1-24-22
INTERIM LAFAYETTE POLICE CHIEF WAYNE GRIFFIN HAS BEEN DISMISSED FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS MORE.
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BOTH DRIVERS IN A HEAD ON COLLISION IN VERMILLION PARISH WERE KILLED SATURDAY NIGHT. STATE POLICE SAY THIRTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD BRANDON ISAAC OF CARENCRO WAS TRAVELING NORTH IN THE SOUTHBOUND LANES AND STRUCK A SOUTHBOUND VEHICLE DRIVEN BY EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD RAMSIE BAUMGARDNER OF MAURICE. BOTH DRIVERS WERE TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL IN CRITICAL CONDITION AND LATER DIED. TOXICOLOGY REPORTS FROM BOTH DRIVERS ARE PENDING.
HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE GATHERED IN DOWNTOWN BATON ROUGE TO MARCH FOR LIFE. IT’S THE FORTY-NINTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SUPREME COURT’S ROE V WADE DECISION LEGALLIZING ABORTION. THE SUPREME COURT IS CONSIDERING A MISSISSIPPI CASE THAT WOULD BAN ABORTION AT FIFTEEN WEEKS OF PREGNANCY, DIRECTLY CHALLENGING ROE V WADE. U-S SENATOR BILL CASSIDY OF LOUISIANA SAYS THE MARCH FOR LIFE WAS THE PEOPLE OF LOUISIANA EXPRESSING THEIR DESIRE FOR THE MAMA AND FOR THE CHILD.
A NEW MURAL IN DOWNTOWN LAKE CHARLES HAS GONE UP TO ENCOURAGE RESIDENTS STILL DEALING WITH STORM RECOVERY. THE MURAL, WHICH TOOK A FEW DAYS TO PAINT, IS ON THE SIDE OF BUFFI’S PEAUXBOYS ON BILBO STREET. IT INCLUDES A HUGE SET OF WINGS AND THE PHRASE, “STILL I RISE.” THE WORK BY ARTIST JEREMY PRICE HAS ATTRACTED THE ATTENTION OF PASSERSBY, WHO HAVE STOPPED TO POSE IN FRONT OF IT.
STATE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING AN OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTING IN LAFAYETTE. CAROLINE MARCELLO REPORTS.
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A WOMAN WAS STRUCK AND KILLED BY A UNION PACIFIC TRAIN FRIDAY AFTERNOON IN SAINT LANDRY PARISH. THE WOMAN HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS HEATHER WELLS COMPTON OF OPELOUSAS. THE SAINT LANDRY PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS SHE WAS WALKING ALONGSIDE THE TRACKS NEAR JENNINGS ROAD AND HIGHWAY ONE-NINETY. DEPUTY CHIEF EDDIE THIBODAUX SAYS IT’S ILLEGAL TO WALK NEAR THE TRACKS AS TRAINS HAVE A THREE FEET OVERHANG FROM THE TRACKS.
AN IOTA WOMAN’S POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA JANUARY FOURTEENTH GOT LOTS OF SHARES. A PHOTO BY CATHEY LANDRY SHOWS A POUND OF JUMBO LUMP CRABMEAT PRICED AT SIXTY-SEVEN-NINETY-NINE AT A LAFAYETTE GROCERY STORE. LANDRY SAYS SHE TRIES TO SUPPORT THE LOUISIANA INDUSTRY WHEN SHE CAN BUT NOT AT THOSE PRICES. WENDELL VERRET OF LOUISIANA DIRECT SEAFOOD TELLS THE ADVOCATE THERE ARE FEWER CRABBERS GOING OUT AND FEWER CRABS TO BE CAUGHT, AND, AS A RESULT, THEY’VE SEEN RETAIL PRICES GO UP BY ABOUT SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT.
Authorities have caught one of two 16-year-olds who escaped from a Louisiana juvenile detention center in St. Martinville, but are still looking for the other. The state Office of Juvenile Justice said in a news release Friday that a preliminary investigation has found that human error played a part in the escape. It said discipline will be decided once the investigation is complete, and it could include firings. The teenagers broke out of the Acadiana Center for Youth on Wednesday evening.
