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THREE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION TO A FIGHT THAT BROKE OUT AT A FRANKLIN HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL GAME FRIDAY NIGHT. IT HAS SINCE BEEN DETERMINED THE THREE…NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD KALOB PETERS OF FRANKLIN, TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD ASH LEE MILLER JUNIOR OF NEW IBERIA, AND TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD DAYLON HINES OF JEANERETTE…ARE AFFILIATED WITH RIVAL GANGS. AFTER THE GYM WAS EVACUATED FRIDAY NIGHT, THERE WERE REPORTS OF SHOTS FIRED OUTSIDE, WHICH LED TO THE SCHOOL BEING PLACED ON LOCKDOWN. POLICE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO CONFIRM THAT ANY SHOTS WERE FIRED OUTSIDE THE BUILDING, BUT NONE WERE FIRED INSIDE.
THE LAFAYETTE CITY AND/PARISH COUNCILS INTRODUCED AN ORDINANCE LAST NIGHT/THAT WOULD STOP THE SALE OF ALCOHOL AFTER MIDNIGHT ON MARDI GRAS. THE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT’S CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER, CYRDA WINGERTER, CALLS IT A MATTER OF PUBLIC SAFETY. SHE SAYS THE PROPOSAL HAS THE SUPPORT OF THE LAFAYETTE POLICE DEPARTMENT. LARHONDA CARTER, WHO OWNS THE BLISS COCTAIL LOUNGE, TELLS KLFY TV THAT THE ORDINANCE WOULD HURT HER BUSINESS BECAUSE MOST OF HER ALCOHOL SALES ARE BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND TWO A-M.
AS LOUISIANA CONTINUES TO BE PLAGUED BY INSURANCE WOES, WITH INSURERS LEAVING OR GOING OUT OF BUSINESS IN THE HURRICANE-STRICKEN STATE, SOME LAWMAKERS SAY A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE SESSION TO ADDRESS THE CRISIS IS IMMINENT. STATE SENATE PRESIDENT PAGE EDWARDS THIS WEEK TO FINALIZE PLANS ON THE NEED FOR A SESSION/AND WHEN IT WOULD HAPPEN. A SPOKESPERSON FOR THE GOVERNOR’S OFFICE SAYS THAT DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THE POSSIBLE LEGISLATIVE SESSION ARE ONGOING. STATE INSURANCE COMMISSIONER JIM DONELON HAS PRESSED THE GOVERNOR TO CALL A SPECIAL SESSION FOR MONTHS/AS INSURANCE ISSUES IN LOUISIANA HAVE SPIRALED.
LOUISIANA CONGRESSMAN CLAY HIGGINS SAYS GROUND WILL BE BROKEN NEXT YEAR/ON A NEW I-TEN BRIDGE OVER THE CALCASIEU RIVER IN LAKE CHARLES. HE SAYS THE QUESTION IS WHETHER OR NOT IT WILL BE FUNDED THROUGH TOLLS. HIGGINS TELLS KPLC TV THAT A BRIDGE WILL BE BUILT AND HE THINKS THEY’LL BREAK GROUND IN TWELVE TO EIGHTEEN MONTHS. KEITH SAYS A TWENTY-TWENTY-FOUR START DATE IS POSSIBLE, BUT NOT GUARANTEED.
THE ACADIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE MADE ITS SECOND ARREST IN CONNECTION TO A DRIVE-BY-SHOOTING IN DECEMBER. DANIELLE JOHNSON HAS MORE.
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A SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD STUDENT AT LAFAYETTE HIGH SCHOOL HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR A BOMB THREAT MADE ON TWITTER/JUST BEFORE EIGHT-THIRTY YESTERDAY MORNING. THE SCHOOL WAS EVACUATED AND A U-L BOMB DOG WAS BROUGHT IN TO ASSIST POLICE IN SEARCHING THE BUILDING. STUDENTS RETURNED TO CLASSES AFTER THE BUILDING WAS SEARCHED. THE STUDENT, WHO WAS ARRESTED WAS, BOOKED INTO THE LAFAYETTE JUVENILE DETENTION HOME ON A CHARGE OF TERRORIZING.
THE STATE BOARD OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION/HAS AGREED TO REVISIT NEW LEARNING STANDARDS FOR THE STATE’S YOUNGEST STUDENTS THAT THE BOARD APPROVED TWICE LAST YEAR. THAT’S BECAUSE THERE WERE NEARLY SIX HUNDRED PUBLIC COMMENTS IN LESS THAT A MONTH ABOUT THE STANDARDS/THAT WERE VOICED THROUGH A PUBLIC PROTAL AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. THE ADVOCATE NEWSPAPER SAYS THE FOCUS OF MOST OF THE COMMENTS/ARE ON SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING FOR CHILDREN FIVE AND YOUNGER. CRITICS SAY IT IS SO BROAD IT COULD LEAD TO DISCUSSIONS ON GENDER IDENTITY AND CONTORVERSIAL TOPICS.
THE TOWN OF JEANERETTE HAS BEEN WITHOUT A GROCERY STORE SINCE LAST SUMMER WHEN MAC’S SUGAR CITY MARKET SHUT DOWN. THE CHITIMACHA TRIBE OF LOUISIANA HAS ANNOUNCED THEY HAVE PURCHASED THE OLD MAC’S BUILDING/AND WILL EXPAND ITS RAINTREE MARKET FRANCHISE TO A SECOND LOCATION THERE. THE CHITIMACHA TRIBE DECIDED TO RENOVATE THE OLD BUILDING RATHER THAT TEARING IT DOWN/AND HOPE TO HAVE THE NEW STORE UP AND RUNNING BY THE SPRING OF TWENTY=TWENTY-FOUR. JEANERETTE MAYOR CARL BOURGEOIS JUNIOR SAYS THEY ARE EXCITED THAT RAINTREE IS COMING TO JEANERETTE, WHICH MEANS A LOT FOR THE TOWN.
