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(The Center Square) — Legal battles over the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools continue with a new brief filed this week, backed by 46 members of Congress.

The Jeff Davis Parish Ordinance Committee approved a rezoning request by T.O. Allen Estate for a large plot of land in West Lacassine. With police jury approval, the property represented by Gene and Gayle Godeaux would change from A1-agriculture to I1-light industrial with potential for manufacturing, processing or distribution centers or retail business.

ELTON — Officials here were presented with a proposition this week to rename a street in honor of a hometown hero.

WELSH — Two significant road projects here are well on their way to kicking off, which will be beneficial to the community in numerous ways.

(The Center Square) — Nothing like Helene, and nothing like three hurricanes making landfall in 66 days.

(AP) — Lane Kiffin left his one-loss Ole Miss team to become the coach at LSU on Sunday, taking over a program that has won national titles under three of its previous four coaches while saying he would have stayed to coach the Rebels in the postseason had he been allowed to.

The Cajun Family Chapter of Cajun French Music Association is hosting their first Christmas Cajun dance Saturday, Dec. 13, starting at 7 p.m. at Friends Supporting Friends event center, located at 1603 U.S. 90 West.

— With the Trump administration taking steps to curb food stamp fraud, some fiscal watchdogs argue that shifting the consequences of fraud from the federal government to states is the only long-term solution.