11-4-22
MOUNT PLEASANT BAPTIST CHURCH IN OPELOUSAS WILL HOLD ITS FIRST SERVICE IN ITS NEW BUILDING THIS SUNDAY AT TWO P-M. MOUNT PLEASANT WAS ONE OF THREE BLACK CHURCHES THAT WERE SET ON FIRE IN TWENTY-NINETEEN BY AN ARSONIST. THE PASTOR, REVEREND GERALD TOUSSAINT, TOLD KLFY TV THAT THEY HAD RECEIVED DONATIONS FROM FIFTY STATES AND TWENTY COUNTRIES, AND THEY NOW HAVE AN EVEN NICER BUILDING. HE POINTED TO THE SCRIPTURE, “NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST US WILL PROSPER BECAUSE WE ARE MORE THAN CONQUERERS”, AND HE SAYS THEY’LL FEEL LIKE CONQUERORS THIS SUNDAY.
AUTHORITIES SAY A LAFAYETTE MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT WAS ARRESTED THURSDAY FOR MAKING VERBAL THREATS TO BOMB THE SCHOOL. DANIELLE JOHNSON REPORTS.
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JEFF DAVIS PARISH AUTHORITIES HAVE ARRESTED A STUDENT THEY BELIEVE WROTE A THREATENING NOTE. THE NOTE WAS FOUND BY JENNINGS HIGH SCHOOL FACULTY ON THE MORNING OF OCTOBER TENTH. A STUDENT WAS IDENTIFIED AS THE ONE WHO WROTE THE NOTE THREATENING TO SHOOT UP THE SCHOOL. THE STUDENT, WHO WAS CHARGED WITH TERRORIZING, HAS BEEN RELEASED TO A GUARDIAN.
LOUISIANA’S CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION IS RUNNING OUT OF PATIENCE WITH THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY. THEY HAVE BEEN SEEKING AN EXPLANATION FOR WHAT WENT INTO CALCULATING NEW RATES THAT HAVE LED TO STARTLING INCREASES IN THE COST OF FLOOD INSURANCE FOR THOUSANDS OF SOUTH LOUISIANA HOMEOWNERS. IN A LETTER TO THE FEMA ADMINISTRATOR, SENATOR BILL CASSIDY SAID HE SOUGHT A MEETING WITH HER LAST OCTOBER AND HAS STILL BEEN WAITING FOR AN ANSWER. OTHER MEMBERS OF THE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION TELL THE ADVOCATE THEY HAVE HAD THEIR OWN FRUSTRATIONS IN GETTING ANSWERS FOR THEIR CONSTITUENTS.
A RAYNE MAN, WHO ADMITTED TO BUYING METHAMPHETAMINE IN ORDER TO SELL IT LATER, WAS SENTENCED TO EIGHTEEN YEARS AND FOUR MONTHS IN PRISON YESTERDAY. THIRTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD JOSHUA CADE LABIT WAS A PASSENGER IN A CAR THAT WAS PULLED OVER IN CROWLEY IN MARCH OF LAST YEAR. HE AND THE DRIVER, WILLIAM TARLETON, WERE ARRESTED AFTER POLICE FOUND A STASH OF METH AND OTHER DRUGS IN THE VEHICLE. LABIT PLED GUILTY IN JANUARY TO A CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY TO DISTRIBUTE AND POSSESS WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE METHAMPHETAMINE.
LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR A MISSING LAFAYETTE WOMAN. CHRISTINA GONZALEZ HAS BEEN MISSING SINCE FOUR-THIRTY MONDAY AFTERNOON. SHE WAS LAST SEEN NEAR THE DOWNTOWN BUS STATION. IF YOU SEE HER, YOU’RE ASKED TO CALL CRIME STOPPERS AT TWO-THREE-TWO-TIPS.
AN EFFORT IS UNDERWAY BY A NUMBER OF DEMOCRATS TO GET TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY SHAWN WILSON TO RUN FOR LOUISIANA GOVERNOR NEXT YEAR. WILSON BROUGHT UP THE POSSIBILITY ON A TALK RADIO SHOW IN BATON ROUGE TWO WEEKS AGO AND HE TELLS THE ADVOCATE HE’S SINCE RECEIVED A SLEW OF CALLS FROM PEOPLE WANTING HIM TO BE THE DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE. WILSON SAYS HE’S ALSO CONSIDERED RUNNING FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. WILSON HAS ONLY RUN FOR PUBLIC OFFICE ONCE, IN TWO THOUSAND EIGHT FOR THE LAFAYETTE CITY PARISH COUNCIL, IN WHICH HE LOST.
AN ATTORNEY REPRESENTING THE SAINT MARTIN PARISH SCHOOL BOARD SPOKE TO SOME PARENTS AT PARKS MIDDLE SCHOOL ABOUT THE DESEGREGATION CASE FOR THE PARISH THAT GOES BACK TO NINETEEN-SIXTY-FIVE. ATTORNEY MORGAN BRUNGARD PROPOSED AN INITIATIVE CALLED MAJORITY TO MINORITY. AS PROPOSED, STUDENTS THAT ARE IN THE MAJORITY RACE AT A SCHOOL COULD TRANSFER TO ANOTHER SCHOOL WHERE THEY WOULD BE THE MINORITY RACE. HE SAYS FEDERAL COURT OFFICIALS ARE CONSIDERING FLEXIBLE ATTENDANCE ZONES FOR STUDENTS.
