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A PREGNANT WOMAN AND HER THREE CHILDREN ESCAPED A HOUSE FIRE EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING ON CLO DRIVE IN CARENCRO. FIREFIGHTERS WERE ABLE TO QUICKLY EXTINGUISH THE BLAZE AND THE HOME SUFFERED MODERATE DAMAGE. THE MOTHER WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR MINOR SMOKE INHALATION AND AS A PRECAUTION FOR HER UNBORN CHILD. THE LAFAYETTE FIRE DEPARTMENT BELIEVES THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE WAS AN ELECTRIC SPACE HEATER PLACED TOO CLOSE TO A WALL.
A HOUSE FIRE IN FRANKLIN CLAIMED THE LIVES OF TWO DOGS MONDAY NIGHT. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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A WOMAN FROM ELTON HAS BEEN TRANSPORTED TO A LAFAYETTE HOSPITAL AFTER BEING SHOT TWICE JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT YESTERDAY. THE JEFF DAVIS PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS THE SHOOTING HAPPENED ON SECOND STREET IN ELTON. DEPUTIES SAY THE WOMAN IS EXPECTED TO RECOVER AND THERE ARE NO SUSPECTS AT THIS TIME. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION SHOULD CALL EIGHT-TWO-ONE-TWENTY-ONE HUNDRED.
LAFAYETTE POLICE HAVE RELEASED THE IDENTITY OF A MAN WHO WAS SHOT AND KILLED SUNDAY NIGHT. POLICE RESPONDED TO REPORTS OF SHOTS FIRED ON SOUTH STERLING STREET JUST AFTER NINE P-M. WHEN THEY ARRIVED, THEY FOUND THE BODY OF THIRTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD WARREN PREJEAN OF LAFAYETTE, WHO HAD BEEN SHOT. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON THE SHOOTING IS ASKED TO CALL THE LAFAYETTE POLICE DEPARTMENT OR LAFAYETTE CRIME STOPPERS AT TWO-THREE-TWO-TIPS.
A KAPLAN MAN HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS ONE OF TWO MEN WHO DIED IN A HELICOPTER CRASH FRIDAY MORNING IN LAFOURCHE PARISH. FIFTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD DANA BURT OF KAPLAN WAS ONE OF THE TWO MEN IN THE CRASH, WHICH HAPPENED IN A MARSH NEAR GALLIANO. ROTOCRAFT LEASING PERSONNEL NOTIFIED THE COAST GUARD WHEN THEIR RECORDS CONFIRMED AN OVERDUE AIRCRAFT MATCHING THE DESCRIPTION WITH TWO PEOPLE ON BOARD. PARISH PRESIDENT ARCHIE CHAISSON SAYS IT APPEARED THE HELICOPTER NOSEDIVED DURING THE CRASH AND SUNK INTO THE MUD UPON IMPACT.
THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS WARNING THE PUBLIC ABOUT ANOTHER SCAM, THAT COST ONE VICTIM FIFTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS. SHERIFF TONY MANCUSO SAYS THE VICTIM WAS SUPPOSEDLY SELECTED TO COMPLETE A SECRET SURVEY ASSIGNMENT WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO BUY FIFTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS WORTH OF GIFT CARDS. HE SAYS GIFT CARDS ARE A BIG, HUGE RED FLAG AND IF SOMEONE ASKS YOU TO PAY WITH GIFT CARDS, YOUR ANTENNAE SHOULD GO UP. MANCUSO SAYS EACH DAY THEY ARE DEALING WITH SOME TYPE OF NEW CREATIVE IDEA TO GET PEOPLE TO GIVE MONEY.
THE SAINT LANDRY PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS INVESTIGATING A REPORT OF A MISSING OPELOUSAS MAN. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS THE DETAILS.
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TWO WOMEN WERE SHOT IN NEW IBERIA FRIDAY NIGHT. ONE OF THE WOMEN WAS AT A HOSPITAL IN CRITICAL CONDITION FRIDAY NIGHT. AN UPDATE ON HER CONDITION HAS NOT BEEN PROVIDED. THE OTHER WOMAN’S INJURIES WERE NOT LIFE THREATENING AND SHE WAS RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL. SERGEANT DAESHA HUGHES ASKS ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON THE SHOOTINGS TO CONTACT THE NEW IBERIA POLICE DEPARTMENT AT THREE-SIX-NINE-TWENTY-THREE-OH-SIX.
