3-17-22
A WOMAN SHOT SEVERAL TIMES THROUGH HER FRONT DOOR HAS BEEN RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS’ PLANNED TRIP TO SUNSET TOMORROW HAS BEEN DELAYED. INSTEAD, SHE WILL BE COMING ON MONDAY. IT’S SPECULATED THAT THE REASON FOR THE RESCHEDULED VISIT IS BECAUSE HER HUSBAND WAS DIAGNOSED WITH COVID-NINETEEN ON TUESDAY. THE VICE PRESIDENT’S VISIT IS PART OF AN EFFORT TO HIGHLIGHT THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S WORK TO EXPAND HIGH SPEED INTERNET TO RURAL AREAS.
A federal magistrate judge says the Port of Lake Charles owes $124.5 million to owners of a $50 million grain export terminal because the port failed to get federal permits for dredging required by its lease. Lake Charles port director Richert Self told the American Press on Wednesday that if he cannot get the case retried, he will appeal Monday’s ruling by Magistrate Judge Kathleen Kay. She ruled in July 2020 that the Lake Charles Harbor and Terminal District had broken its contract with terminal owner Infrastructure Funding Group Port Holdings LLC and owed triple damages. Monday’s ruling sets damages and explains how they were determined.
THE LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE IS MAKING SURE STUDENTS, WHO WERE HEAVILY IMPACTED BY HURRICANE IDA, WILL STILL GET THEIR CHANCE AT TOPS SCHOLARSHIPS. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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THE SCOTT POLICE DEPARTMENT IS ASKING FOR THE PUBLIC’S HELP TO FIND A PERSON OF INTEREST IN THE CASE OF ELLA GOODING, WHO HAS BEEN MISSING SINCE MARCH NINTH. BRANDON JERMAINE FRANCISCO IS BELIEVED TO BE THE LAST PERSON TO SEE GOODING. THERE’S AN ACTIVE ARREST WARRANT FOR FRANCISCO FOR MISSING A COURT APPEARANCE IN RAPIDES PARISH, WHICH WAS ALSO THE DAY GOODIE WAS LAST SEEN. ANYONE WHO KNOWS THE LOCATION OF FRANCISCO IS URGED TO CALL THE SCOTT POLICE DEPARTMENT OR THEIR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.
A GUN, REPORTED STOLEN BY LAKE CHARLES POLICE, WAS RECOVERED DURING A TRAFFIC STOP IN NEW IBERIA TUESDAY. FORTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD ABUDEL PROVOST WAS PULLED OVER FOR A TRAFFIC VIOLATION ON BANK AVENUE. THE GUN, A SIG-THREE-EIGHTY, WAS FOUND DURING A SEARCH OF THE VEHICLE ALONG WITH MARIJUANA, COCAINE, ECSTASY PILLS, METH, AND A SCALE. PROVOST HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH NUMEROUS FELONIES INCLUDING POSSESSION OF A STOLEN FIREARM AND POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE.
The U.S. Department of Energy has given a liquefied natural gas exporter operating in Louisiana and Texas permission for additional sales to every country in Europe as they seek to move away from Russian supplies amid Russia’s war on Ukraine. Cheniere Energy Inc. owns the Sabine Pass facility in Louisiana and its Corpus Christi plant in Texas. It says they’ve been improved and are making more gas than previous permits covered. The American Petroleum Institute’s vice president for natural gas markets says that, as Europe works to move away from Russian oil and gas, “the world needs every molecule it can get” from other sources.
RAYNE POLICE ARRESTED A MAN WHO ALLEGEDLY COMMITTED AN ATTEMPTED MURDER IN JANUARY. AN ANONYMOUS TIP LED RAYNE POLICE TO MAKE THE ARREST OF TONY WASHINGTON JUNIOR IN THE SEVEN HUNDRED BLOCK OF HOLT STREET. WASHINGTON WAS FEATURED ON ACADIA CRIME STOPPERS TUESDAY, AS RAYNE POLICE WERE TRYING TO FIND HIM. HE WAS ARRESTED WITHOUT INCIDENT.
