KAJN Jesus FM 102.9


3-12-15

THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL BOARD FINANCE COMMITTEE VOTED 2-TO-1 AGAINST RAISING THE STUDENT TEACHER CLASSROOM RATIO IN ORDER TO HELP REDUCE A PROJECTED 18-POINT-1 MILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT FOR THE NEXT SCHOOL YEAR.  INTERIM SUPERINTENDENT BURNELL LEJEUNE SUGGESTED ADDING ONE STUDENT TO EACH CLASSROOM, WHICH WOULD MEAN THEY COULD ELIMINATE 70 TEACHING POSITIONS.  BOARD MEMBER TEHMI CHAISSON, A MEMBER OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE, PROPOSED EXHAUSTING ALL BUDGET OPTIONS FIRST BEFORE ADDRESSING CLASS SIZES.  BUDGET TALKS BY THE FULL BOARD WILL BEGIN IN APRIL.

THE STATE OF LOUISIANA IS BROKE, ACCORDING TO STATE SENATOR DAN BLADE MORRISH OF JENNINGS.  HE MADE THE OBSERVATION AT THE JEFF DAVIS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE’S ANNUAL LEGISLATIVE BREAKFAST.  MORRISH SAYS HE EXPECTS THIS YEAR’S LEGISLATIVE SESSION TO BE THE MOST CONTENTIOUS IN HIS 19 YEARS IN OFFICE, AS THEY WORK TO BALANCE A BUDGET THAT HAS A PROJECTED ONE-POINT-6 BILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT.  STATE REPRESENTATIVE JOHNNY GUINN OF JENNINGS MADE A VOW THAT HE WILL NOT SUPPORT ANY LEGISLATION THAT HURTS THE PEOPLE OF LOUISIANA.

A FRANKLIN MAN WAS SENTENCED YESTERDAY TO 78 MONTHS IN PRISON FOR HAVING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY.  POLICE SEARCHED 37-YEAR-OLD TOMMIE JOSEPH BEASON’S COMPUTER LAST JUNE AND FOUND 230 IMAGES AND 88 VIDEOS OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY.  BEASON IN OCTOBER PLEADED GUILTY TO ONE COUNT OF POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY.  JUDGE RICHARD HAIK ALSO SENTENCED BEASON TO FIVE YEARS OF SUPERVISED RELEASE.

Treasurer John Kennedy is balking at Gov. Bobby Jindal’s proposal to sell the remaining piece of Louisiana’s tobacco settlement for upfront cash to pay for Louisiana’s free college tuition program called TOPS.  The treasurer said Jindal has used too many quick fixes to drum up money to patch each year’s budget together. He said Wednesday that a tobacco settlement sale would be more of the same, describing it as “hocking the family silver to pay the rent” and a “fire sale.”

The sale would need legislative and other approvals.

A CARENCRO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT IS RECOVERING AFTER BEING HIT BY A SCHOOL BUS WHILE RIDING HIS BICYCLE.  JULIE DARCE REPORTS.

VOICER :22

GREENFIELD LOGISTICAL SOLUTIONS IS WANTING TO BUILD A WORKER VILLAGE WITH UP TO 25-HUNDRED BEDS ON PROPERTY OWNED BY THE VINTON HARBOR AND TERMINAL DISTRICT.  SAMMY PATE, WHO IS WITH THE COMPANY, PRESENTED THEIR PLANS TO THE DISTRICT’S BOARD, WHICH VOTED 4-TO-1 TO REQUEST A ZONING EXCEPTION, SHOULD THEY APPROVE THE PROJECT.  THEY ARE EXPECTED TO TAKE A FINAL VOTE AT ITS APRIL MEETING.  THERE WERE SOME VINTON RESIDENTS ON HAND AT THE MEETING WHO OPPOSED THE PROJECT.

CROWLEY POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR A 15-YEAR-OLD GIRL.  DOMINISHA CONLEY LEFT HER HOME PRIOR TO 9:30 ON SUNDAY NIGHT.  CONLEY IS A BLACK FEMALE, FIVE-ONE IN HEIGHT, AND WEIGHING ABOUT 120 POUNDS.  IF YOU KNOW HER LOCATION, YOU ARE ASKED TO CALL THE CROWLEY POLICE DEPARTMENT AT 783-1234.

A trial for two Abbeville teens facing first-degree murder charges in the beating death of an Abbeville man has been delayed.  The Advocate reports District Judge Edward Broussard granted a continuance this week in the trials of Kiwane Narcisse and Tevin Johnson, both 19, who are accused in the death of 59-year-old Tam Ninh Thai.  Narcisse’s trial date was reset for May 4, and Johnson’s was reset for June 29.  A third teenager, 18-year-old Reco Davis, was sentenced in February to 40 years hard labor with 10 years suspended on a manslaughter conviction in Thai’s death.