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Court records show a member of a white supremacist prison gang has pleaded guilty in Louisiana to a federal criminal charge stemming from the 2016 killing of a fellow alleged gang member. The records unsealed on Tuesday indicate 38-year-old Jeremy Wade Jordan of Orange, Texas, pleaded guilty on March 2 to the first of two counts in his indictment. The first count in his Dec. 14 indictment charged Jordan with “violent crimes in aid of racketeering” in the murder of Clifton Hallmark of Shreveport. A separate indictment, also unsealed Tuesday, charges seven other alleged members or associates of the prison-based Aryan Circle gang with being accessories after the fact in Hallmark’s slaying. KLFY-TV has reported that Hallmark was fatally shot July 1, 2016, during an argument in Turkey Creek.
A SULPHUR CITY COUNCILMAN WANTS SOMETHING DONE ABOUT THE TRAFFIC CONGESTION ON MAPLEWOOD DRIVE. COUNCILMAN STUART MOSS SAYS NOT ONLY HAS CONGESTION INCREASED, BUT SPEEDING HAS INCREASED AS WELL AND DRIVERS HAVE BEEN RUDE TO PEOPLE WHO LIVE ON THAT STREET. MOSS SAYS HE WANTS A MEETING WITH MEMBERS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT TO HELP EASE THE CONGESTION. NO MEETING HAS YET BEEN SET BUT DON DUBERVILLE WITH THE D-O-T-D SAYS THEY HAVE MET WITH MAYOR CHRIS DUNCAN AND PUT UP ADDITIONAL SIGNAGE AND MESSAGE BOARDS ALONG L-A- 108, WHICH IS THE CITIES SERVICES HIGHWAY.
LSU Eunice has named Byron Starks as head coach of its men’s basketball program. Starks, regarded as one of the top high school coaches in Louisiana, will lay the foundation for the start-up program that will begin play in the NJCAA for the upcoming 2018-2019 season. KATC-TV reports the hire is pending approval of the LSU Board of Supervisors. He comes to LSUE after a successful six-years at Lafayette Christian Academy.
Four people have been named as finalists to be Louisiana’s next higher education commissioner. The Board of Regents announced the contenders Tuesday. The Board of Regents intends to name the new commissioner at its April 18 meeting.
Joseph Rallo, commissioner since January 2015, plans to retire from the position that pays him $364,000 a year.
AN ACADIANA VETERAN, SET TO BE HONORED IN WASHINGTON, D.C. TODAY, BOARDED A FLIGHT LAST NIGHT TO THE NATION’S CAPITOL. THIS AFTER SEVERE WEATHER IN THE SOUTHEAST DELAYED HIS ORIGINAL FLIGHT OUT OF LAFAYETTE YESTERDAY. JEFF HORCHAK HAS MORE.
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MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY IS HOSTING THE DAUGHTER OF FIDEL CASTRO NEXT WEDNESDAY. ALINA FERNANDEZ WILL BE PRESENTING A READING FROM HER BOOK, “CASTRO’S DAUGHTER: AN EXILE’S MEMOIR OF CUBA” AT THE TRITICO THEATRE NEXT WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT SEVEN. IT’S PART OF THE 2018 BANNERS AT MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY SEASON. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROGRAM OR TICKETS, YOU CAN GO TO THE BANNERS WEBSITE AT BANNERS.ORG.
A CROWLEY MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED AFTER CHILD PORNOGRAPHY WAS FOUND ON HIS COMPUTER. STATE POLICE DETECTIVES INITIATED AN INVESTIGATION INTO POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY IN ACADIA PARISH LAST NOVEMBER. IT LED TO A SEARCH WARRANT FOR A COMPUTER BELONGING TO 42-YEAR-OLD DAMON BROUSSARD. HE WAS BOOKED INTO THE ACADIA PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER ON 15 COUNTS OF PORNOGRAPHY INVOLVING JUVENILES.
Louisiana Secretary of State Tom Schedler has returned to the state capitol for the first time since a lawsuit alleged he sexually harassed one of his employees for a decade. Schedler, Louisiana’s top elections official, appeared before the House Appropriations Committee for a budget hearing Tuesday. His attendance came less than a week after he publicly rejected calls to resign but said he won’t run for re-election next year. At a press conference last week, the Republican didn’t respond directly to the allegations but called the lawsuit “unfair.”
