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The Jeff Davis Parish Zoning Commission is recommending approval of requests to rezone two Lacassine properties from A-1 agricultural to I-1 light industrial as the owners prepare the properties for future development or sale. No public comments were received during separate public hearings before the commission unanimously recommended approval of both requests.

(The Center Square) — Following attempted missile attacks from Iran targeting a U.S. military base in Jordan, President Donald Trump vowed to retaliate.

(The Center Square) — Louisiana lawmakers eliminated 25 boards and commissions this year in an effort to clean up dormant pieces of state government, but a new legislative audit suggests the purge may not be finished.

— Nine more companies have joined President Donald Trump’s most-favorednation drug pricing agreement, one of the president’s most highly publicized affordability initiatives to bring down the cost of prescription drugs.

(The Center Square) — A former Louisiana managing attorney for a Texas law firm accused of defrauding hundreds of Hurricane Ida victims has been federally charged, more than three years after state insurance regulators first uncovered what they called one of the most egregious fraud schemes to come before the agency.

WELSH — Parish residents will have another opportunity Thursday to learn more about a proposed industrial project near Welsh and ask questions directly before the company’s rezoning request returns to the Jeff Davis Parish Police Jury.