2-16-22
AN ARREST HAS BEEN MADE IN CONNECTION WITH HUMAN REMAINS FOUND SUNDAY ON CHEROKEE STREET IN NEW IBERIA. INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE THE REMAINS BELONGED TO TWENTY-YEAR-OLD DEJA CUMMINGS, WHO WAS LAST SEEN HANGING OUT WITH FRIENDS AT A MOTEL IN OCTOBER. TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD DWAYNE ALFRED HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH FIRST DEGREE MURDER, AGGRAVATED KIDNAPPING AND AGGRAVATED BATTERY. IT HAS NOT YET BEEN CONFIRMED THAT THE HUMAN REMAINS BELONG TO CUMMINGS BUT HER FAMILY AND FRIENDS HAVE BEEN LAYING FLOWERS AT THE SITE WHERE THE REMAINS WERE FOUND.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS HAVE BEEN SET FOR LAFAYETTE BUSINESSMAN AND PHILANTHROPIST DOUGLAS ELIAS ASHY SENIOR. ASHY WAS NINTEY-ONE WHEN HE DIED MONDAY SURROUNDED BY FAMILY AT OUR LADY OF LOURDES REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER. ASHY FOUNDED DOUG ASHY BUILDING MATERIALS, WHICH HAS EIGHT LOCATIONS AND MORE THAN THREE HUNDRED EMPLOYEES. A MASS OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL WILL BE HELD SATURDAY AT ELEVEN IN THE CATHEDRAL OF SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST.
LAST WEEK A JENNINGS MAN PLED GUILTY TO ILLEGALLY SHOOTING GEESE FROM A HIGHWAY. IT HAPPENED ON FEBRUARY SIXTEENTH, MARDI GRAS LAST YEAR, WHEN A U-S FISH AND WILDLIFE OFFICER SPOTTED A GROUP OF PEOPLE SHOOTING AT GEESE FROM A STATE HIGHWAY, BUT THEY FLED THE SCENE AFTER THE OFFICER CONFRONTED THEM. AN INVESTIGATION LED THEM TO CHARGE TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD TREVOR ISTRE AND THREE OTHERS WHO HAVE ALREADY BEEN FINED. ISTRE PLED GUILTY TO THREE WILDLIFE VIOLATIONS AND WAS SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS PROBATION AND A THREE THOUSAND DOLLAR FINE.
SYLVIA MASTERS HAS THE LATEST COVID-NINETEEN NUMBERS FOR LOUISIANA.
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SENATOR BILL CASSIDY HAS ANNOUNCED THE U-S-D-A WILL GRANT THE LOUISIANA AGRICULTURAL FINANCE AUTHORITY OVER FOUR-POINT-2 MILLION DOLLARS IN PANDEMIC RELIEF TO HELP THE STATE’S SEAFOOD INDUSTRY. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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FIRE CREWS FOUGHT A FIELD FIRE IN RAYNE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, BRINGING IT UNDER CONTROL BEFORE SIX IN THE EVENING. IT’S UNCLEAR IF THE FIRE WAS PERMITTED. A STATE-WIDE BURN BAN WENT INTO EFFECT YESTERDAY MORNING BECAUSE OF DRY CONDITIONS, WHICH ONLY ALLOWS PRIVATE BURNING WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE LOCAL FIRE DEPARTMENT OR GOVERNMENT. RESIDENTS IN THE AREA TOLD KATC TV THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT FIELD HAD EVER BEEN ON FIRE AND THEY ARE GLAD NO ONE WAS INJURED.
A DEMOGRAPHER HAS BEEN HIRED TO REDRAW THE DISTRICT LINES FOR THE LAFAYETTE CITY AND PARISH COUNCILS. COUNCILWOMAN NANETTE COOK TELLS KLFY TV THAT THE DEMOGRAPHER, WHO IS OUT OF NEW ORLEANS, WILL MEET WITH EACH OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS TODAY. SHE SAYS IT’S A CHANCE FOR THE DEMOGRAPHER TO GET TO KNOW THE DISTRICTS AND THE COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO REPRESENT THOSE DISTRICTS. COOK SAYS SHE EXPECTS TO LOSE ABOUT THIRTY-TWO HUNDRED PEOPLE FROM HER DISTRICT BUT ANTICIPATES SHE WILL CONTINUE TO REPRESENT THE OIL CENTER AND THE BENDEL GARDENS AREAS WHERE SHE LIVES.
WORK HAS BEGUN THIS WEEK TO DISMANTLE THE OLD PONTOON BRIDGE TO BUTTE LA ROSE. THE WORK TO REPLACE THE BRIDGE IS EXPECTED TO TAKE ALMOST A YEAR. THE REPAIR WORK IS CUTTING OFF PEOPLE FROM ONE WAY IN AND OUT OF TOWN AND FROM THE STORES THEY’RE USED TO SHOPPING AT. IF THERE ARE NO DELAYS, A NEW STATE OF THE ART TWO-LANE SWING SPAN BRIDGE WILL BE INSTALLED AND READY BY FEBRUARY SIXTH OF NEXT YEAR.
