2-16-18
IN LIGHT OF WEDNESDAY’S DEADLY SCHOOL SHOOTING IN FLORIDA, KLFY TV CHECKED WITH THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM TO SEE WHAT SECURITY MEASURES ARE IN PLACE. HERE’S JEFF HORCHAK.
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SOME BASEBALL FIELDS IN LAKE CHARLES COULD BE GETTING ARTIFICAL TURF. LAST NIGHT THE CALCASIEU PARISH POLICE JURY APPROVED CONTRIBUTING 750 THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR ARTIFICIAL TURF TO BE LAID AT THE O-D JOHNSON COMPLEX AND THE WARD THREE POWER CENTER’S BALL FIELDS. ERIC ZARTLER OF THE SOUTHWES LOUISIANA CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU SAYS THE FIELDS ARE CURRENTLY IN SUCH BAD SHAPE THAT THEY CAN’T HOST EVENTS THERE. HE SAYS IF THE CITY COUNCIL ALSO AGREES TO A COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT WITH THE POLICE JURY, WARD THREE RECREATION AND THE CONVENTION AND VISITOR’S BUREAU, THEY COULD START PUTTING IN THE TURF AROUND JUNE FIRST AND START BOOKING EVENTS ON JANUARY FIRST.
A ST. MARTINVILLE MAN WAS ARRESTED FOR MAKING THREATS AGAINST PUBLIC OFFICIALS. THE ST. MARTIN PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE BEGAN AN INVESTIGATION ON MONDAY AFTER RECEIVING REPORTS THAT FOUR LOCAL PUBLIC OFFICIALS HAD BEEN THREATENED. THEY ARRESTED 46-YEAR-OLD WALTER BONIN JUNIOR ON FOUR COUNTS OF PUBLIC INTIMIDATION. HE WAS BOOKED INTO THE ST. MARTIN PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER AND HIS BOND WAS SET AT EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS.
A new task force at the Vernon Parish Sheriff’s Office has been formed in hopes of advancing some of the area’s oldest homicide cases. The Cold Case Investigation team is comprised of five officers already active in the sheriff’s department. The American Press reports the group answered the call put out by Sheriff Sam Craft in December to volunteer their time to reopen five homicide cases that occurred between 1980 and 1990. Craft says he believes every case the team focuses on has a true chance of being solved.
LAFAYETTE PARISH SAW RETAIL SALES GO UP FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE OIL CRASH OF 2014. OVERALL RETAIL SALES WENT FROM 5-POINT-78 BILLION TO 5-POINT-82 BILLION DOLLARS, A POINT-6-5 PERCENT INCREASE. SALES IN THE LAFAYETTE CITY LIMITS WERE ACTUALLY DOWN ONE-POINT-3 PERCENT, BUT SALES REBOUNDED ENOUGH IN CARENCRO, SCOTT, BROUSSARD, YOUNGSVILLE AND DUSON. THE BIGGEST INCREASE WAS IN CARENCRO, WITH A GAIN OF 25-POINT-9 PERCENT, WHICH IS ATTRIBUTED TO THE NUMBER OF NATIONAL CHAINS GOING UP ALONG I-49.
IF YOU’RE LOOKING FOR A JOB, YOU MAY WANT TO CONSIDER BEING A TRUCK DRIVER. THE AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATION ESTIMATES THAT THE INDUSTRY NEEDS TO HIRE ALMOST 900 THOUSAND MORE DRIVERS TO MEET THE DEMAND. GARY GOBERT, THE OWNER OF LAKE CITY TRUCKING IN LAKE CHARLES, TELLS KPLC TV THEY ARE LOOKING AT WAYS TO ENTICE DRIVERS, INCLUDING CHANGING THE WAY THEY OPERATE AND PAY DRIVERS. THE U-S BUREAU OF LABOR AND STATISTICS SAYS THE MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY FOR A TRUCK DRIVER IS 41,340 DOLLARS.
A CHURCH POINT WOMAN LOST NEARLY ALLOF HER POSSESSIONS WHEN HER HOME WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. JEFF HORCHAK HAS MORE.
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A Mississippi man’s murder conviction will stand, even though the defendant didn’t know his lawyer was romantically involved with the prosecution’s lead witness.
The Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday voted 6-2 to deny a request from Montrell Jordan to file a new appeal. Jordan was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 2005 shooting death of a Holmes Community College student Dwaeuntre’ Davis, a freshman football player from Franklin, Louisiana, who was shot in a parking lot after a fight. Authorities said Davis was a bystander.
