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FIREFIGHTERS WITH THE LAFAYETTE FIRE DEPARTMENT RESPONDED TO A HOUSE FIRE YESTERDAY MORNING JUST AFTER TEN AT THE 200 BLOCK OF EIGHT STREET. TWO OTHER BUILDINGS WERE CLOSE TO CATCHING ON FIRE AS WELL. FIREFIGHTERS GOT THE FIRE UNDER CONTROL WITHING 10 MINUTES AND WERE ABLE TO KEEP THE FIRE FROM SPREADING TO THE NEIGHBORING BUILDINGS. THE HOUSE HAD MAJOR FIRE DAMAGE AND THE TWO ADJACENT BUILDINGS HAD MINOR DAMAGE. PEOPLE IN THE HOUSE SAID A MAN SET SEVERAL FIRES INSIDE. LAFAYETTE POLICE ARRESTED GILBERTO GARZA, 43, AND CHARGED HIM WITH SIMPLE ARSON. NO ONE WAS INJURED IN THE FIRE.
A KROTZ SPRINGS WOMAN WAS CONVICTED OF SECOND DEGREE MURDER.GERALD GRUENIC HAS THE STORY
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THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE ARRESTED THE SECOND SUSPECT IN THE SHOOTING DEATH OF JAYLON JOINER, A CARENCRO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT, WHO WAS SHOT WHILE HE WAS GETTING OFF A SCHOOL BUS. POLICE ARRESTED TODD ARCENEAUX JR AND CHARGED HIM WITH SECOND DEGREE MURDER.
LAFAYETTE FIREFIGHTERS RESPONDED TO A REPORTED VEHICLE FIRE YESTERDAY MORNING AROUND 3:15 AT DIEN’S AUTO SALVAGE AT 6157 JOHNSTON STREET. A PERSON DRIVING ON JOHNSTON CALLED AND REPORTED THE VEHICLE ON FIRE. WHEN FIREFIGHTERS ARRIVED, THEY FOUND FIVE VEHICLES AND A UTILITY TRAILER PARKED NEXT TO THE VEHICLES IN THE PARKING, ALL ON FIRE. ALL THE VEHICLES HAD MAJOR DAMAGE. THE BUILDING DID NOT HAVE ANY DAMAGE. THE FIRE IS UNDER INVESTIGATION.
THE HOMEGOING SERVICE FOR LAURITA D. PETE. EDUCATOR AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, WILL BE HELD TOMORROW AT 11AM AT MORNING STAR MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH, VISITATION WILL BE FROM TEN TO ELEVEN. THE WAKE SERVICE WILL BE THIS AFTERNOON FROM THREE TO FIVE AT MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH. PETE INVESTED HER LIFE IN OTHERS AS A LONGTIME MEMBER OF MORNING STAR MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH, SERVING 27 YEARS AS AN EDUCATOR IN THE ACADIA PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM AND SERVING 12 YEARS ON THE CROWLEY CITY COUNCIL. PETE WAS THE FIRST CERTIFIED AFRICAN-AMERICAN DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE CASE WORKER IN LOUISIANA AND WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN TO SERVE ON THE CROWLEY CITY COUNCIL.
