KAJN Jesus FM 102.9


12-19-19

ON TUESDAY NIGHT, THE LAFAYETTE CITY PARISH COUNCIL APPROVED FIVE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS WHERE NEW TAXES CAN BE IMPOSED.  THE DISTRICTS WILL COLLECT AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO PERCENT SALES TAX AND ADD TWO PERCENT TO THE HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX.  THOSE MONIES COLLECTED ARE TO BE USED FOR INFRASTRUCTURE AND OTHER DEVELOPMENTS WITHIN THAT DISTRICT.  THE FIVE NEW DISTRICTS THAT WERE APPROVED WERE FOR THE DOWNTOWN AREA, UNIVERSITY AVENUE, THE NORTHGATE MALL AREA, THE FORMER TRAPPEY’S CANNING PLANT AND THE FORMER HOLY ROSARY INSTITUTE.

 

A WESTLAKE MAN FACES NUMEROUS CHARGES INCLUDING FETICIDE AFTER CRASHING INTO A VEHICLE TUESDAY NIGHT.  INVESTIGATORS WITH THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAY 24-YEAR-OLD JOSHUA L ANDERSON RAN A STOP SIGN ON GOSS ROAD IN WESTLAKE AND HIT ANOTHER PICKUP TRUCK, CAUSING BOTH VEHICLES TO FLIP INTO A DITCH.  THE DRIVER AND A PREGNANT PASSENGER IN THE OTHER TRUCK WERE TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AND A TWO-YEAR-OLD IN THAT TRUCK WAS AIRLIFTED TO A HOSPITAL OUT OF TOWN.  DEPUTIES SAW NUMEROUS EMPTY BEER BOTTLES IN ANDERSON’S VEHICLE AND HE SHOWED SIGNS OF IMPAIRMENT, THOUGH HE REFUSED A FIELD SOBRIETY TEST.

 

A MOTHER AND DAUGHTER FROM ABBEVILLE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE AUGUST MURDER OF 21-YEAR-OLD JACOBY LEE.  THE TWO WOMEN, 19-YEAR-OLD JANTAE MARIE KELLY AND 41-YEAR-OLD AMANDA NICOLE RICE, HAVE BEEN CHARGED AS ACCESSORIES FOR HARBORING A KNOWN FUGITIVE.  KELLY HAD A CHILD WITH LEE, ACCORDING TO THE ABBEVILLE POLICE.  LEE WAS SHOT WHILE DRIVING IN ABBEVILLE ON AUGUST 21ST AND STRUCK A LIGHT POLE, WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD.

 

Three states have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block the addition of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Alabama, Louisiana and South Dakota are suing in response to a renewed push to get the required 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. The ERA would ban discrimination on the basis of sex.  The lawsuit notes that Congress set a 1982 deadline to get the required 38 states to agree.

 

SOME UPSET LAFAYETTE RESIDENTS CALLED POLICE AFTER THEY SAW THREE KITTENS FOUND DEAD ON CAMELIA BOULEVARD IN RIVER RANCH.  POLICE RESPONDED OVER CONCERNS THAT THE KITTENS HAD BEEN THROWN FROM A MOVING VEHICLE.  HOWEVER, PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER DORIAN BRABHAM SAYS THEY HAVE NO EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY OR VIDEO EVIDENCE SHOWING THE KITTENS BEING THROWN.  HE SAYS IT’S POSSIBLE THE KITTENS HID BENEATH THE HOOD OF A VEHICLE, WHERE THEY WERE TRYING TO KEEP WARM, AND LATER DIED FROM ENTRAPMENT.

 

A NEW STUDY BY THE BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU HAS FOUND THAT MORE THAN FIVE MILLION PEOPLE HAVE LOST MONEY BECAUSE OF FAKE LISTINGS FOR RENTAL PROPERTIES.  ANGEL GUTH OF THE BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF LAKE CHARLES SAYS THEY’VE HAD ABOUT TWENTY CALLS FROM THE SURROUNDING AREA, BUT IT HAPPENS A LOT MORE.  SHE TELLS KPLC TV THAT THE FRAUDSTER WILL TAKE THE PICTURES AND DESCRIPTION AND THEN COPY IT, PUTTING OUT THEIR OWN INFORMATION RATHER THAN THE CORRECT INFORMATION THAT WAS PROVIDED BY A BROKER OR PROPERTY MANAGER.  HEATHER RICHARD OF BRIKEN AND ASSOCIATES, A LOCAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMPANY, SAYS THEY’VE HAD TO DEAL WITH THE BACKLASH FROM PEOPLE VICTIMIZED BY SCAMMERS WHO RESPONDED TO FAKE LISTINGS POSTED ON CRAIGLIST OR ZILLOW.

 

DETECTIVES WITH THE ACADIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE RELEASED SURVEILLANCE VIDEOS IN HOPES OF CAPTURING THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BURGLARY OF A CHURCH IN THE RICHARD COMMUNITY.  MEGAN KELLY HAS MORE.

 

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Louisiana is joining most other states in creating a panel the Census Bureau recommends will help make sure residents are counted in the 2020 U.S. Census. Gov. John Bel Edwards announced Wednesday that he has set up a “complete count committee.” The committee aims to raise awareness of next year’s census and encourage people to respond to the questionnaires. Census data determines how many members of Congress a state has and is used to divvy up significant sums of federal dollars that flow to states.