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The City of Jennings is exploring a new incentivebased compensation program that could provide additional pay to police officers who obtain specialized certifications and skills that benefit the department.

(The Center Square) — The Department of Veterans Affairs is touting a new psilocybin trial as relief for veterans with treatmentresistant depression, but the study won't finish until 2031, and any treatment it yields would come later still.

(The Center Square) — U.S. President Donald Trump extended a temporary waiver of the Jones Act, a 106-year-old law that limits shipments of goods between American ports to domestically built vessels, but the middle-ground compromise dissatisfied both Gulf Coast oil refiners and the nation’s shipbuilders.

ELTON — A boil advisory was issued for portions of the Town of Elton after water service was shut off Wednesday to make repairs following a major water leak. The advisory was issued as a precaution for residents of the Al Woods Subdivision and the neighborhood across the gulley.

(The Center Square) —The Republican lawmaker who sponsored the Great American Healthcare Act presented a plan Wednesday to help fund the bill: Stop the Federal Reserve from paying interest on bank reserves.

(The Center Square) — The federal government’s auction of offshore oil leases in the Gulf of America on Wednesday brought in $82.7 million in high bids, as participating companies showed strong interest in waters just off the south Texas coast and ultra-deepwater areas.

(The Center Square) — The federal government paid out more tariff money in July than it collected, a reversal that has driven this year's deficit $200 billion above what budget forecasters projected six months ago.