12-9-24
YOUNGSVILLE HAS A NEW POLICE CHIEF. JEAN PAUL BROUSSARD WON A RUNOFF AGAINST CODY LOUVIERE BY A MERE FIFTEEN VOTES. BROUSSARD TELLS KLFY TV HE IS EXCITED TO BEGIN WORK AS THE NEW POLICE CHIEF NEXT YEAR. HE SAID THAT HE PROMISES, WITH HARD WORK AND DEDICATION, THAT THEY WILL HAVE A TOP NOTCH POLICE DEPARTMENT.
THREE ACADIANA TOWNS HAD PUBLIC SAFETY TAXES ON THE BALLOTS SATURDAY. FRANKLIN VOTERS EASILY APPROVED A ONE PERCENT SALES TAX TO FUND THE POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS. SEVENTY-SEVEN PERCENT OF VOTERS IN ERATH OKAYED A HALF CENT SALES TAX, WITH MONEY’S RAISED GOING TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. AND A ONE PERCENT PUBLIC SAFETY TAX WAS APPROVED BY SEVENTY-SEVEN PERCENT OF THE VOTERS IN BALDWIN.
FOUR AMENDMENTS TO THE STATE CONSTITUTION WERE APPROVED ON SATURDAY. AMENDMENT ONE INCREASED THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE ON THE STATE JUDICIARY COMMISSION WHILE AMENDMENT TWO REQUIRED FORTY-EIGHT HOURS FOR LAWMAKERS TO REVIEW PROPOSED BILLS APPROPRIATING MONEY. AMENDMENT THREE ALLOWED LEGISLATORS TO EXTEND THE REGULAR SESSION BY SIX DAYS IF MORE TIME IS NEEDED TO PASS A BILL APPROPRIATING MONEY. AMENDMENT FOUR SHIFTED THE STATE FROM A TAX SALE PROCESS TO A TAX LIEN AUCTION PROCESS WHEN A PROPERTY OWNER HASN’T PAID THEIR TAXES.
A JUVENILE AND A SULPHUR MAN WERE ARRESTED IN CONNECTION TO A SHOOTING FRIDAY THAT CLAIMED THE LIFE OF TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD GAVIN DEMERITT OF SULPHUR. AUTHORITIES SAY DEMERITT WAS HANDLING A GUN IN A JOKING MATTER WHEN HE HANDED IT TO A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD, WHO HANDLED IT IN THE SAME WAY. THEY SAY THE JUVENILE MAY HAVE THOUGHT THE GUN WAS UNLOADED WHEN HE PULLED THE TRIGGER, TAKING THE LIFE OF DEMERITT. THE JUVENILE WAS ARRESTED ON A CHARGE OF NEGLIGENT HOMOCIDE WHILE A RESIDENT OF THE HOME, TWENTY-YEAR-OLD GAGE MCMICHAEL, WAS CHARGED WITH OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE.
KLFY TV TEN’S GEORGE FAUST HAS A STORY THEY’VE BEEN COVERING ABOUT AN ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLE CLUB IN ACADIA PARISH.
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A LAFAYETTE PARISH WOMAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY STARTING A HOUSE FIRE IN THE OSSUN AREA LAST WEEK THAT KILLED HER SISTER. TWENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD KALAYSHIA LAGRANGE WAS BOOKED INTO THE LAFAYETTE PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER FOR SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AND TWO COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED SECOND-DEGREE MURDER. NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD MALAYSHIA CONLEY WAS THE ONE KILLED IN THE FIRE, WHILE LAGRANGE’S MOTHER SUFFERED BURNS ON OVER HALF OF HER BODY AND HER TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD BROTHER WAS ALSO BURNED. LAGRANGE LIVED IN THE HOME.
THE STAR OF DUCK DYNASTY, SEVENTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD PHIL ROBERTSON OF WEST MONROE, IS IN THE EARLY STAGES OF ALZHEIMERS. HIS FAMILY CONFIRMED THE DIAGNOSIS DURING FRIDAY’S EPISODE OF THE PODCAST, “UNASHAMED WITH THE ROBERTSON FAMILY.” HIS SON AL ROBERTSON SAYS HIS DAD MISSES DOING THE PODCAST AND HAS GOOD DAYS AND BAD DAYS. HIS FAMILY THANKED THEIR FANS FOR THEIR LOVE, SUPPORT AND PRAYERS.
STATE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A FATAL CRASH IN FRANKLIN SATURDAY. FORTY-YEAR-OLD REMUS TARDY OF BALDWIN WAS TRAVELING ON THE HIGHWAY NINETY FRONTAGE ROAD WHEN HE WENT OFF THE ROAD, THEN OVERCORRECTED, CAUSING HIS LINCOLN TOWN CAR TO FLIP. TARDY, WHO WASN’T WEARING A SEAT BELT, WAS PARTIALLY EJECTED AND PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. A PASSENGER IN THE CAR, WHO ALSO WASN’T WEARING A SEAT BELT, SUFFERED MODERATE INJURIES.
