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OPELOUSAS POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD KERA VITATOE (VEE tuh toe), WHO IS WANTED FOR SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AND TWO COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED SECOND-DEGREE MURDER. VITATOE IS ACCUSED OF SHOOTING AND KILLING MAREYA (MARIA) HENRY ON SUNDAY. DETECTIVES SAY THE TWO HAD BEEN IN A RELATIONSHIP. VITATOE HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN ARRESTED IN ANOTHER JURISDICTION FOR BATTERY AGAINST HENRY.
A PEDESTRIAN FROM LAFAYETTE WAS KILLED WHEN STRUCK BY A CAR. IT HAPPENED MONDAY MORNING AT AROUND ONE-TWENTY ON INTERSTATE TWELVE IN HAMMOND. THE DRIVER OF A HONDA ACCORD, WHO WAS TRAVELING WEST IN THE LEFT LANE, STRUCK TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD DENTREAL MOUTON, WHO WAS WALKING IN THE SAME DIRECTION. MOUTON WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE WHILE THE DRIVER OF THE ACCORD WAS UNINJURED.
FORMER LOUISIANA GOVERNOR JOHN BEL EDWARDS SAYS HE WILL NOT RUN FOR THE U-S SENATE. GEORGE FAUST HAS MORE.
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THE EPPS MEMORIAL LIBRARY HAS REOPENED IN NORTH LAKE CHARLES AFTER FIVE YEARS. THE PREVIOUS LIBRARY WAS SEVERELY DAMAGED BY HURRICANE LAURA IN TWENTY-TWENTY. STAFF HAD BEEN WORKING OUT OF THREE TEMPORARY LOCATIONS TO CONTINUE TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY. THE NEW BUILDING FEATURES A LARGE MEETING ROOM THAT CAN ACCOMMODATE UP TO ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE AS WELL AS TWO STUDY ROOMS.
IBERIA PARISH DEPUTIES ARE SEARCHING FOR TWO PEOPLE WHO ELUDED THEM IN A CHASE ON SOUTH COLLEGE, JUST SOUTH OF FRONTAGE ROAD. THE TWO WERE RIDING ON A GREEN DIRT BIKE AND A BLACK FOUR-WHEELER AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED. THE RIDERS WENT INTO A CANE FIELD DURING THE CHASE AND DEPUTIES CALLED OFF THE PURSUIT OVER SAFETY CONCERNS. IT’S BELIEVED THE TWO RIDERS ARE FROM THE JEANERETTE AREA.
POLICE STATIONS ACROSS LAFAYETTE PARISH ARE HELPING FAITH HOUSE IN RECOGNITION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER. THEY ARE COLLECTING DONATIONS OF PAPER GOODS FOR FAITH HOUSE, ACADIANA’S DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER. SERGEANT ROBIN GREEN OF THE LAFAYETTE POLICE DEPARTMENT SAYS THIS INCLUDES TOILET PAPER, PAPER TOWELS, PAPER PLATES, PLASTIC FORKS, NAPKINS AND MORE. THEY CAN BE DROPPED OFF AT THE LAFAYETTE POLICE STATION AND MOSS SUBSTATION AS WELL AS THE CITY MARSHALL’S OFFICE, THE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT AND THE BROUSSARD, YOUNGSVILLE AND CARENCRO POLICE DEPARTMENTS.
GOVERNOR JEFF LANDRY SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER MONDAY BANNING THE USE OF FREE A-I TOOLS CREATED AND OPERATED BY HOSTILE FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS IN LOUISIANA SCHOOLS, COLLEGES AND STATE AGENCIES. GEOREGE FAUST HAS THE DETAILS.
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AN ARNAUDVILLE WOMAN WAS KILLED IN A SINGLE-VEHICLE CRASH YESTERDAY MORNING AT AROUND TWO. FORTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD MICHELLE ROMERO WAS TRAVELING ON L-A NINETY-THREE NEAR BEAU CHENE HIGH SCHOOL WHEN SHE WENT OFF THE ROAD. SHE WENT INTO A DITCH AND THE VEHICLE FLIPPED WHEN IT HIT AN ENBANKMENT. STATE POLICE SAY ROMERO WAS NOT WEARING A SEATBELT AND SUFFERED SERIOUS INJURIES. SHE LATER DIED AT THE HOSPITAL.
