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THE LONE SURVIVOR OF A DECEMBER 28TH PLANE CRASH IN LAFAYETTE WAS RELEASED FROM OUR LADY OF LOURDES REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. THIRTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD WADE BERZAS WAS ADMITTED TO THE HOSPITAL IN CRITICAL CONDITION WITH BURNS OVER SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT OF HIS BODY, CUTS TO HIS HEAD AND A DISLOCATED SHOULDER. DOCTOR JOE BARRIOS, WHO IS THE DIRECTOR OF THE BURN UNIT, SAID IN A PREPARED STATEMENT THAT BERZAS EXCEEDED EVERY GOAL THEY SET FOR HIM AND PROGRESSED FASTER THAN ANTICIPATED. FIVE OTHER PEOPLE WERE KILLED ON THE PLANE THAT WAS HEADED TO ATLANTA FOR AN L-S-U COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF GAME.
A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD IS FACING MULTIPLE FELONY CHARGES IN CONNECTION WITH A LOADED GUN BROUGHT TO OPELOUSAS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL MONDAY MORNING. CAROLINE MARCELLO REPORTS.
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A MAN WANTED FOR A MURDER IN HONDURAS WAS ARRESTED SUNDAY IN JEFF DAVIS PARISH. GERARDO ALONZO ARGUETA RODRIGUEZ WAS PULLED OVER BY JENNINGS POLICE FOR SPEEDING ON THE INTERSTATE. DURING THE STOP, OFFICERS LEARNED ABOUT THE MURDER WARRANT AND ARRESTED RODRIGUEZ. HE IS BEING HELD IN THE JEFF DAVIS PARISH JAIL UNTIL BORDER PATROL CAN EXTRADITE HIM TO HONDURAS.
Louisiana’s top public school board has set a Feb. 28 deadline for anyone who wants to apply to be the state’s next superintendent of education. The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education published an information packet online for interested applicants and hired a firm to help with the search. Longtime Superintendent of Education John White is stepping down from the job March 11. The search committee hopes to recommend one to three applicants to the full board for consideration to be superintendent.
LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE ASKING THE PUBLIC’S HELP IN IDENTIFYING THOSE WHO ATTEMPTED TO BREAK INTO AN A-T-M MACHINE AT THE CHASE BANK ON JOHNSTON STREET NEAR RIDGE ROAD. DAMAGE TO THE MACHINE WAS EXTENSIVE AND THE BANK HAD THE MACHINE HAULED AWAY YESTERDAY. THE THIEVES ATTEMPTED TO BREAK INTO THE MACHINE AT AROUND TWO-TWENTY-FIVE SUNDAY MORNING BUT THEY DIDN’T MANAGE TO STEAL ANY MONEY. ANYBODY WHO SAW ANYTHING IS ASKED TO CONTACT LAFAYETTE CRIME STOPPERS OR YOUR LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENT.
AUTHORITIES ARE STILL SEARCHING FOR AN 89-YEAR-OLD MAN, WHO HAS BEEN MISSING SINCE THURSDAY MORNING FROM AN ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY IN ALEXANDRIA. IT’S THOUGHT THAT JAMES GUNNELS JUNIOR MAY BE IN ACADIA PARISH SINCE HIS TRUCK WAS FOUND IN A FIELD OFF BLUE JAY ROAD IN MORSE. HE SUFFERS FROM SLIGHT DEMENTIA AND HE IS A DIABETIC, WHO DOES NOT HAVE HIS INSULIN. GUNNELS IS WHITE, BALD, FIVE-ELEVEN AND 180 POUNDS AND HE WAS LAST SEEN WEARING BLACK JEANS AND A CHARCOAL GREY HOODIE.
JENNINGS POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR A RUNAWAY JUVENILE, MARIDIAN OBRIEN. THE SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL WAS LAST SEEN ON SATURDAY. JENNINGS POLICE HAVE POSTED HER PHOTO ON THEIR FACEBOOK PAGE. THIS IS REPORTEDLY NOT THE FIRST TIME OBRIEN HAS RUN AWAY. IF YOU KNOW OF HER WHEREABOUTS, CONTACT THE JENNING POLICE DEPARTMENT AT 821-55-13.
THE FOOD DELIVERY COMPANY WAITR PLANS TO LAY OFF TWENTY-THREE-HUNDRED DRIVERS IN APRIL. CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS MORE.
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