3-24-17
LAFAYETTE RANKS EIGHTH AMONG AMERICA’S METRO AREAS FOR WEIGHT-RELATED PROBLEMS. WALLETHUB RELEASED THE LIST IN CONJUNCTION WITH NATIONAL NUTRITION MONTH, WHICH FALLS IN MARCH. LAFAYETTE WAS 15TH IN THE PERCENTAGE OF OBESE ADULTS, SIXTH IN THE PERCENTAGE OF PHYSICALLY INACTIVE ADULTS AND 18TH FOR THE PERCENTAGE OF ADULTS WITH DIABETES. SHREVEPORT-BOSSIER CITY WAS FIFTH ON THE OVERALL LIST.
TWO LAKE CHARLES MEN WERE INDICTED YESTERDAY BY A GRAND JURY IN CONNECTION WITH TWO SHOOTINGS LAST DECEMBER. THE FIRST SHOOTING OCCURRED ON DECEMBER EIGHTH IN THE 14-HUNDRED BLOCK OF NORTH PRATER STREET AND THE SECOND HAPPENED THE NEXT DAY IN THE 19-HUNDRED BLOCK OF WINTERHALTER STREET. THERE WERE A TOTAL OF FOUR VICTIMS. 32-YEAR-OLD BRANDON ANTONIO CARTER WAS INDICTED ON THREE COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER, WHILE 33-YEAR-OLD ADRENT DEMOND CARTER WAS INDICTED ON TWO COUNTS.
THREE PEOPLE AND A POLICE DOG ARE DEAD AND A POLICE OFFICER IS WOUNDED AFTER A SHOOTING IN CROWLEY WEDNESDAY NIGHT. JULIE DARCE REPORTS.
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THERE WAS ANOTHER SHOOTING IN CROWLEY YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. RESIDENTS REPORTED HEARING FIVE GUNSHOTS IN THE AREA OF THE K&L GROCERY STORE ON WEST HUTCHINSON. CROWLEY POLICE LATER LEARNED THERE WERE TWO INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE INVOLVED IN AN ARGUMENT THAT LED TO THE SHOOTING. THERE WERE NO INJURIES. POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR THOSE TWO INDIVIDUALS.
A YOUNGSVILLE MAN WAS ARRESTED EARLY THURSDAY MORNING AFTER AN ARGUMENT LED TO GUN SHOTS BEING FIRED. 32-YEAR-OLD JOSHUA ADDIE WAS ARGUING WITH ANOTHER PERSON WHO LEFT HIS HOME, BUT ADDIE CALLED HIM TO COME BACK AND FINISH THE ARGUMENT. WHEN THE VICTIM ARRIVED, ADDIE HAD A GUN AND FIRED A SHOT IN THE GROUND TO SCARE HIM. THE VICTIM STRUCK ADDIE AND LEFT IN HIS VEHICLE. ADDIE THEN FIRED TWO ROUNDS INTO THE VEHICLE AS IT WAS LEAVING, NEARLY STRIKING THE VICTIM.
LAST NIGHT THE CALCASIEU PARISH POLICE JURY RECOGNIZED JAMES “JIM” BEAM AT THEIR REGULAR THURSDAY MEETING. BEAM WAS RECENTLY INDUCTED INTO THE LOUISIANA POLITICAL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME. A RESOLUTION WAS READ BY PARISH ADMINISTRATOR BRYAN BEAM, WHO IS JAMES BEAM’S SON. BEAM IS AN AWARD-WINNING COLUMNIST FOR THE AMERICAN PRESS NEWSPAPER.
THE EUNICE POLICE DEPARTMENT RECEIVED MORE THAN 12 THOUSAND COMPLAINTS LAST YEAR, THE HIGHEST SINCE 2012. POLICE CHIEF RANDY FONTENOT SAYS THAT’S NOT NECESSARILY A BAD THING. HE SAYS IT SHOWS THE COMMUNITY TRUSTS POLICE OFFICERS TO HELP THEM. FONTENOT SAYS THERE WAS AN INCREASE IN MISDEMEANOR ARRESTS BUT FEWER FELONY CRIMES.
SOME RESIDENTS IN SOUTH LAKE CHARLES ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT THEIR TAP WATER COMING OUT BROWN. WATER DEPARTMENT SUPERINTENDENT RUSSELL BUCKLES SAYS THE WATER IS CLEAN, AND THE COLOR IS COMING FROM RUST INSIDE THE WATER MAINS. HE SAYS THE MAINS ARE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION, BUT THEY DO GET SOME RUST AND SEDIMENT. HE SAYS ANYONE EXPERIENCING THIS PROBLEM SHOULD CALL THE WATER DEPARTMENT’S 24 HOUR LINE.
