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AN ANNOUNCER WITH DELTA MEDIA CORPORATION PASSED AWAY SUNDAY MORNING. STEPHANIE SMALLWOOD WAS CONSIDERED THE HEART OF Z-ONE-OH-FIVE-POINT-NINE. SHE HAD FALLEN ILL IN OCTOBER AND RETIRED ON DECEMBER FIRST. FUNERAL ARRRANGEMENTS HAVE NOT YET BEEN ANNOUNCED.
LAFAYETTE FIRE OFFICIALS DOUBLED DOWN ON SAFETY ADVICE AFTER A MAJOR APARTMENT COMPLEX FIRE DISPLACED SIX FAMILIES AND LED TO ONE RESIDEENT JUMPING FROM A SECOND FLOOR WINDOW TO ESCAPE. GEORGE FAUST REPORTS.
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A TWENTY-THREE WEEK ACADEMY FOR STATE POLICE CADET CLASS ONE-OH-EIGHT BEGAN YESTERDAY. THE CLASS CONSISTS OF FIFTY-THREE MEN AND WOMEN. THOSE WHO COMPLETE EACH TRAINING COURSE AND PRACTICAL APPLICATION WILL GRADUATE ON JUNE TWELFTH. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE HIRING PROCESS FOR LOUISIANA STATE POLICE, GO ONLINE TO JOIN L-S-P-DOT-COM.
A SULPHUR MAN WAS KILLED IN A HEAD-ON COLLISION JUST EAST OF BASILE ON HIGHWAY ONE-NINETY THURSDAY NIGHT. ACCORDING TO STATE POLICE, SIXTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD DAVID DOUCET WAS DRIVING THE WRONG WAY WHEN HE COLLIDED WITH A G-M-C CANYON. DOUCET WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE AND BLOOD SAMPLES FROM BOTH DRIVRS WERE TAKEN FOR ANALYSIS. THE DRIVER AND A PASSENGER IN THE G-M-C WERE TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WITH SERIOUS INJURIES.
ONE MAN IS DEAD AND ANOTHER HOSPITALIZED AFTER AN A-T-V CRASH IN A RURAL PART OF SAINT MARTIN PARISH ON BAYOU PORTAGE ROAD. IT HAPPENED AT AROUND NINE FRIDAY NIGHT WHEN THE TWO WERE TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL, THE NEXT MORNING, TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD LANE SMITH OF BREAUX BRIDGE DIED FROM HIS INJURIES. THE CAUSE OF THE CRASH IS STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION.
TWO MEN ARE IN CUSTODY AFTER THE SHOOTING DEATH OF A SCOTT BUSINESSWOMAN. FORTY-YEAR-OLD LERHONDA CARTER OWNED THE BLISS COCKTAIL LOUNGE AND THE STYLE LOFT IN DOWNTOWN LAFAYETTE, BOTH OF WHICH HAVE CLOSED. THE FATHER OF HER CHILD, FORTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD JAMES JOSEPTH, HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH SECOND-DEGREE MURDER. AN ALLEGED ACCOMPLICE, FORTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD JESSIE ALFRED JUNIOR, POSTED BAIL AFTER BEING CHARGED WITH ACCESSORY AFTER THE FACT OF SECOND-DEGREE MURDER.
LOUISIANA FARMERS WHO ARE STRUGGLING FINANCIALLY MAY BE ELIGIBLE FOR FEDERAL ASSISTANCE. THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCED PAYMENT RATES LAST WEEK FOR ELIGIBLE FARMERS WHO WILL RECEIVE ONE TIME PAYMENTS ADDING UP TO ELEVEN BILLION DOLLARS. PER ACRE PAYMENTS WILL BE GIVEN TO FARMERS GROWING RICE, COTTON, SOYBEANS, CORN AND WHEAT. THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE EXPECTS TO BEGIN DISTRIBUTING FUNDS BY LATE FEBRUARY.
A GARBAGE TRUCK DRIVER WAS CITED AFTER A CRASH ON THE ESTHERWOOD PONTOON BRIDGE FRIDAY, CAUSING IT TO BE SHUT DOWN FOR A FEW HOURS. THE DRIVER TOLD KADN TV HE DIDN’T KNOW OF THE SPEED LIMITS AND WEIGHT RESTRICTIONS FOR THE BRIDGE. THE TRUCK WAS TOWED AWAY AND THE BRIDGE WAS REOPENED AFTER OFFICIALS INSPECTED IT. THE BRIDGE HAS BEEN CLOSED MULTIPLE TIMES THIS YEAR DUE TO CRASHES.
