12-3-21
THE DRIVER OF A STOLEN VEHICLE BEING PURSUED BY POLICE CRASHED INTO MULTIPLE PEOPLE ON BERTRAND DRIVE IN LAFAYETTE BEFORE FLIPPING OVER. SEVERAL PEOPLE WERE TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL AFTER THE CRASH, WHICH HAPPENED AT AROUND FIVE YESTERDAY EVENING AT THE INTERSECTION OF BERTRAND AND DEVALCOURT STREET. DUSON POLICE CHIEF KIP JUDICE SAYS HIS OFFICERS SPOTTED THE STOLEN NISSAN ALTIMA ON INTERSTATE TEN AND CHASED AFTER IT WHEN THE DRIVER WOULDN’T STOP. THE LAFAYETTE POLICE DEPARTMENT IS INVESTIGATING THE CRASH.
ONE PERSON WAS KILLED IN A HEAD-ON COLLISION IN SAINT LANDRY PARISH YESTERDAY MORNING SHORTLY AFTER EIGHT. STATE POLICE SAY RACHEL GREMILLION WAS TRAVELING SOUTH ON HIGHWAY ONE-SEVENTY-ONE WHEN SHE CROSSED INTO THE NORTHBOUND LANE AND STRUCK A TWO THOUSAND EIGHT CHEVY COBALT DRIVEN BY SIXTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD DEBRA WUNSTEL OF ALEXANDRIA. BOTH WERE TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL BUT WUNSTEL DIED FROM HER INJURIES. THE CRASH REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION AND CHARGES ARE PENDING.
ANOTHER DREDGING PROJECT HAS BEGUN IN CAMERON PARISH THAT IS EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED SOMETIME IN JANUARY. NEARLY TWO MILLION CUBIC YARDS OF SEDIMENT WILL BE PUMPED FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO AND USED TO CREATE NEARLY THREE HUNDRED ACRES OF MARSH NORTH OF HOLLY BEACH. THE THIRTY-TWO MILLION DOLLAR PROJECT IS FUNDED BY THE COASTAL WETLANDS PLANNING, PROTECTION AND RESTORATION ACT. CHIP KLINE, CHAIRMAN OF THE LOUISIANA COASTAL PROTECTION AND RESTORATION AUTHORITY, SAYS THE CAMERON MEADOWS PROJECT WILL STRENGTHEN THE NATURAL BUFFER THAT PROTECTS SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FROM STORM SURGES.
Louisiana will receive $101 million in federal funds during the current budget year to make drinking water system improvements around the state. U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy announced the amount Thursday. The dollars come from the more than $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package passed by Congress earlier this year that the Republican Cassidy helped to negotiate. Cassidy says Louisiana can expect to get similar amounts of federal money for water system improvements for four years under the infrastructure package.
A JUVENILE IS IN STABLE CONDITION AT THE HOSPITAL AFTER HE ACCIDENTALLY SHOT HIMSELF IN THE ACADIANA MALL PARKING LOT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. WHEN OFFICERS ARRIVED, THEY FOUND THE JUVENILE WITH THE GUNSHOT WOUND IN THE PARKING LOT NEAR THE FOOD COURT. THEY SAY HE WAS SHOT IN THE LOWER EXTREMITY. THREE JUVENILES WERE IN AND AROUND A VEHICLE AND ONE OF THEM WAS HANDLING A GUN WHEN IT DISCHARGED.
IN VERMILLION PARISH, FOUR ACADIANA MEN FACE POSSIBLE FINES AFTER WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES AGENTS CITED THEM FOR ILLEGAL FISHING PRACTICES. CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS MORE.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency says Louisiana residents and businesses have received $2.5 billion in federal aid related to Hurricane Ida. A news release says that includes $1.1 billion in low-interest loans from the Small Business Administration. FEMA says renters and homeowners have received $580 million in housing assistance, and the National Flood Insurance Program has paid $513 million in claims. Ida was the fifth-strongest hurricane ever to hit the U.S. when it made landfall Aug. 29 near Port Fourchon.
A SECOND ARREST HAS BEEN MADE IN CONNECTION WITH A SEPTEMBER SHOOTING THAT LEFT ONE PERSON INJURED. THERE WAS AN EXCHANGE OF GUNFIRE SHORTLY AFTER NINE SEPTEMBER SIXTH NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF PARK AVENUE AND PARK CIRCLE AND ONE FEMALE VICTIM. A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD WAS ARRESTED TWO DAYS LATER ON MULTIPLE CHARGES INCLUDING THREE COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER. YESTERDAY POLICE ARRESTED TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD JAYLEN ALEXANDER OF OPELOUSAS WHILE HE WAS ATTENDING AN UNRELATED COURT HEARING, AND HE FACES SEVERAL CHARGES INCLUDING ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER.
