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A VERMILLION PARISH SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER WAS KILLED IN A TWO VEHICLE CRASH ON HIGHWAY FOURTEEN FRIDAY NIGHT. KRISTY HEBERT WAS A PASSENGER IN THE VEHICLE WHEN THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED AND THE DRIVER, ASHLEE VINCENT BROUSSARD, WAS ARRESTED AFTER SUBMITTING A BREATHALYZER TEST THAT FOUND HER TO BE ABOVE THE LEGAL LIMIT OF INTOXICATION. HEBERT, WHO TAUGHT AT JEFFERSON ISLAND ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN NEW IBERIA, WAS ALSO THE DAUGHTER OF KAPLAN MAYOR MIKE KLOESEL. A CANDLELIGHT VIGIL IS PLANNED FOR TONIGHT AT EIGHT AT THE ERATH HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL STADIUM.
A MAN WANTED FOR FIRST DEGREE MURDER WAS ARRESTED BY LAFAYETTE POLICE FRIDAY NIGHT. A WARRANT WAS ISSUED FOR THE ARREST OF TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD BRYSON SHAQUILLE GEORGE OF LAFAYETTE. HE IS BELIEVED TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR SHOOTING AND KILLING TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD RASHAWN BROUSSARD ON FITZGERALD STREET IN SEPTEMBER AND THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A SECOND VICTIM. GEORGE TURNED HIMSELF INTO POLICE CUSTODY LATE FRIDAY NIGHT.
VOTERS IN IBERIA PARISH DECIDED THAT THE SQUIRREL RUN LEVEE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICT WOULD BE ALLOWED TO PLACE A THIRTY MILL PROPERTY TAX ON THE DISTRICT TO BE USED FOR DRAINAGE WORK AND HURRICANE PROTECTION. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE ON THIS AND OTHER TAX ELECTIONS THAT TOOK PLACE SATURDAY.
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THERE WERE SEVEN SALES AND PROPERTY TAX RENEWALS ON BALLOTS ACROSS CALCASIEU PARISH. ALL OF THEM PASSED. THE BIGGEST WAS A NINE-POINT-FIVE-TWO MILL PROPERTY TAX FOR THE SCHOOL BOARD. IT RAISES NEARLY TWENTY-FOUR MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR AND IS USED TO MAINTAIN AND OPERATE SCHOOLS IN CALCASIEU PARISH.
DICKIE FREMIN IS THE NEW CITY MARSHAL FOR NEW IBERIA. FREMIN, A REPUBLICAN, DEFEATED DEMOCRAT COREY PORTER WITH FIFTY-FIVE PERCENT OF THE VOTE IN THE RUNOFF ELECTION. FREMIN WILL REPLACE FORMER CITY MARSHAL TONY MIGUES AFTER HE RESIGNED FOLLOWING HIS ARREST EARLIER THIS YEAR ON OBSTRUCTION OF COURT RECORDS CHARGES. FREMIN SAYS HE’S HONORED TO SERVE NEW IBERIA AND READY TO START IMMEDIATELY.
LAST WEEK THE U-L SYSTEM’S BOARD OF SUPERVISORS TOOD A STEP TOWARDS PUTTING A LAB SCHOOL ON THE U-L LAFAYETTE CAMPUS, THE FIRST SINCE THE NINETEEN-SEVENTIES. THE SCHOOL WOULD ENROLL UP TO SIX HUNDRED TWENTY-FOUR STUDENTS BETWEEN KINDERGARTEN AND TWELFTH GRADE.
U-L PRESIDENT JOSEPH SAVOIE ASKED THE BOARD TO INCLUDE FUNDING FOR THE LAB SCHOOL IN THE INSTITUTION’S FIVE YEAR PLAN, AND THE BOARD AGREED TO PUT IT IN THE MIX FOR FUNDING, BUT THAT DOES NOT GUARANTEE IT. THE DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, NATHAN ROBERTS, SAYS THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THE LAB SCHOOL WOULD BE TO TRAIN TEACHERS WHO WILL BE INNOVATIVE AND RELISH THEIR JOBS.
Thanksgiving weekend was Louisiana’s deadliest for traffic crashes in seven years. The state Department of Transportation and Development said Thursday that a total of 15 crashes and 20 fatalities were reported between Nov. 24-29. Roadway fatalities statewide already had exceeded the total for 2020, with 828 deadly traffic accidents last year and 896 so far this year and the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission says the 2020 number of traffic deaths was the highest number since 2008. State transportation secretary Shawn Wilson described it as a “driver problem” throughout the state.
AN EVANGELINE PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTY HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY ASSAULTING HIS GIRLFRIEND. DEPUTY TOMMY GALLOW WAS ARRESTED SATURDAY AT HIS HOME IN OBERLIN. EVANGELINE PARISH SHERIFF CHARLES GUILLORY SAYS THE GIRLFRIEND IS TALKING TO DETECTIVES AND SHE WAS ALLEGEDLY ASSAULTED DURING AN ALTERCATION. GUILLORY SAYS GALLOW, WHO HAS BEEN WITH THE DEPARTMENT FOR FOUR YEARS, WILL BE PUT ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE UNTIL THE INVESTIGATION IS COMPLETED.
