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Jeff Davis Parish School Board Child Nutrition Department is currently taking registration for its annual Summer Feeding Program.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV has celebrated his first Mass, a day after his historic election as the first U.S.-born pope in the church’s 2,000-year history. The election of cardinal Robert Prevost as the new pontiff overcame the traditional prohibition against a pope from the United States. On Friday, wearing white vestments, Leo processed into the Sistine Chapel and blessed the cardinals as he approached the altar and Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgement” behind it. It was in the same frescoed chapel that the Chicago-born missionary was elected the 267th pope the previous day. Meanwhile, congratulations are pouring in from world leaders and statesmen as Leo begins his papacy.

LAKE ARTHUR — Jeff Davis Parish Sheriff Kyle Miers made a statement Thursday after the devastating fatal shooting in Lake Arthur this week that claimed the life of a young juvenile female.

— Louisiana lawmakers are moving forward this week with a more targeted version of the defeated Amendment 2, which voters rejected in March for being overly complex and far-reaching.

(The Center Square) — Between 2019 and 2024, Louisiana saw a massive 452% increase in investment, with venture capital growing from $165 million to more than $910 million, according to a new national analysis from Broker Chooser.

(The Center Square) — Louisiana's civil court system is dragging down the state's economy and costing thousands of jobs, according to a study from the Perryman Group and Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse.