2-5-15
A 23-year-old woman is in custody after she allegedly left a 4-year-old child unattended at her home while she drove her nephew to school and stopped for coffee at her aunt’s home. Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s deputies responded to an 8 a.m. call Tuesday after the child was found walking down Gulf Highway in Lake Charles. Authorities say Jamie Jackson was babysitting while her father was at work. Jackson told detectives the home doesn’t have heating, so she left the gas stove on with the door open to heat it while she was away.
THE INTERIM SUPERINTENDENT FOR THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM SAYS HE WILL RETIRE IN JULY. BURNELL LEJEUNE MADE THE ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE SCHOOL BOARD YESTERDAY. HE THANKED THE BOARD FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE SUPERINTENDENT. HE WAS ASSIGNED TO THE ROLE IN NOVEMBER AFTER THE SCHOOL BOARD FIRED THE PREVIOUS SUPERINTENDENT, DR. PAT COOPER.
A BREAUX BRIDGE MAN, ACCUSED OF A HIT-AND-RUN THAT KILLED TWO TEENAGE GIRLS AND INJURED ANOTHER, PLED NOT GUILTY YESTERDAY AT HIS ARRAIGNMENT. 32-YEAR-OLD JEREMY ABRAHAM WAS CHARGED LAST MONTH WITH TWO COUNTS OF VEHICULAR HOMOCIDE AND ONE COUNT OF FIRST DEGREE NEGLIGENT INJURING. ABRAHAM IS ACCUSED OF GOING TWICE THE SPEED LIMIT WHEN HE STRUCK AND KILLED 15-YEAR-OLD CORNASHA FLUGENCE AND 14-YEAR-OLD KYLEE HENRY. HIS ATTORNEY TOLD THE ADVOCATE THAT A TOXICOLOGY TEST SHOWED A SMALL AMOUNT OF T-H-C IN HIS BLOOD, WHICH IS A SUBSTANCE THAT COMES FROM MARIJUANA.
A Houma area lawmaker has given up on efforts to convene a special legislative session targeting Louisiana’s ongoing budget troubles. Republican Rep. Joe Harrison said Wednesday he couldn’t get enough support from his colleagues to call the 14-day special session that he sought in a January petition. Gov. Bobby Jindal and House Speaker Chuck Kleckley said they opposed a special session.
Harrison wanted to remove special budget protections that leave colleges and health services more vulnerable to cuts and to review tax break programs that siphon money from the state treasury.
A 15-YEAR-OLD JUVENILE WAS STABBED IN LAKE CHARLES SUNDAY NIGHT, BUT HIS INJURIES, THOUGH SEVERE, ARE NOT CONSIDERED LIFE THREATENING. LAKE CHARLES DEPUTY CHIEF MARK KRAUS SAYS THE JUVENILE WAS AMONG A GROUP OF TWENTY OR THIRTY WHO LEFT A PARTY AT THE SUFFOLK MANOR APARTMENTS ON LAKE STREET TO WATCH A FIGHT ON DIXY DRIVE, AND A MINI RIOT BROKE OUT. KRAUS SAYS THE HOSTS OF THE PARTY, 40-YEAR-OLD ERICK GLODD AND 19-YEAR-OLD DOVANTE GLODD, WERE CITED FOR CONTRIBUTING TO THE DELINQUENCY OF A MINOR AND OPERATING A TEEN CLUB. HE SAYS THE TWO WERE CHARGING PEOPLE TO GET INTO THE PARTY AND SIXTY TO ONE HUNDRED ATTENDED.
FIRST BAPTIST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL IN LAFAYETTE WILL BE OPENING A HIGH SCHOOL BEGINNING IN AUGUST. THEY WILL BEGIN WITH NINTH GRADE IN THE NEXT SCHOOL YEAR, AND ADD ONE GRADE LEVEL EACH YEAR THROUGH THE 12TH GRADE. THE CHURCH ANNOUNCED IN A NEWS RELEASE THAT THEY WILL OFFER A COLLEGE PREP, TOPS ELIGIBLE CURRICULUM WITH A CHRISTIAN WORLD VIEW IN ALL SUBJECTS. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OPENED THE SCHOOL IN 1986, AND CURRENTLY HAS 175 STUDENTS.
FOUR PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH BRINGING CONTRABAND INTO THE ACADIA PARISH JAIL. AMONG THE FOUR ARE THREE INMATES…KENNY LEGER AND JOSEPH HARRISON OF CHURCH POINT, AND DWAYNE DOMINGUE OF RAYNE. THE FOURTH PERSON ARRESTED, 26-YEAR-OLD NADASHIA TOREKA JULIAN OF RAYNE, ALLEGEDLY SUPPLIED CONTRABAND AND CASH TO THE THREE INMATES, WHICH WAS DELIVERED BY ANOTHER PERSON. POLICE SAY THEY EXPECT TO MAKE MORE ARRESTS.
Former Louisiana health secretary Bruce Greenstein is asking a judge to throw out his perjury indictment because the attorney general’s office released his grand jury testimony to the public. Lawyers for Greenstein filed the motion Wednesday with Judge Louis Daniel, saying the release of the testimony violated Louisiana’s grand jury secrecy laws. They say the attorney general’s office didn’t follow the proper process for unsealing a transcript. Greenstein was indicted in September on nine perjury charges stemming from an investigation into a now-canceled $200 million Medicaid contract.
