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A NEW FOUR STORY CONDOMINIUM DEVELOPMENT IS PLANNED FOR DOWNTOWN BROUSSARD. GROUND WILL BE BROKEN THIS SUMMER ON THE SAX CONDOMINIUMS, WHICH WILL GO UP AT THE SPLIT OF SECOND STREET AND MAIN STREET, JUST WEST OF ARCENEAUX PARK. IT WILL INCLUDE 24, ONE BEDROOM, 900 SQUARE FOOT CONDOS AND SIX, TWO BEDROOM UNITS. A STATUE WILL BE PUT UP IN FRONT OF THE DEVELOPMENT HONORING A FAMOUS BROUSSARD NATIVE, ILLINOIS JACQUET, WHO WAS THE FIRST RHYTHYM AND BLUES SOLO SAXOPHONE PLAYER.
A FISHERIES FACILITY IN CAMERON PARISH THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO OPEN IN 2006 MAY YET OPEN THIS SUMMER. SEA GRANT LOUISIANA AREA AGENT KEVIN SAVOIE SAYS THE PROBLEM HAS BEEN FINDING A PRIVATE PARTNER TO LEASE THE FACILITY AND OPERATE IT. SAVOIE SAYS THE MONEY FOR THE CAMERON FISHERIES FACILITY CAME FROM GRANT MONEY AS A RESULT OF HURRICANE DAMAGES. SOME LOCAL FISHERMEN AND SHRIMPERS HAVE EXPRESSED PESSIMISM ABOUT THE PROFITABILITY OF THE NEW FACILITY AS THEY TELL KPLC TV THAT THERE ISN’T MUCH DOCKING SPACE TO ACCOMMODATE BOATS.
EUNICE POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR A MAN THEY BELIEVE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR A SHOOTING AT KIM’S MARKET ON EAST LAUREL AVENUE. 21-YEAR-OLD DEMONDRE DESMOND TERRY IS WANTED ON CHARGES OF ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER AND AGGRAVATED CRIMINAL DAMAGE TO PROPERTY. HE IS CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS. POLICE CHIEF RANDY FONTENOT SAYS ONE PERSON WAS INJURED IN THE SHOOTING SATURDAY NIGHT, THOUGH HIS WOUNDS ARE NOT CONSIDERED LIFE-THREATENING.
Several Louisiana lawmakers have asked their California counterparts to remove an impending ban on alligator products. The News-Star reported Thursday that several state senators and representatives wrote a letter to the California Assembly about the ban, saying it threatens Louisiana’s economy and approach to wildlife conservation. The ban is set to go into effect on Jan. 1. Once endangered, there are now nearly 2 million wild alligators and about 300,000 farmed alligators.
TWO ACADIANA MEN WERE ARRESTED FOR MEDICAID WELFARE FRAUD. 52-YEAR-OLD HAROLD LEJEUNE WAS ARRESTED AFTER IT WAS DETERMINED HE RECEIVED TENS OF THOUSAND OF DOLLARS IN AID DESPITE HAVING AN INCOME THAT WAS DOUBLE THE MONTHLY LIMIT TO RECEIVE MEDICAID. 45-YEAR-OLD NORMAN MALLERY OF ST. MARTINVILLE WAS CHARGED WITH FILING OR MAINTAINING FALSE RECORDS AFTER CLAIMING HIS CHILD LIVED WITH HIM INSTEAD OF THE MOTHER, WHOSE INCOME WAS ABOVE THE ELIGIBILITY LIMITS. ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF LANDRY SAYS THESE TWO ARRESTS AND THREE OTHERS AROUND THE STATE HIGHLIGHT THE NEED TO VET THOSE APPLYING FOR BENEFITS.
TWO MEN HAVE BEEN INDICTED FOR THE MURDERS OF A LACASSINE COUPLE IN DECEMBER. A GRAND JURY INDICTED 21-YEAR-OLD JORDAN ALEXANDER LEGROS OF WELSH AND 23-YEAR-OLD JAVARI WAYNE GUIDRY OF HOUSTON ON TWO COUNTS OF SECOND DEGREE MURDER. WALTER AND DARLENE GOTREAUX WERE SHOT TO DEATH IN THEIR LACASSINE HOME DURING A ROBBERY ON DECEMBER 16TH. LEGROS AND GUIDRY WILL BE ARRAIGNED ON MONDAY.
COMPLAINTS FILED BY FIVE CROWLEY CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS AGAINST A POLICE OFFICER WERE HEARD ON THURSDAY. JEFF HORCHAK HAS MORE.
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Oil and gas companies made $244.3 million in high bids for federal leases in the Gulf of Mexico, about 37 percent above what the last gulf-wide sale generated in August and nearly twice as much as a sale a year ago. The Advocate reports the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said 30 companies bid on 227 tracts Wednesday, covering 1.26 million acres. More than 78 million acres were available, with 1.6 percent attracting bids.
