3-3-22
A MISSING NEW IBERIA TEENAGER HAS BEEN FOUND SAFE, ACCORDING TO POLICE. NEW IBERIA POLICE HAD BEEN SEARCHING FOR THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD BAILEY FREDERICK, WHO WAS PICKED UP BY SOMEONE IN FRONT OF HER HOUSE SUNDAY. IT WAS FEARED SHE WAS IN IMMINENT DANGER. NO DETAILS HAVE BEEN RELEASED INTO WHAT HAPPENED TO HER.
A MAN WAS INJURED TRYING TO PUT OUT A FIRE AT A HOME IN THE THREE HUNDRED BLOCK OF PINTAIL DRIVE IN LAFAYETTE JUST BEFORE TWELVE THIRTY YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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HERE’S SYLVIA MASTERS AGAIN WITH THE LATEST COVID-NINETEEN NUMBERS FOR LOUISIANA.
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RESIDENTS ON SUNDALE DRIVE IN LAKE CHARLES ARE STILL DEALING WITH PILES OF DEBRIS FROM HURRICANE LAURA A YEAR-AND-A-HALF AFTER IT HIT. ONE OF THE RESIDENTS, DYLAN OLIVIER, TELLS KPLC TV THAT THE PARISH DID NOT PICK UP ON SUNDALE DRIVE DURING THE SECOND AND THIRD SWEEPS. CALCASIEU PARISH OFFICIALS SAY MISTAKES HAVE BEEN MADE WITH A FEW AREAS MISSED. THEY RECOMMEND HOMEOWNERS CONTACT THE PARISH DIRECTLY TO HAVE HURRICANE DEBRIS PICKED UP.
THE SAINT LANDRY PARISH COUNCIL VOTED LAST NIGHT TO REMOVE A CONFEDERATE MONUMENT IN FRONT OF THE PARISH COURTHOUSE. DISTRICT ATTORNEY CHARLES CRAVINS ASKED THE PARISH COUNCIL TO REMOVE THE STATUE. HE SAID EVERYDAY IT STANDS, IT REPRESENTS THE IDEA OF WHITE SUPREMACY. THE UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY PUT UP THE MONUMENT IN NINETEEN-TWENTY.
THE CITY OF YOUNGSVILLE IS MOVING FORWARD WITH DRAINAGE CONTROL PROJECTS THAT WILL INCLUDE THE CREATION OF A NEW VETERAN’S MEMORIAL PARK, WHICH WILL PAY TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO SERVED IN THE ARMED FORCES. A DRAINAGE POND WILL BE THE CENTERPIECE OF THE NEW PARK, WHICH WILL BE PLACED ON DONATED PROPERTY ON EAST MILTON AVENUE. MAYOR KEN RITTER SAYS CONSTRUCTION WILL BEGIN THIS YEAR AND IS EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED BY THE BEGINNING OF NEXT YEAR. HE SAYS THEY ARE TRYING TO PREVENT THE DAMAGING FLOODING THAT HAPPENED IN YOUNGSVILLE IN TWENTY-SIXTEEN.
Republican elected officials across the U.S. are criticizing President Joe Biden over his energy policies and want to ramp up domestic production to help wean the nation and its allies off oil from Russia. Governors, senators and state attorneys general from oil- and gas-producing states, including Louisiana, urged his administration to do more to boost production. The sanctions imposed by the U.S. and its allies on Russia for its war with Ukraine so far do not include oil and gas exports from the country.
ABBEVILLE POLICE HAVE ARRESTED FOUR PEOPLE IN CONNECTION WITH A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED LAST FRIDAY. AN INVESTIGATION DETERMINED THAT PEOPLE IN TWO VEHICLES WERE SHOOTING AT EACH OTHER ON SOUTH WASHINGTON STREET, NEAR WEST LAFAYETTE STREET AT AROUND ELEVEN-ELEVEN A-M. OFFICERS IDENTIFIED ONE OF THE SUSPECTS WHO WAS LATER FOUND IN A VEHICLE WITH SEVERAL OTHER OCCUPANTS. OFFICERS RECOVERED TWO RIFLES AND THREE HANDGUNS, INCLUDING ONE THAT WAS REPORTED STOLEN.
