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A SCOTT MAN WAS ARRESTED AFTER HE STOLE A BOX TRUCK BEING UNLOADED AT A GOODWILL WAREHOUSE ON ALFRED STREET AND CRASHED IT INTO AN OUTDOOR KITCHEN WHILE FLEEING FROM POLICE. POLICE SAY FIFTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD GORDON RAE PHILIP ENTERED THE CAB AND DROVE AWAY AND AN EMPLOYEE MANAGED TO ESCAPE FROM THE TRUCK WITHOUT INJURY AS IT LEFT THE PARKING LOT. PHILIP LOST CONTROL OF THE TRUCK ON ERASTE LANDRY, CRASHING THROUGH A FENCE AND HITTING THE OUTDOOR KITCHEN IN THE BACK OF A HOME. A CANINE DEPUTY WITH THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE WAS BROUGHT IN TO HELP DETAIN PHILIP, WHO REFUSED TO COMPLY WITH OFFICERS AFTER THE CRASH.
THE WESTGATE HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAM IS IN NEW ORLEANS TO TAKE ON WARREN EASTON IN THE CLASS FOUR-A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP. UNFORTUNATELY, THE MARCHING BAND FOR THE SCHOOL OUT OF NEW IBERIA WILL NOT BE WITH THEM. THAT’S BECAUSE ONE MEMBER OF THE BAND TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID-NINETEEN AND SEVERAL BAND MEMBERS ARE QUARANTINED AS WELL BECAUSE OF DIRECT CONTACT. ONE BAND MEMBER TELLS KLFY TV HE UNDERSTANDS THE POLICY IN PLACE BUT HOPES THEY CAN FIND A SAFE WAY TO CHEER ON THE TIGERS FOOTBALL TEAM.
U-S SENATOR BILL CASSIDY TOOK TO THE FLOOR OF THE SENATE TO HONOR A FALLEN NAVY SEAL COMMANDER WHO IS A NATIVE OF LAKE CHARLES. FORTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD BRIAN BOURGEOIS WAS KILLED IN A TRAINING ACCIDENT ON SATURDAY. CASSIDY LISTED HIS MANY HONORS AND MEDALS AND SAID BOURGEOIS SERVED HONORABLY, LED HIS MEN BRAVELY AND MADE OUR COUNTRY PROUD. HE ANNOUNCED THAT BEFORE THE ARMY-NAVY GAME ON SATURDAY, THE NAVY FOOTBALL TEAM WILL RUN ONTO THE FIELD CARRYING THE FLAG OF SEAL TEAM EIGHT.
THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH IS REPORTING TWENTY ADDITIONAL CASES OF THE OMICRON VARIANT OF COVID-NINETEEN. THAT BRINGS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF CASES IN THE STATE TO THIRTY-SEVEN, BUT ONLY THREE ARE CONFIRMED. ONE OF THE PROBABLE CASES IS IN ACADIANA. THE FIRST OMICRON CASE IN LOUISIANA WAS REPORTED ON DECEMBER THIRD.
A WOMAN WHO RAN OVER TWO SISTERS IN DOWNTOWN LAFAYETTE IN TWENTY-SEVENTEEN WAS FOUND GUILTY BY A JURY OF ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER AND AGGRAVATED BATTERY. A BYSTANDER RECORDED A CONFRONTATION BETWEEN NATAJA PORTALIS AND THE TWO SISTERS THAT LED TO THE INCIDENT. THE PROSECUTORS SAYS IT WAS OBVIOUS THE SISTERS WERE RUN OVER BY PORTALIS, BUT THE VIDEO AND WITNESS TESTIMONY CONVINCED THE JURY IT WAS INTENTIONAL. PORTALIS FACES UP TO FIFTY YEARS IN PRISON WHEN SHE IS SENTENCED EARLY NEXT YEAR.
A LAFAYETTE WOMAN IS BEHIND BARS ACCUSED OF SHOOTING A WOMAN AND KIDNAPPING A BABY IN BAYOU VISTA. GERALD GRUENIG REPORTS.
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LOUISIANA ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF LANDRY HAS CALLED ON THE L-S-U PRESIDENT TO DO SOMETHING TO PUNISH A PROFESSOR WHO CALLED HIS ASSISTANT A FLUNKY IN A TWEET. THE TWEET BY MASS COMMUNICATIONS PROFESSOR BOB MANN SAID, “LOUISIANA A-G JEFF LANDRY SENDING SOME FLUNKIE TO THE L-S-U FACULTY SENATE MEETING TODAY TO READ A LETTER ATTACKING COVID VACCINES IS QUITE THE MOVE FROM A GUY WHO CONSIDERS HIMSELF PRO-LIFE.” LANDRY SENT OUT A TWEET SAYING THIS TYPE OF DISRESPECT AND DISHONESTY HAS NO PLACE IN SOCIETY, ESPECIALLY AT THE STATE’S FLAGSHIP UNIVERSITY, AND HE HOPES L-S-U TAKES APPROPRIATE ACTION. MANN DISMISSED THE POSSIBLITY OF BEING FIRED AND SAID HE WAS ONCE A FLUNKY HIMSELF FOR SOME FORMER DEMOCRATIC ELECTED OFFICIALS.
A MAN DESCRIBED BY THE ACADIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE AS A HABITUAL NARCOTICS DEALER WAS ARRESTED FOR THE EIGHTEENTH TIME ON DECEMBER THIRD. FORTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD BYRON SCOTT OF CROWLEY WAS ARRESTED AFTER A SEARCH WARRANT WAS EXECUTED AT HIS RESIDENCE, LOCATED IN THE ONE HUNDRED BLOCK OF WEST TENTH STREET. DEPUTIES FOUND NARCOTICS INCLUDING ONE HUNDRED FORTY-ONE GRAMS OF HEROIN WITH A STREET VALUE OF TWENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS, AND NEARLY TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS IN CASH. THE SEARCH WARRANT WAS EXECUTED AFTER AN INVESTIGATION THAT LASTED SEVERAL MONTHS AND INCLUDED THE PURCHASES OF HEROIN.
