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THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM IS DISMISSING STUDENTS EARLY IN ANTICIPATION OF SEVERE WEATHER LATER TODAY. HIGH SCHOOLS WILL DISMISS AT ELEVEN-THIRTY WHILE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS WILL CLOSE AT TWELVE-FIFTEEN. THREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, ALICE BOUCHER, J-WALLACE JAMES AND TRUMAN EARLY CHILDHOOD, AS WELL AS ALL MIDDLE SCHOOLS, WILL DISMISS AT ONE. LAFAYETTE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY WILL HAVE STUDENTS FOLLOW THEIR FRIDAY DISMISSAL TIMES FOR TODAY AS WELL.
THE SAINT MARTIN PARISH SCHOOLS WILL DISMISS AT NOON TODAY AND ALL AFTERNOON ACTIVITIES WILL BE CANCELLED. IBERIA PARISH MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLS WILL DISMISS AT ELEVEN-THIRTY WHILE THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS WILL CLOSE AT TWELVE-THIRTY. SOME PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN NEW IBERIA WILL ALSO DISMISS EARLY INCLUDING EPIPHANY DAY SCHOOL AT ELEVEN-THIRTY, ACADIANA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL AT NOON AND HIGHLAND BAPTIST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL AT TWELVE-FIFTEEN.
THE LAFAYETTE PARISH COURTHOUSE IS CLOSED TODAY DUE TO THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER. JURORS ARE TO REPORT FOR JURY DUTY TOMORROW AT NINE-FORTY-FIVE. THAT’S ACCORDING TO MELISSA HEBERT, THE CHIEF DEPUTY FOR THE CLERK OF COURT. CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS AND PARTIES THAT HAVE BEEN SERVED SUBPOENAS ARE TO REPORT TO COURT ON TUESDAY AS WELL.
Louisiana Gov.-elect Jeff Landry has been inaugurated. The inauguration Sunday marks a political shift of leadership in a state that has had a Democratic governor for the last eight years. The inauguration was originally scheduled for today. It was pushed up a day due to weather concerns.
A LAKE CHARLES WOMAN WAS SHOT AND KILLED FRIDAY MORNING AFTER GETTING INTO AN ARGUMENT, AND HER SON WAS SHOT AS WELL. THE VICTIM HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS THIRTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD DANIELLE NICHOLE WALKER, WHO WAS SHOT AT A HOME IN THE FORTY-FIVE HUNDRED BLOCK OF SALE LANE. THIRTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD TERRENCE JEROME WITHERS OF LAKE CHARLES WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AND HIS BOND WAS SET AT ONE-POINT-TWO-FIVE MILLION DOLLARS. WALKER’S SON, WHO IS A JUVENILE, WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AND RELEASED THE NEXT DAY.
AN EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD HAS BEEN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION TO A HOMOCIDE IN OPELOUSAS THAT HAPPENED FRIDAY NIGHT. GERALD GREUNIG REPORTS.
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A law requiring that some members appointed to the board that licenses and regulates physicians in Louisiana be from minority groups is being challenged in federal court. The lawsuit filed Thursday by the conservative group “Do No Harm” seeks a declaration that the law is unconstitutional. The 10-member State Board of Medical Examiners has one consumer member and nine physician members chosen from lists submitted by medical organizations and medical schools. The challenged law says that every other consumer member, every other member chosen from LSU medical centers in New Orleans and Shreveport, and every other member chosen from Louisiana Hospital Association nominees must be a minority member.
THE FAMILY OF KAMERON WILSON, WHO WAS SHOT AND KILLED LAST MONTH, HELD A BALLOON RELEASE IN HIS HONOR AT EUNICE CITY LAKE SATURDAY. WILSON’S TWO-YEAR-OLD SON, WHO WAS ALSO WOUNDED IN THE SHOOTING, WAS AT THE BALLON RELEASE AS WELL. THE SUSPECT WHO SHOT WILSON COMMITTED SUICIDE. EUNICE POLICE ARRESTED A BATON ROUGE WOMAN, THIRTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD EFTINA RIDEAUX, WHO HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH PRINCIPAL TO SECOND DEGREE MURDER AND TWO COUNTS OF PRINCIPAL TO ATTEMPTED SECOND-DEGREE MURDER.
