10-25-22
THE COMMUNITY CENTER AT GETHSEMANE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST IN LAFAYETTE WAS BROKEN INTO AND VANDALIZED SUNDAY NIGHT. ALL THREE FLOORS WERE DAMAGED AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER, WHICH PROVIDES FOOD, CLOTHES AND FURNITURE FREE OF CHARGE TO RESIDENTS IN THE COMMUNITY. FIRST LADY VANESSA GATLIN TELLS KLFY TV THEY ARE GOING TO PRAY AND ASK GOD TO TOUCH THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE THAT ARE DOING THE VANDALISM SO THAT THEY WILL UNDERSTAND IT IS THE HOUSE OF THE LORD. ANYONE WHO HAS INFORMATION ON THE VANDALISM IS ASKED TO CALL LAFAYETTE CRIME STOPPERS AT TWO-THREE-TWO-TIPS.
THREE PEOPLE WERE SHOT MONDAY EVENING ON SOUTH CHARLES STREET IN ABBEVILLE. NONE OF THE WOUNDS WERE CONSIDERED LIFE-THREATENING. POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR A SUSPECT.
EARLY VOTING BEGINS TODAY FOR THE NOVEMBER EIGHTH ELECTION. VOTERS CAN CAST THEIR BALLOTS AT THEIR LOCAL REGISTRAR OF VOTER’S OFFICE DAILY BETWEEN EIGHT-THIRTY A-M TO SIX P-M THROUGH NOVEMBER FIRST, EXCEPT FOR SUNDAY. A U-S SENATE SEAT HELD BY SENATOR JOHN KENNEDY WILL BE VOTED ON AS WELL AS CONGRESSIONAL SEATS AND EIGHT LOUISIANA CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS. VOTERS MUST HAVE AN I-D WITH THEM IN ORDER TO BE ALLOWED TO VOTE.
THE FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE BUILDING IN LAKE CHARLES WAS DEMOLISHED AFTER FIFTY YEARS IN THE COMMUNITY. THE BUILDING SURVIVED THE HURRICANES OF TWENTY-TWENTY BUT WAS BURNED BEYOND REPAIR LAST YEAR. LONG TIME MEMBER HAROLD CORLEY SAYS THE GOOD NEWS IS THEY FOUND A NEW CHURCH BUILDING ON HOLLY HILL THAT HAS A LARGER WORSHIP CENTER, WHICH IS WHAT THEY WERE SEEKING. HE TELLS KPLC TV THEY ARE EXCITED THEY FOUND A CHURCH THEY COULD BUY AND MOVE INTO, WHICH IS A MIRACLE.
THE IDENTITY OF AN ESCAPED INMATE FROM THE LAFAYETTE PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER HAS BEEN RELEASED. TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD DERVANAISHA CARTER WAS RECEIVING MEDICAL TREATMENT AT OCHSNER LAFAYETTE GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER WHEN SHE ESCAPED. SHE WAS WEARING AN ORANGE JUMP SUIT ISSUED TO INMATES AND WAS HANDCUFFED AT THE TIME OF HER ESCAPE. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON HER WHEREABOUTS IS ASKED TO CALL THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE AT TWO-THREE-TWO-NINETY-TWO-ELEVEN.
THREE PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN TWO SEPARATE CRASHES IN ACADIANA SUNDAY NIGHT. AT AROUND SIX-THIRTY, EIGHTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD SHIRLEY CHAISSON AND THIRTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD JEFFERY HOLMES, BOTH OF MORGAN CITY, DIED IN A CRASH ON L-A SEVENTY JUST SOUTH OF STEPHENSVILLE ELEMENTARY. CHAISSON ATTEMPTED A U-TURN, ACCORDING TO STATE TROOPERS, AND HOLMES, RIDING A MOTORCYCLE, HIT HER VEHICLE, AND BOTH WERE PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. ABOUT AN HOUR LATER, ON L-A ONE-FIFTEEN IN EVANGELINE PARISH, FORTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD JAWORSKI CHRISTMAS OF BUNKIE WAS KILLED IN A SINGLE VEHICLE CRASH. STATE POLICE SAY CHRISTMAS WAS TRAVELING AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED AND FAILED TO NEGOTIATE A CURVE, CAUSING HIM TO LEAVE THE ROADWAY AND STRIKE AN EMBANKMENT AND SEVERAL TREES.
LOUISIANA IS TOPS IN THE NATION FOR FLU ACTIVITY. THAT’S ACCORDING TO WALGREENS, WHICH RELEASED THEIR LIST OF THE TOP TEN STATES WITH THE HIGHEST FLU ACTIVITY. LAFAYETTE WAS LISTED AS THE EIGHTH LARGEST FLU ACTIVITY IN A CITY. NEW ORLEANS WAS ON THE LIST AT NUMBER FIVE.
A CANDLELIGHT VIGIL AND WALK WAS HELD LAST NIGHT IN CROWLEY TO REMEMBER THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES DUE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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