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TWENTY ONE YEAR OLD JONATHAN LAMBERTH HAS NOW BEEN CHARGED WITH SECOND DEGREE MURDER AFTER TWENTY TWO YEAR OLD COREY SHANE WIX DIED YESTERDAY MORNING AT RAPIDES GENERAL IN ALEXANDRIA. SULPHUR POLICE FOUND WIX WITH A SINGLE STAB WOUND TO THE CHEST MONDAY MORNING WHEN THEY ARRIVED AT THE TWO CHILDHOOD FRIENDS APPARTMENT ON CENTER AVENUE. WIX WAS FIRST TAKEN TO LAKE CHARLES MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, BUT LATER TRANSFERRED TO RAPIDES GENERAL. LAMBERTH IS CURRENTLY BEING HELD AT THE SULPHUR CITY JAIL.
THERE WAS A DEADLY ACCIDENT ON HWY 171 IN MOSS BLUFF NEAR YOU WINN ROAD. STATE POLICE REPORTED THAT A NORTHBOUND TRUCK WAS TURNING NEAR PARADISE FROZEN DAIQUIRIS, WHEN IT WAS BROADSIDED BY A TRUCK HEADED SOUTHBOUND ON HWY 171. THE DRIVER OF THE TRUCK THAT WAS HIT IS IN SERIOUS CONDITION AT AN AREA HOSPITIAL AND THE PASSENGER DIED. THE DRIVER OF THE SOUTHBOUND TRUCK HAD MODERATE INJURIES.
RESULTS FROM AN AUDIT SHOWS STUDENTS FROM SOUTH LOUISIANA COMMUNITY COLLEGE OWE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, JULIE DARCY HAS THE STORY.
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18 YEAR OLD JOHNATHON DUPLANTIS OF CROWLEY IS IN JAIL FOR ALLEGEDLY STABBING SOMEONE AT ACADIA GENERAL HOSPITAL ON DECEMBER 27TH. THE VICTIM WAS TREATED FOR HIS INJURIES AND RELEASED LATER THAT EVENING. DUPLANTIS IS CHARGED WITH AGGRAVATED SECOND DEGREE BATTERY AND IS IN THE ACADIA PARISH JAIL.
(AP) The 2015 Louisiana Tax Amnesty Program ends tomorrow. The program is the third and final effort permitted by the Louisiana Tax Delinquency Amnesty Act of 2013. After the conclusion of the 2015 amnesty period, there will be no new amnesty program offered by the Department of Revenue until at least 2025. During the amnesty period, Secretary of Revenue Tim Barfield said in a news release individual and business taxpayers are offered a fresh start to bring their delinquent tax accounts up to date by clearing unpaid tax bills and filing overdue state tax returns.
(AP) First-time claims for unemployment insurance in Louisiana for the week ending Dec. 19 increased from the previous week’s total. The state labor department figures released Monday show the initial claims increased to 2,675 from the previous week’s total of 2,443. For the comparable week a year earlier, there were 2,531. The four-week moving average, which is a less volatile measure of claims, increased to 2,522 from the previous week’s total of 2,454. Continued unemployment claims claimed for the week ending Dec. 19 increased to 21,789 compared to 21,530 the previous week. The four-week moving average for such claims increased to 21,991 from the previous week’s average of 21,944.
(AP) The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says one of its biologists has documented a desert bird on a wooded roadside in southwest Louisiana. Spokesman Trey Iles says in a news release that if the Louisiana Bird Records Committee verifies the photograph, the Dec. 18 sighting will be logged as Louisiana’s first for the desert cardinal, or pyrrhuloxia (pir-uh-LOK-see-uh). It’s a gray-and-red relative of the bright red eastern cardinal. The species is common in the deserts of the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, but rare east of Texas. Iles says Dan O’Malley of the Louisiana Natural Heritage Program spotted the bird during the Lacassine-Thornwell Christmas Bird Count. O’Malley played a recording of the bird’s call to attract it for a photo.
