KAJN Jesus FM 102.9


10-18-22

A FOOD TRUCK WAS HEAVILY DAMAGED BY FIRE IN THE NINETEEN HUNDRED BLOCK OF WEST UNIVERSITY IN LAFAYETTE.  THE TAQUERIA EL DOLLAR NUMBER ONE TACO TRUCK CAUGHT FIRE JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT MONDAY MORNING.  FIRE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN ALTON TRAHAN SAYS THE FIRE IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN STARTED BY A POT OF GREASE LEFT ON A BURNER ON THE STOVE THAT HAD NOT BEEN TURNED OFF.  NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED.

 

A MAN IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION AFTER A SHOOTING IN NEW IBERIA.  IT HAPPENED AT AROUND FIVE-THIRTY P-M YESTERDAY IN THE FOUR HUNDRED BLOCK OF CALHOUN STREET.  THE VICTIM SUFFERED A SINGLE SHOT TO THE ABDOMEN.  THE IDENTITY OF THE VICTIM HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED OR THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE SHOOTING.

 

THE LOUISIANA LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR’S OFFICE IS URGING INSURANCE REGULATORS TO INVESTIGATE WHY ELEVEN INSURANCE COMPANIES FOLDED AFTER BEING UNABLE TO PAY CLAIMS AFTER FOUR HURRICANES HIT THE STATE.  IN A REPORT RELEASED MONDAY, THE AUDITOR CALLED ON THE DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE TO EXAMINE WHY SO MANY OF THE FAILED COMPANIES LACKED ENOUGH REINSURANCE.  CHRIS MAGEE, WHO OVERSAW THE AUDIT, SAYS THEY WANT TO FIND OUT IF COMPANIES ARE NOT OBTAINING THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF REINSURANCE OR ARE THERE PROBLEMS WITH THE COMPANIES’ MODELS, WHICH THE COMPANIES RELIED ON TO MAKE REINSURANCE PURCHASING DECISIONS.  THE FAILED COMPANIES WROTE MORE THAN THIRTEEN PERCENT OF HOMEOWNER’S PREMIUMS IN THE STATE.

 

A HAYES MAN WAS ARRESTED SATURDAY AFTER HE WAS FOUND UNRESPONSIVE IN HIS PICKUP TRUCK WITH A FOUR-YEAR-OLD CHILD IN THE FRONT SEAT.  AUTHORITIES WERE CALLED TO HENRY’S TRUCK STOP IN LACASSINE BECAUSE OF A REPORT OF A RECKLESS DRIVER.  WHEN THEY ARRIVED, THEY FOUND FORTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD ARNOLD KEITH HARRELL PASSED OUT IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT AND THE FOUR-YEAR-OLD CHILD IN THE FRONT PASSENGER SEAT.  THEY FOUND A SMALL CLEAR BAG OF FENTANYL IN THE VEHICLE AND, AFTER TAKING HARRELL TO THE HOSPITAL, HE WAS BOOKED INTO THE JEFF DAVIS PARISH JAIL.

 

LAFAYETTE POLICE RESPONDED TO THE SCENE OF A DEADLY CRASH INVOLVING A PEDESTRIAN.  DANIELLE JOHNSON REPORTS.

 

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SHOTS WERE FIRED JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT SUNDAY MORNING AT A HIGH SCHOOL HOMECOMING PARTY ON JOHN F. KENNEDY AVENUE IN VILLE PLATTE. POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR MULTIPLE SUSPECTS WHO SHOT AT THE STUDENTS, THOUGH NO ONE WAS HIT.  BULLETS DID STRIKE TWO CARS AND A HOME.  THERE WERE ABOUT TWENTY STUDENTS ATTENDING THE PARTY.

 

U-S SENATOR JOHN KENNEDY OF LOUISIANA RAISED MORE THAN SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS FOR HIS REELECTION CAMPAIGN IN THE THIRD QUARTER.  THAT RAISES HIS TOTAL TO THIRTY-SIX MILLION DOLLARS, OF WHICH HE STILL HAS FIFTEEN-POINT-FIVE MILLION AS OF OCTOBER FIRST.  HIS TOP THREE DEMOCRAT CHALLENGERS – LUKE MIXON, GARY CHAMBERS JUNIOR AND SYRITA STEIB – HAVE RAISED A TOTAL OF THREE-POINT-TWO MILLION DOLLARS THROUGH THE FIRST THREE QUARTERS, LESS THAN A TENTH OF KENNEDY’S TOTAL.  NATIONAL HANDICAPPERS HAVE KENNEDY HEAVILY FAVORED TO WIN A SECOND TERM.

 

A MAN WANTED IN CONNECTION WITH A SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH SHOOTING IN RAYNE WAS ARRESTED BY CROWLEY POLICE OVER THE WEEKEND AND BOOKED INTO THE ACADIA PARISH JAIL FOR ATTEMPTED FIRST DEGREE MURDER.  TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD DARIUS SENEGAL OF RAYNE WAS ONE OF THREE PEOPLE WANTED IN THE SHOOTING IN WHICH TWO JUVENILES WERE WOUNDED.  THE SHOOTING WAS BELIEVED TO BE A RETALIATION FOR A JANUARY SHOOTING IN WHICH SENAGAL WAS THE VICTIM.  POLICE ARE STILL SEARCHING FOR TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD CHASTEN BLAKE CARRIER OF CHURCH POINT AND TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD DEANTE CARRIER OF RAYNE.