July 2024

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Preseason SEC Football Media Poll, All-SEC Teams announced

BATON ROUGE — Offensive tackle Will Campbell and linebacker Harold Perkins Jr. lead a list of eight LSU players who have been named preseason All-SEC according to a poll of media covering SEC Football Media Days in Dallas this week.

Jennings Bronco stars make history for city

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Jennings Bronco stars make history for city

2024 PRESEASON ALL-SEC FOOTBALL TEAMS

OFFENSE First Team

Louisiana Democrats thank Biden, support Harris as new nominee

— Louisiana Democrats have switched their support to Vice President Kamala Harris as the party’s new nominee and were thankful to President Joe Biden.

No prison for nursing home owner who sent 800 residents to ride out hurricane in squalor

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana businessman who sent more than 800 elderly residents from his seven nursing homes to ride out Hurricane Ida in a crowded, ill-equipped warehouse pleaded no contest to 15 criminal counts Monday and was sentenced to three years of probation.

Jennings youth football is back

The Jennings Parks and Recreation Department is now holding registrations for 5 and 6-year-old boys flag football and 7-12-year-old pee wee football.

Committee discusses concerns with hostile drones

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(The Center Square) — The Advanced Aviation and Drone Advisory Committee heard several unmanned aerial vehicle and counterdrone companies pitch the importance of advanced technology in Louisiana this week.

Billion-dollar Mitsubishi chemical plant economically questionable, energy group says

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A $1.3 billion chemical production facility to be built in Louisiana by Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi is economically questionable and unnecessarily increases greenhouse gas emissions, according to an energy think tank report released Monday.

Motorcyclist injured on interstate

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Jeff Davis Parish Sheriff’s Office and Louisiana State Police Troop D responded to a traffic accident on I-10 near mile marker 51 between Welsh and Lacassine Monday morning. Lucas Spencer of Jennings was riding his motorcycle westbound on the interstate at the time of the accident. He received multiple serious injuries and required AirMed transport to an area trauma center. Traffic on the interstate was shut down for a period of time to allow emergency crews access to the scene.