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WITH THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER LATER THIS AFTERNOON, SEVERAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE PLANNING EARLY DISMISSALS LATER TODAY. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS INVESTIGATING A POSSIBLE HOMOCIDE IN THE PRAIRIE LANE NEIGHBORHOOD. THE VICTIM IS A FEMALE BUT THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE HAS NOT RELEASED HER IDENTITY. CAPTAIN JOHN MOWELL SAYS THEY SUSPECT FOUL PLAY. HE WOULD NOT SAY IF THEY HAVE MADE AN ARREST OR HAVE A PERSON OF INTEREST.
AN IBERIA PARISH CONVENIENCE STORE WAS ROBBED AT AROUND THREE A-M. MONDAY MORNING. SHERIFF TOMMY ROMERO SAYS A MAN ARMED WITH AN
A-K STYLE WEAPON ENTERED THE STORE, LOCATED IN THE TWENTY-SEVEN-HUNDRED BLOCK OF EAST MAIN STREET. THE MAN, WHO WAS WEARING A BLACK REEBOK HOODIE SWEATSHIRT, DEMANDED CASH AND LOUISIANA LOTTERY SCRATCH OFF TICKETS. ANYONE WHO HAS INFORMATION ON THE IDENTITY OF THE SUSPECT IS ASKED TO CONTACT THE IBERIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE.
A BELL CITY WOMAN WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY FOR ALLEGEDLY SHOOTING AND KILLING HER HUSBAND. SIXTY-YEAR-OLD YVETTE LOGAN CALLED DISPATCHERS AND REPORTEDLY TOLD THEM THAT SHE HAD SHOT HER HUSBAND, SIXTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD WILLIAM G. LOGAN, AND HE WAS DEAD INSIDE THEIR GRAGG ROAD HOME. YVETTE HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH SECOND DEGREE MURDER. BOND HAS NOT YET BEEN SET.
BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD LOUISIANA IS EXPECTED TO BE ACQUIRED LATER THIS YEAR BY ELEVANCE HEALTH, FORMERLY KNOWN AS ANTHEM. BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD, THE STATE’S LARGEST INSURER WITH ONE-POINT-NINE MILLION POLICY HOLDERS, IS EXPECTED TO JOIN ELEVANCE’S ONE HUNDRED NINETEEN MILLION PERSON NETWORK. OPERATIONS FOR THE BLUE CROSS PLAN WILL REMAIN AT THEIR HEADQUARTERS IN BATON ROUGE. THE AGREEMENT WILL NEED TO BE APPROVED BY THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION.
LAFAYETTE POLICE ARRESTED A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY YESTERDAY IN CONNECTION TO A SHOOTING IN A MOSS STREET PARKING LOT LAST WEDNESDAY IN WHICH TWO OTHER TEENAGERS WERE WOUNDED. THE SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD FACES TWO COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER AND HAS BEEN PLACED IN THE LAFAYETTE JUVENILE DETENTION HOME. A SECOND SUSPECT WAS ALSO ARRESTED LAST THURSDAY. TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD DEKIAL (duh KEEL) ALEXANDER OF LAFAYETTE WAS BOOKED INTO THE LAFAYETTE CORRECTIONAL CENTER ON TWO COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED FIRST DEGREE MURDER.
STAFFING CHANGES HAVE BEEN MADE AT THE SAINT LANDRY PARISH ANIMAL SHELTER. PARISH PRESIDENT JESSIE BELLARD SAYS THAT DURING AN EVALUATION PROCESS, THEY FOUND THE MAJORITY OF EMPLOYEES WERE NOT FOLLOWING PROTOCOLS OR PROCEDURES, SO THEY HIRED NEW PEOPLE. HE TELLS KLFY TV THAT IT’S SIMPLE, THOSE WHO DON’T FOLLOW RULES AND PROCEDURES WILL NOT STAY. BELLARD SAYS THE SHELTER WILL ALSO BE RECEIVING HELP FROM THE BISSELL PET FOUNDATION IN MAKING SURE ANIMALS ARE PROPERLY CARED FOR.
ACADIA PARISH SHERIFF K-P GIBSON ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY THAT THE LOUISIANA SHERIFF’S SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM IS UNDERWAY. SEVEN HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS FROM ACADIA PARISH WILL RECEIVED A FIVE HUNDRED DOLLAR SCHOLARSHIP. ONE WILL BE AWARDED THROUGH THE LOUISIANA SHERIFF’S SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM WHILE THE SIX OTHERS WILL COME THROUGH THE ACADIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE SCHOLARSHIP. TO GET AN APPLICATION, YOU CAN GO ONLINE TO A-P-S-O-DOT-COM, OR YOU CAN REQUEST ONE FROM YOUR HIGH SCHOOL COUNSELOR OR BY CALLING HUMAN RESOURCE DIRECTOR KIM MILLER AT THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE.
