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2-4-15

Gov. Bobby Jindal says a Texas startup plans a $2 billion natural gas liquification plant and export terminal near Lake Charles.  Tuesday’s announcement came six days after the collapse in world oil prices prompted a South African company to delay plans for a $14 billion natural gas plant in the same area.  Live Oak says it will apply for permits within weeks and expects to open in late 2019.  Jindal and Live Oak LNG Chairman Martin Houston say it will create 100 new jobs averaging $75,000 a year, with construction jobs peaking at 1,000.

SO FAR, THREE LAFAYETTE PARISH PARENTS HAVE SUBMITTED FORMS TO OPT THEIR CHILDREN OUT OF UPCOMING STANDARDIZED TESTS, AND MORE PARENTS ARE CONSIDERING IT.  SUPERINTENDENT BURNELL LEJEUNE SAYS IF A PARENT REMOVES A STUDENT FROM PARTICIPATING IN THE PARCC TESTING NEXT MONTH, THE ZERO SCORE THEY GET WILL NOT AFFECT WHETHER THEY MOVE ON TO THE NEXT GRADE.  HOWEVER, ST. MARTIN PARISH SUPERINTENDENT LOTTIE BEEBE, WHO IS ALSO A MEMBER OF THE STATE BOARD OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, SAYS OTHER SUPERINTENDENTS ARE CONSIDERING PUNITIVE CONSEQUENCES.  SHE SAYS SHE IS LOBBYING FOR A SPECIAL BESE MEETING TO DISCUSS CONCERNS ABOUT THE PARCC TESTS.

THE BODY OF A WOMAN, MISSING SINCE MONDAY FROM ALLEN PARISH, WAS FOUND TUESDAY IN A POND NEAR SWAN LAKE ROAD JUST OUTSIDE OF EUNICE.

JULIE DARCE HAS MORE.

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Attorneys for BP are urging a federal appeals court to remove the man responsible for handing out settlement money from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.  BP lawyers told the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday that Patrick Juneau failed to disclose that he had done oil spill legal work for the state of Louisiana before he was hired to oversee settlement payments. The payments have gone to businesses affected by the nation’s worst offshore oil spill.  The judges did not say when they would rule.

 

THE PASTOR OF A CHURCH IN DERIDDER, WHICH WAS ONE OF SEVERAL THAT WERE BURGLARIZED LAST MONTH, HAS BEEN TO THE BEAUREGARD PARISH JAIL TO VISIT THE SUSPECT WHO WAS ARRESTED.  PASTOR KEVIN COWARD OF LIVING HOPE CHURCH SAYS HE WENT TWICE TO INVITE THE MAN BACK TO HIS CHURCH, AND HE TELLS KPLC TV THAT THE MAN HAS ACCEPTED THE INVITATION.  COWARD SAYS HE EVEN PUT SOME MONEY IN THE MAN’S ACCOUNT TO HELP HIM OUT, WHICH HE SAYS IS IN AGREEMENT WITH THE SCRIPTURES THAT SAY TO OVERCOME EVIL WITH GOOD.  THE SUSPECT HAS NOT CONFESSED TO THE BURGLARIES, AND POLICE SAY HE IS NOT COOPERATING WITH THEM.

THE LAFAYETTE CITY PARISH GOVERNMENT LOST IN COURT THIS WEEK IN A BID TO CHANGE THEIR BORDER WITH VERMILLION PARISH.  THE COUNCIL IN 2013 VOTED TO BACK OUT OF A 2002 AGREEMENT WITH VERMILLION PARISH OVER THE BORDER, BECAUSE OF CONCERNS THAT THE CURRENT BORDER IS BASED ON INCOMPLETE HISTORICAL RESEARCH.  HOWEVER, 15TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT JUDGE JOHN TRAHAN RULED THAT THE 2002 AGREEMENT IS BINDING.  COUNCILMAN DON BERTRAND SAYS THEY ARE CONSIDERING AN APPEAL.

 

A NEW IBERIA MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH A SHOOTING AT THE KEG NIGHTCLUB IN LAFAYETTE EARLY SATURDAY MORNING.  22-YEAR-OLD CHRISTIAN BLAIR ANTOINE IS ACCUSED OF SHOOTING A MAN IN THE LEG DURING AN ARGUMENT, AND THEN HE FLED.  ANTOINE WAS ARRESTED TUESDAY AND CHARGED WITH AGGRAVATED SECOND DEGREE BATTERY.  HE WAS BOOKED INTO THE IBERIA PARISH JAIL AND WILL BE TRANSFERRED TO LAFAYETTE PARISH.

 

Louisiana’s social services department has put out its latest “Most Wanted” poster of 14 parents who owe nearly half a million dollars in past-due child support.

The list contains 12 men and 2 women who haven’t paid child support in six months or more. Combined, they owe more than $437,000. The smallest amount owed is more than $11,000.