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11-14-19

THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL BOARD HAS AGREED TO BRING THEIR DEBATE OVER A BONUS CHECK FOR TEACHERS TO THE BLUE RIBBON COMMITTEE FOR FURTHER EXAMINATION.  CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS MORE.

 

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EUNICE POLICE HAVE MADE A SECOND ARREST IN CONNECTION WITH A SHOOTING ON OCTOBER 26TH AT A SHELL STATION ON WEST LAUREL AVENUE.  24-YEAR-OLD JAMARR L. ROSS OF EUNICE FACES CHARGES OF ATTEMPTED FIRST DEGREE MURDER AND POSSESSION OF A FIREARM BY A CONVICTED FELON.  THEY’VE ALSO ISSUED AN ARREST WARRANT FOR 22-YEAR-OLD MCKENZIE JEROME SIMMONS OF EUNICE.  ONE WEEK AGO, POLICE ARRESTED 19-YEAR-OLD DE’VIDRE DOMAL DOYLE OF EUNICE, WHO WAS THE ONLY PERSON INJURED IN THE SHOOTING.

 

THE CALCASIEU PARISH POLICE JURY IS REMINDING LAKE CHARLES RESIDENTS THAT A DOWNTOWN VOTING PRECINCT HAS BEEN MOVED FOR THIS SATURDAY’S ELECTION.  VOTING PRECINCT 310 WILL MOVE FROM THE CALCASIEU COURTHOUSE TO CARNEGIE MEMORIAL LIBRARY ON PUJO STREET.  THE CHANGE WAS MADE BY THE POLICE JURY IN AUGUST BECAUSE OF SEVERAL EVENTS AND UPCOMING PROJECTS.  FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, RESIDENTS CAN CALL THE REGISTRAR OF VOTER’S OFFICE.

 

President Donald Trump is testing his ability to sway an election by trying to oust the Deep South’s only Democratic governor.  Louisiana’s a deep red state, but just ahead of Saturday’s election, the gubernatorial contest is a tossup.  Democrat John Bel Edwards is vying for a second term against little-known Republican political donor Eddie Rispone.

Trump plans a Thursday night rally for Rispone in Bossier City.

 

A New Orleans judge has ordered Republican groups to remove their TV attack ad against Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards from the air, after a lawsuit challenged the ad’s claims as “demonstrably false.”  The ad claims Edwards gave his West Point roommate favorable treatment in contracting for coastal project work. Truth in Politics tweaked the ad, changing some of its wording, after facing blowback about inaccuracy. Judge Nakisha Ervin-Knott ordered even the reworked ad to come down.

 

A SPECIAL MEETING HAS BEEN SET FOR NEXT TUESDAY FOR THE LAFAYETTE CITY PARISH COUNCIL TO HEAR FROM MAYOR PRESIDENT JOEL ROBIDEAUX ABOUT QUESTIONS CONCERNING LUS AND LUS FIBER.  SOME COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE CONCERNED THAT ROBIDEAUX ANNOUNCED AN INTERNAL INVESTIGATION OF THE UTILITIES, WHICH, HE SAID, WAS ORDERD BY THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, BUT WHICH THE P-S-C HAS DENIED.  COUNCILMAN JAY CASTILLE SAID IN AN EMAIL TO ROBIDEAUX AND THE COUNCIL THAT IT MAKES THE INVESTIGATION SEEM LESS CREDIBLE BECAUSE IT WAS FOUNDED ON A LIE.  THE COUNCIL ALSO WANTS TO QUESTION ROBIDEAUX ABOUT THE APPOINTMENT OF C-A-O LOWEL DUHON TO SERVE AS THE INTERIM DIRECTOR OF L-U-S.

 

A PRECAUTIONARY BOIL ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SOME RESIDENTS OF EGAN.  A BREAK OF THE MAIN WATER LINE LED THE EGAN WATER CORPORATION TO ISSUE THE ADVISORY YESTERDAY.  IT APPLIES TO RESIDENTS ON CLEMENT ROAD, SENSAT COVE ROAD, THE ESTHERWOOD HIGHWAY SOUTH OF I-TEN AND IT INCLUDES THE COUNTRY VILLAGE MOBILE HOME PARK.  THE EGAN WATER CORPORATION WILL NOTIFY RESIDENTS ON THEIR FACEBOOK PAGE WHEN THE ADVISORY HAS BEEN LIFTED.

 

ON TUESDAY NIGHT, THE SULPHUR CITY COUNCIL VOTED TO MOVE FORWARD WITH SEEKING BIDS FOR THIRTY BODY CAMERAS AND THIRTY IN-CAR CAMERAS FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.  POLICE CHIEF LEWIS COATS SAYS THE CURRENT EQUIPMENT IS SHOWING SIGNS OF FAILURE AND THEY NEED TO UPGRADE.  COATS SAYS UPGRADED EQUIPMENT WILL PROTECT THE OFFICERS AS WELL AS HOLDING THEM ACCOUNTABLE.  BIDS ON THE NEW EQUIPMENT WILL BE OPENED BY THE COUNCIL AT A MEETING SCHEDULED FOR DECEMBER 18TH.