1-27-20
KIDS IN IOTA WILL BE HEADING BACK TO SCHOOL TODAY DESPITE NEW THREATS ON SOCIAL MEDIA. MEGAN KELLY HAS MORE.
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A LAKE CHARLES JURY FOUND RONALD GENE MCLAIN GUILTY OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER AND SECOND DEGREE KIDNAPPING ON FRIDAY IN THE DEATH OF JOHN MICHAEL DEVILLE IN JUNE OF 2018. DEVILLE WAS LEAVING THE ISLE OF CAPRI CASINO WHEN HE CAME UPON MCLAIN AND KENNETH WILLIAMS TRYING TO BREAK INTO VEHICLES. MCLAIN AND WILLIAMS FORCED DEVILLE INTO HIS TRUCK AND KILLED HIM, THEN LEFT HIS BODY ON THE SIDE OF I-TEN IN SULPHUR. WILLIAMS IS STILL AWAITING TRIAL.
A LAFAYETTE WOMAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE STABBING DEATH OF A MAN FRIDAY NIGHT. POLICE WERE CALLED TO AN APARTMENT ON M-L-K DRIVE LATE FRIDAY NIGHT AND FOUND A MAN WITH A STAB WOUND TO HIS UPPER BODY. HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. POLICE ARRESTED TWENTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD ELIZABETH MARIE ANN ALFRED OF LAFAYETTE ON A CHARGE OF SECOND DEGREE MURDER.
Louisiana’s health department and four insurance companies chosen for $21 billion in Medicaid deals are challenging a decision to rescind the contract awards. The Department of Health and the private companies filed their appeals late Friday. They’re arguing Louisiana’s state procurement officer Paula Tregre didn’t follow the law when she decided to throw out the three-year contract awards. At issue are multibillion-dollar Medicaid contracts awarded by Gov. John Bel Edwards’ administration to companies that will oversee care for about 90% of Louisiana’s Medicaid enrollees, about 1.5 million people.
A JEANERETTE MAN, WHO WAS RIDING A BICYCLE IN BATON ROUGE SATURDAY, WAS KILLED WHEN HE WAS STRUCK BY A VEHICLE THAT WAS DRAG RACING ANOTHER CAR. POLICE SAY TWO BROTHERS WERE INVOLVED IN THE DRAG RACE, WHEN ONE OF THE DRIVERS LOST CONTROL OF HIS VEHICLE, STRIKING THE OTHER CAR, CAUSING BOTH CARS TO LEAVE THE ROADWAY. THE BICYCLIST, 24-YEAR-OLD DEONDRICK RUDD OF JEANERETTE, DIED AT THE SCENE AS WELL AS ONE OF THE DRIVERS, 56-YEAR-OLD CHRISTOPHER BROCK. THE OTHER BROTHER, 57-YEAR-OLD LATIMORE BROCK, WAS ARRESTED ON SEVERAL CHARGES INCLUDING TWO COUNTS OF VEHICULAR HOMOCIDE AND DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED.
A LAKE CHARLES MAN WAS ARRESTED FOR A FOURTH OFFENSE D-W-I. 29-YEAR-OLD ALEX J. LEMOINE WAS PULLED OVER BY CALCASIEU PARISH AUTHORITIES NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF COMMON AND ELEVENTH STREETS AND HE SMELLED OF ALCOHOL AND HAD BLOODSHOT EYES. HE TOLD THE DEPUTIES HE DRANK SOME BEER WITH A SHOT OF VODKA. LEMOINE WAS DRIVING WITH A LICENSE THAT HAD BEEN SUSPENDED BECAUSE OF HIS THIRD OFFENSE D-W-I LAST OCTOBER.
Louisiana’s 2019 “I Voted” sticker has won a national award for originality and creativity from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. The sticker was created by Cajun artist Tony Bernard of Lafayette. It featured a pelican wearing a crown centered in a rendition of the state seal. Voters received the sticker when they cast ballots in the Oct. 12 primary and Nov. 16 runoff elections.
THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE WILL BEGIN ACCEPTING 2019 STATE INDIVIDUAL TAX RETURNS TODAY. HERE’S MEGAN KELLY WITH MORE.
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