Each year on the last Monday of May, Americans celebrate Memorial Day. Memorial Day is a federal holiday that honors and mourns American military personnel who died while performing their duties in service to the United States Armed Forces.
A Lake Charles Army veteran was laid to rest here in Jennings recently, marking the 94th to be honored at the Southwest Louisiana Veterans Cemetery since its opening last year.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Patients and staff at Children’s Hospital New Orleans have chosen “Madu” as the name for an endangered Sumatran orangutan born in February at the zoo in New Orleans. The word is Malay for “honey.”
