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11-17-22

A TRAIN SLAMMED INTO A CAR ON RAILROAD TRACKS IN OPELOUSAS LAST NIGHT.  POLICE CHIEF MARTIN MCCLENDON SAYS THE CAR WAS STALLED ON THE TRACKS AT RAYMOND STREET AND THE DRIVER COULDN’T GET THE CAR INTO GEAR.  HE SAYS THE DRIVER AND PASSENGERS ESCAPED BEFORE THE COLLISION.  IT WAS A UNION PACIFIC TRAIN THAT HIT THE CAR.

 

A GO FUND ME ACCOUNT HAS BEEN STARTED FOR AN ELDERLY LAFAYETTE WOMAN WHO LOST HER HOMES AND HER CATS DUE TO A FIRE AT AROUND SEVEN TUESDAY MORNING.  ANNE COOKE SAYS THE ONLY THING SHE HAS LEFT IS THE NIGHTGOWN SHE WAS WEARING WHEN SHE ESCAPED THE HOME.  COOKE SAYS SHE WAS WATCHING TV WHEN SHE SAW THE FIRE CREEPING UP THE WALL OF HER HOME, WHICH IS LOCATED ON NORTH PIERCE STREET.  FIRE OFFICIALS HAVE RULED THE FIRE ACCIDENTAL AND ATTRIBUTED IT TO AN ELECTRIC OUTLET MALFUNCTION.

 

A LAKE CHARLES MAN WAS SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON YESTERDAY FOR KILLING HIS WIFE IN TWENTY-NINETEEN.  HAROLD CAMPBELL SHOT HIS WIFE SEVEN TIMES, BUT HIS DEFENSE ARGUED HE THOUGHT HE WAS SHOOTING AT AN INTRUDER.  POLICE VIDEO SHOWED CAMPBELL TELLING AN OFFICER, HE COULDN’T TAKE IT ANYMORE, AND LATER SAYING HE SHOULD HAVE JUST LEFT AND MOVED.  CAMPBELL IS PLANNING TO APPEAL.

 

A 1.8-point increase in the overall performance score for Louisiana public schools brings that score up to pre-pandemic levels. Figures released Wednesday by the state Department of Education put the state performance score at 77.1 for this year — the same as it was before COVID-19 measures and multiple hurricanes rattled school systems. The state says 48 of 63 school systems improved from 2021 to 2022. Thirty have improved compared with 2019.

 

VERMILLION PARISH SCHOOLS DROPPED FROM AN A IN TWENTY-NINETEEN TO A “B” GRADE.  LAFAYETTE, ACADIA, IBERIA, JEFF DAVIS AND SAINT MARY PARISHES ALL SCORED A “B” AS WELL.  SAINT MARTIN, SAINT LANDRY AND EVANGELINE PARISH SCHOOL DISTRICTS GOT A “C” GRADE.  THE EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY IN LAFAYETTE FINISHED AMONG THE TOP TEN SCHOOLS WITH THE HIGHEST OVERALL PERFORMANCE SCORES.

 

THE LOUISIANA CRAFTS GUILD WILL BE ABLE TO STAY AT THE SAN SOUCI BUILDING IN DOWNTOWN LAFAYETTE THROUGH JANUARY FIFTH.  THE NONPROFIT GUILD IS MADE UP OF ONE HUNDRED ARTISTS WHO HAVE BEEN SELLING THEIR CREATIONS OUT OF THE BUILDING SINCE TWO THOUSAND ONE.  IN OCTOBER, KEVIN BLANCHARD OF THE LAFAYETTE PUBLIC TRUST FINANCING AUTHORITY ANNOUNCED THE GUILD WOULD HAVE TO VACATE THE BUILDING BECAUSE OF NEEDED REPAIRS.  HE SAYS HE HAD OFFERED ALL ALONG TO LET THE GUILD STAY THROUGH THE HOLIDAYS AS LONG AS THE CONTRACTOR COULD BEGIN REPAIRS, WHICH WOULD BE MOSTLY ON THE OUTSIDE.

 

FLU CASES IN LOUISIANA HAVE REACHED THEIR HIGHEST LEVEL IN FIVE YEARS.  THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH IS URGING ALL RESIDENTS SIX MONTHS OR OLDER TO GET THE FLU VACCINE.  THE DEPARTMENT SAYS THE FLU SEASON BEGINS IN EARNEST IN OCTOBER.  IT PEAKS BETWEEN THE HOLIDAYS AND MARDI GRAS.

 

ACADIA PARISH AUTHORITIES NEED HELP FINDING THE SUSPECTS RESPONSIBLE FOR STEALING OVER SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH OF FIREARMS.  DANIELLE JOHNSON REPORTS.

 

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