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A CARENCRO MAN WAS SHOT AND KILLED WHILE TRAVELING ON I-TEN EASTBOUND IN BATON ROUGE AT AROUND FOUR A-M YESTERDAY. POLICE SPOKESMAN SGT. DON COPPOLA JUNIOR SAYS 22-YEAR-OLD KETRON MCDONALD WAS SHOT BY SOMEONE IN A PASSING VEHICLE, AND THEN HIS VEHICLE WAS HIT BY ANOTHER VEHICLE. MCDONALD DIED AT THE SCENE. POLICE DO NOT HAVE A MOTIVE IN THE SHOOTING AND THEY HAVE NOT IDENTIFIED ANY SUSPECTS.
LAW ENFORCEMENT IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA IS WARNING PEOPLE TO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR COUNTERFEIT MONEY. SGT NICHOLAS JOHNSON WITH THE SULPHUR POLICE DEPARTMENT SAYS TO CONTACT POLICE IF YOU RECEIVE A COUNTERFEIT BILL AND, IF THE PERSON PASSING IT IS STILL THERE, TRY TO STALL THEM UNTIL POLICE ARRIVE. A PERSON CAUGHT INTENTIONALLY USING COUNTERFEIT MONEY COULD FACE UP TO TEN YEARS IN JAIL AND A MILLION DOLLAR FINE. JOHNSON SAYS ITS POSSIBLE THEY COULD SEE AN INFLUX OF THE BILLS WITH THE HOLIDAYS AROUND THE CORNER.
A KROTZ SPRINGS MAN WAS KILLED SUNDAY AFTERNOON AFTER A CRASH THAT HAPPENED ON HIGHWAY 104 JUST NORTH OF HIGHWAY 190. JEFF HORCHAK REPORTS.
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LOUISIANA WAS ONE OF 27 STATES WHERE EARLY VOTING THIS YEAR EXCEEDED EARLY VOTING IN 2014, THE LAST MID-TERM ELECTION. IT WAS UP 127 PERCENT OVER 2014, WITH 309 THOUSAND BALLOTS CAST. MORE THAN 142 THOUSAND DEMOCRATS VOTED COMPARED TO NEARLY 120 THOUSAND REPUBLICANS. IN LAFAYETTE PARISH, CLERK OF COURT LOUIS PERRET SAYS THERE WERE 3,555 MORE VOTES THIS MIDTERM ELECTION THAN THE LAST ONE, WITH 48 PERCENT FROM REPUBLICANS AND 35 PERCENT DEMOCRAT.
The only statewide position up for grabs on Louisiana’s ballot Tuesday stems from scandal: a special election for secretary of state caused by sexual harassment allegations. Although the opening of the seat was high-profile, candidates to be the state’s next elections chief have struggled to draw interest from voters or donors.
Beyond filling that elections job, Louisiana voters will decide whether to return six U.S. House incumbents to Washington for another term and whether to rewrite six provisions in the state constitution. Among the constitutional amendments are proposals that would require unanimous jury verdicts for all felony convictions in Louisiana and would make convicted felons in Louisiana wait five years after serving their sentences before they can run for office.
A VIGIL WAS HELD YESTERDAY AFTERNOON FOR ROBERT FELIX, WHO WAS GUNNED DOWN IN FRONT OF HIS HOME IN SCOTT THURSDAY. FELIX WAS SHOT AND KILLED WHILE HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER WERE IN THE HOME. THOSE AT THE VIGIL PRAYED FOR AN END TO GUN VIOLENCE AND THAT POLICE WOULD FIND THE GUNMAN. NO ARRESTS HAVE YET BEEN MADE.
THERE WAS AN ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING LAST FRIDAY IN TOPSY. THE JEFF DAVIS PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS A PERSON SUFFERED SERIOUS INJURIES AND WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL. CHIEF DEPUTY CHRIS IVEY SAYS THE CALLER SAID IT WAS AN ACCIDENTAL DISCHARGE OF A SHOTGUN. THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS INVESTIGATING.
Louisiana’s first black female physician is being honored. Officials unveiled a historical marker in downtown New Iberia Saturday to memorialize Dr. Emma Wakefield-Paillet. The New Iberia native graduated from medical school with honors in 1879. Phebe Hayes of the Iberia African-American Historical Society tells KLFY-TV that Wakefield-Paillet passed her medical board exam while being the only female applicant in a room with 67 other applicants.
