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A BROUSSARD WOMAN DIED FROM INJURIES SHE SUFFERED WHEN HIT BY A VEHICLE IN THE DRIVEWAY OF A LAFAYETTE BUSINESS. IT HAPPENED MONDAY AFTERNOON AT AROUND 2:45 IN THE 25-HUNDRED BLOCK OF KALISTE SALOOM. 66-YEAR-OLD MARY BREAUX WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL WITH SEVERE INJURIES AND DIED ON TUESDAY. THE POLICE DID NOT ISSUE ANY CITATIONS.
A CALCASIEU PARISH JURY HAS DECLARED A LAKE CHARLES MAN NOT GUILTY OF RAPE. 42-YEAR-OLD JASON MILLER HAD BEEN CHARGED WITH AGGRAVATED RAPE WHEN HE WAS ARRESTED LAST MARCH. HE HAD BEEN ACCUSED OF SEXUALLY ABUSING A CHILD SEVEN YEARS AGO. WHEN MILLER WAS ARRESTED, HE WAS ORDERED HELD WITHOUT BAIL.
THE IBERIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS INVESTIGATING A FATAL CRASH THAT CLAIMED THE LIFE OF A PEDESTRIAN. JEFF HORCHAK REPORTS.
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Louisiana has four months remaining of federal money needed to pay for health insurance coverage for low-income children and pregnant women, as Congress allowed financing to expire in September. Louisiana’s health department said Wednesday without congressional reauthorization of the Children’s Health Insurance Program by February, Louisiana would have to come up with at least $31 million to keep coverage in place — or lessen services. The agency predicts as many as one in six children and pregnant women who otherwise would be eligible for the program in Louisiana could lose their coverage if Congress doesn’t act. The U.S. House and Senate each have proposals to continue federal financing for the program, which has broad support.
SOME DETAILS ARE EMERGING ABOUT THE MAN WHO SHOT AND KILLED A LAFAYETTE POLICE OFFICER AT A MOSS STREET CONVENIENCE STORE. EDWIN HOWARD, THE FATHER OF 28-YEAR-OLD IAN HOWARD, SAYS HIS SON BEGAN HAVING MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES SOMETIME IN HIS ADULT YEARS. LAFAYETTE HIGH SCHOOL BAND DIRECTOR SCOTTY WALKER, WHO HAD HOWARD IN HIS BAND IN THE MID-2000’S, SAYS IT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE SINCE HOWARD CAME FROM A GREAT FAMILY, WAS A GIFTED STUDENT AND WAS NOT A TROUBLED KID. HOWARD HAS BEEN BOOKED INTO THE LAFAYETTE PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER ON ONE COUNT OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER AND THREE COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED MURDER.
MOSS BLUFF RESIDENTS ARE UPSET THAT GARBAGE HAS NOT BEEN PICKED UP SINCE A NEW GARBAGE COMPANY TOOK OVER THE SERVICE. THE POLICE JUROR THAT REPRESENTS MOSS BLUFF, KEVIN WHITE, TELLS KPLC TV THAT HE CALLED THE NEW COMPANY, REPUBLIC SERVICES, AND THEY TOLD HIM THAT THEY DIDN’T REALIZE WHAT BAD SHAPE THE TRUCKS WERE IN. WHITE SAYS THEY SEEM TO BE GETTING CAUGHT UP. HE SAYS THAT, IN THE FUTURE, THEY WILL MAKE SURE SAFE GUARDS ARE IN PLACE WHEN A NEW COMPANY TAKES OVER SO THAT THIS DOESN’T HAPPEN AGAIN.
A FIVE-YEAR-OLD BOY, WHO WAS KILLED IN A FIVE CAR CRASH ON I-TEN NEAR BATON ROUGE LAST WEEK, WILL GET A LIFE SAVER’S SENDOFF TODAY, WITH OFFICERS FROM THE RAYNE AND BATON ROUGE POLICE DEPARTMENT’S SERVING AS PALL BEARERS. XANDER CRUZ BENOIT’S GRANDFATHER WAS A PARAMEDIC FOR ACADIAN AMBULANCE FOR 14 YEARS, AND XANDER WAS AN HONORARY PARAMEDIC, AND HE HAS BEEN MADE AN HONORARY OFFICER WITH THE RAYNE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE WEST BATON ROUGE PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE. HIS GRANDFATHER, LEE BENOIT, SAYS THEIR FAMILY IS BROKEN UP ABOUT XANDER’S DEATH, BUT ONE THING THAT HELPS IS HIS VITAL ORGANS WERE DONATED TO HELP SIX PEOPLE. THE FUNERAL TAKES PLACE AT THE DUHON FUNERAL HOME CHAPEL IN RAYNE AT TWO THIS AFTERNOON.
Gov. John Bel Edwards’ administration is boosting the size of loans available to small businesses damaged by last year’s flooding and extending the deadline for applications. The Restore Louisiana Small Business Program offers interest-free, partially forgivable loans to businesses harmed by the March and August 2016 floods. Twenty percent of the loan is forgiven when the other 80 percent is repaid.
Under the changes announced Wednesday, the loans now range from $10,000 to $150,000.
