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A FAMILY DISPUTE PROVED DEADLY AS A CANKTON MAN SHOT AND KILLED HIS BROTHER LAST FRIDAY. ACCORDING TO THE SAINT LANDRY PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE, TWENTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD CALEB PATRICK HARRIS TRIED TO INTERVENE WHEN HIS HALF-BROTHER STRUCK HIS MOTHER DURING AN ARGUMENT. WHEN THE HALF-BROTHER THREATENED TO ENGAGE IN A FIGHT, HARRIS PULLED OUT A GUN AND SHOT HIM MULTIPLE TIMES. HARRIS HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AND HIS BOND WAS SET AT FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A MURDER-SUICIDE ATTEMPT. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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LOUISIANA SECRETARY OF STATE KYLE ARDOIN TOLD THE BATON ROUGE PRESS CLUB YESTERDAY THAT HE DECIDED AGAINST RUNNING FOR REELECTION BECAUSE OF THE STRESS OF DEALING WITH MISINFORMATION AND BACKLASH FROM FRINGE GROUPS. ARDOIN SAYS SOME PEOPLE ACT AS IF THEY ARE ELECTION EXPERTS, BUT THEY’VE NEVER PUT ON AN ELECTION AND DO NOT KNOW THE NUANCES OF ELECTION POLICIES AND PROCEDURES. HE ADVISES THE PERSON REPLACING HIM TO NOT LET THOSE VOICES SWAY THE DECISIONS OF THE OFFICE. REPUBLICAN NANCY LANDRY AND DEMOCRAT GWEN COLLINS-GREENUP ARE FACING OFF TO REPLACE ARDOIN IN THE NOVEMBER EIGHTEENTH GENERAL ELECTION.
A SULPHUR MAN HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH CRUELTY TO A JUVENILE AFTER A FOUR-MONTH-OLD CHILD IN HIS CARE SUFFERRED SEVERE HEAD INJURIES. PERSONNEL AT A LOCAL HOSPITAL CALLED AUTHORITIES WHEN THEY SUSPECTED THE CHILD’S INJURIES WERE THE RESULT OF CHILD ABUSE. THE SULPHUR MAN, TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD JORDAN S. TUPPER, GAVE CONFLICTING ACCOUNTS OF WHAT HAPPENED, NONE OF WHICH WERE CONSISTENT WITH THE INJURIES THAT THE BABY HAD. THE CHILD IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION AND HAS BEEN PLACED IN THE CARE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES.
THE ACADIA PARISH POLICE JURY VOTED TO OPT OUT OF A MODIFIED STATEWIDE BURN BAN. THE PARISH WILL MONITOR THE SITUATION AND REINSTATE THE BURN BAN IF NEEDED. RESIDENTS ARE REMINDED THAT THERE ARE DRY CONDITIONS IN SOME PARTS OF THE PARISH AND FIRES SHOULD NOT BE LEFT UNATTENDED. IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT SAFE BURNING PRACTICES, REACH OUT TO YOUR LOCAL FIRE DEPARTMENT.
U-L LAFAYETTE RECEIVED EIGHTY-SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS IN FEDERAL FUNDING, THE LARGEST FINANCIAL REWARD IN THE SCHOOL’S HISTORY. IT COMES FROM THE BIPARTISAN FEDERAL INFRASTRUCTURE LAW GRANT AND WILL HELP U-L IN THEIR ROLE IN THE STATE’S STRATEGIC ENERGY RESILIENCE INITIATIVE. IT INVOLVES CREATING COMMUNITY RESILIENCE HUBS THAT WILL HELP COMMUNITIES GAIN ELECTRICITY AND OTHER VITAL SERVICES DURING A NATURAL DISASTER. THE PROJECT ENHANCES EMERGENCY RESPONSES ACROSS THE STATE BY INEGRATING THE HUBS WITH THE ELECTRIC GRID INFRASTRUCTURE AND BACK-UP GENERATION ASSETS.
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION YESTERDAY DESIGNATED THIRTY-ONE TECHNOLOGY HUBS ACROSS THE COUNTRY, AND LOUISIANA IS ONE OF THEM. THEY ARE HOPING THESE HUBS WILL SPUR INNOVATION AND CREAT JOBS IN INDUSTRIES CONCENTRATED IN THESE AREAS. PRESIDENT BIDEN SAYS THEY ARE GOING TO INVEST IN CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES SO THE U-S WILL LEAD THE WORLD AGAIN IN INNOVATION ACROSS THE BOARD. THE TECHNOLOGY HUBS ARE THE RESULT OF A PROCESS LAUNCHED IN MAY BY THE U-S DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE TO DISTRIBUTE FIVE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS IN GRANTS TO CITIES.
A SAINT MARTINVILLE WOMAN WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH OPERATING A VEHICLE WHILE INTOXICATED AND VEHICULAR HOMOCIDE, AFTER STRIKING AND KILLING A PEDESTRIAN ON SOUTH MAIN STREET LATE SUNDAY NIGHT. THE DRIVER, TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD JADE POURCHIAUX, IS THE NIECE OF SAINT MARTINVILLE POLICE CHIEF RICKEY MARTIN, ACCORDING TO A FACEBOOK POST FROM THE DEPARTMENT. THE VICTIM, FORTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD TRISHA JOHNSON OF SAINT MARTINVILLE, IS THE COUSIN OF MAYOR JASON WILLIS. THE POLICE DEPARTMENT SAYS CHIEF MARTIN HAS SPOKEN TO THE MAYOR SEVERAL TIMES AND IS TAKING THE INCIDENT VERY SERIOUSLY.
