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-L LAFAYETTE HAS SIGNED COLLABORATIVE AGREEMENTS WITH 15 UNIVERSITIES IN MEXICO WITH PLANS TO ADD THREE MORE.  THE UNIVERSITIES ARE IN AREAS WHERE 95 PERCENT OF MEXICO’S OIL RESERVES ARE LOCATED AND THEY HAVE TO DEAL WITH HURRICANES AND COASTAL EROSIONS.  THE DEAN OF U-L LAFAYETTE’S COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, MARK ZAPPI, TELLS THE ADVOCATE THAT THE AGREEMENTS WILL ENRICH BOTH AREA’S SMALL BUSINESSES AND ECONOMIES.  RAMESH KOLLURU, U-L’S VICE PRESIDENT OF RESEARCH, INNOVATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, SAYS THEY WILL FOCUS ON RESEARCH OPPORTUNITES BEFORE STARTING A STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAM, WHICH IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN NEXT FALL.

 

THREE PEOPLE IN ANACOCO ARE DEAD IN, WHAT AUTHORITIES BELIEVE, WAS A MURDER SUICIDE.  VERNON PARISH SHERIFF SAM CRAFT SAYS 36-YEAR-OLD DERRICK ROSS IS BELIEVED TO BE THE GUNMAN WHO SHOT AND KILLED HIS AUNT, 48-YEAR-OLD NORMA ROSS OF ANACOCO AND ANOTHER MAN, 30-YEAR-OLD CALVIN STUBBS OF LEESVILLE.  THEIR BODIES WERE FOUND BY AUTHORITES IN A HOME, LOCATED OFF OF ROSS ROAD IN ANACOCO.  AFTER A SEARCH OF A WOODED AREA, THE BODY OF DERRICK ROSS WAS FOUND, AND VERNON PARISH CORONER’S OFFICE INVESTIGATORS BELIEVED HE DIED OF A SELF-INFLICTED GUNSHOT WOUND.

 

DEMOCRAT STATE REPRESENTATIVE JACK MONTOUCET OF CROWLEY HAS BEEN APPOINTED SECRETARY OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES BY GOVERNOR JOHN BEL EDWARDS.  HIS APPOINTMENT TAKES EFFECT IN TWO WEEKS.  ON THURSDAY, MONTOUCET ANNOUNCED HIS RESIGNATION.  A SPECIAL ELECTION WILL BE HELD MARCH 29TH TO FILL HIS SEAT.  SO FAR, TWO MEN HAVE ANNOUNCED THEIR INTENTIONS TO RUN, ACCORDING TO THE CROWLEY POST SIGNAL…REPUBLICAN JAY SUIRE AND DEMOCRAT MIKE GOSS, BOTH OF CROWLEY.

 

A five-day trade mission to Cuba for Gov. John Bel Edwards, Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain and other state workers cost the state $150,134.  The Times-Picayune reports the single largest expense was the governor’s security detail — about $35,000.  Louisiana is Cuba’s leading trade partner in the United States.  Edwards and other officials signed agreements in Cuba to expand trade with the country if the federal government relaxes its policy toward Cuba.

 

THE FIRST BABY OF 2017 IN LAFAYETTE WAS DELIVERED BY A SURROGATE MOTHER AT 2:02 A-M SUNDAY AT WOMEN’S AND CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL.  LAUREN HAYES HAD THE BABY, A GIRL NAMED SUTTEN FAY NEWSOM, FOR HER OLDER SISTER, MICHELLE NEWSOM, THROUGH IN VITRO FERTILIZATION.  MICHELLE LEARNED AT THE AGE OF 16 SHE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO HAVE CHILDREN AND SAYS LAUREN OFFERED TO BE A SURROGATE MOTHER THEN, BUT SHE, AT FIRST, DIDN’T TAKE HER SERIOUSLY.  LAUREN, WHO IS NOW 26 WITH TWO OF HER OWN CHILDREN, SAYS SHE BELIEVES EVERY WOMAN SHOULD EXPERIENCE THE JOY OF HAVING A BABY.

 

The USS Orleck has received a one year reprieve from the scrap yard.  The American Press reports the Calcasieu Parish Police Jury granted organizers $25,000 in November that is being used for parts and other maintenance. The grant should allow the ship to remain in Lake Charles and make ends meet in 2017 while organizers try to figure out its next location.  The board that run’s the ship’s museum had been considering selling it to a scrap yard this fall due to low funds and questions about its future.

 

THE IBERIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS INVESTIGATING THE FIRST FATAL CRASH OF 2017 IN THE PARISH.  JULIE DARCE HAS MORE.

 

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A handful of Louisiana laws take effect with the start of the new year.  Water bills will rise by a few dollars a year to support drinking water inspections. State museums can start hiring police officers. And new regulations are aimed at protecting the elderly from financial abuse.  Nineteen new or revised statutes are slated to hit the books when 2017 begins, passed by lawmakers during their spring legislative sessions.