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ISE program searching for host families

International Student Exchange (ISE) is searching for host families in Jeff Davis Parish to take on foreign exchange students for the upcoming school year.

The new school year in the parish starts in August, so there is only a little over a one month left to find hosts for 10 students from countries including Brazil, Thailand, Spain and Kyrgyzstan.

Host families are only required to provide shelter and feed the students but the students cover most other expenses.

Kids can learn in the garden

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By midsummer, many adults are thinking of ways to provide something for children to do until school begins. Why not start a gardening project? You can introduce your youngsters to the joys of gardening and at the same time exercise their bodies and brains.

Free trade agreement generates funds for LSU AgCenter rice research

CROWLEY — Funds resulting from the Colombian Free Trade Agreement have paid for long-term improvements at the LSU AgCenter H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station as well as funding a $1 million endowed chair for rice research in the LSU AgCenter, said Jackie Loewer, president of the Louisiana Rice Research Board.

Last year, the Colombian funds generated $1.8 million for Louisiana rice research, and the trade agreement allowed U.S. rice to be sold in Colombia duty-free, Loewer said at the annual AgCenter rice field day at the research station on June 20.

Thais fight water and oxygen levels in cave as diver dies

MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — The rescuers trying to help a youth soccer team stranded in a Thai cave suffered a disheartening loss Friday with the death of a former SEAL diving in the flooded passageways to deliver supplies, as authorities raced against worsening weather and lessening oxygen where the 12 boys and their coach have been trapped for two weeks.

US-China trade battle kicks off; markets take it in stride

BEIJING (AP) — The United States and China launched what Beijing called the “biggest trade war in economic history” Friday, imposing tariffs on billions of dollars of each other’s goods amid a spiraling dispute over technology.

The Trump administration is confronting China over development tactics it says include stealing technology or pressuring foreign companies to hand it over. American officials worry U.S. industrial leadership will be eroded by Chinese plans to create tech champions in fields including robotics, biotech and artificial intelligence.

Cult leader executed for Japan sarin attacks still a mystery

TOKYO (AP) — The execution of Japanese doomsday cult leader Shoko Asahara leaves unanswered questions about Aum Shinrikyo, which carried out the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway that killed 13 people and sickened 6,000.

Japanese government spokesman Yoshihide Suga confirmed that Asahara was executed Friday. The authorities said six other cult members were hanged.

Born Chizuo Matsumoto in 1955, Asahara founded Aum Shinrikyo, or Supreme Truth, in the mid-1980s. It attracted young people disillusioned with the modern materialistic way of life.

OUT OF THE DARKNESS

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Jennings resident Jared Fontenot now lives a hard-earned yet happy life after struggling with addiction for over a decade. Now over a year sober, Fontenot finds joy in working hard,

Flying High

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Trump has 2 or 3 more candidates to interview for court

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has interviewed four prospective Supreme Court justices and plans to meet with a few more as his White House aggressively mobilizes to select a

Police: Shooter sent ‘kill’ letter before newspaper attack

WASHINGTON (AP) — Maryland police investigating America’s latest mass murder say Jarrod Ramos, the man charged with the slayings, sent three threatening letters on the day of the attack, including