11-22-22
LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE SEARCING FOR A MAURICE CARETAKER, WHO ALLEGEDLY STOLE MONEY FROM A CLIENT’S BANK ACCOUNT WHILE HE SLEPT. FIFTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD TELEMACHUS THIBODEAUX SAYS MORE THAN ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS WAS TRANSFERRED FROM HIS BANK TO THE A CASH APP ACCOUNT BELONGING TO XAVIER JENNINGS. THIBODEAUX TELLS KLFY TV THAT’S ALL THE MONEY HE HAS TO PAY BILLS AND HIS LIGHTS WERE SHUT OFF BY THE UTILITY COMPANY, THOUGH HE WAS ABLE TO GET THEM TURNED BACK ON. JENNINGS IS WANTED ON ONE COUNT OF FELONY THEFT.
FORMER STATE SENATOR AND OPELOUSAS ATTORNEY ELBERT GUILLORY WAS ARRESTED FRIDAY NIGHT ON SUSPICION OF DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED. STATE POLICE PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER TROOPER THOMAS GOSSEN SAYS GUILLORY RAN A STOP SIGN AT MCCARTHY ROAD AND L-A THREE-FIFTY-SEVEN AND CRASHED INTO ANOTHER VEHICLE. NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED AND, AFTER EXCHANGING INFORMATION WITH THE OTHER DRIVER, GUILLORY LEFT THE AREA BUT WAS LATER PULLED OVER BY SAINT LANDRY PARISH DEPUTIES, WHO REQUESTED A FIELD SOBRIETY TEST. GOSSEN SAYS, AFTER GUILLORY REFUSED THE TEST, HE WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY FOR FIRST OFFENSE D-W-I, FAILURE TO YIELD AND NO INSURANCE.
A LAKE CHARLES WOMAN REPORTED MISSING WAS FOUND DEAD IN HER VEHICLE, WHICH WAS FOUND SUBMERGED IN BAYOU D’INDE MONDAY AFTERNOON. POLICE SAY FOUL PLAY IS NOT SUSPECTED. THE CORONER’S OFFICE WILL DETERMINE THE CAUSE OF DEATH. THIRTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD STEPHANY FONG WAS REPORTED MISSING ON SATURDAY AND WAS LAST SEEN AT FIVE A-M THAT MORNING DRIVING IN SULPHUR.
EVERYONE IN LOUISIANA IS ONE STEP CLOSER TO HAVING RELIABLE INTERNET. SYLVIA MASTERS EXPLAINS.
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LOUISIANA IS ONE OF THIRTEEN STATES THAT HAVE BEEN DESIGNATED AS HIGH FOR FLU ACTIVITY. DOCTOR KATHERINE BAUMGARTEN, OCHSNER HEALTH’S MEDICAL DIRECTOR FOR INFECTION CONTROL AND PREVENTION, SAYS, WITH THE GATHERINGS OVER THE HOLIDAYS, WE WILL LIKELY SEE A RISE IN VIRAL ILLNESSES CIRCULATING. THE ACADIANA REGION HAS THE MOST FLU CASES IN LOUISIANA, RANKING AT TWELVE ON A THIRTEEN POINT SCALE THAT THE C-D-C USES TO TRACK FLU ACTIVITY. IN THE PAST SEVEN DAYS, OCHSNER LAFAYETTE GENERAL HAS TESTED NINE HUNDRED PEOPLE WITH FLU-LIKE SYMPTOMS, AND ABOUT ONE IN THREE TESTED POSITIVE.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS HAVE BEEN SET FOR CHURCH POINT OFFICER HOLDEN HARE. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS THE DETAILS.
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TWO NEW CANDIDATES HAVE ENTERED THE RACE TO REPLACE VELMA HENDRIX AS MAYOR OF MELVILLE. HENDRIX DIED ON ELECTION DAY IN A TWO VEHICLE CRASH, WHICH TRIGGERED A REOPENING OF ELECTION QUALIFYING. THE TWO NEW CANDIDATES, REPUBLICANS ROBERT BARNETT AND MELISSA MONTGOMERY, WILL BE JOINED ON THE BALLOT BY PREVIOUS CANDIDATES SHEILA “SAM” LONDERNO AND CARETTA ROBERTSON. ELECTION DAY IS DECEMBER TENTH WITH EARLY VOTING BEGINNING THIS SATURDAY AND LASTING UNTIL DECEMBER THIRD, EXCLUDING SUNDAY.
AN IOTA FAMILY LOST EVERYTHING IN A HOUSE FIRE LAST FRIDAY, INCLUDING TWO DOGS. LISA GAMMONS SAYS HER HUSBAND AND HER GRANDCHILD, THE ONLY ONES AT THE HOUSE ON RIVERSIDE ROAD AT THE TIME, MADE IT OUT BUT HER TWO-YEAR-OLD GRANDSON WAS AIRLIFTED TO OUR LADY OF LOURDES WOMENS AND CHILDRENS IN LAFAYETTE WITH MINOR BURNS. AN EVANGELINE FIRE FIGHTER ALSO SUFFERED MINOR INJURIES. GAMMONS TELLS KPLC TV SHE’S LEANING ON THE COMMUNITY FOR THEIR OUTPOURING OF SUPPORT, WHICH, SHE SAYS, HAS BEEN UNREAL. THE STATE FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE IS INVESTIGATING THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE.
