10-20-22
FORMER OPELOUSAS POLICE SERGEANT TYRON ANDREPONT HAS BEEN CONVICTED ON THREE COUNTS OF MALFEASANCE IN OFFICE AFTER BEING ACCUSED OF BEATING A BLACK TEEN RESTRAINED IN A HOSPITAL BED. DANIELLE JOHNSON REPORTS.
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THE KID’S WORLD INDOOR PLAY ARENA ON PRODUCTION DRIVE IN LAFAYETTE WAS BURGLARIZED TUESDAY NIGHT. OWNER EBONI CHASE SAYS THE BURGLARS’ BROKE DOORS AND STOLE MONEY FROM THE CASH REGISTER. SHE TELLS KLFY TV IT WAS VERY DISHEARTENING TO TURN REGULAR CUSTOMERS AWAY YESTERDAY MORNING BECAUSE IT WAS A CRIME SCENE. SHE’S HOPING TO REOPEN THE BUSINESS ON FRIDAY.
THE LOUISIANA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION HAS APPROVED ALLOWING TWO ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES TO GET THEIR POWER FROM A FLORIDA-BASED SUPPLIER. CLECO AND ENTERGY LOBBIED AGAINST THE DEAL BUT THE VOTE WAS UNANIMOUS. THE JEFFERSON DAVIS ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE AND THE DIXIE ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP COOPERATIVE WILL BE GETTING THEIR POWER FROM NEXT ERA, CONSIDERED A FLORIDA POWER GIANT. PROPONENTS SAID THE DEALS, WHICH BEGIN IN TWENTY-TWENTY-FOUR AND TWENTY-TWENTY-FIVE, WILL GIVE CUSTOMERS OF THOSE TWO COOPERATIVES CHEAPER RATES.
A FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE LAKE CHARLES CIVIC CENTER HAS DIED. AL “PUDDLER” HARRIS WAS EIGHTY-SIX WHEN HE PASSED AWAY AT HIS RESIDENCE MONDAY. IN ADDITION TO FIFTEEN YEARS AS THE CIVIC CENTER DIRECTOR, HARRIS WAS A MUSICIAN AND ENTERTAINER AND SERVED AS A CONSULTANT TO LOUISIANA SECRETARY OF STATE FOX MCKEITHEN. THE SCHEDULE FOR THE MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR HARRIS HAS NOT YET BEEN ANNOUNCED THOUGH IT WILL TAKE PLACE IN WINNSBORO.
A HOMELESS WOMAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH A HOUSE FIRE ON SAINT PETER STREET IN NEW IBERIA ON OCTOBER SIXTH. TWENTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD BROOKSIE LYN ROMERO OF NEW IBERIA IS ACCUSED OF STARTING A FIRE IN A VACANT HOUSE. SERGEANT DAESHA HUGHES WITH NEW IBERIA POLICE SAYS A WARRANT FOR HER ARREST WAS ISSUED BY THE U-S FIRE MARSHALS. SHE’S BEING HELD IN THE IBERIA PARISH JAIL WITH NO BOND.
LAFAYETTE CITY COUNCIL CHAIR NANETTE COOK IS REQUESTING A MEETING TO DISCUSS MAYOR PRESIDENT JOSH GUILLORY’S NEW POLICY OF CHARGING A DOLLAR PER PAGE FOR ELECTRONIC COPIES OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. PREVIOUSLY THE DOCUMENTS WERE FREE, BUT GUILLORY STARTED CHARGING AFTER STATE PUBLIC RECORDS LAWS WERE UPDATED TO ALLOW GOVERNMENTS TO CHARGE REASONABLE FEES. COOK SAYS SHE’D LIKE A MEETING WITH A FEW COUNCIL MEMBERS, ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS AND STAKEHOLDERS TO DISCUSS SETTING A FEE THAT IS FAIR TO EVERYONE. CITY PARISH ATTORNEY GREG LOGAN SAID HE PREFERRED TO KEEP THE FEE IN PLACE UNTIL THE MEETING.
LOUISIANA HAS MADE A LIST OF THE TOP TEN DEADLIEST STATES TO DRIVE IN, WHICH WAS COMPILED BY A GROUP OF PERSONAL INJURY LAWYERS CALLED WE WIN. THE STUDY ANALYZED THE NUMBER OF DEATHS PER ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE AND PER ONE HUNDRED MILLION VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED IN THE YEAR TWENTY-TWENTY. LOUISIANA RANKED SIXTH AS THE OVERALL MOST DANGEROUS. NUMBER ONE WAS MISSISSIPPI AND SIX OF THE STATES ON THE TOP TEN ARE LOCATED IN THE SOUTHEAST.
A SAINT LANDRY WOMAN WAS KILLED YESTERDAY MORNING WHEN SHE STRUCK THE REAR OF A LOGGING TRUCK. STATE POLICE SAY SEVENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD RITA VIDRINE WAS TRAVELING ON L-A ONE-FIFTEEN IN EVANGELINE PARISH WHEN A LOGGING TRUCK PULLED IN FRONT OF HER FROM A PRIVATE DRIVE. VIDRINE, WHO WASN’T WEARING A SEAT BELT, WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. THE DRIVER OF THE LOGGING TRUCK, FIFTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD GREG CAMPANELLA, WHO WASN’T INJURED, WAS CITED FOR FAILURE TO YIELD FROM A PRIVATE DRIVE.
