10-6-17
WITH ALL EYES ON THE GULF OF MEXICO AS THE WEEKEND APPROACHES, STATE OFFICIALS SAY LOUISIANA IS READY SHOULD TROPICAL STORM NATE TAKE AIM AT THE BAYOU STATE. JEFF HORCHAK HAS MORE.
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A BOND HEARING HAS BEEN SET FOR TUESDAY FOR THE MAN ACCUSED OF KILLING LAFAYETTE POLICE CORPORAL MICHAEL MIDDLEBROOK. 28-YEAR-OLD IAN HOWARD HAS BEEN KEPT IN THE LAFAYETTE PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER WITHOUT BOND ON CHARGES OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER OF A POLICE OFFICER, ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A POLICE OFFICER AND TWO COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED MURDER. THE FUNERAL FOR MIDDLEBROOK IS TODAY AT OUR SAVIOR’S CHURCH. A FUNERAL PROCESSION INVOLVING LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS WILL RUN FROM THE CHURCH ON EAST BROUSSARD TO DELHOMME FUNERAL HOME ON BERTRAND SOMETIME BETWEEN 12:30 AND 4:30 THIS AFTERNOON.
The Calcasieu Parish sheriff’s office is looking for an inmate who walked away from a litter detail in Lake Charles. The Sheriff’s Office says 38-year-old Anthony D. Collins Jr. fled about 11 a.m. yesterday. He was last seen wearing an orange jumpsuit, which was later found dumped on a city street. Collins was serving time for drug charges and a probation violation on bank fraud charges.
THREE YEARS AGO, A MAN DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE AND AT TWICE THE SPEED LIMIT, STRUCK THREE TEENAGE GIRLS ON MARTIN STREET IN BREAUX BRIDGE, KILLING TWO AND PERMANENTLY INJURING THE THIRD. YESTERDAY THAT MAN, 34-YEAR-OLD JEREMY ABRAHAM OF BREAUX BRIDGE, WAS SENTENCED TO 15 YEARS ON EACH COUNT OF VEHICULAR HOMOCIDE AND FIVE YEARS FOR FIRST DEGREE VEHICULAR NEGLIGENT INJURY. ABRAHAM COULD HAVE RECEIVED UP TO THIRTY YEARS ON EACH OF THE TWO COUNTS OF VEHICULAR HOMOCIDE. THAT’S WHAT THE VICTIM’S FAMILIES WERE HOPING FOR, ACCORDING TO ASSISTANT D-A ROBERT CHEVALIER, BUT HE TELLS KLFY THEY RESPECT THE COURT’S TOUGH DECISION.
Louisiana is helping Florida process its thousands of unemployment claims related to Hurricane Irma. The Louisiana Workforce Commission, the state’s labor department, said Thursday that it reached out to Florida to offer the assistance.
Louisiana had to cope with an influx of disaster unemployment claims after Louisiana’s flooding last year and after hurricanes in previous years. The workforce commission says it is prepared to help Florida process the unemployment claims for at least 30 days.
LAFAYETTE GENERAL HOSPITAL IS ALLOWING PEOPLE TO MAKE RESERVATIONS AT THEIR THREE URGENT CARE CENTERS. RESERVATIONS CAN BE MADE BEGINNING AT NINE A-M UP TO ONE HOUR BEFORE CLOSING AT LAFAYETTE GENERAL-DOT-COM-SLASH-BOOK-ONLINE OR AT THE LAFAYETTE GENERAL MOBILE APP. THE APP ALLOWS PATIENTS TO SEE THE APPROXIMATE WAIT TIME AND STAFF MEMBERS WILL BE ABLE TO COMMUNICATE WITH PATIENTS VIA TEXT AHEAD OF THE SCHEDULED RESERVATION. RESERVATIONS ARE NOT MEANT TO BE USED FOR LIFE THREATENING, DEBILITATING OR EMERGENT MEDICAL CONDITIONS, AND A RESERVATION IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE SEEN AT THE URGENT CARE CENTERS.
YESTERDAY THE CALCASIEU PARISH POLICE JURY AWARDED ALMOST TWO MILLION DOLLARS FOR TWO DRAINAGE PROJECTS AND TWO ROAD PROJECTS. THE DRAINAGE PROJECTS ARE NEAR THE NEW ENTERGY PLANT IN WESTLAKE CLOSE TO JOHN STINE AND HOUSTON RIVER ROADS, AND AT THE VINTON DRAINAGE CANAL. THE ROAD IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS ARE BURTON STREET IN SULPHUR, AND PRIEN LAKE ROAD, WHICH WILL BE WIDENED FROM COVE LANE SOUTH TO SALE ROAD IN LAKE CHARLES. THE MONEY WILL BE AWARDED AT THE END OF THE MONTH AND THE FOUR PROJECTS WILL BEGIN NEXT YEAR.
THE ST. LANDRY PARISH SCHOOL BOARD IS PARTNERING WITH L-S-U-E TO START AN EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY AND A DUAL ENROLLMENT PROGRAM. SUPERINTENDENT PATRICK JENKINS SAYS THIS WILL GIVE STUDENTS THE OPPORTUNITY TO EARN ASSOCIATE’S DEGREES BEFORE GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL. INCOMING JUNIORS AND SENIORS INTERESTED IN PURSUING AN ASSOCIATE’S DEGREE OR CERTIFICATION IN A STEM RELATED FIELD CAN ENROLL IN A CAMPUS-BASED PROGRAM AT L-S-U-E. AN ADDITIONAL COLLEGE PREPARATORY PROGRAM WILL BE HOUSED AT OPELOUSAS HIGH SCHOOL FOR FRESHMEN AND SOPHOMORES.
