11-15-23
AN ELDERLY LAKE CHARLES WOMAN WAS KILLED IN A MULTI-VEHICLE CRASH THAT IS CURRENTLY UNDER INVESTIGATION. NINETY-YEAR-OLD JANETTE SPOONER WAS A PASSENGER IN ONE OF THE VEHICLES INVOLVED IN THE CRASH MONDAY NIGHT AND SHE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED ON THE CALCASIEU RIVER BRIDGE. SEVERAL DRIVERS WERE CITED FOR FOLLOWING TOO CLOSELY.
AN ARREST HAS BEEN MADE IN AN OPELOUSAS DOUBLE HOMOCIDE THAT HAPPENED LAST DECEMBER. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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LAFAYETTE PARISH CLERK OF COURT LOUIS PERRET SAYS HE EXPECTS A LOW VOTER TURNOUT THIS SATURDAY, PERHAPS BELOW TWENTY PERCENT. VOTER TURNOUT FOR EARLY VOTING WAS JUST ELEVEN PERCENT, ACCORDING TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE’S OFFICE. ACROSS THE STATE, EARLY VOTING TURNOUT WAS EVEN LOWER AT EIGHT PERCENT. THREE STATEWIDE RACES AND FOUR CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS ARE ON THE BALLOT AND IN LAFAYETTE PARISH THERE’S A RUNOFF FOR MAYOR PRESIDENT.
A federal appeals court has ordered the Biden administration to carry on with an auction of oil and gas drilling leases for Gulf of Mexico waters in 37 days — rejecting arguments by environmentalists. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling means the lease sale, once set for September, will be held in December. The administration had scaled back the areas covered by the lease sale as part of an agreement to protect the endangered Rice’s whale, but a federal judge ordered that the full sale, covering 73 million acres, be conducted. The appeals court upheld the judge Tuesday.
THE CHURCH POINT COMMUNITY IS RALLYING TO HELP RAISE MONEY TO PAY FOR FUNERAL EXPENSES FOR THE FAMILY OF AALIYAH LEWIS. SHE IS THE FOUR-YEAR-OLD GIRL, ALMOST FIVE, WHO LOST HER LIFE IN A MOBILE HOME FIRE SUNDAY MORNING. CHURCH POINT RESIDENT CALEB LABBIE HAS SET UP A GO FUND ME ACCOUNT THAT IS MORE THAN HALFWAY TO A GOAL OF FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS. MORE FUNDS ARE BEING RAISED THROUGH A BENEFIT BARBEQUE DINNER THAT IS BEING SOLD THIS SATURDAY AT THE CHURCH POINT DEPOT.
THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION HAS ANNOUNCED THAT LANE CLOSURES FOR THE EVANGELINE THRUWAY IN LAFAYETTE WILL BEGIN THIS FRIDAY NIGHT AND CONTINUE THROUGH MARCH. THE CLOSURES WILL BE ON BOTH THE NORTH AND SOUTHBOUND SIDES OF THE THRUWAY FROM EAST PINHOOK ROAD TO DONLON AVENUE, WHICH IS JUST SOUTH OF WILLOW STREET. THE CLOSURES WILL TAKE PLACE FROM EIGHT P-M ON FRIDAYS UNTIL MONDAY MORNING AT SIX A-M AND FROM EIGHT P-M TO SIX
A-M ON MONDAYS THROUGH THURSDAYS. ROAD CREWS WILL BE REPAIRING STRETCHES OF THE THRUWAY AND INSTALLING HANDICAP RAMPS.
House Speaker Mike Johnson from Louisiana has endorsed Donald Trump for president, a move that was a symbolic departure from his ousted predecessor leading the House. Johnson is an ally and defender of the former president. He said in an interview on CNBC Tuesday morning, “I have endorsed him wholeheartedly.” His predecessor Kevin McCarthy was a longtime Trump ally but stopped short of formally backing Trump’s third White House bid.
Four new whooping cranes are now a part of Louisiana’s experimental population in Vermilion Parish. Whooping cranes are an endangered species and officials for more than a decade have been working to establish a self-sustaining population in southwest Louisiana. The flock now totals 85. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says all four juveniles were added Sunday to the White Lake Wetlands Conservation Area in southwest Louisiana.
