11-3-22
OPELOUSAS POLICE SAY A FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD SHOT ON NORTH MAIN STREET HAS DIED. DANIELLE JOHNSON REPORTS.
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A WORKER AT THE LAFAYETTE CREMATORY HAS BEEN FIRED AFTER INFORMATION ABOUT A CREMATION WAS SHARED ON SOCIAL MEDIA. THE HUSBAND OF THE WORKER LET PEOPLE ON SOCIAL MEDIA KNOW THAT HIS WIFE WAS DOING THE CREMATION OF TWENTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD TYLER NICOLE GIRARD, WHO WAS KILLED IN A CAR CRASH ON OCTOBER TWENTY-FOURTH. GIRARD’S FAMILY SAW THE POST AND COMPLAINED TO THE LOUISIANA STATE BOARD OF EMBALMERS AND FUNERAL DIRECTORS, WHICH LED TO THE EMPLOYEE’S TERMINATION. GIRARD’S FATHER, DOUG GIRARD, TELLS KLFY TV THAT HE “HOPES THIS WOULD REALLY NEVER HAPPEN TO ANYBODY ELSE.”
REQUESTS FOR ABORTION PILLS SHIPPED TO LOUISIANA RESIDENTS FROM OVERSEAS HAS SURGED BY ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY PERCENT SINCE THE STATE’S ABORTION BAN BEGAN. A NEW ANALYSIS PUBLISHED BY JAMA ON MONDAY SHOWS THE REQUESTS FOR ABORTION PILLS WENT FROM FIFTY-ONE REQUESTED PILLS PER WEEK TO ABOUT ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-SIX PER WEEK AFTER THE SUPREME COURT OVERTURNED ROE-V-WADE IN JUNE. LOUISIANA LEADS EVERY OTHER STATE IN THE NUMBER OF ABORTION PILLS REQUESTED. ONE OF THE AUTHOR’S OF THE ANALYSIS SAYS LOUISIANA LEADS IN THIS CATERGORY PROBABLY BECAUSE THE STATE IS SURROUNDED BY OTHER STATE’S WITH NEAR TOTAL ABORTION BANS.
EXPERTS AND LOCAL LEADERS SAID SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA IS POISED TO STRENGTHEN ITS POSITION AS ONE OF THE WORLD’S MAJOR EXPORTERS OF LIQUIFIED NATURAL GAS IN THE MONTHS AND YEARS AHEAD. THEY SPOKE AT A CONFERENCE BEING HELD AT THE GOLDEN NUGGET IN LAKE CHARLES YESTERDAY. MEANWHILE, LOCAL FISHERMEN AND OTHERS PROTESTED THE EXPANSION OF L-N-G IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA OVER CONCERNS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT. THE PROTEST HAD LITTLE EFFECT ON THOSE ATTENDING THE CONFERENCE WITH ONE SPEAKER FROM AN L-N-G BROKERAGE AND CONSULTING FIRM CALLING THE PROTEST “LUNCH ENTERTAINMENT.”
THE ANNUAL DRAWDOWN OF THE ATCHAFALAYA BASIN ENDED ON TUESDAY. WATER LEVELS AT HENDERSON LAKE SHOULD SOON RISE. HENDERSON MAYOR SHERBIN COLLETTE TELLS KATC TV THE DRYNESS OF THE LAKE IS INTENTIONAL TO EXPOSE HYDRILLA DURING THE PERIOD WHEN IT REGERMINATES. KATRINA COLLETTE OF MAGEE’S LOUISIANA SWAMP AND AIRBOAT TOURS TELLS THE ADVOCATE SCOUTS FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY WHO CANOED THROUGH THE SWAMP HAD TO REROUTE IN JUNE BECAUSE HYDRILLA AND WATER HYACINTH BLOCKED THEIR PATHS.
A SCHOOL BUS CRASH HAPPENED AFTER FIVE P-M YESTERDAY. THE BUS STRUCK A UTILITY POLE AT ERASTE LANDRY AND WESTGATE ROAD AND THEN WENT INTO A DITCH. THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM SAYS THERE WERE NO STUDENTS ON THE BUS AND THE DRIVER APPEARED TO SUSTAIN NO INJURIES. WESTGATE ROAD WAS CLOSED FOR SOME TIME AFTER THE CRASH.
With midterm elections less than a week away, a Louisiana congressional candidate is touting the endorsement of former President Donald Trump. Incumbent U.S. Rep Clay Higgins released an audio recording of Trump urging residents in southwest Louisiana to vote for the Republican. Higgins has long said he has the support of Trump, but the recording published on Facebook Tuesday is the first time the former president has publicly given Higgins a verbal endorsement for reelection. Higgins is facing seven challengers, including political newcomer Holden Hoggatt.
CROWLEY POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR A MAN WHO IS WANTED FOR IDENTITY THEFT. ON OCTOBER TWENTY-FIRST, THE MAN USED SOMEONE ELSE’S BANK CARD TO MAKE PURCHASES AT LOWE’S STORES IN CROWLEY, LAFAYETTE AND OPELOUSAS. VIDEO SURVEILLANCE CAPTURED IMAGES OF THE MAN WHO IS WHITE WITH A SLIM BUILD AND WHO WAS WEARING A FACE MASK, A TAN BASEBALL CAP AND AN M-M-A ELITE T-SHIRT. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON THIS MAN IS ASKED TO CALL SEVEN-EIGHT-NINE-TIPS, AND, IF THE INFORMATION LEADS TO AN ARREST, YOU COULD RECEIVE UP TO A THOUSAND DOLLAR CASH REWARD.
