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10-15-18

A BOXER FROM LAFAYETTE WAS SHOT AND KILLED LATE SATURDAY NIGHT.  LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES WERE CALLED OUT TO THE THREE HUNDRED BLOCK OF GROSSIE LANE WHERE THEY FOUND 28-YEAR-OLD BRANDON BROUSSARD SUFFERING FROM GUNSHOT WOUNDS.  HE WAS TAKEN TO A NEARBY HOSPITAL WHERE HE LATER DIED.  FRIENDS AND COACHES TELL KATC TV THAT BROUSSARD WAS KNOWN AS KING TUT AND HE TRAINED OUT OF THE BACKSTREET BOXING CLUB IN CARENCRO.

 

A LAKE CHARLES MAN WAS KILLED IN A SINGLE VEHICLE ACCIDENT YESTERDAY MORNING AROUND THREE A-M.  32-YEAR-OLD ERROL J. WILSON WAS TRAVELING ON L-A 32-56 NEAR HUNGERFORT ROAD WHEN HE WENT OFF THE ROAD AT A CURVE AND STRUCK A TREE.  WILSON, WHO WAS WEARING A SEATBELT, WAS PARTIALLY EJECTED.  THE CALCASIEU PARISH CORONER’S OFFICE PRONOUNCED HIM DEAD AT THE SCENE.  THE CRASH REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION.

 

A CROWLEY NATIVE COMPETED IN THE IRONMAN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP IN HAWAII SATURDAY.  THE AMAZING THING IS 54-YEAR-OLD ISABELLA DELA HOUSSAYE DID IT DESPITE HAVING STAGE FOUR LUNG CANCER.  DELAHOUSSAYE SAYS SHE’S ON AN EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENT AND THE CANCER IS NOT PROGRESSING.  SHE HAS NOW COMPETED IN RACES IN ALL FIFTY STATES AND DELAHOUSSAYE, WHO NOW LIVES IN NEW JERSEY, PLANS TO CONTINUE COMPETING, POSSIBLY IN PUERTO RICO.

 

Louisiana students who complete specified courses in science, technology, engineering and mathematics may soon be able to earn special endorsements on their high school diplomas.  Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education members are scheduled soon to consider the new diploma endorsements for completion of what are popularly known as STEM courses.  State education superintendent John White says the endorsements — represented by a gold or silver seal on diplomas — will be an incentive to engage in STEM course work.

A BESE committee looks at the proposal Tuesday ahead of Wednesday’s full board meeting.

 

TWO PEOPLE ARE INJURED IN A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED EARLY SATURDAY MORNING.  MEGAN KELLY HAS MORE.

 

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PROGRESS ON A NEW STATE OF THE ART INDUSTRIAL PARK IN LACASSINE IS MOVING AT WARP SPEED.  THAT’S ACCORDING TO MARION FOX OF THE JEFF DAVIS PARISH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.  SHE TELLS KPLC TV THAT THE PARK OPERATED BY RAIL LOGIX WILL BE ABLE TO ACCOMMODATE 800 RAIL CARS, AND COULD POSSIBLY INTRODUCE UP TO 150 NEW JOBS TO THE PARISH.  THE NEW PARK IS EXPECTED TO BE OPERATIONAL BEGINNING IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF NEXT YEAR.

 

THE ST. MARTIN SHELTER IS LOOKING FOR THE OWNER OF A MINIATURE HORSE.  RESIDENTS IN A NEIGHBORHOOD NEAR THE HENDERSON LEVEE FOUND IT WANDERING AROUND FRIDAY MORNING.  ST. MARTIN PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES SAY A TAG ON ITS HALTER SAID “A-P WARRIOR, RAISED ON ROYALTY.”  IF IT BELONGS TO YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW, CALL THE ST. MARTIN SHELTER.

 

The Louisiana Community and Technical College System is celebrating the 20-year anniversary of its creation.  Voters in October 1998 approved a constitutional amendment forming the statewide network of community and technical colleges, a proposal pushed by then-Gov. Mike Foster.  The system was aimed at bolstering educational opportunities and increasing workforce training capacity. It has grown to 12 open-access, two-year colleges around Louisiana.