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ONE PERSON WAS KILLED IN A MOBILE HOME FIRE IN LAFAYETTE, WHICH HAPPENED AT AROUND THREE O’CLOCK SUNDAY MORNING. RESIDENTS IN THE MOBILE HOME PARK, LOCATED AT 342 QUEENS ROW, REPORTED THE FIRE. FIREFIGHTERS FOUND THE BODY OF 54-YEAR-OLD ROSALIND B. MITCHELL IN THE REAR BEDROOM AREA. SHE LIVED IN THE MOBILE HOME WITH A MALE FRIEND AND A RELATIVE, NEITHER OF WHOM WERE HOME AT THE TIME OF THE FIRE.
THERE WAS A MASSIVE POWER OUTAGE THAT BEGAN YESTERDAY MORNING ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF LAKE CHARLES. ENTERGY IS SAYING IT WAS A FAILED INSULATOR THAT CAUSED THE PROBLEM. ENTERGY’S SENIOR REGIONAL MANAGER CHIP ARNOULD TOLD KPLC TV THAT AN OUTAGE OF THAT MAGNITUDE REQUIRED A STEP RESTORATION PROCESS TO AVOID ANY FURTHER DAMAGE TO EQUIPMENT AND TO SAFELY RESTORE CUSTOMER’S POWER.
A CROWLEY TEENAGER LED FOUR LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES ON A HIGH SPEED CHASE YESTERDAY THROUGH THREE PARISHES. 17-YEAR-OLD CAGE HANKS SPED AWAY FROM A CROWLEY POLICE OFFICER, WHO TRIED TO PULL HIM OVER FOR A TRAFFIC VIOLATION. THE CHASE WENT FROM CROWLEY THROUGH ACADIA, VERMILLION AND LAFAYETTE PARISHES AND BACK INTO ACADIA PARISH BEFORE HE STOPPED IN A FIELD. OFFICIALS SEARCHED HIS VEHICLE AND FOUND 86 ADDERALL PILLS AND A STOLEN GUN.
Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon says the cost of workers’ compensation policies for Louisiana businesses has dropped for a fourth straight year. The state insurance department announced this week that it had approved a 9.8 percent statewide decrease in workers’ compensation rates, to take effect May 1. The rate cut was requested by the National Council on Compensation Insurance, an organization that files workers’ comp rates in 35 states. Donelon called the price drop a boost to businesses, which will pay less for the insurance coverage.
THE BODY OF A MAN WAS FOUND INSIDE THE CAB OF HIS 18 WHEELER IN THE PARKING LOT OF THE ROBICHEAUX CENTER IN LAFAYETTE SHORTLY AFTER FOUR YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFFICER KARL RATLIFF SAYS IT APPEARS HE DIED OF NATURAL CAUSES. HE DIDN’T RELEASE HIS NAME BUT HE WAS A 38-YEAR-OLD AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN. RATLIFF SAYS FAMILY MEMBERS INDICATED THAT THE MAN OFTEN PARKED HIS RIG IN THAT LOT AND WALKED TO HIS HOME NEARBY.
A FIVE-YEAR-OLD BOY WAS INJURED BY A FIRE AT A HOME IN VINTON EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. VINTON FIRE CHIEF JERRY MERCHANT SAYS THE BOY CAUGHT HIS CLOTHES ON FIRE FROM AN OPEN HEATER AND THEN RAN TO A BEDROOM WHERE FURNITURE AND BEDDING CAUGHT FIRE FROM HIS CLOTHES. THE CHILD WAS AIRLIFTED TO A LAFAYETTE HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT OF BURNS TO HIS ARMS, CHEST AND BACK. THE BOY’S FATHER ALSO HAD TO BE TREATED AT A LOCAL HOSPITAL FOR BURNS ON HIS ARMS AND HANDS.
THERE WAS ANOTHER BODY FOUND IN ACADIANA SUNDAY AFTERNOON. JEFF HORCHEK HAS THE DETAILS.
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Louisiana is submitting its plan to spend $438 million in federal flood recovery aid, a move Gov. John Bel Edwards’ administration says should have money flowing by April. Nearly all the money, under the plan being sent Friday to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, will go to homeowners for repairs from the March and August floods. Pat Forbes, the governor’s leader on disaster recovery, says an estimated 4,000 households will share in that money. The dollars will largely go to elderly, low- to moderate-income homeowners without flood insurance.
