3-23-26
A WELL-KNOWN ACADIANA BUSINESSMAN DIED SATURDAY. WALTER BROUSSARD WAS THE OWNER OF NUNU’S, WHICH STARTED AS A NEIGHBORHOOD GROCERY STORE AND BECAME A POPULAR BRAND FOR ITS UNIQUE PRODUCTS. THE FAMILY ISSUED A STATEMENT ANNOUNCING BROUSSARD’S PASSING. THEY SAID HIS LIFE AND LEGACY WILL CONTINUE TO BE CELEBRATED AND REMEMBERED BY ALL WHO LOVED HIM.
A TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD WOMAN FROM NEW IBERIA DIED EARLY SATURDAY AFTER BEING STRUCK BY A PICKUP TRUCK. GEORGE FAUST REPORTS.
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ONE PERSON WAS KILLED IN A HOUSE FIRE THAT BROKE OUT AT AROUND ONE-THIRTY SATURDAY MORNING IN EUNICE. THE VICTIM HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS FIFTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD DARRELL RIGMAIDEN. WHEN FIREFIGHTERS ARRIVED AT THE HOME ON MILL STREET, FLAMES WERE SHOOTING OUT OF THE MIDDLE OF THE HOME. FIRE CHIEF CHAISE BROWN SAYS THE FIRE WAS TRACED TO THE KITCHEN STOVE BUT THE EXACT CAUSE HAS NOT BEEN DETERMINED.
A HOUSE ON PAUL FRANK ROAD IN OBERLIN WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE SATURDAY. TWO VEHICLES WERE ALSO DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. EVERYONE IN THE HOUSE MANAGED TO GET OUT SAFELY. THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE IS UNDER INVESTIGATION BUT FIRE CHIEF LES KOLB SAYS IT DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE INTENTIONALLY SET.
THE STATE SENATE IS SET TO VOTE ON A BILL THAT WOULD CRIMINALIZE PROTESTS AT PLACES OF WORSHIP IN LOUISIANA. SENATE BILL THIRTY-FIVE WOULD ESSENTIALLY BAN PROTESTING WITHIN FIFTY FEET OF A CHURCH IF IT INTERFERES WITH WORSHIP. VIOLATERS COULD BE FINED UP TO FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS AND GET UP TO FIFTEEN DAYS IN JAIL. IF APPROVED, IT WOULD GO NEXT TO THE HOUSE FOR DEBATE.
A BILL WAS INTRODUCED IN THE STATE HOUSE WHICH SEEKS TO PREVENT SUICIDES AMONG STUDENTS. THE BILL BY DEMOCRAT DELISHA BOYD OF NEW ORLEANS WOULD REQUIRE HIGH SCHOOLS AND MIDDLE SCHOOLS IN LOUISIANA TO POST THE NATIONAL SUICIDE PREVENTION LIFELINE NUMBER, NINE-EIGHT-EIGHT, ON THE SCHOOL’S WEBSITE. IT WOULD ALSO REQUIRE IT TO BE PRINTED ON STUDENT I-D’S IF APPLICABLE. IN TWENTY-TWENTY-THREE, THIRTY-SIX LOUISIANA STUDENTS BETWEEN THE AGES OF TEN AND NINETEEN COMMITTED SUICIDE.
A DRIVER CRASHED HIS VEHICLE INTO A HOME ON NOTRE DAME DRIVE NEAR WESTGATE ROAD IN SCOTT ON SATURDAY JUST BEFORE ELEVEN. ONE PERSON INSIDE THE HOME WAS PINNED BENEATH THE VEHICLE, SUFFERING LIFE-THREATENING INJURIES, AND WAS FREED BY THE SCOTT FIRE DEPARTMENT USING A WINCH AND AIR BAGS TO REMOVE THE CAR. THE CRASH IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY THE DRIVER HAVING A MEDICAL EMERGENCY WHICH CAUSED HIM TO LOSE CONTROL. THE DRIVER WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL BUT HIS INJURIES ARE NOT CONSIDERED LIFE-THREATENING.
A SAINT MARTINVILLE MAN WAS CONVICTED THURSDAY OF SECOND-DEGREE MURDER. THIRTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD JOSHUA DAVIS CONFESSED TO SHOOTING JORDAN BULLIARD THREE TIMES BEFORE LEAVING THE AREA. THE MURDER WEAPON WAS FOUND IN DAVIS’ HOTEL ROOM AND HIS D-N-A WAS FOUND ON IT. DAVIS FACES MANDATORY LIFE IMPRISONMENT WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE WHEN HE IS SENTENCED ON MAY TWENTY-SIXTH.
