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ABOUT 34-HUNDRED STUDENTS HAVE APPLIED TO ATTEND ONE OF THE SCHOOL OF CHOICE ACADEMIES IN LAFAYETTE PARISH. THE ACADEMY WITH THE MOST APPLICATIONS IS THE ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY AT J. WALLACE JAMES ELEMENTARY. NEXT IS THE DAVID THIBODEAUX STEM MAGNET ACADEMY WITH 673 APPLICATIONS. A LOTTERY, TO DETERMINE WHICH STUDENTS GET INTO THE ACADEMIES WHERE THERE ARE MORE APPLICATIONS THAN AVAILABLE SLOTS, WILL BE HELD NEXT MONDAY AT NINE A-M AT THE SCHOOL SYSTEM’S CENTRAL OFFICE.
A FORMER CALCASIEU PARISH SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER HAS PLED GUILTY TO TWO COUNTS OF INDECENT EXPOSURE IN CALIFORNIA. CHUCK HANSEN WAS ARRESTED LAST SEPTEMBER IN SAN DIEGO AFTER HE WAS ACCUSED OF EXPOSING HIMSELF TO A TEENAGE GIRL. HE RESIGNED FROM THE SCHOOL BOARD SHORTLY AFTERWARD. HANSEN WAS SENTENCED MONDAY TO THREE YEARS PROBATION, TWENTY DAYS OF PUBLIC WORK SERVICE AND MANDATORY SEX OFFENDER CLASSES. HE WILL ALSO HAVE TO REGISTER AS A SEX OFFENDER FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE.
A PORT BARRE MAN IS DEAD AFTER A TWO VEHICLE CRASH ON U-S 190 IN ST. LANDRY PARISH. JULIE DARCE HAS MORE.
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LOUISIANA GOVERNOR JOHN BEL EDWARDS GOT TO MEET WITH PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP YESTERDAY, BUT NOT ONE-ON-ONE AS HE HAD HOPED. EDWARDS, ALONG WITH THREE OTHER GOVERNORS, MET WITH TRUMP AND EDWARDS WAS ABLE TO HAND DELIVER A LETTER TO HIM AND BRIEFLY TELL HIM ABOUT THE STATE’S FLOOD RECOVERY EFFORTS. IN THE LETTER, EDWARDS SEEKS TWO BILLION DOLLARS MORE IN FEDERAL AID. LATER YESTERDAY, EDWARDS WAS ABLE TO MEET WITH TRUMP’S BUDGET DIRECTOR MICK MULVANEY AND, THIS MORNING, HE HAD A MEETING SCHEDULED WITH THE CHAIR OF THE HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE.
Louisiana authorities say a man who tried to hold a store up at gunpoint abandoned the effort, made a purchase and left — but was still arrested later. KLFY-TV reports that authorities in St. Martin Parish arrested 35-year-old Homer John of Breaux Bridge on multiple charges including aggravated attempted armed robbery. The abandoned robbery happened just before 8 a.m. Sunday in Henderson. Major Ginny Higgins of the St. Martin Parish Sheriff’s Office says John put down his gun “when the clerk did not immediately comply with his request,” and deputies later arrested him after spotting him at a casino.
THE VERNON PARISH NARCOTICS TASK FORCE DISCOVERED AN ESTIMATED 146 POUNDS OF ILLEGAL DRUGS SUNDAY MORNING. SHERIFF SAM CRAFT SAYS AGENTS RECEIVED A TIP FROM EMPLOYEES AT A COMMERCIAL BUSINESS THAT THE DRUGS WERE ON A RAILROAD CAR THAT WAS BEING OFFLOADED. THE AGENTS FOUND 66 BRICKS OF MARIJUANA WITH AN ESTIMATED STREET VALUE OF 218 THOUSAND DOLLARS. NO SUSPECTS HAVE BEEN ARRESTED AND THE CASE REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION.
A DONATION BY FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF LOUISIANA TO AN AFTER SCHOOL TUTORING PROGRAM IN CROWLEY HAS BROUGHT A MATCHING DONATION FROM THE FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK OF DALLAS GRANT FOUNDATION. THE TOTAL DONATION TO THE EMPOWER THE COMMUNITY OF EXCELLENCE PROGRAM COMES TO 16 THOUSAND DOLLARS. THE TUTORING PROGRAM SERVES MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED STUDENTS WITH A GROWING WAITING LIST. THE PROGRAM IS LIMITED TO STUDENTS IN THE FIRST TO FIFTH GRADES WHO ARE CONSIDERED AT RISK OF ACADEMIC FAILURE.
U-S NEWS AND WORLD REPORT ISSUED ITS FIRST EVER BEST STATES LIST AND LOUISIANA FINISHED DEAD LAST. THE LIST WAS BASED ON AN ANALYSIS OF SEVERAL AREAS. LOUISIANA WAS 50TH IN CRIME AND CORRECTIONS, 49TH IN OPPORTUNITY, 46TH IN BOTH EDUCATION, THE ECONOMY, AND GOVERNMENT, 45TH IN HEALTH CARE AND 39TH IN INFRASTRUCTURE. GOVERNOR JOHN BEL EDWARDS ADMINISTRATION POINTED OUT THAT THE LIST WAS BASED ON DATA THAT GOES BACK TO 2013.
