Jennings News

Thornwell was the place to be recently during the inaugural year of the Yellow Rail and Rice Festival.

Gavin Dupuis proudly holds his new baby sister, Bailee, who was born Tuesday, Nov.

Msgt. Jack A. Gillis of Jennings was born in Missouri in 1923, but because of his father's job with International Harvester Company, the family moved to France when Gillis was only 5 years old.

A vocal victims' advocate for the Jeff Davis Parish Eight - a group of local women whose drug-related killings remain unsolved after four years - found himself behind bars here this past weekend on drug charges.

The town park is not only a place for area residents to enjoy, but is also suddenly becoming a top tourist attraction.

Prime Time Family Reading Time is being held at Lacassine High on Thursday evenings.

Winners of the Jennings Daily News Halloween Costume Contest are Slade LeGros as BamBam, first place; Carson Landry as a martian, second place; and Brennen Fuqua as a spider.

Devotion to the rosary has always been important to Estelle Monic of Evangeline.

For the first time in school history, Jennings High crowned two Homecoming queens on Friday.

The Jennings Firefighters' Association raked in around $8,500 from last weekend's annual barbecue - a total that is up over last year's take.

Jennings High School students paraded Main Street Thursday in anticipation of tonight's Homecoming battle against the Washington-Marion Indians.

Two men are behind bars after Jeff Davis Parish Sheriff's Office deputies found one of them in possession of a number of stolen rifles, pistols and other items from a camp near here.

Jennings High School will light a fire under the Bulldogs at 4:30 p.m. today with a spirited parade in anticipation of Friday night's homecoming battle against the Washington-Marion Indians.

Louisiana State Treasurer John Kennedy told one local club's members that the state must get its $29.6 billion budget under control, and the way to do it is to downsize state government and not to raise taxes.

Former Gov. Dave Treen was memorialized Monday as a humble statesman who eschewed the grudges and mudslinging of politics, in a service that brought hundreds of mourners to the Capitol to remember Louisiana's first Republican governor since Reconstruction.

Leah Moore, daughter of Jacqui and Robert Moore, was crowned 2009 Homecoming Queen during Welsh High School's homecoming festivities on Friday.

Students at James Ward Elementary School in Jennings had tickets to the carnival last Friday.

She started sobbing immediately after the first question was asked: 'What was your daughter like as a child?' Melissa Daigle reached for the box of Kleenex and buried her face in her hands.

Theresa Lyons of Lake Arthur didn't hide from the wet weather over the weekend. Instead, she captured its wonders with a variety of nature photos, including a rainbow peeping through a thundercloud.

As a cost-cutting measure, the Southwest Louisiana War Veterans Home will be losing a full-time pharmacist, contracting out that service in a way similar to traditional nursing homes.