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(The Center Square) — President Donald Trump is nominating Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin from Oklahoma as the next Homeland Security Secretary.

WELSH — Officials here agreed to condemn two properties in town and have the structures torn down.

LAKE ARTHUR — Blue Wing Civil Consultants provided updates to the Lake Arthur Board of Aldermen this week on final completion elements to the town’s water and sewer plant. The board has been working to provide overdue repairs and upgrades to the facility for over two years.

The Southwest Louisiana Veterans Cemetery is transitioning to its fresh-flower-only policy as the winter allowance for artificial flowers draws to a close.

(The Center Square) — A draft permit approved for a Class VI well puts a company in northeast Louisiana a step away from the final approval required to build a wood-fired biofuels fuels energy plant and store the carbon produced about a mile underground at a 327-acre site in Caldwell Parish.

(The Center Square) — A measure to rein in some of the drawbacks of third-party litigation financing (TPLF) has been introduced in Louisiana in the wake of a new report showing that the economic harm caused by TPLF now exceeds $600 per household nationally.

(The Center Square) — The U.S. Senate failed to pass a measure Wednesday that would have curtailed President Donald Trump’s ability to continue military operations in Iran without congressional approval.

(The Center Square) —Lawmakers introduced a bill to require greater transparency on the national debt and GDP.

The Jeff Davis Parish Police Jury recently approved continuing participation in the newly formed Acadiana Regional Juvenile Justice District, which seeks to provide a regionally located detention center. The district board hopes to build a 30,000-square-foot state-ofthe- art facility north of I-10 that would house, rehabilitate and educate approximately 100 incarcerated juveniles.