11-15-21
A CONFLICT BETWEEN A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY AND A TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD MAN IN VILLE PLATTE LED TO A SHOOTING LATE YESTERDAY, ACCORDING TO POLICE CHIEF NEAL LARTIGUE. HE SAYS IT HAPPENED NEAR THE PUBLIC HOUSING APARTMENTS ON NORTH DUPRE STREET. THE TEENAGER WAS SHOT NEAR THE ELBOW AND THE MAN HAD WOUNDS TO THE THIGH AND HAND. LARTIGUE SAYS THEY ARE CONTINUING TO INVESTIGATE AND CHARGES ARE PENDING.
IN THE CITY OF LAFAYETE, VOTERS DECIDED WHETHER TO RENEW THE TEN YEAR POLICE AND FIRE TAX. CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS THE RESULTS.
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DISTRICT TWENTY-SEVEN IN CALCASIEU PARISH HAS A NEW SENATOR. REPUBLICAN JEREMY STINE RECEIVED ALMOST SIXTY PERCENT OF THE VOTE TO BECOME THE NEW SENATOR, REPLACING RONNIE JOHNS, WHO RESIGNED TO TAKE A SEAT ON THE LOUISIANA STATE GAMING CONTROL BOARD. SIXTY-EIGHT PERCENT OF VOTERS IN CALCASIEU PARISH AGREED TO RENEW A QUARTER PERCENT TAX FOR THE NEXT TEN YEARS. IT RAISES ABOUT SIXTEEN MILLION A YEAR AND GOES TO THE LAW ENFORCEMENT DISTRICT.
Louisiana voters have made a split decision on Republican legislative leaders’ push to rewrite tax laws. Election results Saturday night from the secretary of state’s office show voters agreed to detangle state income tax collections from federal tax payments but refused to centralize sales tax collections. The complex tax proposals were among four constitutional changes on the ballot and the only issues facing voters statewide. The two other constitutional amendments were also rejected by voters.
TWO PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND THREE INJURED IN A HEAD-ON COLLISION IN IBERIA PARISH SATURDAY AFTERNOON. STATE POLICE DETERMINED THIRTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD PRESTON BARNES OF NEW IBERIA WAS DRIVING ON JEFFERSON ISLAND ROAD WHEN HE CROSSED THE CENTERLINE AND HIT AN ONCOMING CAR. BARNES AND THE DRIVER OF THE OTHER VEHICLE, THIRTY-YEAR-OLD KRYSTIAN M. GACHASSIN OF NEW IBERIA, WERE BOTH TAKEN TO LOCAL HOSPITALS, WHERE THEY LATER DIED. STATE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING WHY BARNES CROSSED THE CENTER LINE, BUT THEY SUSPECT THAT HE WAS SPEEDING AT THE TIME OF THE CRASH.
CARENCRO POLICE ARE ASKING THE PUBLIC’S HELP IN FINDING A RUNAWAY TEEN. FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD ALONI ANDRUS LEFT HER HOME YESTERDAY. THE BLACK TEENAGE GIRL, WHO IS FIVE-ONE AND ONE HUNDRED FIFTEEN POUNDS, WAS LAST SEEN WEARING A NEON GREEN AND BLACK SURGE SHIRT, WITH BLACK TIGHTS AND BLACK NIKE AIR FORCE ONE SHOES. ANYONE WHO KNOWS THE WHEREABOUTS OF ALONI IS ASKED TO CONTACT THE CARENCRO POLICE DEPARTMENT.
MORGAN CITY POLICE RESPONDED TO REPORTS OF SHOTS FIRED IN THE CITY SATURDAY NIGHT. THE SHOTS WERE HEARD IN THE AREA OF SIXTH AND FRERET STREETS, BUT THERE WERE NO INJURIES. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION IS ASKED TO CONTACT MORGAN CITY POLICE. THERE WAS ANOTHER REPORT OF SHOTS FIRED IN MORGAN CITY ONE WEEK EARLIER.
TODAY MANDI MITCHELL BEGINS HER ROLE AS THE LEADER OF THE LAFAYETTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, OR LEDA. SHE WAS SELECTED IN SEPTEMBER TO REPLACE OUTGOING PRESIDENT AND C-E-O GREGG GOTHREAUX. SHE WAS PREVIOUSLY THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR LOUISIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. HER NEW POSITION IS ONE OF THE HIGHEST PAID IN THE LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT AT TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS PLUS BENEFITS.
