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EUNICE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL HAVE ARESTED 40 YR OLD SARAH CHAPMN IN CONNECTION WITH THE HIT AND RUN DEATH OF A EMPLOYEE OF THE CITY COURT. 40 YR OLD SARAH CHAPMAN FACES MULTIPLE CHARGES IN CONNECTION WTH THAT DEATH. IN ANOTHER DEVELOPMENT EUNICE OFFICALS HAVE ARRESTED A MAN ON ATTEMPTED MURDER CHRGES. SYLVIA MASTERS PICKS UP THAT STORY FROM TV 10.
SOME CHANGES IN LOUISIANA LAW WENT INTO EFFECT ON NEW YEARS DAY. ONE OF THE CHANGES WOULD AFFECT LOUISIANNANS MAKING MORE THAN $50,000. AN AMENDMENT PASSED BY VOTERS LAST NOVEMBER LOWERS THE STATE TAXE RATE FROM6% TO 4.75%.
THREE JEANERETTE SIBLLINGS KILLED IN A DECEMBER 17TH HEAD ON COLLISION WILL BE LAID TO REST TODAY IN A JOINT FUNERAL AT OUR SAVIOURS CHURCH IN NEW IBERIA. LINDY, CHRISTOPHER, AND DAMRYN SIMMONS WERE KILLED WHEN THEIR VECHILE WAS HIT BY A PICK UP TRUCK GOINT THE WRONG WAY ON I-49. THE DRIVER OF THE TRUCK WHO WAS KILLED WAS IINTOXICATED AT THE TIME OF THE CRASH ACCORDING TO STATE POLICE TOXICOLGY TESTS.
SENATOR JOHN KENNEDY HAS ANNOUNCED THAT LOUISIAN WILL BE RECEIVING $219 MILLION FROM THE NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT TO FUND MILITARY CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS. THE ACT, ACCORDING TO SEN KENNEDY, WILL HELP PAVE THE WAY FOR SUBSTANTIAL MILITARY INVESTMENTS IN OUT STATE. PROJECTS INCLUDE 18.5 MILLION FOR CONSTRUCTING THE LAKE CHARLES NATIONAL GUARD READINESS CENTER.
AN INMATE AT THE BEAUREGARD PARISH JAIL RECEIVED MINOR INJURIES WHEN STABBED BY ANOTHER INMATE. THE INMATE WAS STABBED MULTIPLE TIMES WITH A BROKEN PAIR OF SCISSORS, BUT HIS WOUNDS WERE NOT LIFE THREATING. THE OTHER INMATE NOW FACES ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGES ALONG WITH OTHER CHARGERS IN CONNECTION WITH THE INCIDENT.
********************************************************************THE LSU TIGERS ARE LIMPING INTO TONIGHTS TEXAS BOWL AGAINST KANSAS STATE. THE TIGERS BARELY HAVE 40 SCHOLARSHIP PLAYERS AVAILABLE FOR THE CONTEST. INTERIM COACH BRAD DAVIS SAYS HE BELIVES THE BOWL PREP HAS BEEN GOOD FOR THE TIGERS AND CAN PROVIDE THE TEAM WITH SOME MOMENTUM GOING INTO THE 2022 SEASON UNDER NEW HEAD COACH BRIAN KELLY.
SERVICES ARE SET FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW FOR BISHOP ROY L.H. WINBUSH WHO SERVED AS A PASTOR FOR 65 YEARS. BISHOP WINBUSH WAS THE PASTOR EMERITUS OF THE GETHSEMANE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST IN OPELOUSAS, LAFAYETTE AND CROWLEY. BISHOP WINBUSH WILL LIE IN STATE TONIGHT FROM 4PM TILL 7PM WHEN THE LOCAL JURISDICTIONAL SERVICE WILL BE HELD FOLLOWED TOMORROW BY A NATIONAL SERVICE HONORING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF BISHOP WINBUSH AT 10AM AT THE GETHSEMANE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST IN LAFAYETTE.
