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10-25-19

AN ARREST HAS BEEN MADE IN CONNECTION WITH A FIRE AT AN ABANDONED BUILDING ON MCKINLEY STREET IN LAFAYETTE THAT USED TO HOUSE “GOOD OLE BOY’S HOOKAH BAR.”   THE BUILDING WAS ENGULFED IN FLAMES BY THE TIME FIREFIGHTERS ARRIVED JUST AFTER THREE YESTERDAY MORNING.  WITNESSES REPORTEDLY TOLD FIREFIGHTERS THAT THE BUILDING WAS NOT LOCKED AND PEOPLE HAD BEEN SEEN ENTERING IT AND POSSIBLY LIVING IN IT.  THIRTY-YEAR-OLD AL J EDWARDS OF LAFAYETTE WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH SIMPLE ARSON.

 

A 13-YEAR-OLD STUDENT AT THE CALCASIEU PARISH ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL IN LAKE CHARLES WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY FOR ALLEGEDLY MAKING A THREAT.  DETECTIVES WITH THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE LEARNED THAT THE STUDENT ALLEGEDLY SAID IN CLASS THAT SOMEONE NEEDS TO COME SHOOT UP THE SCHOOL.  SHE ALSO ALLEGEDLY THREATENED TO SHOOT THE TEACHER.  THE TEENAGER WAS BOOKED INTO THE JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER ON A CHARGE OF TERRORIZING.

 

A FUGITIVE WANTED FOR ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER IS IN JAIL TODAY AFTER A YEARLONG SEARCH.  MEGAN KELLY HAS MORE.

 

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Attorney General Jeff Landry has created a state PAC to attack Democratic incumbent John Bel Edwards in the Louisiana governor’s race.  Landry’s name isn’t listed on the paperwork for the Make Louisiana Great Again PAC filed with Louisiana’s ethics administration office. But Landry’s political consultant Brent Littlefield confirmed Thursday the Republican attorney general is behind the effort.  The PAC launched a 30-second statewide ad that slams Edwards on the criminal sentencing law rewrite he championed, suggesting it damaged public safety.

 

THE MOTHER OF A CARENCRO MAN, WHO WAS MURDERED IN JANUARY OF 2017, SAYS SHE DOESN’T KNOW ANYTHING MORE ABOUT THE KILLING THAN SHE DID THE WEEK OF THE CRIME.  DEMARCUS GREENE WAS SHOT AND KILLED IN THE LA ROULETTE TRAILER PARK ON ANDRE STREET.  POLICE CHIEF DAVID ANDERSON TELLS KLFY TV THAT THEY ARE FOLLOWING EVERY LEAD THEY GET ON THE CASE AND FOUR MONTHS AGO, THEY SUBMITTED DNA EVIDENCE TO THE STATE CRIME LAB BUT HAVE NOT GOT BACK A RESPONSE YET BECAUSE THE LAB HAS NOT MADE IT A PRIORITY.  DEMARCUS’ MOM, RAE GREENE, TELLS KLFY TV THAT IS SAD BECAUSE, AFTER NEARLY THREE YEARS, IT SHOULD BE THEIR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY.

 

BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT LEADERS FROM FRANCE AND JAPAN JOINED GOVERNOR JOHN BEL EDWARDS IN HACKBERRY YESTERDAY AT THE DEDICATION CEREMONY OF THE CAMERON L-N-G FACILITY.  THE AMERICAN COMPANY SEMPRA ENERGY, ALONG WITH A FRENCH COMPANY AND THREE JAPANESE COMPANIES, FINANCED THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE FACILITY WHICH WILL PRODUCE FIFTEEN MILLION TONS OF LIQUIFIED NATURAL GAS A YEAR WHEN FULLY OPERATIONAL.  OVER ELEVEN THOUSAND WORKERS WERE INVOLVED IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE FACILITY, WHICH WILL EMPLOY TWO HUNDRED FIFTY FULL TIME.  GOVERNOR EDWARDS SAYS LOUISIANA HAS BECOME THE L-N-G CAPITAL OF THE UNITED STATES AND CAMERON L-N-G HAS PLAYED A HUGE ROLE IN THAT SUCCESS.

 

A CITY-WIDE CLEANUP IS PLANNED FOR TOMORROW IN VILLE PLATTE.  MAYOR JENNIFER VIDRINE TELLS KLFY TV THEY WANT EVERYBODY TO COME HELP PICK UP LITTER IN THE CITY.  SHE SAYS A CITY WITH CITIZENS THAT HAVE CIVIC PRIDE IS A BOON TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.  SHE ASKS THOSE WILLING TO VOLUNTEER TO COME TO CITY HALL TOMORROW MORNING AT EIGHT AND THEY WILL ASSIGN A DESTINATION FOR EACH VOLUNTEER.

 

A judge has ruled Gov. John Bel Edwards’ administration must turn over documents involving sexual harassment allegations that forced an ex-Edwards aide to resign two years ago.  But WAFB-TV reports the administration doesn’t have to release the information until after the Democratic incumbent’s Nov. 16 runoff election against Republican opponent Eddie Rispone.  A Republican-financed, anti-Edwards group called Truth in Politics has been running an ad featuring Juanita Washington, who claims Johnny Anderson groped and assaulted her. Anderson left the Edwards administration in 2017.