12-11-23
STATE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A FATAL CRASH LAST NIGHT IN VERMILLION PARISH. THE CRASH INVOLVED A BICYCLIST. IT HAPPENED NORTH OF ABBEVILLE ON HIGHWAY EIGHTY-TWO. NO OTHER DETAILS HAVE BEEN RELEASED SO FAR.
A WOMAN WAS SHOT AND KILLED LATE SATURDAY NIGHT IN THE THREE HUNDRED BLOCK OF SAMPSON STREET IN LAFAYETTE. POLICE SAY THIRTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD MICHELLE TOUCHET OF LAFAYETTE WAS WALKING HOME FROM A NEIGHBOR’S HOUSE WHEN SHE WAS APPROACHED BY A PERSON WHO FIRED NUMEROUS SHOTS AT HER. LAFAYETTE POLICE FOUND TOUCHET JUST AFTER ELEVEN SATURDAY NIGHT AND SHE DIED AT THE SCENE. INVESTIGATORS ARE ATTEMPTING TO IDENTIFY A SUSPECT IN THE SHOOTING.
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS GETTING INVOLVED IN THE BATTLE OVER LOUISIANA’S HOUSE AND SENATE LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT MAPS. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS THE DETAILS.
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HOLY GROUND OUTREACH MINISTRY HELD ITS “NO ONE LEFT BEHIND” EVENT SATURDAY IN LAKE CHARLES. FOUNDER DONNA MACKEY TELLS KPLC TV HER PASSION IS GETTING THE HOMELESS OFF THE STREETS, CLEANED UP AND EMPLOYED. SATURDAY’S EVENT WAS FILLED WITH RESOURCES, HAIRCUTS FOR ADULTS AND KIDS, AND A HOME-COOKED MEAL. ONE OF THE ATTENDEES, LAUREN POCHE, SAYS SHE GOT A HOT MEAL, A PAIR OF SHOES, SNACKS, A BOOK SACK AND EVERYTHING WAS A BLESSING.
AN IOTA WOMAN WAS KILLED FRIDAY NIGHT IN A CRASH ON I-TEN. AUTHORITIES SAY FORTY-YEAR-OLD NINA HAYES WAS DRIVING A NISSAN ALTIMA WEST ON I-TEN ABOUT THREE MILES WEST OF L-A NINETY-FIVE, WHEN SHE WENT OFF THE ROAD AND STRUCK A TREE. HAYES WAS BROUGHT TO THE HOSPITAL, WHERE SHE LATER DIED. A TOXICOLOGY SAMPLE WAS TAKEN FROM HAYES AND THE CRASH REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION.
LAFAYETTE POLICE HAVE ARRESTED A MAN WHO ALLEGEDLY EXCHANGED GUNFIRE WITH A POLICE OFFICER SATURDAY AFTERNOON. THIRTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD CHRISTOPHER JAMES LANDRY OF LAFAYETTE FACES SEVERAL CHARGES INCLUDING ATTEMPTED FIRST-DEGREE MURDER OF A POLICE OFFICER. POLICE FOUND LANDRY SATURDAY AFTERNOON INVOLVED IN A DISTURBANCE WITH A WOMAN BUT THE TWO RAN AWAY. WHILE THEY WERE FLEEING, LANDRY ALLEGEDLY EXCHANGED GUNFIRE WITH THE OFFICER.
LOUISIANA WILL GET MORE FEDERAL FUNDING FROM THE AMERICAN INFRASTRUCTURE ACT, TO SUPPORT PASSENGER RAIL SERVICES. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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A FUNERAL SERVICE WILL BE HELD WEDNESDAY FOR DINA BOURQUE, THE IBERIA MIDDLE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL WHO WAS KILLED IN A CAR CRASH THURSDAY WHILE ON THE WAY TO THE SCHOOL. A MASS AND ROSARY WERE HELD FRIDAY WHERE HER HUSBAND AND HER THREE CHILDREN DESCRIBED NINA AS A SUPERWOMAN AND AN ANGEL WITH A BEAUTIFUL SOUL. A MASS WILL BE HELD WEDNESDAY AT TEN AT OUR LADRY OF PROMPT SUCCOR CATHOLIC CHURCH IN NEW IBERIA FOLLOWED BY THE FUNERAL SERVICE. VISITATION WILL BE HELD TOMORROW NIGHT FROM FIVE TO NINE AT PELLERIN FUNERAL HOME IN NEW IBERIA.
