11-18-25
YESTERDAY THE NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD RELEASED ITS PRELIMINARY REPORT ON A FATAL PLANE CRASH IN LAFAYETTE PARISH. GEORGE FAUST HAS THE DETAILS.
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VOTERS IN CHURCH POINT REJECTED A HALF CENT SALES TAX THAT WAS INTENDED TO FUND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. CHIEF DALE THIBODEAUX TELLS KLFY TV HE IS COMMITTED TO MAINTAINING SAFETY AND SECURITY FOR CHURCH POINT RESIDENTS. HE SAYS THEY TOOK AN OATH TO DO SO AND WILL DO THE BEST WITH THE LIMITED RESOURCES THEY HAVE. HE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THEY MAY HAVE TO DOWNSIZE OR MAKE BUDGET CUTS BUT, WHEN IT COMES TO SAFETY AND SECURITY, THOSE THINGS WILL NOT BE CUT.
THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH HAS BEGUN DISTRIBUTING SNAP BENEFITS WITH ALL ELIGIBLE RECIPIENTS RECEIVING ALL THE BENEFITS THEY ARE ENTITLED TO FOR NOVEMBER. THOSE WHO RECEIVED SIXTY-FIVE PERCENT OF THEIR BENEFITS WILL SEE THE REMAINING THIRTY-FIVE PERCENT ADDED TO THEIR ACCOUNTS. THOSE WHO GOT TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT BETWEEN NOVEMBER FIRST AND FOURTH, PARTICULARLY THE ELDERLY AND DISABLED, WILL RETAIN THAT ASSISTANCE AND RECEIVE THEIR FULL FEDERAL BENEFITS. RECIPIENTS DO NOT NEED TO TAKE ANY ACTION TO RECEIVE THEIR BENEFITS BUT THEY MUST MEET ALL PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS PROMPTLY TO MAINTAIN THEIR ELIGIBILITY FOR FEDERAL SNAP BENEFITS.
THE BODY OF A DERIDDER MAN WAS FOUND IN BUNDICK LAKE IN BEAUREGARD PARISH SATURDAY AFTERNOON. FIFTY-EIGHTY-YEAR-OLD JOHN LOWE WAS ONE OF FOUR PEOPLE IN A BOAT THAT TOOK ON WATER AND CAPSIZED THAT MORNING AT AROUND THREE A-M. THEY ALL HAD FLOTATION DEVICES BUT LOWE REPORTEDLY TOOK HIS OFF TO REMOVE HIS WADERS AND, WHEN HE WENT IN THE WATER, HE DID NOT RESURFACE. HIS BODY WAS GIVEN TO THE BEAUREGARD PARISH CORONER’S OFFICE TO DETERMINE AN OFFICIAL CAUSE OF DEATH.
SCOTT POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR A MAN WANTED IN CONNECTION WITH AN ARMED ROBBERY. THEY SAY TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD TREVON GILBERT OF LAFAYETTE IS CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON THE LOCATION OF GILBERT IS ASKED TO CALL LAFAYETTE CRIME STOPPERS AT TWO-THREE-TWO-TIPS. ALL CALLERS WILL REMAIN ANONYMOUS.
A TWO-DAY PUBLIC WORKSHOP IN SAINT MARTINVILLE BEGAN YESTERDAY WITH A WALKING TOUR AND CONCLUDES TODAY WITH AN OPEN HOUSE. CITY LEADERS ARE SEEKING INPUT FROM THE PUBLIC ON WAYS TO REJUVENATE THE DOWNTOWN AREA WITH A FOCUS ON GETTING VACANT BUILDINGS REOPENED. THE DIRECTOR OF CULTURE, RECREATION AND TOURISM, DANIELLE FOTENETTE, TELLS KLFY TV THIS IS AN EFFORT TO RESHAPE THE FUTURE OF SAINT MARTINVILLE. FEEDBACK FROM THE WORKSHOP WILL BE USED BY THE CITY AND THE CONSULTING FIRM MAIN TO MAIN TO CREATE A REPORT GUIDING FUTURE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
DUCK HUNTING SEASON BEGAN SATURDAY IN LOUISIANA’S WEST ZONE, WHICH IS EVERYTHING SOUTH OF HIGHWAY NINETY, ACCORDING TO JASON OLSZAK, THE WATERFOWL PROGRAM MANAGER OF THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES. HE SAYS ONE OF THE CHANGES THIS YEAR IS HUNTERS HAVE A DAILY BAG LIMIT OF THREE PINTAILS PER DAY, ONLY ONE OF WHICH CAN BE A HEN. OLSZAK SAYS THE OVERALL DAILY BAG LIMIT IS SIX BUT INDIVUAL SPECIES HAVE THEIR OWN BAG LIMIT. ENFORCEMENT AGENTS WITH THE DEPARTMENT WILL BE ACTIVELY MONITORING HUNTERS WITH A FOCUS ON THE SPECIES-SPECIFIC HARVEST LIMITS.
AN OPELOUSAS MAN WAS FOUND GUILTY OF CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN ON THURSDAY. FIFTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD EMERY SAVOY JUNIOR WAS CONVICTED OF TWO COUNTS OF SEXUAL BATTERY OF A JUVENILE UNDER THE AGE OF THIRTEEN, TWO COUNTS OF INDECENT BEHAVIOR WITH A JUVENILE UNDER THIRTEEN AND ONE COUNT OF SEXUAL BATTERY AND INDECENT BEHAVIOR. HE WAS ARRESTED IN AUGUST OF TWENTY-TWENTY-TWO AFTER A MOTHER REPORTED THAT HER CHILD TOLD HER OF THE ABUSE. SAVOY FACES LIFE IMPRISONMENT AT HARD LABOR WHEN HE’S SENTENCED ON JANUARY TWENTY-NINTH.
