11-20-25
SEVERAL HORSES AND THEIR RIDERS ENTERED WALMART IN ABBEVILLE SUNDAY, SURPRISING SHOPPERS. ABBEVILLE POLICE CHIEF MIKE HARDY SAYS THE RIDERS WERE ON A TRAIL RIDE AT THE RED BARN WHEN SIX TO EIGHT OF THTEM DECIDED TO RIDE THEIR HORSES INTO WALMART. WALMART OFFICIALS INDICATED THAT THEY WOULD PURSUE CHARGES AGAINST THOSE INVOLVED. HARDY SAYS THEY ARE IN THE PROCESS OF IDENTIFYING THE RIDERS, WHO WILL BE ARRESTED AND CHARGED, THOUGH THEY ARE NOT SURE YET WHAT CHARGES WILL BE FILED.
A CRASH INVOLVING A SUGARCANE TRUCK CAUSED A CLOSURE ON I-FORTY-NINE NORTHBOUND AT PONT DES MOUTON. THE TRUCK DRIVER TOLD AUTHORITIES THAT THE DRIVER OF A CAR STOPPED SUDDENLY IN FRONT OF HIM, CAUSING HIM TO SLAM ON HIS BRAKES, RESULTING IN THE TRUCK JACKKNIFING AND RUPTURING ITS FUEL TANK. NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED. THE CRASH HAPPENED AT AROUND TWO-THIRTY YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AND THE INTERSTATE WAS REOPENED BY SIX P-M.
THE SECOND-DEGREE MURDER TRIAL OF A FORMER BABYSITTER HAS BEGUN IN LAKE CHARLES. THREE-MONTH-OLD KAIRO ANDERSON DIED FROM A BRAIN BLEED AND MULTIPLE SKULL FRACTURES. THE DAY BEFORE, THE BABY HAD BEEN IN THE CARE OF SHIRLEY SAWYER-JOHNSON, ACCORDING TO KAIRO’S MOTHER. DETECTIVES TESTIFIED THAT SAWYER-JOHNSON ADMITTED TO SMOKING METH ON THE DAY KAIRO WAS INJURED AND HAD LOST CUSTODY OF SIX OF HER CHILDREN IN THE PAST.
LOUISIANA’S INCURABLE S-T-I TASK FORCE HAS BEGUN WORK ON THEIR ANNUAL REPORT, WHICH WILL INCLUDE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR LEGISLATORS IN THEIR NEXT SESSION. RECENT DATA REVEALED LOUISIANA RANKS FIRST IN RATES OF CHLAMYDIA AND SECOND FOR GONORRHEA. THE TASK FORCE WILL COMPILE DATA FROM DIFFERENT STATES AND COMPARE THEIR RESPONSES TO LOUISIANA’S APPROACH. THAT DATA WILL HELP THEM IN CREATING THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS.
A FIFTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD METARIE MAN SHOT AND KILLED HIMSELF WHILE TRAVELING EAST ON I-TEN NEAR CROWLEY MONDAY MORNING. THE OCCUPANTS OF TWO AMBULANCES TRAVELING THE SAME DIRECTION SAW WHAT APPEARED TO BE A MUZZLE FLASH IN THE VEHICLE RIGHT BEFORE IT CRASHED INTO THE GUARD RAILS. NO OTHER VEHICLES WERE INVOLVED IN THE CRASH. THE MAN, WHOSE NAME HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED, WAS DEALING WITH A MENTAL DISORDER AND HAD A RESTRAINING ORDER AGAINST HIM IN WHICH HE WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE ANY FIREARMS.
A MAN WANTED BY SCOTT POLICE FOR AN ARMED ROBBERY HAS BEEN ARRESTED. TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD TREVON GILBERT OF LAFAYETTE WAS BOOKED INTO THE LAFAYETTE PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER. HE HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH ARMED ROBBERY AND RESISTING AN OFFICER. GILBERT’S BOND WAS SET AT ONE HUNDRED ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS.
A MAN WAS ARRESTED IN CONNECTION TO STOLEN LIVESTOCK IN SAINT LANDRY PARISH. GEORGE FAUST HAS MORE.
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THE SEARCH IS STILL ON FOR A WANTED FUGITIVE IN ACADIA PARISH. GEORGE FAUST REPORTS.
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