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Petition opposes required masks for students

A Jeff Davis Parish mother has created a petition that seeks to give local students the choice as to whether they want to wear masks or not when school begins in August.

NO CHANGES AT VETERANS HOME

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Residents at all five of Louisiana’s veterans homes, including Southwest Louisiana Veterans Home (SWLVH) here in Jennings, have had no in-person visitation with their families or loved ones since mid-March, when the coronavirus pandemic first began shutting down the state. Recently, several families have asked about an update to the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs’ (LDVA) visitation policy.

ASSIST shares CARES Act addressing evictions

The ASSIST Agency HUD-approved Housing Counseling Program helps people become or remain stably housed through education, counseling and financial assistance. The program can help those who are struggling to maintain housing or to become homeowners.

Split high court throws out La. abortion clinic limit

WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics, reasserting a commitment to abortion rights over fierce opposition from dissenting conservative justices in the first big abortion case of the Trump era.

STATE BRIEFS

Louisiana National Guard plans hospital flyover in 5 cities

Tracking virus cases proves difficult amid new surge

HOUSTON (AP) — Health departments around the U.S. that are using contact tracers to contain coronavirus outbreaks are scrambling to bolster their ranks amid a surge of cases and resistance to cooperation from those infected or exposed.

La. lawmakers winding down coronavirus special sesssion

BATON ROUGE (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers held behind-the-scenes negotiations on a state operating budget and put the finishing touches on business tax breaks and other coronavirus response measures, as they reached the final hours of a special session that must end Tuesday.

Dems push campaign-season health care bill through House

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats pushed a package expanding “Obamacare” coverage through the House on Monday, a measure that’s doomed to advance no further but spotlights how the coronavirus pandemic and President Donald Trump’s efforts to obliterate that law have fortified health care’s potency as a 2020 campaign issue.

Rod Serling: Father of modern sci-fi TV

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Rodman Edward Serling was born on Christmas Day in 1924 in New York and grew up in a family that encouraged his talents as a performer, with the young boy putting on plays in the basement and acting out parts from movies he’d seen. As he grew up, he became enamored with writing and with radio, which would define his career for the rest of his life.

POLICE REPORT

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