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10-26-21

A NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD FROM OPELOUSAS WAS KILLED IN A SINGLE VEHICLE CRASH ON HIGHWAY ONE SIXTY-SEVEN AT AROUND TWO-THIRTY YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.  ACCORDING TO STATE POLICE, INDIA FAITH YOUNG WAS TRAVELING NORTH IN A TOYOTA AVALON WHEN SHE RAN OFF THE ROAD AND HIT A CULVERT, FLIPPING THE CAR.  YOUNG, WHO WAS NOT WEARING A SEATBELT, WAS EJECTED AND PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE BY THE SAINT LANDRY PARISH CORONER’S OFFICE.  THIS IS THE FORTY-FIFTH FATAL CRASH THIS YEAR IN THE TROOP I AREA, RESULTING IN A TOTAL OF FIFTY-FOUR DEATHS.

 

LAFAYETTE POLICE OFFICERS AND LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES JOINED TOGETHER TAKING WALKS IN LOCAL NEIGHBORHOODS.  THEY WENT DOOR-TO-DOOR TO TALK TO RESIDENTS AND FIND OUT THEIR CONCERNS AND IDEAS.  SERGEANT ROBIN GREEN TELLS KLFY TV THAT COMMUNICATION IS THE KEY BETWEEN THE COMMUNITY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT.  FATHER EDWARD DUHON, WHO JOINED THE WALK, SAYS WE HAVE TO BE UNIFIED AGAINST THE THINGS THAT DIVIDE.

 

A VINTON MAN HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH THIRD OFFENSE D-W-I AFTER CRASHING INTO A STATE POLICE VEHICLE.  A STATE POLICE REPORT SAYS TWENTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD DENNIS RAY HILLERY HIT THE STATE POLICE VEHICLE FROM BEHIND AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED SUNDAY MORNING.  THE TROOPER WAS WORKING A TRAFFIC SAFETY DETAIL WITH HIS EMERGENCY LIGHTS ACTIVATED ON I-TEN WEST OF SULPHUR.  THE TROOPER, HILLERY AND A PASSENGER IN HILLERY’S VEHICLE ALL SUFFERED INJURIES.

 

HERE’S SYLVIA MASTERS WITH THE LATEST COVID-NINETEEN NUMBERS FOR LOUISIANA.

 

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Gov. John Bel Edwards will announce whether he’ll keep Louisiana’s indoor mask mandate for another month or let it expire. Tuesday’s decision comes as Louisiana has emerged from its latest coronavirus surge and is seeing lower rates of COVID-19 infection. The Democratic governor seems poised to let the face-covering requirement fall off the books for most public indoor locations when it’s set to expire Wednesday. The main question appears to be whether Edwards will continue the mandate for schools.

 

 

Six migrant workers from Mexico have filed a lawsuit against a sugar company in St. Mary Parish, claiming they were illegally underpaid for trucking loads of sugarcane. The lawsuit filed in western Louisiana claims Sterling Sugars Sales Corporation obtained work visas representing the six as farm workers. But the six were put to work as truck drivers — which the lawsuit says requires a much higher rate of pay under federal law. The suit also says the workers were never paid at overtime rates, even though they often worked 80 hours a week.

 

THIS THURSDAY, THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA SYSTEM BOARD IS EXPECTED TO AUTHORIZE A SALE AND SWAP OF PROPERTIES WITH THE DIOCESE OF LAFAYETTE.  IN THE DEAL, U-L WOULD GET A FIVE-POINT-SIX-SIX ACRE PIECE OF LAND THAT USED TO BELONG TO OUR LADY OF LOURDES HOSPITAL, AND IS BORDERED BY SAINT LANDRY AND SAINT MARY STREETS.  THE DIOCESE WOULD GET A PARKING LOT NEXT TO THE EARL K. LONG GYM, ACROSS FROM OUR LADY OF WISDOM CHURCH ON SAINT MARY STREET, ALONG WITH THREE-POINT-THREE-ONE-FIVE MILLION DOLLARS.  BISHOP DOUGLAS DESHOTEL IS NOT READY YET TO SAY WHAT THEY WOULD DO WITH THE PROPERTY, ACCORDING TO DIOCESE SPOKESPERSON BLUE ROLFES.

 

ACADIA PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR AN ARMED ROBBERY SUSPECT FOR OVER A YEAR BUT THEY FINALLY CAPTURED HIM LAST WEEK.  TWENTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD BLAKE LANGLINAIS WAS ARRESTED IN THE GUEYDAN-AREA AND, AFTER BEING BOOKED INTO THE VERMILLION PARISH JAIL, HE WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE ACADIA PARISH JAIL LAST FRIDAY.  LANGLINAIS IS ACCUSED OF THE ARMED ROBBERY OF AN INDIVIDUAL IN THE MERMENTAU AREA.  LANGLINAIS, WHO HAD OTHER OUTSTANDING FELONY WARRANTS ON HIM, HAD HIS BOND SET AT ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.