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A DUSON MAN WAS INDICTED BY A GRAND JURY ON SEVERAL CHARGES INCLUDING FIRST-DEGREE RAPE AND THREE COUNTS OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. AN INVESTIGATION WAS LAUNCHED BY AUTHORITIES AFTER RECEIVING REPORTS OF SHEMAR WALKER HAVING RELATIONS WITH AN ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD. UPON HIS ARREST, MULTIPLE EXPLICIT IMAGES WERE FOUND ON HIS CELL PHONE.
SCHOOLS IN THE CECILIA AREA WERE PUT ON LOCKDOWN YESTERDAY MORNING AFTER A MAN THREATENED TO HARM HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND’S CHILD. SAINT MARTIN PARISH SHERIFF BECKET BREAUX SAYS THIRTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD ANTHONY POTIER OF BREAUX BRIDGE WAS IDENTIFIED AS THE SUSPECT. BREAUX SAYS POTIER WAS ON HIS WAY TO THE SCHOOL WHEN HE WAS DETAINED BY DEPUTIES. POTIER HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH TERRORIZING, AGGRAVATED ASSAULT AND UNLAWFUL DISRUPTION OF A SCHOOL.
SECRETARY OF STATE NANCY LANDRY SAYS LOUISIANA’S NEW VOTING MACHINE SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO COST THE STATE ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS. GEOERGE FAUST HAS MORE.
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MORE PARISHES ARE ISSUING BURN BANS IN LOUISIANA. THEY INCLUDE ALLEN, JEFF DAVIS, BEAUREGARD AND CALCASIEU PARISHES IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND ACADIA, SAINT LANDRY, SAINT MARTIN AND VERMILLION PARISHES IN ACADIANA. RESIDENTS IN THOSE PARISHES ARE ASKED TO NOT DO ANY OUTDOOR BURNING. AS OF YESTERDAY, THERE WERE AT LEAST THIRTY WILDFIRES ACROSS LOUISIANA.
THE BODY OF A MAN WHO DIED ON CHRISTMAS MORNING WAS FINALLY RELEASED TO A LAFAYETTE FUNERAL HOME AFTER MORE THAN FIFTY DAYS. THE FAMILY OF THIRTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD JAMEL WILTZ, WHO DIED AT THE EASTERN LOUISIANA HEALTH SYSTEM IN JACKSON, WAS UNABLE TO GET A DEATH CERTIFICATE, A CONFIRMED CAUSE OF DEATH OR CLEAR INFORMATION ON WHERE THE BODY WAS HELD. THE FAMILY TELLS KLFY TV THEY PLAN ON TAKING LEGAL ACTION AGAINST THE HOSPITAL AS THEY CONTINUE TO SEEK ANSWERS ON THE DELAY AND THE CAUSE OF DEATH. JOSHUA NEAL OF THE MOSS STREET PLAZA FUNERAL HOME SAYS HE’S BEEN IN THE INDUSTRY FOR QUITE SOME TIME AND HE’S NEVER WITNESSED A SITUATION LIKE THIS BEFORE.
A WOMAN FROM MORSE WAS KILLED IN A SINGLE VEHICLE CRASH YESTERDAY IN ACADIA PARISH. ACCORDING TO STATE POLICE, FORTY-YEAR-OLD ASHLEY GRANGER WAS DRIVING NORTH ON L-A ELEVEN TWENTY-FOUR WHEN SHE CROSSED THE CENTERLINE, LEFT THE ROADWAY AND OVERTURNED HER VEHICLE. SHE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. STATE POLICE RESPONDED TO THE SCENE OF THE ACCIDENT AT AROUND ONE-FORTY-FIVE
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A BILL IN THE STATE HOUSE WOULD CRIMINALIZE AGGRESSIVE AND RECKLESS THROWING FROM A PARADE FLOAT. STATE REPRESENTATIVE SYLVIA TAYLOR AUTHORED THE BILL THAT WOULD PUNISH THOSE WHO KNOWINGLY AND NEGLIGENTLY THROW AN OBJECT FROM A FLOAT IN A WAY THAT COULD CAUSE HARM. VIOLATERS COULD BE FINED UP TO A THOUSAND DOLLARS AND FACE UP TO SIX MONTHS IN JAIL FOR CAUSING AN INJURY. IF THE INJURY IS SERIOUS, THE FINE COULD GO UP TO AT LEAST TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS AND JAIL TIME COULD BE BETWEEN ONE AND THREE YEARS.
SEVERAL ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE IN CONNECTION TO MULTIPLE SHOOTINGS THAT OCCURRED WEDNESDAY NIGHT IN OPELOUSAS. GEORGE FAUST REPORTS.
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