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10-31-22

THE YOUNGSVILLE SPORTS COMPLEX SIGN IS DESTROYED AFTER A VEHICLE CRASHED INTO IT EARLY SUNDAY MORNING.  SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.

 

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ONE MAN WANTED ON THREE COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED FIRST-DEGREE MURDER TURNED HIMSELF, ACCORDING TO ABBEVILLE POLICE.  NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD TYRESE WILLIS OF ABBEVILLE WAS CHARGED IN CONNECTION WITH A SHOOTING LAST MONDAY EVENING IN WHICH THREE PEOPLE WERE INJURED IN THE TWELVE HUNDRED BLOCK OF SOUTH SAINT CHARLES STREET.  A SECOND PERSON WANTED FOR THE SHOOTING IS STILL AT-LARGE, NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD REMIKAL DASHAWN PLOWDEN OF ABBEVILLE.  ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON THE WHEREABOUTS OF PLOWDEN IS ASKED TO CONTACT THE ABBEVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

 

A MOTORCYCLIST WAS KILLED AFTER COLLIDING WITH A PICKUP TRUCK IN MOSS BLUFF.  THIRTY-YEAR-OLD CALEB JASE HEBERT OF STARKS WAS TRAVELING WEST ON L-A THREE SEVENTY-EIGHT WHEN HE STRUCK THE BACK OF THE DODGE RAM PICKUP.  HE WAS EJECTED AND WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE HOSPITAL.  STATE POLICE SPOKESMAN DEREK SENEGAL SAYS IMPAIRMENT IS SUSPECTED AND TOXICOLOGY SAMPLES WERE TAKEN FOR ANALYSIS.

 

ON NOVEMBER TENTH, THE STATE BOARD OF SECONDARY AND ELEMENTARY EDUCATION IS SCHEDULED TO VOTE ON SWEEPING CHANGES TO HOW HIGH SCHOOLS ARE EVALUATED.  STATE SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT CADE BRUMLEY SAYS ONE REASON THE CHANGES ARE NEEDED IS BECAUSE SEVENTY PERCENT OF THE SCHOOLS ARE GRADED A AND B DESPITE THE POOR PERFORMANCE STATEWIDE ON THE NATIONAL STANDARDIZED TESTS.  GOVERNOR JOHN BEL EDWARDS TELLS THE ADVOCATE MORE INPUT IS NEEDED BEFORE CHANGES ARE FINALIZED.  HE SAYS HE’S NOT SEEN THE BOARD CONSIDER INPUT FROM SCHOOL BOARDS AND SUPERINTENDENTS.

 

AN ELECTRICAL MALFUNCTION IS BELIEVED TO BE THE CAUSE OF A FIRE AT COWBOY’S NIGHT CLUB IN LAFAYETTE.  TWO CIVILIANS TRIED PUTTING OUT THE FIRE WITH EXTINGUISHERS AND ONE OF THEM HAD TO BE TREATED FOR SMOKE INHALATION.  THE BUILDING HAS MINOR FIRE AND SMOKE DAMAGE THROUGHOUT.  THE FIRE BEGAN SATURDAY AT AROUND ELEVEN-FORTY-SEVEN A-M.

 

THE EVANGELINE POST OFFICE HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN TEMPORARILY.  THAT’S BECAUSE OF SAFETY CONCERNS, ACCORDING TO A PRESS RELEASE BY THE U-S POSTAL SERVICE.  THE EVANGELINE POST OFFICE WILL REMAIN CLOSED UNTIL REPAIRS CAN BE MADE.  MEANWHILE, CUSTOMERS CAN PICK UP THEIR POST OFFICE BOX MAIL AT THE POST OFFICE ON BROADWAY STREET IN JENNINGS.

 

A LAKE CHARLES MAN WAS ARRESTED LAST TUESDAY AND BOOKED INTO THE CALCASIEU PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER ON SEVERAL CONTRACTOR FRAUD CHARGES.  SIXTY-YEAR-OLD JOHN L. FOREMAN IS ACCUSED OF TAKING PAYMENT UPFRONT FOR HOME REPAIRS BETWEEN JULY AND OCTOBER BUT FAILED TO DO THE REPAIRS AND NO WORK WAS DONE FOR MORE THAN FORTY-FIVE DAYS.  FOREMAN ALSO HIRED SUBCONTRACTORS TO COMPLETE SOME WORK BUT ALLEGEDLY DID NOT PAY THEM.  IN SOME CASES, THE REPAIRS HE WAS HIRED FOR EXCEEDED THE THRESHOLD OF HIS CONTRACTING LICENSE.

 

A MISSISSIPI INMATE, WHO STOLE A POLICE VEHICLE, WAS CAUGHT AND ARRESTED IN CROWLEY.  THE ACADIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE WAS ALERTED THAT THE STOLEN VEHICLE FROM THE LEFLORE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE MAY BE IN THE CROWLEY AREA.  DEPUTIES SPOTTED THE VEHICLE DRIVEN BY FIFTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD BILLY JOE WESTBROOK AND PULLED HIM OVER ON CONRAD ROAD IN CROWLEY.  HE WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY WITHOUT INCIDENT AND WAS BOOKED WITH A TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLAR BOND AND A RETAINER FOR LEFLORE COUNTY.