4-15-25
LOUISIANA STATE POLICE HAVE ISSUED A LEVEL TWO ENDANGERED MISSING CHILD ADVISORY FOR THE LAFAYETTE POLICE DEPARTMENT. GEORGE FAUST REPORTS.
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A FORTY-YEAR-OLD MAN WAS SHOT AT A RESIDENCE ON JANE STREET IN NEW IBERIA YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT OF NON-LIFE-THREATENING INJURIES. POLICE LEARNED THE SHOOTING WAS THE RESULT OF AN ARGUMENT BETWEEN TWO FAMILY MEMBERS. THE ALLEGED SHOOTER WAS LOCATED DRIVING ON AUDRY STREET AND WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY WITHOUT INCIDENT.
TWO MORE ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE IN A DEADLY SHOOTING AND CRASH THAT CLAIMED THE LIFE OF DAVID HERNANDEZ ON THE NIGHT OF MARCH NINTH. NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD COLTON RYAN SMITH OF VINTON WAS ARRESTED IN MINNEAPOLIS LAST WEEK ON A WARRANT ISSUED BY THE LAKE CHARLES POLICE DEPARTMENT. HE WILL BE EXTRADITED TO LAKE CHARLES WHERE HE WILL FACE A CHARGE OF SECOND-DEGREE MURDER. ALSO LAST WEEK, A JUVENILE WAS ARRESTED BY LAKE CHARLES POLICE FOR PRINCIPAL TO SECOND-DEGREE MURDER.
GOVERNOR JEFF LANDRY OPENED THE REGULAR SESSION OF THE LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE WITH A SIXTY-THREE MINUTE SPEECH. HIS FOCUS WAS ON THE INSURANCE CRISIS. HE BLAMED BOTH TRIAL LAWYERS AND INSURANCE COMPANIES FOR THE HIGH INSURANCE RATES. LEGISLATORS WILL BEGIN DEBATING INSURANCE BILLS TODAY WITH A GOAL OF GETTING LEGISLATION APPROVED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
A BILL IN THE STATE HOUSE WOULD CUT BACK ON THE TIME PEOPLE CONVICTED OF CRIMES HAVE TO REDUCE OR OVERTURN THEIR SENTENCES. IT WOULD ALSO GIVE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL MORE POWER OVER THE PROCESS. ATTORNEY GENERAL LIZ MURRILL, WHO SUPPORTS THE BILL, SAYS THIS WOULD PREVENT VICTIMS FROM WAITING FOR DECADES TO SEE JUSTICE DONE. SOME CRIMINAL JUSTICE ADOVCATES OPPPOSE THE BILL SAYING IT WOULD INCREASE THE CHANCES OF AN INNOCENT PERSON STAYING IN JAIL OR BEING EXECUTED.
THE LAFAYETTE POLICE DEPARTMENT COMPLETED A MONTHS-LONG RED LIGHT CAMPAIGN ON FRIDAY. THE FOCUS OF THE CAMPAIGN WAS DRIVERS WHO COMMITTED RED LIGHT VIOLATIONS. POLICE OFFICERS HANDED OUT FOUR HUNDRED CITATIONS TOTAL AS THEY MONITORED MAJOR INTERSECTIONS THROUGHOUT THE CITY. TRAFFIC OFFICERS WILL CONTINUE ROUTINE MONITORING OF INTERSECTIONS FOR RED LIGHT VIOLATERS.
SAINT LANDRY PARISH CLERK OF COURT CHARLES JAGNEAUX WILL BE OPENING AN ELECTION AND ARCHIVE CENTER IN OPELOUSAS BY THE END OF NEXT MONTH. IT WILL HAVE GENERATIONS WORTH OF ARCHIVES AND COURT RECORDS. HE SAYS IT’S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR GENEALOGICAL TOURISM. JAGNEAUX TELLS KLFY TV HE WANTED TO PROVIDE A SPACE FOR TOURISTS AND RESIDENTS TO LOOK THROUGH THE PARISH RECORDS AND READ TANGIBLE DOCUMENTS WITH THEIR ANCESTOR’S SIGNATURE FOR THEMSELVES.
AN AUDIT OF L-S-U-EUNICE FOUND SEVERAL ACCOUNTING DEFICIENCIES, SOME REPEATED FROM PREVIOUS YEARS. THE LOUISIANA LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR’S OFFICE CONDUCTED THE AUDIT COVERING A TWO-YEAR PERIOD ENDING JUNE THIRTIETH. FOR THE THIRD YEAR IN A ROW, THEY FOUND THE UNIVERSITY DID NOT HAVE ADEQUATE CONTROLS OVER STUDENT REFUNDS AND DID NOT SUBMIT PAST-DUE STUDENT ACCOUNTS FOR COLLECTIONS TO THE STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE, ACCORDING TO STATE LAW. CHANCELLOR NANCEE SORENSON SAYS THEY HAVE NEW SOFTWARE THAT WILL BE FULLY OPERATIONAL IN THE FALL AND THAT WILL REMEDY THE SITUATION.
