3-25-19
THE VICTIM OF A SHOOTING LAST NIGHT AT A LAFAYETTE APARTMENT COMPLEX HAS DIED. JEFF HORCHAK REPORTS.
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A MAN DROVE A CAR INTO THE LAKE NEAR PRIEN LAKE PARK IN LAKE CHARLES LAST NIGHT AT AROUND SEVEN. CORPORAL LARRY MOSS SAYS THAT AFTER DRIVING INTO THE WATER, THE MAN EXITED THE VEHICLE. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR A PSYCHIATRIC EVALUATION. THERE WERE NO MAJOR INJURIES REPORTED AND POLICE ARE CONTINUING TO INVESTIGATE.
THE OWNER OF KBON, 101.1 FM OUT OF EUNICE HAS DIED. PAUL MARX PASSED AWAY YESTERDAY EVENING, ACCORDING TO A FACEBOOK POST BY HIS DAUGHTERS. KBON HAS BEEN PROMOTING CAJUN MUSIC FOR NEARLY 22 YEARS IN ACADIANA. MARX IS A MEMBER OF THE LOUISIANA MUSIC HALL OF FAME.
Louisiana’s attorney general says Gov. John Bel Edwards’ budget proposal for next year violates the state constitution. Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry issued his legal opinion Friday, in his latest dust-up with the Democratic governor.
A legal opinion doesn’t carry the force of law. But it could be used as the foundation for a lawsuit, if House Republican leader Lance Harris, who requested the opinion, or another GOP lawmaker decided to challenge the governor in court.
Home health company LHC Group is expanding its Lafayette headquarters. Local media report that Gov. John Bel Edwards and LHC Group Chief Executive Keith Myers announced the expansion Friday. The move will create 500 new jobs. Those jobs are expected to have an average salary of $40,000 with benefits.
THE SEARCH FOR A MAN, WHO WENT MISSING FROM A CARE CENTER IN LAKE CHARLES, HAS ENDED. 50-YEAR-OLD NEIL SWEAT OF LAKE CHARLES WAS FOUND SAFE AND SOUND IN BREAUX BRIDGE YESTERDAY. HE HAD BEEN REPORTED MISSING ON SATURDAY EVENING. THERE WAS CONCERN FOR SWEAT BECAUSE HE IS A DIABETIC.
A CROWLEY MAN, WHO GOT INTO A FIGHT WITH ANOTHER MAN AT A LOCAL RESTAURANT AT AROUND TWO SUNDAY MORNING, SAYS A POLICE OFFICER USED EXCESSIVE FORCE TO BREAK UP THE FIGHT. HOLLINS TRAHAN TELLS KLFY TV THAT THE OFFICER CAME UP BEHIND HIM AND TASED HIM LESS THAN AN INCH FROM HIS EYEBALL. HE SAYS THE OFFICER THEN REPEATEDLY TASED HIM WHILE HE WAS ON THE GROUND AND ASKED HIM OVER AND OVER IF THIS IS WHAT HE WANTED. POLICE CHIEF JIMMY BROUSSARD SAYS HE’S TAKING THE COMPLAINT SERIOUSLY AND HAS OBTAINED VIDEO FOOTAGE FROM THE RESTAURANT, WHICH HE WILL REVIEW.
Karen Carter Peterson, a state senator from New Orleans and chair of the Louisiana Democratic Party, admits to a gambling problem — minutes after WWL-TV posted a news story reporting that she had violated a ban on entering Louisiana casinos. The station reported a Louisiana State Police trooper issued her a misdemeanor summons for violating a self-imposed ban when she gambled at L’Auberge Casino in Baton Rouge last month. The Advocate reports a state police spokesman confirmed his agency issued the summons but declined to comment while the case is under review by East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore III. In an email Friday, Peterson said she has suffered from a gambling addiction for years.
