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1-30-20

THE SCOTT FIRE DEPARTMENT RESPONDED TO A FIRE AT THE ILE DES CANNE APARTMENT COMPLEX LATE LAST NIGHT.  MEGAN KELLY HAS THE DETAILS.

 

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THE OPELOUSAS POLICE DEPARTMENT IS SEARCHING FOR A TWELVE-YEAR-OLD BOY WHO HAS BEEN MISSING SINCE MONDAY AFTERNOON.  JAYLON GUILLORY LEFT HIS HOME ON KIM DRIVE JUST AFTER TWO MONDAY WITHOUT PERMISSION, SOMETHING HE REPORTEDLY HAS A HABIT OF DOING.  THE OPELOUSAS POLICE DEPARTMENT’S FACEBOOK PAGE HAS TWO PHOTOS OF GUILLORY.  IF YOU KNOW WHERE HE IS, YOU ARE ASKED TO CONTACT THE DEPARTMENT.

 

A NEW VETERAN’S MEMORIAL AT PINDEROSA PARK IN WESTLAKE IS NEARING COMPLETION.  NAMES OF VETERANS ARE BEING ENSCRIBED ON GRANITE PANELS, WHICH MAYOR BOB HARDEY SAYS IS NICER THAN BRICK, EVEN THOUGH IT COSTS A LITTLE MORE.  IF YOU WANT TO SEE A VETERAN’S NAME ON A PANEL, CONTACT WESTLAKE CITY HALL.  THE VETERANS MEMORIAL IS PART OF AN OVERALL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT AT PINDEROSA PARK, INCLUDING A ONE-AND-A-HALF MILLION DOLLAR PLAYGROUND RENOVATION.

 

Louisiana’s Supreme Court says Walmart isn’t responsible for paying sales taxes for items sold through its online “marketplace” for third-party sellers. Wednesday’s decision comes in a case involving a New Orleans suburb. But an attorney involved in the case says it’s being watched around the country. The 4-3 decision says Walmart.com did not assume the tax obligation for independent retailers using the Walmart.com online marketplace.

 

The principal of a high school in Louisiana is accused of driving while intoxicated and crashing into three vehicles. 55-year-old Ralph Thibodeaux broke one of the wheels off his own vehicle in one of the crashes before being arrested in Vermillion Parish over the weekend. He is the principal at the W.D. & Mary Baker Smith Career Center in Lafayette. He was jailed and charged but has since bonded out.

 

THE CHIEF OF THE LOREAUVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT HAS RESIGNED AFTER A VERBAL ALTERCATION WITH THE MAYOR.  BRODY CHAMPAGNE SAYS THE MAYOR, BRAD CLIFTON, FORCED HIM TO RESIGN BY THREATENING TO CUT OFF FUNDING TO THE DEPARTMENT.  CLIFTON DENIES HE FORCED CHAMPAGNE TO RESIGN, SAYING HE DOESN’T HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO DO THAT.  HE SAYS CHAMPAGNE, AFTER A HEATED ARGUMENT ON THE PHONE, SENT HIM A TEXT MESSAGE INFORMING HIM THAT HE WAS QUITTING.

 

A Lake Charles man, sentenced to eight 50-year prison terms, has had his convictions and sentences vacated and will receive a new trial. El Jerico Jermiah Bartie was convicted of eight counts of attempted first-degree murder after a bench trial in March 2018. He was accused of shooting at eight officers during a July 2014 standoff at a Super 8 Motel in Sulphur. A new trial wasn’t immediately set.

 

AN AUDIT OF THE ACADIA PARISH SCHOOL BOARD FOUND THEM TO BE IN A GOOD FINANCIAL POSITION.  AT A BUDGET AND FINANCE COMMITTEE MEETING MONDAY NIGHT, THEY LEARNED THAT THE BOARD PROJECTED EIGHTY-POINT-FOUR MILLION DOLLARS IN REVENUE AND ACTUALLY COLLECTED EIGHTY-POINT-FIVE MILLION DOLLARS.  THEY ALSO SPENT SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS LESS THAN WAS PROJECTED.  SUPERINTENDENT SCOTT RICHARD SAYS THEY ARE ON TRACK TO MAKE MIDYEAR BUDGET ADJUSTMENTS AND TO PREPARE THE BUDGET FOR THE NEXT SCHOOL YEAR.