11-16-18
A FIRE EARLY THIS MORNING DESTROYED AN APARTMENT BUILDING AT THE ILE DES CANNES APARTMENTS IN LAFAYETTE. THE APARTMENT WAS ENGULFED IN FLAMES WHEN FIRE FIGHTERS RESPONDED AT AROUND 2:30 THIS MORNING. A FAMILY OF FIVE MANAGED TO ESCAPE FROM THE BUILDING WITHOUT INJURIES. THE APARTMENT IS CONSIDERED A TOTAL LOSS.
A LAKE CHARLES WOMAN IS ONE OF ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE CHOSEN ACROSS THE NATION TO HELP DECORATE THE WHITE HOUSE FOR CHRISTMAS. KATHY SHOWS TELLS KPLC TV THAT WHEN SHE GOT THE EMAIL LETTING HER KNOW SHE WAS CHOSEN, SHE THOUGHT IT WAS SPAM UNTIL SHE REMEMBERED APPLYING BACK IN MARCH. SHOWS SAYS SHE DID IT BECAUSE SHE LOVES EVERYTHING ABOUT CHRISTMAS AND HAD VISITED THE WHITE HOUSE YEARS AGO. SHE’LL BE PART OF THE FIRST GROUP OF VOLUNTEERS WHICH WILL HAVE THREE DAYS TO DECORATE.
THE MAN WHO CONFESSED TO THE MURDER OF AN OPELOUSAS WOMAN IN 1996 HAS CONFESSED TO MURDERING TWO OTHER WOMEN IN LOUISIANA. JEFF HORCHAK REPORTS.
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Despite numerous protests and multiple court battles, owners of a 162-mile-long oil pipeline under construction in south Louisiana say the project is almost 90 percent complete. A spokesman for Energy Transfer Partners — majority owner of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline project — says the owners anticipate it will be in service by the end of the year. But opponents are pressing on with efforts to delay or stop it. Today, pipeline opponents and owners of a 38-acre section of land plan to argue in a St. Martinville courtroom that the project owners trespassed on private property without completing the necessary process — known as expropriation — to obtain it.
THE COMPANY UBER HAS A FOOD DELIVERY SERVICE KNOWN AS UBER EATS AND IT BEGAN OPERATING FOR SOME LAFAYETTE RESTAURANTS YESTERDAY. CUSTOMERS CAN ORDER FOOD DELIVERY FROM PARTICIPATING RESTAURANTS THROUGH THE UBER EATS APP. THE COMPANY SAYS THAT DRIVERS CAN GET AN ORDER TO A CUSTOMER IN AN AVERAGE OF 31 MINUTES. THE FOOD DELIVERY GIVES UBER DRIVERS MORE FLEXIBLE EARNING OPPORTUNITIES.
ABRAHAM’S TENT IN LAKE CHARLES HELD THEIR ANNUAL FOOD DRIVE YESTERDAY AND DIRECTOR PEARL COLE SAYS IT WAS A SUCCESS. LAST YEAR’S FOOD DRIVE RAISED ENOUGH PAPER GOODS AND VEGETABLES TO LAST THROUGH THIS YEAR, AND COLE SAYS YESTERDAY’S DONATIONS SURPASSED LAST YEAR. SHE TELLS KPLC TV THAT THE LAKE CHARLES COMMUNITY IS AWESOME, RESPONDING WHEN ASKED. ABOUT THREE HUNDRED NEEDY PEOPLE GET LUNCH THERE EVERY WEEKDAY.
FRANKLIN SENIOR HIGH HAS STARTED A CLOTHING DRIVE FOR A FAMILY WHO LOST THEIR HOME TO A FIRE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. FOUR ADULTS AND THREE CHILDREN RESIDED AT THE HOME ON IBERIA STREET IN FRANKLIN, BUT WERE NOT THERE WHEN THE FIRE STARTED. THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE IS UNDER INVESTIGATION, BUT IT’S EXPECTED TO HAVE BEEN ACCIDENTAL. THE SCHOOL HAS A LIST OF THE SIZES OF CLOTHES THEY ARE LOOKING TO COLLECT FOR THE FAMILY, WHICH HAD NO FIRE INSURANCE, AND A GO FUND ME PAGE HAS BEEN SET UP AS WELL.
LOUISIANA LAWMAKERS ARE PUSHING FOR AN EXTENSION OF THE NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE PROGRAM, WHICH COULD LAPSE AT THE END OF THE MONTH. THE PROGRAM UNDERWRITES MOST FLOOD INSURANCE COVERAGE IN THE NATION AND A LAPSE WOULD EFFECTIVELY FREEZE SOME REAL ESTATE MARKETS AND HALT HOME SALES. LOUISIANA SENATORS BILL CASSIDY AND JOHN KENNEDY ARE PUSHING FOR A SIX MONTH EXTENSION OF THE PROGRAM. THERE WILL BE ONLY A FEW DAYS TO WORK ON THE EXTENSION BECAUSE CONGRESS IS CURRENTLY NOT IN SESSION AND WON’T RETURN UNTIL AFTER THE THANKSGIVING WEEKEND.
