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The Jeff Davis Parish Library Board of Directors voted this week to adopt a budget for the 2025 fiscal year.

The Jeff Davis Parish School Board Ward II Committee met with community members and Jennings High School football backers to discuss revising the Jerry Simmons Stadium project to accommodate a larger press box.

Balancing the parish general fund is a priority for the Jeff Davis Police Jury Budget Review Board.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic and pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes. The White House says it’s the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history. The clemency follows a broad pardon for his son Hunter, who was prosecuted for gun and tax crimes. Biden is under pressure from advocacy groups to pardon broad swaths of people before the Trump administration takes over in January. He’s also weighingwhethertoissue preemptive pardons to those who investigated Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election and are facing possible retribution when he takes office.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been hospitalized after she “sustained an injury” during an official engagement in Luxembourg, according to a spokesman. Pelosi is 84. She was in Europe to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.

The Jeff Davis Parish District Attorney’s Office released a statement earlier this week after the outcome of a two-year-old felony case reached a conclusion.