10-15-25
A MAN HAS SURRENDERED TO POLICE AFTER BARRICADING HIMSELF IN A HOME IN MELVILLE. AUTHORITIES SAY POLICE WERE INVESTIGATING AN INCIDENT WHEN A MAN RAN AND STOLE A GUN AND ALLEGEDLY FIRED IT FROM WITHIN A MOBILE HOME ON FORREST STREET. THE SAINT LANDRY PARISH SWAT TEAM WAS CALLED IN TO HELP WITH THE STANDOFF. EVENTUALLY FAMILY MEMBERS AND CRISIS NEGOTIATORS CONVINCED THE MAN, JOSEPH HERRINGTON OF MELVILLE, TO SURRENDER.
A LAFAYETTE WOMAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR FORGERY. FORTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD RACHEL WILLIS, AN EMPLOYEE OF OUR LADY OF LOURDES REGIONAL HOSPITAL, ALLEGEDLY CREATED A LETTER TO SECURE FUNDS FROM A FEDERAL GRANT PROGRAM. THE LETTER WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE COME FROM THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE FRANSISCAN MISSIONARY OF OUR LADY HEALTH SYSTEM AND SHE REPORTEDLY ACCESSED THE C-E-O’S SIGNATURE FROM AN EMAIL ACCOUNT. THE GRANT WAS PRELIMINARILY APPROVED FOR NEARLY SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS BUT THE FORGERY WAS DISCOVERED BEFORE MONEY WAS RELEASED.
TODAY THE U-S SUPREME COURT WILL HEAR ARGUMENTS IN A CASE INVOLVING LOUISIANA’S REDRAWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS. LAST YEAR THE LEGISLATURE CHANGED THE MAP IN ORDER TO CREATE A SECOND-MAJORITY BLACK DISTRICT. THOSE WHO FILED THE CASE SAY THE MAP WAS UNCONSTITUTIONALLY GERRYMANDERED. LOUISIANA ATTORNEY GENERAL LIZ MURRILL, ALONG WITH LAWYERS FROM THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, WILL PRESENT ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE MAP.
A WOMAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED AFTER LEADING LAKE CHARLES POLICE ON A HIGH-SPEED CHASE LAST NIGHT. POLICE WERE RESPONDING TO A REPORT OF A THEFT AT A BUSINESS ON WEST PRIEN LAKE ROAD, WHEN TWO WOMEN DROVE AWAY FROM THE SCENE AND POLICE FOLLOWED ON I-TWO-TEN. IT CONTINUED ON I-TEN WESTBOUND AND ENDED AT THE VINTON EXIT. THE DRIVER, WHOSE NAME WAS NOT RELEASED, HAD AN ACTIVE WARRANT OUT OF GEORGIA.
THE ACADIANA CRIME LABORATORTY WILL BE ABLE TO MOVE INTO ITS NEW FACILITY, BEGINNING A NEW ERA OF CRIMINAL ANALYSIS FOR THE REGION. GEORGE FAUST HAS MORE.
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LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A ROAD RAGE INCIDENT DURING THE MORNING COMMUTE ON AMBASSADOR CAFFERY. A DRIVER CUT OFF ANOTHER VEHICLE WHICH LED TO AN ARGUMENT IN A PARKING LOT AND AT LEAST ONE OF THE DRIVERS FLASHED A GUN. POLICE HAVE MADE NO ARRESTS. THE CASE HAS BEEN HANDED OVER TO THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE TO DETERMINE IF CHARGES WILL BE FILED.
Louisiana’s education board is set to decide whether to approve an alternative program to certify teachers of English learners to help serve the state’s growing population of students who speak a language other than English. TeachNOLA would provide a more affordable way for teachers to become certified to teach English language learners, compared to taking college classes. Louisiana has seen growth in the number of students who need English as a Second Language programs. If approved on Wednesday, the program would start at the beginning of the next school year.
A WOMAN WANTED BY OPELOUSAS POLICE FOR THE MURDER OF HER GIRLFRIEND HAS TURNED HERSELF IN. TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD KERA VITATOE (VEE tuh toe) SURRENDERED TO AUTHORITIES IN LAKE CHARLES AND IS AWAITING EXTRADITION TO OPELOUSAS. SHE’S ACCUSED OF SHOOTING AND KILLING MAREYA HENRY SUNDAY ON HASHIM DRIVE. VITATOE FACES CHARGES OF SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SECOND-DEGREE MURDER.
