11-17-23
ABBEVILLE POLICE CHIEF MIKE HARDY IS DEFENDING A FEMALE SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER WHO WAS SEEN ON VIDEO APPEARING TO BE PUTTING A CHOKEHOLD ON ANOTHER WOMAN. JUANE STELLY-JUDD WAS PICKING UP HER DAUGHTER FROM ABBEVILLE HIGH SCHOOL BECAUSE HER DAUGHTER HAD HEARD REPORTS OF A SCHOOL SHOOTING. THE OFFICER ASKED JUANE TO LEAVE THE SCHOOL BECAUSE SHE HAD BEEN PREVIOUSLY BANNED AND THAT’S WHAT LED TO THE ALLEGED CHOKEHOLD. HARDY TELLS KLFY THE OFFICER WAS OUTWEIGHED THREE-TO-ONE. HE DOESN’T THINK THE MOM WAS IN A CHOKEHOLD BUT THE OFFICER WAS HANGING ON FOR DEAR LIFE.
U-L ATHLETICS ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY A SIXTY-FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PROJECT TO RENOVATE THE WEST SIDE OF THE FOOTBALL STADIUM, WHICH WILL BE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT TO THE FACILITY SINCE IT BEGAN IN NINETEEN SEVENTY-ONE. ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS EVAN ROBERTS SAYS THE WEST SIDE’S UPPER DECK AND BOWL WILL BE COMPLETELY REVATILIZED, CREATING A MODERN GAME EXPERIENCE WHILE EMBRACING THE RICH HISTORY OF FESTIVITY WITHIN THE CAJUN CULTURE. THE WEST SIDE WILL HAVE THIRTY-FOUR SUITES, FORTY LOGE BOXES, FIVE HUNDRED TWENTY-FOUR CLUB SEATS, AN INDOOR CLUB AND MORE, WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF MORE THAN THIRTY THOUSAND. THE PROJECT IS SCHEDULED TO BEGIN DECEMBER ELEVENTH AND SHOULD BE COMPLETED BEFORE THE TWENTY-TWENTY-FIVE SEASON.
OCHSNER LAFAYETTE GENERAL HELD AN OPIOD RESPONSE SYMPOSIUM IN JENNINGS YESTERDAY MORNING. IT’S ONE OF MANY OPIOD PREVENTION PROGRAMS THEY PLAN TO HOLD. THEY RECENTLY RECEIVED A ONE MILLION DOLLAR GRANT TO EDUCATE RURAL COMMUNITIES ABOUT OPIOD PREVENTION. KAREN WYBLE WITH OCHSNER LAFAYETTE GENERAL SAYS THE GRANT FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS TO HELP PROVIDE PREVENTATIVE EDUCATION AS WELL AS TREATMENT AND RECOVERY SERVICES FOR FAMILIES DEALING WITH OPIOD ADDICTIONS.
TOMORROW IS ELECTION DAY IN LOUISIANA WITH THREE STATEWIDE RUNOFFS, FOUR CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS TO DECIDE AND VARIOUS LOCAL RACES. THE POLLS WILL OPEN AT SEVEN A-M AND CLOSE AT EIGHT P-M, THOUGH ANYONE ALREADY IN LINE AT EIGHT WILL BE ALLOWED TO VOTE. VOTERS NEED TO BRING I-D WITH THEM IN ORDER TO CAST A BALLOT. TO FIND YOUR POLLING LOCATION, GO ONLINE TO GEAUX VOTE-DOT-COM, WITH GEAUX SPELLED G-E-A-U-X, OR DOWNLOAD THE GEAUX VOTE MOBILE APP.
SIXTEEN PORT BARRE HIGH AND MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS BETWEEN THE AGES OF FOURTEEN AND NINETEEN WERE ARRESTED AFTER A FIGHT BROKE OUT TUESDAY AFTERNOON. AUTHORITIES SAY AN EXPELLED STUDENT DROVE TO THE SCHOOL WITH TWO OTHER STUDENTS AND THEY GOT OUT AND BEGAN FIGHTING OTHER STUDENTS IN THE BUS AREA. AUTHORITIES USED SCHOOL SECURITY FOOTAGE TO IDENTIFY THE STUDENTS INVOLVED IN THE FIGHT. THE EXPELLED STUDENT WAS CHARGED WITH CRIMINAL TRESPASSING AND HE AND THE TWO STUDENTS WITH HIM ARE CHARGED WITH INCITING TO RIOT AND DISTURBING THE PEACE BY FIGHTING.
CHRISTMAS IS HERE AND WITH IT COMES THE CHANCE TO GIVE TO THOSE WHO ARE IN NEED. AS ALWAYS, THE SALVATION ARMY IS ONE OF THOSE OPPORTUNITIES. DANIELLE DUNCAN HAS MORE.
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THE BURN BAN FOR JEFF DAVIS PARISH HAS BEEN LIFTED. FIRE DISTRICT THREE SAID IN A FACEBOOK POST JEFF DAVIS PARISH IS STILL EXPERIENCING EXTREME DROUGHT CONDITIONS. THEY ENCOURAGE EXTREME CAUTION WHEN BURNING INCLUDING HAVING A WATER SOURCE NEARBY. CITIZENS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY FIRES THEY LIGHT, EVEN THOUGH THERE IS NO BURN BAN IN PLACE.
ROAD CREWS BEGAN WORK YESTERDAY TO REPAIR THE EASTBOUND RIGHT LANE OF THE ATCHAFALAYA BASIN BRIDGE NEAR WHISKEY BAY. THE RIGHT LANE WAS INITIALLY CLOSED LAST MONTH AFTER CREWS DISCOVERED EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO THE BRIDGE DECK WHILE THEY WERE DOING REPAIRS. AUTHORITIES SAY THE WORK SHOULD BE COMPLETED BY MONDAY, BEFORE THE THANKSGIVING TRAVEL PERIOD. OVERSIZED LOADS WILL NOT BE PERMITTED THROUGH THE PROJECT AREA UNTIL THE LANE IS REOPENED.
