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THE NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD HAS COMPLETED AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE AUGUST 2018 PLANE CRASH THAT COLLAPSED THE KATC TOWER NEAR KAPLAN AND THEY’VE RELEASED THEIR FINDINGS. THAT WAS THE TOWER FROM WHICH KAJN USED TO BROADCAST. 45-YEAR-OLD TODD SAMPSON OF SEABROOK, TEXAS AND HIS SIX-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER CAYLEE SAMPSON WERE KILLED IN THE CRASH. ACCORDING TO THE REPORT, SAMPSON WAS GOING THROUGH A DIVORCE AND HIS F-A-A SUPERVISOR SAID HIS BEHAVIOR HAD BECOME ERRATIC. HIS WIFE SAID SAMPSON HAD LEFT WITH HIS DAUGHTER WITHOUT NOTICE AND THE DAY BEFORE THE ACCIDENT, HE HAD BEEN INFORMED BY HIS ATTORNEY THAT A WARRANT HAD BEEN ISSUED FOR HIS ARREST.
THE OWNERS OF LAFAYETTE TELEVISION STATION KATC HAVE REACHED A SETTLEMENT WITH THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION IN WHICH THEY WILL PAY A ONE-POINT-ONE-THREE MILLION DOLLARS FOR NOT PROPERLY MONITORING LIGHTS ON ITS TOWER. AN INVESTIGATION OF THE PLANE CRASH LED TO THE DISCOVERY OF RULES VIOLATION. THE F-C-C’S ENFORCEMENT BUREAU FOUND NO EVIDENCE LINKING THE PLANE CRASH TO THE RULES VIOLATION, BUT DURING THE INVESTIGATION THEY FOUND “NUMEROUS, LONG STANDING IRREGULARITIES IN THE MONITORING OF THE LIGHTING SYTEM FOR THE KAPLAN STRUCTURE.”
Some Louisiana students can spend an extra year in high school, working toward advanced credentials in a pilot program that’s spreading from New Orleans to southwest and northwest Louisiana. Authorities say the Calcasieu and Caddo Parish “extension academies” will allow debt-free training for students who have enough credits to graduate but don’t qualify for Louisiana’s free college and trade school tuition programs. Like the one in New Orleans, the pilot programs will cover three years. The new ones are planned to start in the 2020-21 school year with up to 25 students.
THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE U-S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION VISITED THE EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY IN LAFAYETTE TO TALK TO STUDENTS, TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS. IT’S ONE OF TEN SCHOOLS IN LOUISIANA THAT FRANK BROGAN IS VISITING TO LEARN HOW THEY ARE ADVANCING STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT IN A NONTRADITIONAL EDUCATIONAL STRUCTURE. THE EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY WAS RECOGNIZED IN SEPTEMBER AS A BLUE RIBBON SCHOOL WHERE MOST STUDENTS GRADUATE WITH AN ASSOCIATE DEGREE IN ADDITION TO THEIR HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA. PRINCIPAL ALEX MELTON TOLD THE ADVOCATE HE WAS HONORED BY THE ASSISTANT EDUCATION SECRETARY’S VISIT AND HE HOPES THEIR PASSION LEFT AN IMPRESSION.
Republicans on the losing side of the Louisiana House speaker’s vote are still bristling a day after the election. A breakaway faction of Republican lawmakers banded together with Democrats to choose the chamber’s new leader, GOP Rep. Clay Schexnayder of Ascension Parish. That meant Democrats had a stronger say in who became House speaker than Republicans, even though nearly two-thirds of House members are in the GOP. Schexnayder was not the candidate favored by several prominent Republican officials and donors — and he didn’t have support from a majority of the GOP lawmakers in the House.
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS DETERMINED THAT AN F-TWO TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN IN THE KROTZ SPRINGS AREA SATURDAY MORNING. AN F-TWO HAS WINDS OF UP TO ONE HUNDRED THIRTY FIVE MILES AN HOUR. A HOUSE TRAILER ON ELLIS FARM ROAD WAS FLIPPED OVER BY THE TORNADO. ONE MAN SUFFERED THREE BROKEN RIBS WHILE OTHERS MADE IT THROUGH SAFELY WITH JUST A FEW BRUISES.
A MAN AND WOMAN WERE ARRESTED BY JEFF DAVIS PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES FOR ALLEGEDLY BURGLARIZING A HOME WHILE THEIR CHILDREN WERE PRESENT. DEPUTIES FOUND 33-YEAR-OLD TRAVIS DUHON OF WELSH AND 35-YEAR-OLD CHRISTY GRANGER OF WELSH AT A HOME ON BROADMORE ROAD WHERE THEY DID NOT HAVE PERMISSION TO BE. THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS THEY LEARNED THE COUPLE HAD BEEN AT THE RESIDENCE THE DAY BEFORE WITH TWO YOUNG CHILDREN. DUHON AND GRANGER HAVE BEEN CHARGED WITH TWO COUNTS OF SIMPLE BURGLARY AND CONTRIBUTING TO THE DELINQUENCY OF JUVENILES.
AUTHORITIES ARE INVESTIGATING SEVERAL ATTEMPTED VEHICLE BURGLARIES IN MILTON. MEGAN KELLY HAS MORE.
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