12-8-15
A Lafayette Parish sheriff’s deputy has been arrested for an alleged home invasion and placed on administrative leave without pay. Capt. John Babin, in a news release, says 28-year-old Deputy Johnathon Lavoi was arrested Saturday and booked into the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center. KLFY-TV reports Lavoi allegedly entered a home without permission and hit someone in the face. Babin says Lavoi will stay on administrative leave pending the completion of the investigation.
THE 110-YEAR-OLD WORLD WAR TWO VETERAN FROM LAKE CHARLES IS HAVING A SPECIAL TIME IN WASHINGTON. FRANK LEVINGSTON HAD A ROLE YESTERDAY IN A PEARL HARBOR REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY, AND HE WAS THE FIRST TO LAY A WREATH IN HONOR OF HIS FALLEN COMRADES. LEVINGSTON ALSO GOT TO VISIT THE WORLD WAR TWO MEMORIAL, WHICH, HE SAYS, WAS A LITTLE OVERWHELMING BECAUSE OF ALL THE MEMORIES. LEVINGSTON WILL NEXT BE TAKEN ON A VISIT TO THE WHITE HOUSE.
KLFY TV IS HOLDING THEIR ANNUAL FOOD NET FOR FAMILIES FOOD DRIVE TODAY. THERE IS A NEED FOR NON-PERISHABLE FOOD ITEMS AS WELL AS PAPER TOWELS AND TOILET ROLLS. YOU CAN DROP OFF ITEMS AT THE CAJUNDOME UNTIL EIGHT P-M TONIGHT OR AT ANY RAISING CANE’S RESTAURANTS. THERE ARE ALSO A NUMBER OF DROP OFF LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT ACADIANA, INCLUDING THE CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER IN CROWLEY, WHICH IS ACCEPTING DONATIONS THROUGH SIX P-M. FOR A LIST OF THE OTHER LOCATIONS, GO TO KLFY-DOT-COM.
Gov.-elect John Bel Edwards has named his new budget chief: Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne, the Republican who crossed party lines to lend critical support to Edwards in the runoff election. Dardenne was announced Monday as Edwards’ pick for commissioner of administration. The commissioner is the governor’s top budget adviser, the public face of an administration’s financial negotiations and the overseer of the day-to-day operations of state government. Dardenne, who failed in his own bid for governor earlier this year, had been rumored for the job even before the runoff election was over when he threw his support to Edwards over Republican David Vitter.
THE LAFAYETTE METRO AREA RANKS WORST IN THE NATION FOR THE DECLINE IN THE NUMBER OF JOBS, ACCORDING TO THE U-S BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS. BETWEEN OCTOBER OF 2014 AND OCTOBER OF 2015, LAFAYETTE LOST AROUND 43-HUNDRED PAYROLL EMPLOYMENT JOBS. ACROSS THE STATE, THERE WERE MORE THAN 48 THOUSAND FEWER PARTICIPANTS IN THE STATE’S CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE OVER THAT SAME PERIOD, ACCORDING TO THE LOUISIANA WORKFORCE COMMISSION. MEANWHILE, LAKE CHARLES HAS THE THIRD BEST PERCENTAGE OFJOBS INCREASED IN THE COUNTRY, WHICH IS ATTRIBUTED TO SEVERAL MASSIVE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN THE REGION.
STATE POLICE HAVE RELEASED THE IDENTITY OF THE MAN WHO WAS STRUCK AND KILLED SUNDAY AT AROUND SEVEN P-M ON HIGHWAY 165, TWO MILES NORTH OF FENTON. SERGEANT JAMES ANDERSON SAYS 56-YEAR-OLD KEVIN ADAMS WAS STANDING NEAR HIS HOME WHEN HE WAS HIT BY A PASSING VEHICLE. THE DRIVER OF THE VEHICLE, A JUVENILE, WAS MOVING OVER BECAUSE OF ANOTHER VEHICLE ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD WITH ITS HAZARD LIGHTS ON. STATE POLICE SAY THE MAN WHO WAS STRUCK WAS STANDING IN THE ROADWAY.
THE INVESTIGATION CONTINUES AFTER IBERIA PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES FOUND A MAN SHOT TO DEATH ON SATURDAY MORNING. JEFF HORCHEK REPORTS.
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Republican U.S. Rep. John Fleming has launched his campaign for the Louisiana U.S. Senate seat being vacated by David Vitter. Fleming is positioning himself as a contender willing to take on Washington’s GOP leaders. In a video posted Monday, Fleming — in office since 2009 — says he believes “America is much better than the leadership we have in Washington.” Vitter, a Republican, announced he wouldn’t run for re-election in 2016 after losing the governor’s race last month.
