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11-11-15

IT APPEARS THE OIL MARKET DOWNTURN IS FINALLY HAVING AN EFFECT ON HOME SALES IN LAFAYETTE. BILL BACQUE, PRESIDENT OF VAN EATON AND ROMERO, SAYS HOME SALES DECLINED AROUND THIRTY PERCENT FROM AUGUST THROUGH OCTOBER. LAST YEAR IN OCTOBER WAS THE BIGGEST HOME SALES MONTH OF THE YEAR…325…BUT THIS OCTOBER SAW ONLY 256 HOUSES SOLD. BACQUE TOLD THE DAILY ADVERTISER IT’S BOTH LOGICAL AND PRUDENT TO CONCLUDE THAT THE LOCAL ECONOMIC WOES CAUSED BY THE OIL INDUSTRY STRUGGLES IS EFFECTING THE HOUSING MARKET.

THE RECENT RAINS HAVE CAUSED AN OUTBREAK OF MOSQUITOES THROUGHOUT THE STATE. SCOTT WILLIS, DIRECTOR OF CALCASIEU PARISH MOSQUITO CONTROL, SAYS THEY HAVE PEOPLE IN THE FIELD DETERMINING THE WORST HIT AREAS, AND ARE SENDING OUT TRUCKS AND PLANES TO SPRAY. WILLIS SAYS THE OUTBREAK IS HERE TO STAY UNTIL A COLD WEATHER SNAP. SO FAR THERE HAVE BEEN 61 CASES OF THE WEST NILE VIRUS IN HUMANS, TWO IN CALCASIEU PARISH AND AT LEAST ONE CASE IN LAFAYETTE PARISH.

THE OPELOUSAS BOARD OF ALDERMEN VOTED YESTERDAY TO DELAY A VOTE ON A PROPOSAL FOR TWO RESOURCE POLICE OFFICERS AT TWO SCHOOLS. NOW, ONE OFFICER WORKS BOTH OPELOUSAS HIGH SCHOOL AND OPELOUSAS JUNIOR HIGH AND IS PAID FOR BY THE CITY. THE PROPOSAL WOULD HAVE ONE OFFICER FOR EACH SCHOOL, WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT PAYING FOR THE OTHER OFFICER. A DISPUTE DEVELOPED AMONG THE BOARD AS TO WHETHER THEY SHOULD BE PAYING FOR AN OFFICER WHO WORKS ON SCHOOL DISTRICT PROPERTY.

A Louisiana sheriff says he’ll give the FBI video and other evidence gathered in an investigation of private investigators working for David Vitter’s campaign for governor. Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand’s probe began after he spotted someone using a video device to record a conversation he was having at a Metairie coffee shop in October. Vitter, a Republican U.S. senator, said Monday the investigator was legitimately looking into whether a supporter of his Democratic opponent, Rep. John Bel Edwards, was paying people to make false allegations against him. The investigator issued a statement denying he coaxed any witness.

Democrat John Bel Edwards and Republican David Vitter ripped into each other’s records and challenged each other’s integrity in the first televised debate of the runoff campaign. Voices were raised, fingers were pointed and accusations were traded Tuesday as the two men in the Nov. 21 runoff questioned each other directly. Edwards criticized Vitter as ineffective, saying he missed votes in Congress and passed few bills. Vitter said Edwards was trying to create a myth that he was a moderate, which Vitter said was undercut by votes for tax bills and a poor rating with business groups.

 

THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS YESTERDAY OVERTURNED A LOWER COURT’S DECISION TO DISMISS A CIVIL LAWSUIT AGAINST THE LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT, POLICE CHIEF JIM CRAFT, AND SERGEANT MARTIN FAUL. THE SUIT WAS FILED BY THE FAMILY OF 21-YEAR-OLD QUAMAINE DEE MASON WHO WAS SHOT AND KILLED ALMOST FOUR YEARS AGO BY OFFICER FAUL, WHO SHOT HIM SEVEN TIMES. THE FAMILY FILED THE LAWSUIT AFTER A GRAND JURY REFUSED TO INDICT OFFICER FAUL, SEEKING UNSPECIFIED MONETARY DAMAGES. THE APPEALS COURT RULED THAT THE LOWER COURT DID NOT PROPERLY CONSIDER ALL THE FACTS IN MASON’S DEATH.

A World War II veteran in Louisiana turns 110 on Friday. KPLC-TV reports that Frank Levingston, one of seven children, was born in 1905 and grew up in northern Louisiana. He says he can remember the day he joined the Army and the day he was discharged. And he says he’s just thankful to still be alive. Levingston, who lives in Lake Charles, says he doesn’t go a day without being thankful for his long life.

A EUNICE WOMAN IS ACCUSED OF STEALING 86 THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM A CONSTRUCTION COMPANY. JULIE DARCE HAS MORE.

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