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THE SON OF FORMER OPELOUSAS POLICE CHIEF MARTIN MCCLENDON WAS FOUND GUILTY YESTERDAY AFTERNOON IN A MURDER TRIAL. DANIELLE JOHNSON REPORTS.
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THE SIX HUNDRED BLOCK OF OLD SPANISH TRAIL IN SCOTT, NEAR THE PLAY AND LEARN DAYCARE, WILL BE CLOSED SUNDAY. REPAIRS WILL BE MADE ON A TWO-INCH WATER LINE IN THAT AREA. THE CLOSURE WILL BEGIN AT SEVEN A-M SUNDAY. REPAIRS ARE EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED BY TWO IN THE AFTERNOON, DEPENDING ON THE WEATHER.
Louisiana lawmakers Thursday continued to advance a $45 million funding bill to pay for an incentive program designed to lure more insurers to the state. The legislation will be debated on the Senate floor Friday afternoon. The measure was already approved by the House 90-8. Louisiana is in the midst of an insurance crisis following a series of detrimental hurricanes that resulted in insurers going belly-up or fleeing the state.
A JENNINGS MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION TO A RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY IN LAKE ARTHUR. JEFF DAVIS PARISH SHERIFF’S DETECTIVES BEGAN AN INVESTIGATION MONDAY, WHICH LED TO THE SUSPECT, TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD CLAY JOSEPH HEBERT, AS WELL AS SEVERAL OF THE STOLEN ITEMS. DETECTIVES LEARNED THAT HE HAD A TWELVE- AND ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD WITH HIM WHILE ALLEGEDLY COMMITTING THE BURGLARY. DETECTIVES ARE LOOKING FOR ADDITIONAL ITEMS TAKEN IN THE BURGLARY.
SAINT LANDRY PARISH SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT PATRICK JENKINS ANNOUNCED LAST NIGHT THAT HE WILL NOT SEEK AN EXTENSION OF HIS CONTRACT. JENKINS PLANS TO STEP DOWN ON JUNE THIRTIETH. HE TELLS KLFY TV THAT HE’S BUILT A GOOD FOUNDATION AND ITS TIME FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO TAKE SAINT LANDRY PARISH TO THE NEXT LEVEL. JENKINS SAYS ONE OF HIS BIGGEST ACCOMPLISHMENTS WAS IMPROVING THE GRADUATION RATE, WHICH WENT FROM SIXTY-SIX-POINT-SEVEN PERCENT TO EIGHTY-ONE-POINT-FIVE PERCENT.
ACADIANA WASTE SERVICES WILL BE TAKING OVER SOLID WASTE AND RECYCLING COLLECTIONS IN LAFAYETTE AND THE UNINCORPORATED PARTS OF LAFAYETTE PARISH BEGINNING NOVEMBER FIRST. PRIOR TO THAT DATE, ALL CUSTOMERS WILL BE PROVIDED WITH A NINETY-FIVE GALLON BLACK CART WITH A RED LID. CUSTOMERS CAN ORDER A SECOND CART WITH A ONE TIME FEE OF NINETY DOLLARS. ALL CUSTOMERS MUST REGISTER TO RECEIVE A NEW CONTAINER FOR CURBSIDE RECYCLING BY CALLING TWO-ZERO-FIVE-SEVNTY-SEVEN-TEN BEFORE MAY THIRTY-FIRST.
FORMER STATE SENATOR ELBERTY GUILLORY HAS ANNOUNCED HIS CANDIDACY FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. DANIELLE JOHNSON HAS MORE.
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THE ABBEVILLE POLICE CHIEF SAYS A NEW STARTING SALARY IS HELPING WITH RECRUITMENT OF NEW OFFICERS. MIKE HARDY SAYS THE STARTING SALARY WHEN HE BEGAN AS POLICE CHIEF WAS TWENTY-SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS, BUT THE CITY COUNCIL APPROVED BUMPING IT TO FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. HARDY TELLS KLFY TV THAT THEY ARE GETTING TO THE POINT WHERE THEY CAN GET PICKY IN WHOM THEY CHOOSE. THE DEPARTMENT HAS EIGHT VACANCIES, AND, WHEN THEY FILL THEM, THERE WILL BE THIRTY-TWO OFFICERS IN ALL.
