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Two firefighters have been hurt while battling a blaze at an apartment complex yesterday morning in Lafayette. Lafayette Fire Chief Robert Benoit said 65 firefighters were called to the blaze at the Maison Lafitte Apartments. It appeared no one else was hurt. One firefighter suffered a muscle injury and was taken to a hospital while the second firefighter suffered flash burns.
EXCESSIVE SPEED IS BEING BLAMED AS THE CAUSE OF A FATAL ACCIDENT ON I-TEN IN CALCASIEU PARISH SUNDAY NIGHT. TROOPER DEREK SENEGAL SAYS 27-YEAR-OLD SHERICE DENNE RANDELL OF VINTON WAS TRAVELING AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED ABOUT A MILE WEST OF THE CREOLE EXIT WHEN SHE CHANGED LANES, CLIPPING THE FRONT OF A PICKUP TRUCK. BOTH DRIVERS LOST CONTROL, TRAVELING OFF THE ROAD AND THE PICKUP STRUCK A TREE. A PASSENGER IN THE PICKUP TRUCK, 51-YEAR-OLD ELIZABETH KENT OF IOWA, WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL, WHERE SHE LATER DIED.
JEFF HORCHAK HAS AN UPDATE ON A SUSPECTED DRUNK DRIVING ACCIDENT IN VERMILLION PARISH OVER THE WEEKEND.
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Politicians and schools are now playfully competing for one Louisiana girl’s college enrollment after she mistakenly applied to the wrong community college over the weekend. Kaitlynn Lovelady mistakenly applied to Salt Lake Community College in Utah instead of South Louisiana Community College when trying to enroll in a summer class. Both use the same acronym, SLCC. Her Twitter post about the mistake led to a back and forth between the lieutenant governors of Utah and Louisiana over which state is better and competing hashtags.
DUSON POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR THE DRIVER OF A TRUCK THAT WAS STOLEN SUNDAY NIGHT FROM A RESIDENCE IN MAURICE. POLICE CHIEF KIP JUDICE SAYS AN OFFICER SPOTTED THE TRUCK AND TRIED TO PULL IT OVER BUT THE DRIVER SPED AWAY. THE CHASE ENDED WHEN THE DRIVER OF THE TRUCK HIT A PARKED CAR. JUDICE SAYS SIX PEOPLE EXITED THE VEHICLE AND RAN AWAY, AND THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO CAPTURE THEM, EVEN WITH THE HELP OF K-9S. THERE WAS ANOTHER VAN STOLEN FROM THE SAME RESIDENCE IN MAURICE AT MIDNIGHT SUNDAY AND POLICE ARE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR IT.
THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS ASKING THE PUBLIC’S HELP IN NABBING TWO ARMED ROBBERY SUSPECTS. A MAN IN A CASINO PARKING LOT WAS ROBBED AT GUNPOINT BY THE TWO MEN AT AROUND 1:30 A-M ON FEBRUARY 25TH AS HE WAS WALKING TO HIS TRUCK. KIM MYERS OF THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS SURVEILLANCE VIDEO SHOWS THE SUSPECTS EXITED A BLACK S-U-V PRIOR TO THE ROBBERY. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON THE ROBBERY IS ASKED TO CALL CRIME STOPPERS AT 439-2222.
MARTIN PARISH PRESIDENT CHESTER CEDARS HAS DECLARED A STATE OF EMERGENCY BECAUSE OF THE IMMENENT THREAT OF FLOODING TO THE ATCHAFALAYA RIVER. THE ATCHAFALAYA AND MISSISSIPPI RIVERS ARE CONNECTED TO BODIES OF WATER THAT HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO CAUSE FLOODING AND DAMAGE TO LOWER ST. MARTIN PARISH. STARTING TOMORROW, SANDBAGS WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM EIGHT TO FIVE SEVEN DAYS A WEEK AT STEPHENSVILLE PARK OFF OF L-A 70 IN STEPHENSVILLE. MORGAN CITY OFFICIALS HAVE ORDERED THE CLOSURE OF FLOODGATES THERE BECAUSE OF THE HEIGHTH OF THE ATCHAFALAYA RIVER,WHICH IS COVERING THE WHARF.
LOUISIANA HAS BEEN DECLARED THE SIXTH MOST SINFUL STATE, ACCORDING TO WALLETHUB, WHICH USED DATA RELATED TO THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS. LOUISIANA RANKED WORST IN THE CATEGORY OF LAZINESS, AT SECOND, AND ALSO FINISHED THIRD IN VICES, AND FIFTH IN BOTH LUST AND ANGER. NEVADA WAS RANKED AS THE OVERALL MOST SINFUL STATE.
