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THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SAYS THE RECENT WINTER STORM CONTRIBUTED TO THE DEATHS OF TWO PEOPLE. AN EIGHTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD MAN IN POINT COUPEE PARISH DIED FROM HYPOTHERMIA. A SIXTY-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WAS KILLED IN A HOUSE FIRE CAUSED BY A SPACE HEATER. TWO WEEKS AGO, THERE WAS ANOTHER WINTER-RELATED DEATH IN RAPIDES PARISH WHEN A SIXTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD MAN DIED FROM HYPOTHERMIA.
A PATIO COVER IN JEANERETTE COLLAPSED DUE TO SNOW FROM LAST WEEK. HERMAN JONES SAYS THERE WAS ABOUT TEN INCHES ON THE PATIO COVER, CAUSING THE COLLAPSE AND DAMAGE TO HIS CAR. JONES SAYS HE WAS INSIDE WHEN THE COLLAPSE HAPPENED AND HE THOUGHT A TREE FELL. HE IS ASKING FOR HELP FROM ANYONE WHO WILL ASSIST HIM IN TEARING DOWN THE PATIO COVER.
LAFAYETTE UTILITIES SYSTEM HAS LIFTED THE BOIL WATER ADVISORY FOR RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES NORTH OF I-TEN. GEORGE FAUST HAS MORE.
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GOVERNOR JEFF LANDRY AND SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE MIKE JOHNSON OF LOUISIANA EACH TOOK PART SATURDAY IN THE MARCH FOR LIFE IN WASHINGTON, D-C. PRIOR TO THE MARCH, LANDRY MET WITH FOUR HUNDRED HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS FROM THE BATON ROUGE YOUTH PILGRIMAGE TO THE MARCH FOR LIFE. BENJAMIN CLAPPER OF LOUISIANA RIGHT TO LIFE THANKED LANDRY AND JOHNSON FOR RECOGNIZING THE DIGNITY OF THE UNBORN PERSON AND BEING CHAMPIONS FOR PROTECTION. HE SAYS LOUISIANA CONTINUES TO LEAD FOR LIFE IN AMERICA THROUGH GREAT LEADERS SUCH AS SPEAKER JOHNSON AND GOVERNOR LANDRY.
AN EXPLOSION CAUSED SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO A HOME ON WEST SAINT MARY STREET IN SCOTT SUNDAY MORNING AT AROUND TEN-FORTY-FIVE. IT’S BELIEVED A PROPANE TANK EXPLODED NEAR THE FRONT PORCH. KADN TV REPORTS THAT THE PROPANE INSIDE THE TANK IS BELIEVED TO HAVE EXPANDED SUBSTANTIALLY THROUGHOUT THE DAY DUE TO WARMING TEMPERATURES. A MALFUNCTIONING PRESSURE RELIEF VALVE DID NOT ALLOW THE PRESSURE TO ESCAPE, CAUSING THE EXPLOSION, WHICH SEVERELY DAMAGED THE HOME AND CAUSED SOME DAMAGE TO NEIGHBORING HOMES.
A MOTORCYCLIST WAS KILLED THURSDAY IN A TWO-VEHICLE CRASH NEAR SULPHUR. ACCORDING TO STATE POLICE, FIFTY-YEAR-OLD WALTER CLINTON OF LEESVILLE WAS TRAVELING SOUTH ON L-A TWENTY-SEVEN WHEN HE, FOR REASONS STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION, CROSSED THE CENTER LINE. CLINTON HIT A NORTHBOUND DODGE CHARGER HEAD-ON. CLINTON WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE WHILE THE DRIVER OF THE DODGE CHARGER SUFFERED MINOR INJURIES.
ACADIA PARISH DEPUTIES ARRESTED A RAYNE MAN IN CONNECION TO A DRIVE-BY SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED ON JANUARY TENTH. THIRTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD KELVIN MADISON ALLEGEDLY FIRED MULTIPLE SHOTS AT A RESIDENCE ON THE BOSCO HIGHWAY IN NORTHEAST ACADIA PARISH. FIVE PEOPLE WERE IN THE HOME AT THE TIME. MADISON HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AND FIVE COUNTS OF ASSAULT BY DRIVE BY SHOOTING.
THREE PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED BY IBERIA PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES LAST WEEK DURING AN INVESTIGATION INTO SHOTS FIRED NEAR HAZARD ROAD. DEPUTIES STOPPED A CAR AND THE OWNER ALLOWED THEM TO SEARCH IT. THE DEPUTIES FOUND TWO FIREARMS CONCEALED BY CLOTHING ON THE FLOORBOARD. ONE PERSON ADMITTED FIRING A WEAPON AT A CEMETARY WHILE THE OTHER TWO ARRESTED WERE FELONS ON PROBATION.
