Middle Banner

LAKE ARTHUR — The Town of Lake Arthur Board of Aldermen recently introduced Ordinance No. 629, which would abandon two right-of-way spaces owned by the town, giving the property to adjoining landowners.

WELSH — The town is one step closer to the completion of its road expansion project and a new truck stop that has been in the works for some time.

The Jeff Davis Parish Zoning Commission will recommend a contingency agreement be placed on the agenda at next week’s regular Jeff Davis Parish Police Jury meeting.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are climbing further into record heights after a report showed the U.S. job market looks stronger than Wall Street expected. The S&P 500 rose 0.8% Thursday and was on track to set an all-time high for the fourth time in five days. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 334 points, and the Nasdaq composite gained 1%. The reaction was bigger in the bond market, where Treasury yields jumped. The strong data on U.S. jobs pushed traders to erase bets that the Federal Reserve could cut its main interest rate at its next meeting later this month.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that's wandered into our backyard. The space agency spotted the object with the sky-surveying Atlas telescope in Chile earlier this week, and has confirmed it was a comet from another star system. It's only the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system. This newest visitor is 416 million miles from the sun, out near Jupiter. The comet will make its closest approach to the sun in October, venturing no closer than Mars and posing no threat to Earth. Astronomers around the world are monitoring the comet to determine its size and shape.