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2-21-18

LAFAYETTE CITY MARSHAL BRIAN POPE’S REQUEST FOR A CHANGE OF VENUE IN HIS PREJURY MALFEASANCE TRIAL HAS BEEN PUSHED BACK.  JEFF HORCHAK HAS MORE.

 

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DANIEL KIGHT OF VINTON WAS FOUND GUILTY OF SECOND DEGRE MURDER IN A LAKE CHARLES COURTROOM.  KIGHT HAD STABBED DAVID SCASINO MORE THAN FIFTY TIMES IN 2014, BUT CLAIMED HE WAS NOT GUILTY BY REASON OF INSANITY.  JUDGE ROBERT WYATT DID NOT AGREE THAT HE WAS INCAPABLE OF DISTINGUISHING RIGHT FROM WRONG AND FOUND HIM GUILTY ON THE MURDER CHARGE, WHICH CARRIES A MANDATORY LIFE PRISON SENTENCE.  PROSECUTOR CHARLES ROBINSON SAYS KIGHT COMMITTED THE MURDER BECAUSE SCASINO HAD ACCUSED HIM OF CHILD MOLESTATION.

 

THIS WEEK THE IBERIA PARISH SCHOOL BOARD IS INTERVIEWING SIX CANDIDATES TO BECOME THE NEXT SUPERINTENDENT.  SCHOOL BOARD PRESIDENT DALE DUGAS TELLS KLFY TV THAT THEY ARE EXCITED BECAUSE THEY HAVE SIX VERY SOLID CANDIDATES.  THE BOARD IS EXPECTED TO ANNOUNCE IN TWO WEEKS WHO WILL BE THE NEW SUPERINTENDENT.  THE CURRENT SUPERINTENDENT, DALE HENDERSON, HAD PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED HE WOULD BE RETIRING THIS SUMMER AFTER ELEVEN YEARS IN THE POSITION.

 

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has hired a new deputy chief of staff, three months after the previous jobholder resigned amid sexual harassment allegations.

The Democratic governor announced Tuesday that Adren Wilson will work as deputy chief of staff for programs and planning, filling the position Johnny Anderson left in November.  Anderson was accused of sexual harassment, 11 years after several women made similar accusations when Anderson worked for Gov. Kathleen Blanco and was a university system board chairman. Anderson denies wrongdoing in both sets of claims.

 

LAST NIGHT THE LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED COUNCIL TOOK A STEP TOWARD INSTALLING SPEED CAMERAS IN SCHOOL ZONES.  THEY APPROVED A RESOLUTION, MEANING THEY SUPPORT THE IDEA.  NEXT THEY HAVE TO FIND A VENDOR AND WORK OUT TERMS WITH THEM.  IF THAT HAPPENS, THE COUNCIL WILL HAVE TO APPROVE ANOTHER RESOLUTION ON HOW THE LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT WILL HANDLE THE PROGRAM AND A TIMELINE FOR IMPLEMENTATION.

 

AN OAKDALE MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT WILL BE EXPELLED AFTER MAKING A THREAT TO HARM STUDENTS.  OAKDALE POLICE CHIEF JOSEPH LOCKETT SENIOR SAYS THE STUDENT TOLD ANOTHER STUDENT THAT SOMEONE WAS GOING TO COME AND KILL A LOT OF PEOPLE AT THE SCHOOL AND THE THREAT WAS REPORTED TO A TEACHER, WHO TOOK APPROPRIATE ACTION.  THE STUDENT WHO MADE THE THREAT HAS APPEARED BEFORE A JUDGE AND IS BEING HELD AT THE OAKDALE POLICE DEPARTMENT.  LOCKETT HAS ASKED PARENTS TO TALK TO THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT THE SERIOUSNESS OF MAKING THREATS.

 

A MAN, WHO WAS FACING FEDERAL CHARGES OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, HAS DIED AFTER BEING TRANSPORTED TO A LOCAL HOSPITAL FROM THE ST. MARTIN PARISH JAIL.  THE U-S MARSHAL’S OFFICE IS INVESTIGATING THE DEATH OF 34-YEAR-OLD MICAH SORBET BECAUSE HE WAS A FEDERAL PRISONER IN THE CUSTODY OF THE ST. MARTIN PARISH JAIL.  A SPOKESMAN FOR THE U-S MARSHAL’S OFFICE SAYS NO FOUL PLAY IS SUSPECTED BUT THEY ARE AWAITING THE RESULTS OF AN AUTOPSY.  SORBET, WHO WAS ARRESTED ON CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CHARGES BY FEDERAL AGENTS IN DECEMBER, HAD A CARDIAC ARREST IN THE JAIL AND DIED SIX DAYS LATER IN THE HOSPITAL.

 

With a nearly $1 billion budget gap only months away, lawmakers appear far from agreement about what taxes they might support to fill the hole.  Dividing lines were evident Tuesday as the House Ways and Means Committee started sifting through tax bills on the second day of a special session.  Gov. John Bel Edwards called the 17-day session to replace expiring temporary taxes that are causing the shortfall for the financial year starting July 1.  The Ways and Means Committee is expected to start voting on proposals today.