10-9-25
A BICYCLIST WAS KILLED WHEN STRUCK BY A VEHICLE NEAR LAWTELL TUESDAY NIGHT AT AROUND EIGHT. SIXTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD DALLAS PITRE OF OPELOUSAS WAS RIDING HIS BIKE WEST IN THE EASTBOUND LANE OF HIGHWAY ONE-NINETY WHEN HE WAS HIT BY A VAN AND KILLED. PITRE WAS NOT WEARING A HELMET. THE DRIVER OF THE VAN WAS NOT INJURED AND WAS NOT SUSPECTED OF IMPAIRMENT.
A GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY WAS HELD YESTERDAY IN LAFAYETTE FOR A NEW THIRTY-SEVEN MILLION DOLLAR READINESS CENTER FOR THE LOUISIANA NATIONAL GUARD. IT WILL BE CONSTRUCTED NEAR THE CAJUNDOME AND TAKE ABOUT TWENTY MONTHS TO COMPLETE. SOLDIERS WILL BE TRAINED AT THE CENTER FOR DEPLOYMENT OVERSEAS AND DOMESTICALLY. IT WILL ALSO SERVE AS THE HEADQUARTERS FOR THE TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-SIXTH INFANTRY BRIGADE, ACCOMODATING AROUND TWO HUNDRED SOLDIERS.
IT APPEARS PLANS TO REDRAW LOUISIANA’S CONGRESSIONAL MAP WILL NOT HAPPEN WHEN A SPECIAL SESSION OF THE LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE CONVENES ON OCTOBER TWENTY-THIRD. THE U-S SUPREME COURT COULD INVALIDATE THE CURRENT MAP WHEN IT ISSUES A RULING ON A VOTING RIGHTS ACT CASE. GOVERNOR JEFF LANDRY WANTS TO HAVE A NEW MAP READY TO GO IF THE SUPREME COURT INVALIDATES THE CURRENT MAP. LEGISLATORS HAVE TOLD THE GOVERNOR THEY DON’T WANT TO DESIGN A NEW MAP UNTIL THE SUPREME COURT ISSUES A RULING.
AN ESCAPEE AT THE SULPHUR CITY JAIL IS BACK IN CUSTODY. TWENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD HAYDEN GILLARD OF LAKE CHARLES CLIMBED THE FENCE BEHIND THE JAIL AND RAN AWAY. IT HAPPENED MONDAY NIGHT AT AROUND TEN. LAST NIGHT GILLARD WAS FOUND AT AN ADDRESS IN SULPHUR AND ARRESTED.
A MONTHS-LONG NARCOTICS INVESTIGATION ENDED WITH A DRUG BUST IN ABBEVILLE, WHERE A WANTED FUGITIVE AND AN ACCOMPLICE WERE ARRESTED. GEORGE FAUST REPORTS.
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THE LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT HAS ISSUED A BUILDING PERMIT TO TRADER JOE’S. THE SPECIALTY GROCERY STORE WILL BE BUILT NEAR RIVER RANCH ON CAMELIA BOULEVARD. GROUNDBREAKING IS EXPECTED TO HAPPEN SOON ON THE SIX-AND-A-HALF MILLION DOLLAR PROJECT. THE NEW TRADER JOE’S STORE IS EXPECTED TO OPEN IN THE SPRING.
THE STATE OF LOUISIANA HAS FILED A FEDERAL LAWSUIT CHALLENGING A NEW RULING BY THE U-S FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION. THE LAWSUIT SAYS THE RULING ALLOWING ABORTION PILLS TO BE SENT THROUGH THE MAIL VIOLATES STATE LAW AND PUTS WOMEN AT RISK. THE LAWSUIT SAY THE RULING BROKE FEDERAL LAW WHICH REQUIRED A CERTIFIED PROVIDER TO GIVE THE DRUG MIFEPRISTONE TO THE PATIENT IN PERSON. ATTORNEY GENERAL LIZ MURRILL, WHO FILED THE LAWSUIT, SAYS PREVIOUSLY A DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP WAS REQUIRED AS WELL AS AN ULTRASOUND AND AN AFTER-VISIT TO ENSURE THE PROCESS HAD BEEN PROPERLY HANDLED.
A CROWLEY WOMAN IS SPEAKING OUT AFTER FINDINGB OUT A LAP SPONGE MARKER WAS FOUND IN HER BODY FOLLOWING AN EMERGENCY C-SECTION IN JUNE AT OCHSNER LAFAYETTE GENERAL HOSPITAL. KERSTIN ROBINSON TELLS KLFY TV THAT SHE WOKE UP FROM THE PROCEDURE IN SEVERE PAIN WITH ABOUT TWENTY-FIVE MEDICAL PERSONNEL IN THE ROOM, BUT NO ONE INFORMED HER OF WHAT HAPPENED. SHE FOUND OUT ABOUT A MONTH LATER THROUGH HER ONLINE CHART THAT THE LAP SPONGE WAS LEFT INSIDE HER DURING SURGERY AND THEY HAD TO OPEN HER UP A SECOND TIME TO REMOVE IT. ROBINSON SAYS SHE’S UPSET SHE WASN’T TOLD AND THE FAMILY IS SEEKING NEW MEDICAL ATTENTION AND LEGAL ADVISE.
