11-17-21
A TEENAGE BOY WAS SHOT IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD WHILE GETTING OFF A SCHOOL BUS YESTERDAY AFTERNOON NEAR SCHLESINGER AND MAUDE STREETS IN ABBEVILLE. THE IDENTITY OF THE TEEN HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED AND HE UNDERWENT HOURS OF SURGERY YESTERDAY. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON THE SHOOTING IS ENCOURAGED TO CALL CRIME STOPPERS AT SEVEN-FOUR-OH-EIGHTY-FOUR-SEVENTY-SEVEN. KLFY TV SAYS THEY WERE TOLD NEIGHBORHOOD RESIDENTS ARE AFRAID TO SPEAK OUT FOR FEAR OF RETALIATION.
LAFAYETTE ATTORNEY BARRY ROZAS, WHO WAS ACCUSED OF SEXUAL ABUSE YEARS AGO WHEN HE WAS A SCOUTMASTER, WILL NOT BE CHARGED. ROZAS WAS CHARGED WITH FIRST DEGREE RAPE WHEN HE WAS ARRESTED IN FEBRUARY, BUT HAD MAINTAINED HIS INNOCENCE SINCE THEN. DISTRICT ATTORNEY DON LANDRY SAYS THAT AFTER REVIEWING THE EVIDENCE AND TALKING TO THE ALLEGED VICTIM ON AT LEAST TWO OCCASIONS, THEY DETERMINED THE CHARGES SHOULD BE REFUSED. ROZAS THANKED FORMER SCOUTS, FRIENDS, FAMILY AND MEMBERS OF HIS CHURCH FOR SUPPORTING HIM SINCE HIS ARREST.
THE COALITION TO RESTORE COASTAL LOUISIANA IS ASKING FOR VOLUNTEERS TO HELP WITH A RESTORATION PROJECT THIS WEEKEND AT RUTHERFORD BEACH. THEY PLAN ON PLANTING TEN THOUSAND PLUGS OF NATIVE BEACH GRASSES TO HELP GROW AND STABILIZE BEACH DUNES, MINIMIZE EROSION AND TO CREATE A WILDLIFE HABITAT. ON FRIDAY MORNING BEGINNING AT NINE, VOLUNTEERS WILL INSTALL SAND FENCING. ON SATURDAY MORNING, ALSO BEGINNING AT NINE, VOLUNTEERS WILL PLANT BITTER PANICUM BY HAND.
The U.S. Interior Department on Wednesday will auction vast oil reserves in the Gulf of Mexico estimated to hold up to 1.1 billion barrels of crude. It’s the first such sale under President Joe Biden. The livestreamed sale invited energy companies to bid on leases across an area about twice the size of Florida. It will be years before companies could start pumping crude.
CROWLEY CRIMESTOPPERS IS ASKING THE PUBLIC’S HELP IN FINDING A WOMAN AND MAN WHO STOLE A CAR THAT THEY HAD TAKEN ON A TEST DRIVE. A SALES REPRESENTATIVE AT THE DEALERSHIP ON THE EGAN HIGHWAY AUTHORIZED THE TEST DRIVE ON NOVEMBER FIFTH OF A TWO THOUSAND FOUR CADILLAC DEVILLE SEDAN, BUT THE COUPLE NEVER RETURNED. THE WOMAN, WHO ASKED TO TEST DRIVE THE VEHICLE, WAS IDENTIFIED BY HER LICENSE AS SIXTY-YEAR-OLD RHONDA HOLLOWAY BROUSSARD OF ELTON AND THE MAN’S IDENTITY IS NOT KNOWN, THOUGH HE IS WHITE, TALL AND LARGE. ANYONE WHO KNOWS THE WHEREABOUTS OF BROUSSARD IS ASKED TO CALL SEVEN-EIGHT-NINE-TIPS.
THE HOLIDAY SEASON IS QUICKLY APPROACHING AND, FOR SOME, THAT COULD MEAN SEARCHING FOR WHERE A HOLIDAY MEAL WILL COME FROM. CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS MORE.
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THE TWO PEOPLE WOUNDED IN A SHOOTING IN VILLE PLATTE SUNDAY ARE STILL RECOVERING IN LOCAL HOSPITALS. POLICE ARE CONTINUING TO INVESTIGATE THE SHOOTING THAT IS BELIEVED TO HAVE RESULTED FROM AN ONGOING CONFLICT BETWEEN THE TWO, AND CHARGES ARE STILL PENDING. TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD KELIEN SEMIEN WAS SHOT SEVEN TIMES AND IS IN STABLE CONDITION AT LAFAYETTE GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER. THE OTHER PARTY, A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY, WAS SHOT NEAR THE ELBOW AND SUFFERED A POSSIBLE BROKEN ARM.
A second set of states has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers. The suit filed in Louisiana on behalf of 12 states was dated Monday. It comes less than a week after another lawsuit challenging the rule was filed in Missouri by a coalition of 10 states. In addition to Louisiana, the latest suit covers Montana, Arizona, Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah and West Virginia.
