11-13-23
A FIVE-YEAR-OLD CHILD WAS KILLED IN A MOBILE HOME FIRE IN CHURCH POINT. THE FIRE HAPPENED SUNDAY MORNING IN THE ONE HUNDRED BLOCK OF SAINT ZENO DRIVE. WHEN FIREFIGHTERS ARRIVED, THEY FOUND THREE OF THE OCCUPANTS OUTSIDE SUFFERING FROM SMOKE INHALATION, BUT THE GIRL DID NOT ESCAPE. THE THREE OCCUPANTS WERE TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT.
A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD WAS SHOT FRIDAY IN DUSON. POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING THE SHOOTING BUT HAVE CONFIRMED FEW DETAILS. THE TEENAGER WAS SHOT IN THE FACE AND TAKEN TO A HOSPITAL IN BATON ROUGE FOR SURGERY. INVESTIGATORS HAVE RECOVERED THE GUN USED IN THE SHOOTING, WHICH HAPPENED IN THE TWO HUNDRED BLOCK OF FRANCIS PREJEAN ROAD, AND THEY HAVE QUESTIONED SEVERAL PEOPLE BUT MADE NO ARRESTS.
The Louisiana Legislature has until Jan. 15 to enact a new congressional map after a lower court last year ruled that the current political boundaries dilute the power of the state’s Black voters. The deadline was issued Friday by a federal appeals court. However, whether Gov. John Bel Edwards will call a special session to redraw the political boundaries before he leaves office is unclear. If the state legislature does not pass a new map by mid-January, then the lower district court plans to conduct a trial and “decide on a plan for the 2024 elections.”
THE CALCASIEU AND BEAUREGARD PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICES ARE SEARCHING FOR A WORK RELEASE INMATE WHO WALKED OFF THE JOB IN MOSS BLUFF ON OCTOBER THIRTIETH. THIRTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD DERRICK BROWN OF LAKE CHARLES WAS BEING HOUSED AT LOUISIANA WORKFORCE IN DEQUINCY. THE BEAUREGARD PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE HAS ISSUED AN ARREST WARRANT FOR BROWN ON THE CHARGE OF SIMPLE ESCAPE. ANYONE WHO KNOWS THE LOCATION OF BROWN IS ASKED TO CONTACT THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE.
RAYNE POLICE HAVE MADE AN ARREST IN CONNECTION TO THE NOVEMBER THIRD SHOOTING OF TWO MEN, AGES EIGHTEEN AND NINETEEN. ONE OF THE TWO WERE CRITICALLY WOUNDED. FORTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD DARRELL DWAYNE DUGAS WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY MORNING ON TWO CHARGES OF ATTEMPTED SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AND CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY. DUGAS WAS THE ALLEGED TARGET IN A PRIOR SHOOTING ON NORTH MARIE STREET AND THE TWO SHOOTINGS MAY BE LINKED.
A FIRE AT AN ILE DES CANNES APARTMENT COMPLEX IN SCOTT WAS CAUSED BY AN UNATTENDED CANDLE IN A BEDROOM. THE FIRE HAPPENED LATE FRIDAY NIGHT AND THE FOUR OCCUPENTS OF THE SECOND-FLOOR APARTMENT MADE IT OUTSIDE BUT ONE WAS TREATED AT THE SCENE FOR BURNS TO THE LOWER HALF OF HER BODY. A PUPPY WAS FOUND BY FIRE FIGHTERS IN THE APARTMENT AND SAFELY BROUGHT OUTSIDE BUT A PET BIRD WAS KILLED AFTER BEING OVERCOME WITH SMOKE. THERE WAS MAJOR DAMAGE TO THE APARTMENT’S BEDROOM BUT ONLY MINOR SMOKE DAMAGE TO THE THREE OTHER UNITS IN THE FOURPLEX.
CITIZEN’S INSURANCE, THE STATE’S INSURER OF LAST RESORT, HAS SEEN NOTABLE DECREASES IN THE NUMBER OF POLICYHOLDERS. STATE OFFICIALS HAVE SET A GOAL OF DECREASING CITIZENS’S, WHICH BY LAW CHARGES TEN PERCENT MORE THAN THE PRIVATE MARKET. BUT RATES INCREASED BY SIXTY-FOUR PERCENT LAST YEAR BECAUSE OF THE NUMBER OF PRIVATE COMPANIES THAT LEFT THE STATE FOLLOWING THE HURRICANES OF TWENTY-TWENTY-ONE AND TWENTY TWENTY-TWO. FOR TWENTY-TWENTY-FOUR, CITIZENS’ RATES WILL BE UP A MUCH MORE MODEST FOUR PERCENT, BUT THEY ARE STILL NEARLY ONE HUNDRED PERCENT HIGHER THAN TWO YEARS BEFOR HURRICANE KATRINA.
AN ARNAUDVILLE MAN, WHO WAS FOUND GUILTY IN THE OVERDOSE DEATH OF A TWENTY-YEAR-OLD WOMAN, IS SCHEDULED TO BE SENTENCED TODAY. DANIELLE DUNCAN HAS MORE.
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