3-24-22
THE POLICE CHIEF FOR CARENCRO SAYS A PHOTO ENFORCEMENT COMPANY BEGAN SENDING OUT CIVIL PENALTY FINES TO MOTORISTS WHO WERE SPEEDING THROUGH SCHOOL ZONES. POLICE CHIEF DAVID ANDERSON SAYS THE FINES ARE ANYWHERE FROM ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-EIGHT DOLLARS TO TWO HUNDRED SIXTY-SEVEN DOLLARS FOR THOSE GOING MORE THAN TWENTY MILES AN HOUR OVER THE SCHOOL ZONE SPEED LIMIT. HE SAYS THE CAMERAS WILL ONLY ISSUE TICKETS DURING REGULATED SCHOOL SPEED ZONE TIMES AND THE FINES DON’T GO ON YOUR RECORD. HE SAYS RECENTLY DURING A THIRTY DAY PERIOD, MORE THAN SEVEN HUNDRED WARNINGS WERE ISSUED FOR SPEEDING IN THE SCHOOL ZONES AND ABOUT FORTY-FIVE PERCENT OF THOSE WERE GOING MORE THAN TWENTY MILES AN HOUR OVER THE LIMIT.
OPELOUSAS POLICE ARE WORKING TO IDENTIFY A SUSPECT WHO SHOT AND KILLED A TWENTY-YEAR-OLD LATE TUESDAY NIGHT. CAROLINE MARCELLO REPORTS.
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The Oklahoma Air National Guard says a pilot ejected safely from an F-16 fighter jet before it crashed in Beauregard Parish. There were no reports of injuries on the ground after Wednesday’s crash. The family of the pilot identified him as Maj. Alexander Drummond, mission commander of the Tulsa-based 138th Fighter Wing of the Oklahoma Air National Guard. The Oklahoma National Guard said Drummond wasn’t injured seriously in the crash during a routine training mission out of Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston.
ONE PERSON WAS KILLED IN A TORNADO IN ARABI ON TUESDAY NIGHT, TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD CONNOR LAMBERT. CBS NEWS DAVID BEGNAUD IS REPORTING THAT LAMBERT GRADUATED FROM U-L LAFAYETTE WITH A MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEGREE. W-G-N-O T-V SAYS LAMBERT PARKED HIS TRUCK AT HIS HOUSE ON BENJAMIN STREET AND THE HOUSE EXPLODED WHEN HE GOT TO THE PORCH. HIS BODY WAS FOUND A BLOCK AWAY INSIDE ANOTHER HOUSE THAT ALSO REPORTEDLY EXPLODED, AND THE CAUSE OF DEATH IS BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA.
THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL BOARD UNANIMOUSLY VOTED TO PROVIDE INTERNET ACCESS TO STUDENTS ON THE NORTH SIDE OF LAFAYETTE. THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM WILL BE THE FIRST ENTITY IN THE STATE TO DEPLOY AN OUTDOOR WI-FI-SIX MESH NETWORK. THE FIRST PHASE WILL EXTEND THE SCHOOL SYSTEM’S FILTERED INTERNET CONNECTION FOR AN APPROXIMATE TWO-MILE RADIUS, REACHING ROUGHLY ELEVEN HUNDRED STUDENTS. THE NETWORK WILL BE FULLY LAUNCHED IN THE NEXT SCHOOL YEAR.
A NEW IBERIA FAMILY LOST EVERYTHING IN A HOUSE FIRE ON SUNDAY. THE CELESTINE FAMILY HAD JUST MOVED INTO THE HOME ON NECO TOWN ROAD, WHICH HAD JUST PASSED INSPECTION. THE FAMILY IS IN NEED OF MEN’S, WOMEN’S AND BABY CLOTHES. IF YOU’D LIKE TO HELP THE FAMILY, YOU CAN CALL THE CELESTINES AT TWO-FIVE-ONE-THIRTY-NINE-SIXTY-FIVE.
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO A CEREMONY OF APPRECIATION FOR SIX UNCLAIMED VETERANS, WHO WILL BE GETTING A PROPER BURIAL TODAY AT THE SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA VETERAN’S CEMETARY IN JENNINGS. THERE ARE THREE ARMY VETERANS, ONE MARINE AND TWO NAVY VETERANS. VETERAN’S AFFAIRS SECRETARY JOEY STRICKLAND SAYS EFFORTS WERE MADE TO LOCATE FAMILIES OF THE VETERANS BUT NONE WERE FOUND. THE CEREMONY BEGINS THIS MORNING AT ELEVEN.
RAYNE POLICE SAY A LAFAYETTE MAN WAS ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH A MARCH NINTH DRIVE-BY SHOOTING. TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD ALLANDREW COMPTON IS ACCUSED OF FIRING SHOTS FROM A VEHICLE AT FOUR PEOPLE STANDING NEAR A HOME ON LIVE OAK STREET. NO ONE WAS INJURED. COMPTON WAS ARRESTED TUESDAY IN LAFAYETTE WITH THE HELP OF LAFAYETTE POLICE AND FACES FOUR COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED SECOND-DEGREE MURDER.
