KAJN Jesus FM 102.9


5-23-17

A LAKE CHARLES WOMAN WAS KILLED IN A HOUSE FIRE AND HER 77-YEAR-OLD MOTHER-IN-LAW IS FIGHTING FOR HER LIFE, ACCORDING TO FAMILY MEMBERS.  THE VICTIM WAS 29-YEAR-OLD KELLI BONNETTE AND HER UNCLE, JOHN MANNING, TOLD KPLC TV THAT HER MOTHER-IN-LAW, NITA DUPLANTIS, COLLAPSED AFTER HELPING FIREFIGHTERS RESCUE PEOPLE FROM THE HOUSE.  MANNING SAYS THAT IN THE HOUSE, AFTER THE FIRE, THEY FOUND WHAT APPEARED TO BE A CROSS ON A WALL, WHICH THEY ARE TAKING AS A SIGN THAT GOD IS WITH THEM.  HE SAYS THE FIREFIGHTERS EVEN TOOK A PICTURE OF IT BECAUSE THEY WERE IN AWE.

 

A MOBILE HOME IN SCOTT WAS DAMAGED BY FIRE EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING.  FIREFIGHTERS RESPONDED AT AROUND 5:41 A-M TO THE EMERGENCY CALL AT 440 HEIDE CIRCLE.  ACCORDING TO THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, NO ONE WAS AT HOME AT THE TIME, AND THERE WAS MINOR DAMAGE TO THE MOBILE HOME.  THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE HAS NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED.

 

AFTER 31 YEARS ON THE BENCH, 16TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT JUDGE PAUL DEMAHY ANNOUNCED HE WILL RETIRE AT THE END OF THE YEAR.  HE WAS FIRST ELECTED JUDGE IN 1986 AND HE SAYS IT HAS BEEN A GREAT HONOR TO SERVE THE PEOPLE OF THE 16TH DISTRICT.  THAT DISTRICT INCLUDES ST. MARTIN, IBERIA, AND ST. MARY PARISHES.  HE HAS BEEN THE CHIEF JUDGE FOR FOUR TERMS AND HE ESTABLISHED THE ST. MARTIN PARISH ADULT DRUG TREATMENT COURT IN 2002.

 

State lawmakers have agreed to boost federal financing for Louisiana’s Medicaid expansion program by another $368 million.  More than 428,000 people have enrolled in the government-financed coverage, more people than the health department projected for this year. And those who have signed up are older and costlier patients than expected.  The joint House and Senate budget committee agreed Monday evening to add the extra available federal money into the health department budget to keep paying for the program in the budget year that ends June 30.

 

Purchases of off-road vehicles and airboats in Louisiana will continue to be tax-free on the first weekend of September.  The House tax committee rejected a Senate-approved bill that would have scaled back Louisiana’s sales tax holiday for hunting supplies.  The proposal by Sen. Barrow Peacock, a Bossier City Republican, would have kept sales taxes from being charged on firearms, ammunition and archery supplies on that September weekend.  But the sales tax holiday would have no longer applied to off-road vehicles, airboats, pirogues, animal feed and some other items that have been tax-free.

 

1,805 LAFAYETTE PARISH SENIORS GRADUATED FROM THE PARISH’S PUBLIC SCHOOLS LAST WEEK.  LAFAYETTE, ACADIANA, CARENCRO, NORTHSIDE AND COMEAUX HIGH SCHOOLS HELD THEIR GRADUATION CEREMONIES SATURDAY AT THE CAJUNDOME.  LAFAYETTE HIGH HAD THE LARGEST GRADUATING CLASS WITH 513 GRADUATES.  MORE THAN 28-POINT-2 MILLION DOLLARS IN SCHOLARSHIPS WERE OFFERED TO LAFAYETTE PARISH STUDENTS.

 

THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS LOOKING FOR A SUSPECT IN A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED EARLY SUNDAY MORNING IN VINTON.  THE SUSPECT IS 37-YEAR-OLD ARTEMUS C. BEASLEY OF ORANGE, TEXAS, WHO WAS VISITING VINTON ALONG WITH THE VICTIM.  SHERIFF’S OFFICE SPOKESWOMAN KIM MYERS SAYS THE VICTIM WAS SHOT SEVERAL TIMES AT AROUND 1:30 SUNDAY MORNING NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF BROUSSARD AND TOOMEY ROADS.  THE VICTIM IS CURRENTLY IN CRITICAL CONDITION A LOCAL HOSPITAL.

 

AN OPELOUSAS MAN IS IN JAIL THIS WEEKEND AFTER A FATAL HIT-AND-RUN OVER THE WEEKEND.  JULIE DARCE REPORTS.

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ATTORNEY WILLIAM C. “BILLY” BROADHURST OF CROWLEY PASSED AWAY YESTERDAY MORNING AT THE AGE OF 77.  FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS ARE PENDING.