11-1-24
A SUSPECT IN A DEADLY SHOOTING AT THE WALMART IN CROWLEY HAS TURNED HIMSELF INTO AUTHORITIES. GEORGE FAUST REPORTS.
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LAFAYETTE FIREFIGHTERS PULLED A SIXTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD WOMAN FROM HER HOME WEDNESDAY NIGHT, WHICH WAS ON FIRE. HOWEVER THEY WEREN’T ABLE TO SAVE HER PET DOG AND CAT, WHICH PERISHED IN THE FIRE. IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE FIRE ORIGINATED IN A BEDROOM BUT THE CAUSE IS UNDER INVESTIGATION. NEIGHBORS CALLED NINE-ONE-ONE JUST BEFORE NINE-THIRTY WEDNESDAY NIGHT WHEN THEY SAW FLAMES COMING FROM A BEDROOM WINDOW.
MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY HAS THE SECOND-LEAST EXPENSIVE NURSING SCHOOL IN THE COUNTRY. THAT’S ACCORDING TO RESEARCH-DOT-COM, WHICH CONDUCTED A STUDY THAT RANKED UNIVERSITIES WITH ONLINE NURSING DEGREES. THEY TOOK INTO ACCOUNT PROGRAM LENGTH, THE COSTS PER CREDIT, THE REQUIRE NUMBER OF CREDITS TO GRADUATE AND MORE. THE LEAST EXPENSIVE ONLINE NURSING PROGRAM IS AT U-L MONROE.
Louisiana’s new law categorizing two widely used abortion drugs as controlled dangerous substances is being challenged in a state court lawsuit by a physician, a pharmacist, two women who had difficult pregnancies and others. The lawsuit filed Thursday in Baton Rouge says the law sets up needless, dangerous delays in treatment during medical emergencies. Abortion by medication or other means was already illegal in Louisiana when the law was passed this year. Proponents said more control was needed over use of the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol.
FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD MAQUAN SAM OF VILLE PLATTE DIED AFTER BEING SHOT IN THE HEAD, ACCORDING TO KLFY-TV. IT HAPPENED YESTERDAY MORNING SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT ON NORTH MOREIN STREET. VILLE PLATTE POLICE ARRESTED THIRTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD CHRISTOPHER MARQUEES ON A CHARGE OF NEGLIGENT HOMOCIDE AND HIS BOND WAS SET AT SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS. POLICE CHIEF A PERRY THOMAS SAYS IT WAS MARQUEES WHO CALLED IN THE SHOOTING.
A SCOTT MAN WAS ARRESTED THIS WEEK IN CONNECTION TO A DRIVE-BY SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED MARCH THIRTY-FIRST ON SIDNEY CHARLES ROAD IN OPELOUSAS. FOUR PEOPLE WERE IN A VEHICLE BACKING UP OUT OF A DRIVEWAY WHEN ANOTHER VEHICLE PULLED UP AND SOMEONE FIRED SHOTS AT THE VEHICLE IN THE DRIVEWAY. NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD SADAVION GEORGE REPORTEDLY TALKED ABOUT THE SHOOTING IN A LIVESTREAM ON SOCIAL MEDIA. HE HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH FOUR COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED FIRST-DEGREE MURDER.
THE BODY OF A MAN WAS FOUND IN A DITCH OFF OF MILLER AVENUE IN WESTLAKE. THE CORONER HAS YET TO DETERMINE THE CAUSE OF DEATH, BUT CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S DETECTIVES BELIEVE THE MAN MAY HAVE BEEN THE VICTIM OF A HIT-AND-RUN. THE MAN’S NAME WILL NOT BE RELEASED UNTIL HIS FAMILY HAS BEEN NOTIFIED. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION OR WHO MAY HAVE SECURITY CAMERAS IN THE AREA IS URGED TO CONTACT THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE.
A SCHOOL BUS WITH CHILDREN ON BOARD WAS INVOLVED IN A TWO VEHICLE CRASH IN ERATH YESTERDAY. THE BUS HIT A CAR AT AN INTERSECTION NOT FAR FROM DOZIER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. POLICE CHIEF ANNA LAPOINTE SAYS NO CHILDREN WERE SERIOUSLY HURT. THERE’S NO WORD YET ON THE CAUSE OF THE CRASH.
