccine sharing plan

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to allocate 75% of unused COVID-19 vaccines through the U.N.-backed COVAX global vaccine sharing program, the White House announced Thursday.

California considers new workplace mask rules

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is set to fully reopen in less than two weeks and do away with almost all mask and social distancing requirements for vaccinated people, but those who regulate workplaces in the state aren’t ready to go that far and that has business groups upset.

Shrinking giants: North Atlantic right whales getting tinier

(AP) — One of the giants of the deep is shrinking before our eyes, a new study says. The younger generation of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales are on average about three feet (one meter) shorter than whales were 20 years, drone and aircraft data show in a study in Thursday’s journal Current Biology.

Medical marijuana expansion backed by state lawmakers

BATON ROUGE (AP) — Louisiana’s medical marijuana program will be able to offer raw, smokable cannabis to its patients within months under a bill passed Wednesday by lawmakers trying to give the state’s residents cheaper marijuana options to alleviate their medical conditions.