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8-22-17

 

LAFAYETTE POLICE HAVE RELEASED THE IDENTITY OF A DRIVER WHO WAS KILLED IN A TWO VEHICLE ACCIDENT EARLY SATURDAY MORNING.  CPL. KARL RATCLIFF SAYS THE DECEASED IS 86-YEAR-OLD CHARLES A. RIVOIRE JUNIOR OF LAFAYETTE.  THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED AT AROUND 6:30 SATURDAY MORNING AT THE INTERSECTION OF AMBASSADOR CAFFERY AND GUILBEAU ROAD.  RIVOIRE WAS DRIVING A PICKUP TRUCK THAT COLLIDED WITH A COMMERCIAL FLAT BED TRUCK.

 

Louisiana authorities say a boating accident killed an 8-year-old Texas boy, and a man from the same Texas town has been arrested on drunken driving charges.

The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says three boys were riding in an inflated tube behind a boat on Sunday when the boat turned and the tube hit the bank, throwing them out.  An agency spokesman says the accident killed Damian Haines of Vidor (VY’-dur), Texas, and hospitalized another boy.  He says 35-year-old Eddie L. Dunwoody is in the Calcasieu (KAL-kuh-shoo) Parish jail on charges including vehicular homicide, vehicular negligent injury and driving while intoxicated with child endangerment.

 

A BICYCLIST DIED DAYS AFTER HE WAS  STRUCK BY A PICKUP TRUCK IN ST. MARY PARISH.  58-YEAR-OLD DAVID MAXIE OF FRANKLIN WAS TRAVELING SOUTH NEAR THE CENTER LINE OF L-A 83 NEAR GLENCO SCHOOL ROAD SHORTLY BEFORE SIX A-M WEDNESDAY WHEN HE WAS HIT FROM BEHIND BY A CHEVY SILVERADO DRIVEN BY 25-YEAR-OLD TYLER SULTAN OF BALDWIN.  MASTER TROOPER BROOKS DAVID OF STATE POLICE TROOP I SAYS MAXIE DIED FROM HIS INJURIES SUNDAY.  AT THE TIME OF THE CRASH, MAXIE WASN’T WEARING A HELMET AND HIS BIKE DID NOT HAVE REFLECTORS OR LIGHTS ON IT.

 

Louisiana has launched a $20 million annual effort to improve poor-performing public schools.  The education department announced Monday it is seeking applications for school improvement grants, with the first deadline set for Sept. 29.

The Advocate reports the plan requires school district officials to devise improvement proposals for schools rated D and F in Louisiana’s accountability system for three consecutive years. State officials will award improvement grants for the best ideas.

 

ALL ELEMENTARY STUDENTS IN LAFAYETTE PARISH WILL HAVE AT LEAST ONE PENCIL THIS YEAR, THANKS TO THE LABORDE EARLS LAW FIRM.  THE FIRM IS ALSO SUPPLYING PENCILS IN AVOYELLES AND RAPIDES PARISHES.  ANDREW MIMS, AN ATTORNEY WITH THE FIRM, SAYS THEY HAVE COORDINATED WITH SCHOOL OFFICIALS IN THE PARISHES AND WILL DELIVER THIRTY THOUSAND PENCILS TO CLASSROOMS NEXT WEEK.  MIMS SAYS THE ATTORNEYS SAW REPORTS OF STUDENTS NOT HAVING ENOUGH SUPPLIES AND DECIDED TO MAKE THIS PART OF THEIR EXPANDED COMMUNITY OUTREACH.

 

 

A WESTLAKE MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED ON CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CHARGES.  35-YEAR-OLD JOSHUA J. CUPIT IS A REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER IN TWO OTHER STATES FOR PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY.  LOUISIANA STATE TROOPERS FOUND VIDEOS THAT WERE DOWNLOADED AT HIS RESIDENCE IN WESTLAKE AND, AFTER FURTHER INVESTIGATION, FOUND MORE VIDEOS AND PICTURES AT A HOME IN BEAUREGARD PARISH.  CUPIT WAS BOOKED INTO THE CALCASIEU PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER AND HIS BOND HAS BEEN SET AT 250 THOUSAND DOLLARS IN CALCASIEU PARISH AND 400 THOUSAND IN BEAUREGARD PARISH.

 

A BREAUX BRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT WAS ARRESTED, ACCUSED OF BRINGING A STOLEN WEAPON TO SCHOOL.  JEFF HORCHAK HAS MORE.

 

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Louisiana taxpayers, who added solar panels to their homes, have until Aug. 31 to claim a tax credit for residential solar energy systems installed through 2015.  Lawmakers set aside $5 million a year, up to $15 million over three years, to clear a backlog of credits that went unpaid when the state abruptly capped and ended the tax break program as a budget-balancing maneuver.  The revenue department says taxpayers who purchased qualifying systems — and didn’t previously submit tax credit claims — must file their claims electronically.  Taxpayers who previously submitted claims but were denied because of the cap don’t need to refile.