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2-10-16

CONGRESSMAN CHARLES BOUSTANY OF LAFAYETTE INTRODUCED A RESOLUTION YESTERDAY CALLING ON CONGRESS TO REJECT A PROPOSED TEN DOLLAR PER BARREL OIL TAX.  PRESIDENT OBAMA INCLUDED IT IN HIS 4-POINT-1 TRILLION DOLLAR BUDGET PROPOSAL FOR THE FISCAL YEAR THAT BEGINS OCTOBER FIRST.  BOUSTANY’S RESOLUTION URGES CONGRESS TO OPPOSE THE TAX, BUT IT HAS NO ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY.  THE TAX WOULD BE USED TO FUND CLEAN ENERGY PROJECTS, BUT BOUSTANY SAYS THE PRESIDENT WANTS TO DO IT “ON THE BACKS OF HARD-WORKING LOUISIANA WORKERS IN THE OIL AND GAS SECTOR”.

 

A WOMAN WAS STRUCK AND KILLED ON I-210 IN LAKE CHARLES MONDAY NIGHT.  DEPUTY CHIEF MARK KRAUS OF THE LAKE CHARLES POLICE DEPARTMENT SAYS AT ABOUT 10-12 THAT NIGHT, THE DRIVER OF A 1999 SATURN WAS STOPPED ON THE OUTSIDE LANE OF THE CONTRABAND BAYOU BRIDGE, WHERE A TWO VEHICLE COLLISION OCCURRED.  HE SAYS, FOR AN UNKNOWN REASON, SHE EXITED HER VEHICLE AND WAS STANDING IN THE ROADWAY WHEN SHE WAS STRUCK BY A VEHICLE AND KILLED.  THE NAME OF THE WOMAN HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED BECAUSE HER RELATIVES HAD NOT YET BEEN NOTIFIED.

 

IBERIA PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES ARE SEARCHING FOR TWO MEN WHO INVADED A HOME YESTERDAY MORNING AT AROUND SEVEN A-M.  THE VICTIMS TOLD THE DEPUTIES THE MEN KICKED OPEN THE DOOR OF THEIR HOME, LOCATED IN THE 16-HUNDRED BLOCK OF ADAM STREET, AND DEMANDED MONEY.  THE VICTIMS LOCKED THEMSELVES IN A BEDROOM UNTIL THE MEN LEFT.  NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED.

 

A GROUP, THAT IS CRITICAL OF EDUCATION OVERHAULS SUCH AS VOUCHERS AND CHARTER SCHOOLS, GAVE LOUISIANA A D GRADE WHEN IT COMES TO SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.  THE HIGHEST GRADE GIVEN BY THE NETWORK FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION WAS A C, WHICH 13 STATES RECEIVED.  LOUISIANA WAS ONE OF THIRTY STATES TO GET A D.  THE GROUP GAVE THE STATE AN F WHEN IT COMES TO RESISTING PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

 

EUNICE POLICE ARE STILL AWAITING DNA RESULTS TO DETERMINE THE IDENTITY OF A BODY FOUND OVER A WEEK AGO.  HUNTERS, WHO WERE RUNNING HUNTING DOGS, FOUND THE BODY IN A WOODED AREA OFF OF EAST MAGNOLIA STREET.  POLICE CHIEF RANDY FONTENOT SAYS THEY BELIEVE THE BODY IS A MALE BECAUSE OF THE CLOTHING.  HE SAYS THEY ARE TREATING THE MATTER AS A HOMOCIDE AND HE HOPES TO GET THE DNA RESULTS WITHIN THE NEXT WEEK.

 

A FOOD PANTRY PROGRAM THAT STARTED LAST NOVEMBER AT OAK PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN LAKE CHARLES HAS BEEN OVERWHELMINGLY SUCCESSFUL, ACCORDING TO THE PANTRY COORDINATOR CHERYL LEWIS.  ABOUT ONE OUT OF EVERY FOUR CHILDREN IN CALCASIEU PARISH GO HUNGRY, ACCORDING TO SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK, WHICH PROMPTED THEM TO START THE FOOD PANTRY PROGRAM AT OAK PARK.  LEWIS SAYS THE PROGRAM PROVIDES A MONTH’S WORTH OF NUTRITIOUS MEALS FOR BETWEEN 35 AND 40 FAMILIES AT THE SCHOOL.  SHE SAYS DONATIONS AND FOOD ITEMS HAVE BEEN PROVIDED BY WALMART, WINN DIXIE AND KROGER.

 

AN ACADIA PARISH MAN, WHO WAS CONVICTED LAST WEEK FOR SECOND DEGREE MURDER, COULD LEARN HIS FATE TODAY.  A JURY FOUND KERRY BERTRAND GUILTY FOR THE DEATH OF HIS STEPDAUGHTER SKYLAR CREDEUR OF RAYNE IN 2013.  CREDEUR’S BODY WAS FOUND IN HER BATHTUB, AND BERTRAND WAS LATER FOUND HIDING IN THE ATTIC OF HER HOME.  HE FACES LIFE IN PRISON AT HIS SENTENCING HEARING TODAY.

 

Louisiana’s income forecasting panel will soon set the official number for this year’s budget deficit and next year’s financial shortfall.  The figures set Wednesday by the Revenue Estimating Conference will be the basis for tax negotiations in the upcoming special legislative session.  The revised forecasts are expected to be bleak, with at least a $700 million deficit expected for this year and a nearly $2 billion gap next year, possibly larger.  This year’s shortfall has to be closed by June 30, when the budget year ends.