Welsh News

Miss Valerie Elizabeth Hensgens and Mr. Matthew Maurice Lyons exchanged marriage vows in a beautiful candlelight ceremony on Friday January 15 at Our Lady Help of Christians Catholic Church in Jennings.

A Tate County man's trial on charges he defrauded $24,844 from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs by falsely claiming to be a Purple Heart recipient has been rescheduled for March 29.

Beneth Hill of Welsh was named the winner of the Jennings Daily News 2010 Super Bowl XLIV contest and received a free recliner, compliments of the Jennings Daily News and Bordelon's Furniture, for coming the closest to accurately pinpointing the scores in last weekend's NFL Conference Championships.

WELSH, La. - A Welsh police officer accused of using foul language during a traffic stop with children present has been reprimanded.

Over two dozen Lacassine- and Welsh-area residents are expressing their frustration over an oilfield waste treatment facility's request to be able to discharge runoff stormwater into public drainage ditches.

Welsh indie-pop septet Los Campesinos! have announced a special instore show at Rough Trade East in London, on 31st January at 6pm.

Stereophonics will make history again this summer by playing the FIRST concert at the newly built, state of the art, Cardiff City stadium, on Saturday June 5th.

'Through it all, she never lost that light in her eyes,' Animal Relief Foundation member Donna Fontenot said of Chance, a stray black Labrador retriever that was doused in lighter fluid and set on fire by a Welsh man last October.

With the New Year stretching out ahead us of, full of entertaining possibilities, Matt Thomas looks ahead to what the next 12 months has in store for South Wales audiences January The new decade is off to a fabulous start with a musical extravaganza in Cardiff.

Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Joseph Hensgens, Sr. of Crowley proudly announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Valerie Elizabeth Hensgens to Matthew Maurice Lyons, both of Crowley.

Christians around the world are in a giving mood these days. Welsh firefighters hope to see that charitable mood persist well into next week, when area residents are asked to give the gift of life post-Christmas. For the complete story and more local news, please subscribe to Jennings Daily News by clicking the 'SUBSCRIBE' link at left or by ...

Farmers getting ready for the 2010 rice growing season can get advice and the latest information at seven meetings being held in January, all featuring experts from the LSU AgCenter.

For those looking to try some new treats this holiday season, they need look no further than the Jeff Davis Parish Library.

In a time when the economy is feeling the hindrances of a national recession, Welsh Mayor Carolyn Louviere reports that business is currently booming in her neck of the woods.

Everett Blocker Everett F. a oeDaya Blocker, 71, died Wednesday, December 16, 2009, at his residence with his family by his side.

Area fifth graders learn to 'just say no' Danica Abraham, 12-13-2009 Jeff Davis Parish fifth grade students participated in the 34th bi-annual Drug Abuse Resistance Education graduation on Wednesday morning at the Strand Theatre in Jennings.

LOOKING through back copies of a local paper for 1936, some years ago now, I came across a news item reporting that Ira Stevens, of 12 Dogo Street, escorted by her mother Dorothy had left her Cardiff home for Hollywood to become the legendary child star Shirley Temple's double.

Serjeant Christopher John Reed, 25, from Plymouth. 6th Battalion The Rifles. Marine Travis Mackin, 22, from Plymouth.

The Jeff Davis Sheriff's Office recently discovered six abandoned pit bull mixes at a vacant residence just outside of Welsh.

Preliminary lab results show that the victims of two shootings last Thursday - one of whom was found dead - were not shot with the same gun, according to Jeff Davis Parish Sheriff Ricky Edwards.