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JEFFERSON DAVIS PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICERS CAUGHT A FUGITIVE FROM TEXAS WANTED FOR HIS INVOLVEMENT INA MURDER. RICHARD VAUGHN CRAIG, 24 OF HUMBLE TEXAS WAS APPREHENDED WITHOUT INCIDENT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF LA 395 & LA 102. HE WAS CARRYING A CONCEALED WEAPON AT THE TIME OF HIS ARREST. INVESTIGATORS FROM HOUSTON HAVE ALREADY COME TO INTERVIEW CRAIG, WHO IS BEING JAILED AT THE JEFF DAVIS JAIL WITH NO BOND.
THE LOUISIANA WORKFORCE COMMISSION ISSUED PRELIMINARY
STATS AND LAKE CHARLES AND BATON ROUGE WERE THE ONLY TWO OF THE STATE’S NINE METRO AREAS TO GAIN JOBS. LAFAYETTE AND HOUMA-
THIBODEAUX RANK NATIONALLY IN THE TOP THREE METROS SUFFERING JOB LOSSES IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS. THOSE AREAS ARE FEELING THE FULL EFFECT OF THE DECLINE IN THE OIL INDUSTRY.
A CLOSING TIME ARMED ROBBERY TOOK PLACE TUESDAY EVENING AT THE
AT&T STORE IN CROWLEY. REPORTLY FOUR MEN , TWO OF WHOM WERE
ARMED WITH HANDGUNS, TOOK NUMEROUS ELECTRONIC DEVICES. WITNESSES SAY THE SUSPECTS LEFT IN A MID SIZED SEDAN WITH A BAD PAINT JOB.
THE STATE HAS BEEN GRANTED A YEAR EXTENSION ON THE NEW MADATES ON DRIVERS LICENSES, JULIE DARCY HAS MORE.
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(AP) A Crowley woman has been identified as the victim of a single-car accident in Lake Charles. The accident happened early Wednesday along University Drive. Lake Charles police were notified and the officers who responded found a car that had hit a tree in the median. Firefighters were called to remove the driver from the car. The driver was pronounced dead at Lake Charles Memorial Hospital. Police later identified her as 27 year old Karen Schexnider of Crowley.
(AP) National Heritage Academies originally planned to open its second charter school in Lafayette Parish for 2015-16. Officials say it remains unclear when the doors will open. The Advocate reports the school was supposed to open in the fall in a new residential-retail development in Broussard. Construction was stalled in the spring because of new state education policies that tie future charter school openings to the past performance of existing sister charter schools. The Louisiana Department of Education released the 2014-15 accountability scores earlier this month that showed low performance scores for NHA schools that opened in August 2014 in Lafayette and Baker. Jennifer Hoff, NHA communications director, said the organization is considering its options.
(AP) Louisiana corrections officials want a federal judge to reduce the nearly $890,000 that a team of lawyers is requesting in a lawsuit over hot conditions on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. The Advocate reports the attorneys for Elzie Ball, Nathaniel Code and James Magee are asking Chief U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson to order the state to pay the attorneys $795,550 in fees and another $92,000-plus in costs. Lawyers for the state claim in court documents that the billing records for the inmates attorneys are “compromised by vague entries, imprecise record-keeping, duplicative work and unreasonable time expended without adequate justification.” The judge has given the inmates’ attorneys until Jan. 13 to respond to the state’s opposition.
