3-18-24
A JENNINGS MAN WAS KILLED IN AN A-T-V ACCIDENT IN JEFF DAVIS PARISH YESTERDAY. FIFTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD TERRY LEJEUNE WAS DRIVING A HONDA FOUR TRAX RANCHER ON KOLL ROAD WHEN HE LOST CONTROL AND OVERTURNED THE A-T-V. LEJEUNE SUFFERED SERIOUS INJURIES AND WAS BROUGHT TO THE HOSPITAL. HE DIED AT THE HOSPITAL AT AROUND FOUR FORTY-ONE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.
THREE PEOPLE WERE INJURED IN A SHOOTING IN LAFAYETTE OVER THE WEEKEND. GERALD GRUENING REPORTS.
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A SINKHOLE HAS LED TO THE CLOSURE OF A SECTION OF HIGHWAY TEN IN SAINT LANDRY PARISH. IT’S BEEN CLOSED BETWEEN L-A THREE-FIFTY-NINE AND U-S HIGHWAY SEVENTY-ONE. THE HIGHWAY WILL BE REPAIRED. THE ESTIMATED TIME OF REPAIR HAS NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED.
ABOUT FIFTY LOUSIANA NATIONAL GUARD SOLDIERS HAVE GONE TO THE TEXAS BORDER TO ASSIST IN OPERATION LONE STAR. GOVERNOR JEFF LANDRY APPROVED OF THE MOVE AFTER RECEIVING A REQUEST FOR HELP FROM THE STATE OF TEXAS. THIS IS THE FIRST OF THREE ROTATIONS THE LOUISIANA NATIONAL GUARD WILL SUPPORT WITH EACH ROTATION LASTING APPROXIMATELY THIRTY DAYS. THE NATIONAL GUARD SOLDIERS WILL ASSIST THE TEXAS NATIONAL GUARD WITH PATROLS ALONG THE BORDER TO PREVENT, DETECT AND DETER ILLIGAL IMMIGRANT CROSSINGS.
IT’S BELIEVED LIGHTNING WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR A HOME FIRE IN SCOTT FRIDAY NIGHT. BY THE TIME FIREFIGHTERS ARRIVED AT THE HOME ON PERRY OAK DRIVE, HEAVY SMOKE WAS EMINATING FROM THE HOME. THE WIND CONDITIONS AND A LACK OF WATER IN THE AREA HAMPERED THE EFFORTS OF THE FIREFIGHTERS, WHO TOOK ABOUT FIFTY MINUTES TO BRING THE FIRE UNDER CONTROL. NO ONE WAS INJURED IN THE FIRE BUT THE HOME IS CONSIDERED A COMPLETE LOSS.
THERE WAS A SHOOTING IN OPELOUSAS SATURDAY THAT LEFT ONE INJURED. OPELOUSAS POLICE RESPONDING TO AN EMERGENCY CALL FOUND ONE VICTIM AT THE SCENE OF THE SHOOTING ON WEST BLANCHARD STREET. THE VICTIM WAS SHOT IN THE HAND AND IS IN STABLE CONDITION. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON THE SHOOTING IS ASKED TO CALL THE OPELOUSAS POLICE DEPARTMENT.
LAST WEEK A LARGE MAJORITY OF THE U-S HOUSE VOTED FOR A BILL TO BAN THE SOCIAL MEDIA APP TIKTOK. AMONG THOSE VOTING AGAINST THE BILL WAS CONGRESSMAN CLAY HIGGINS, WHO REPRESENTS ACADIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. HE TOLD LAFAYETTE COMMUNITY MEMBERS AT A RECENT LUNCH THAT HE OPPOSED THE BAN OVER FREE SPEECH CONCERNS. THE U-S SENATE WILL CONSIDER THE BILL NEXT AND, IF IT GETS TO THE DESK OF PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN, HE SAYS HE WILL SIGN IT.
A SUSPECTED DRUG DEALER WAS ARRESTED FRIDAY AFTER SAINT MARTIN PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES EXECUTED A SEARCH WARRANT AT A RESIDENCE ON HUNTINGTON PLACE DRIVE IN BREAUX BRIDGE. DEPUTIES FOUND TWO-AND-A-HALF POUNDS OF MARIJUANA, THIRTY-THREE GRAMS OF CRACK COCAINE AND TWO FIREARMS. THIRTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD DEVRON RIGGS OF BREAUX BRIDGE WAS ARRESTED FOLLOWING THE SEARCH. HE WILL FACE SEVERAL DRUG AND WEAPONS CHARGES.
