8/25/16
GOVERNOR EDWARDS IS SET TO TOUR YOUNGSVILLE TODAY. JULIE DARCE HAS MORE.
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SHETLER CORLEY MOTORS IN CROWLEY SUFFERED 500 THOUSAND DOLLARS OF LOSSES BECAUSE OF RUINED NEW AND USED VEHICLES, AS WELL AS 200 THOUSAND DOLLARS OF DAMAGE TO THEIR FACILITY. OWNER CHRIS CORLEY SAYS HE DIDN’T HAVE FLOOD INSURANCE BECAUSE HE NEVER THOUGHT HIS DEALERSHIP WOULD BE THREATENED WITH A FLOOD. CORLEY TOLD HIS STORY TO A GROUP OF STATE OFFICIALS WHO TOURED ACADIANA BUSINESSES THAT WERE DAMAGED BY THE FLOODS. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SECRETARY DON PIERSON SAYS BUSINESS OWNERS WHO APPLY FOR LOW INTEREST LOANS FROM THE SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION ARE BEING VETTED QUICKLY WITH MONEY TRANSFERRED TO THEIR ACCOUNT WITHIN 18 TO 21 DAYS.
Mobile homes will fill front yards across southern Louisiana again, just as they did after Hurricane Katrina. FEMA is bringing in the temporary housing for thousands of people displaced by catastrophic flooding. Only these houses will be on blocks and strapped down, not on wheels like the travel trailers of a decade ago.
Gov. John Bel Edwards announced the disaster housing plans Wednesday.
FEMA OFFICIALS WILL BE ON HAND TO ANSWER QUESTIONS AT A HOME DEPOT STORE IN LAFAYETTE OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS. THE AGENCY’S MITIGATION SPECIALISTS WILL BE AVAILABLE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS, OFFER HOME IMPROVEMENT TIPS, AND OFFER INSIGHTS ON HOW TO REDUCE THE DAMAGE FROM FUTURE DISASTERS. THEY WILL BE AT THE HOME DEPOT, LOCATED AT 17-HUNDRED NORTHEAST EVANGELINE THRUWAY IN LAFAYETTE. THEY’LL BE THERE FROM SEVEN A-M TO SEVEN P-M THROUGH SEPTEMBER TENTH.
A DEDICATION CEREMONY WAS HELD YESTERDAY IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA TO RENAME A PORTION OF L-A 14 AFTER A SLAIN STATE TROOPER. ONE YEAR AGO ON AUGUST 23RD, TROOPER STEVEN VINCENT WAS SHOT AND KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY. STATE SENATOR DAN BLADE MORRISH SPONSORED LEGISLATION TO RENAME L-A 14 BETWEEN L-A 27 AND LOGNIAN ROAD IN THE COMMUNITY OF HOLMWOOD THE STEVEN VINCENT MEMORIAL HIGHWAY. COLONEL MICHAEL EDMONSON OF THE STATE POLICE, WHO SPOKE AT THE CEREMONY, SAYS IT’S BITTERSWEET TO HONOR VINCENT, BUT, IN A WAY, IT MEANS HE’LL BE CONTINUING TO PATROL THIS HIGHWAY.
OPELOUSAS POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR A 25-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO SHOT ANOTHER MAN IN THE FACE. IT HAPPENED EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING, AND THE VICTIM, WHO’S NAME HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED, IS IN STABLE CONDITION AT A LOCAL HOSPITAL. RONCARLOS DA’MON MICKENS IS WANTED FOR ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER. IF ANYONE KNOWS THE WHEREABOUTS OF MICKENS, YOU ARE URGED TO CALL THE OPELOUSAS POLICE DEPARTMENT.
A federal official says low oil prices are the reason few companies were interested in bidding in the latest oil lease sale for the Gulf of Mexico. The regional director for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Michael Celata (sel-AH-tuh), says the $18 million sale was below last year’s record low in total money offered, number of bids and number of companies participating. Last year, the same area off the Texas coast attracted 33 bids from five companies for a total of $22.7 million. None of the bids was competitive, either this year or last.
