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10-15-19

THE SUSPECT IN A HIT-AND-RUN THAT KILLED NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD KIRK BOUDREAUX OF LAFAYETTE WAS RELEASED ON BAIL MONDAY.  CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS MORE.

 

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THREE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED FRIDAY NIGHT IN THE RAYNE HIGH SCHOOL STADIUM PARKING LOT AFTER THE GAME WITH EUNICE.  AARON REDEAUX, WHO WAS ARRESTED EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING, FACES A CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER.  DARRELL JAMEL NICKERSON OF RAYNE WAS ARRESTED ON SEVERAL CHARGES INCLUDING ATTEMPTED FIRST DEGREE MURDER AND ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF A WEAPON.  ALSO A 15-YEAR-OLD BOY WAS ARRESTED. SEVERAL WITNESSES SAID THEY HEARD AS MANY AS TWENTY GUNSHOTS AND SEVERAL CARS WERE STRUCK BY BULLETS.

 

THERE MAY BE A RECOUNT ON A RACE IN JEFF DAVIS PARISH.  ON SATURDAY, THE INCUMBENT POLICE JUROR FOR DISTRICT ELEVEN, BUTCH LAFARGUE, DEFEATED HIS CHALLENGER, PAUL TRAHAN, BY TWO VOTES.  CLERK OF COURT RICHARD ARCENEAUX SAYS TRAHAN HAS UNTIL FOUR O’CLOCK TOMORROW AFTERNOON TO CHALLENGE THE ELECTION.  IF THERE IS NO CHALLENGE, LAFARGUE WILL BE DECLARED THE WINNER.

 

Business-backed candidates have won six of seven contested seats for Louisiana’s top school board.  The Advocate reports that all the winners in Saturday’s elections for the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education seats were backed by the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry. That’s the state’s top business lobbying organization.  The business-supported candidates defeated rival contenders backed by the two teacher unions, the Louisiana Federation of Teachers and the Louisiana Association of Educators.

 

Gov. John Bel Edwards has agreed to one televised runoff debate in the Louisiana governor’s race, but his Republican opponent hasn’t confirmed he’ll participate.  The Democratic incumbent was forced into the runoff after he failed to top 50% of the vote in Saturday’s primary election. He’ll face Baton Rouge businessman Eddie Rispone in the Nov. 16 runoff.  Edwards says he’ll participate in the Oct. 30 TV debate planned by Louisiana Public Broadcasting and the Council for A Better Louisiana.

 

THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE HAS ARRESTED A JUVENILE IN CONNECTION WITH AN INCIDENT AT ST. THOMAS MORE HIGH SCHOOL LAST WEDNESDAY.  THERE ARE REPORTS THAT A STUDENT AT THE SCHOOL WAS POISONED.  SEVERAL PARENTS TOLD KATC TV THAT A CHEMICAL WAS PUT INTO STUDENT’S DRINKS.  THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS NOT RELEASING ANY INFORMATION BUT THE DIOCESE OF LAFAYETTE IS CALLING IT A “VERY SERIOUS INCIDENT.”

 

THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE THAT COVERS IBERIA, ST. MARTIN AND ST. MARY PARISHES ARE SEEKING TO HAVE JUDGE LORI LANDRY REMOVED FROM THEIR CASES.  THEY FILED MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED MOTIONS TO HAVE HER RECUSED CITING A NUMBER OF CASES WHERE JUDGE LANDRY ACCUSED THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE OF RACIAL BIAS.  THERE WAS ONE CASE WHERE JUDGE LANDRY ALLEGEDLY THREATENED TO STAB AN ASSISTANT D-A IN THE EAR WITH HER PEN.  DOZENS OF PEOPLE SHOWED UP OUTSIDE A HEARING ON THE MOTION YESTERDAY TO SUPPORT HER BUT IT WAS POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE.

 

THERE’S AN EFFORT UNDERWAY TO RESTORE A LIGHTHOUSE IN CAMERON PARISH THAT WAS BUILT IN 1856.  ANDY TINGLER OF THE CAMERON PRESERVATION ALLIANCE SAYS HE’D LIKE TO SEE THE SABINE PASS LIGHTHOUSE BECOME A TOURIST ATTRACTION BUT IT WILL TAKE SOME WORK.  HE TELLS KPLC TV THAT THE GOAL IS TO RESTORE THE STRUCTURE AND ALLOW PEOPLE TO GO UP TO THE TOP AND GET A PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE SALT MARSH AND THE SURROUNDING CHANNELS.  YESTERDAY, TEN WORKERS WITH CHENIERE ENERGY BUILT A MAKESHIFT BRIDGE TO ALLOW PEOPLE TO GET TO THE LIGHTHOUSE.