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A CROWLEY MAN WHO WENT ON A CRIME SPREE WAS ARRESTED FOLLOWING A POLICE CHASE. THE ACADIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS IT BEGAN AT AROUND EIGHT TUESDAY MORNING WHEN THIRTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD AARON SENEGAL TRIED TAKING CASH FROM A REGISTER AT A CONVENIENCE STORE AND THEN STOLE A CAR FROM THE PARKING LOT. HE WAS ALLEGEDLY INVOLVED IN A HIT-AND-RUN CRASH IN RAYNE AND ABANDONED THE CAR IN MORSE. HE THEN REPORTEDLY STOLE ANOTHER VEHICLE AFTER ENTERING A HOME AND STEALING THE KEYS. SENEGAL WAS ARRESTED FOLLOWING A POLICE CHASE THAT ENDED WHEN HE CRASHED THE VEHICLE ON SCHULE ROAD NORTH OF CROWLEY.
SOME COMEAUX HIGH STUDENTS ARE FACING CONSEQUENCES AFTER A SENIOR PRANK THAT WENT TOO FAR ON THE NIGHT OF APRIL NINTH. TRACY WIRTZ OF THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM SAYS THERE WAS VANDALISM AND DEFACING OF SCHOOL PROPERTY. SHE SAYS SCHOOL OFFICIALS KNOW OF TWENTY-FIVE STUDENTS WHO WERE INVOLVED, BUT NOT ALL OF THEM ARE SENIORS OR ATTEND THE SCHOOL. WIRTZ SAYS VIDEOTAPES ARE BEING REVIEWED TO FIND OUT EXACTLY WHO WAS INVOLVED AND THEIR ROLE IN THE INCIDENT.
GOVERNOR JEFF LANDRY SPOKE BEFORE THE HOUSE INSURANCE COMMITTEE YESTERDAY ABOUT A BILL THAT WOULD ADDRESS SETTING INSURANCE RATES. LANDRY SAYS ULTIMATELY, HE WANTS MORE POWER GIVEN TO THE INSURANCE COMMISSIONER TO SET AND REJECT RATES PROPOSED BY INSURANCE COMPANIES. HE THREATENED TO CALL A SPECIAL SESSION IF THE LEGISLATURE DOES NOT ENACT HIS PROPOSED REFORMS.
LAKE CHARLES POLICE HAVE MADE AN ARREST IN THE DEATH OF AN ELDERLY WOMAN IN JULY OF TWENTY-TWENTY-THREE. TWENTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD LORENZO JACKSON HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH FIRST-DEGREE MURDER AND FIRST-DEGREE RAPE AND HIS BOND WAS SET AT FOUR MILLION DOLLARS. SEVENTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD SHERRY VINCENT WAS ATTACKED WITH A CLAW HAMMER AND DIED SEVERAL DAYS AFTER THE ATTACK. LEAD INVESTIGATOR DETECTIVE SERGEANT GEORGE MILLER SAYS THAT D-N-A AT THE VICTIM’S RESIDENCE LED TO THE ARREST OF JACKSON.
A SHOOTING TOOK PLACE IN ABBEVILLE. GEORGE FAUST REPORTS.
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A LAFAYETTE COMPANY HAS BEEN ACQUIRED BY STONEPEAK, A NEW YORK INVESTMENT FIRM. DUPRE LOGISTICS HAS BEEN IN LAFAYETTE FOR FORTY-FIVE YEARS AND OPERATES A FLEET OF OVER SEVEN HUNDRED TRUCKS AND EMPLOYS A THOUSAND PROFESSIONAL TRUCK DRIVERS. THEIR HEADQUARTERS IS LOCATED AT TWO-OH-ONE ENERGY PARKWAY IN LAFAYETTE. TERMS OF THE DEAL HAVE NOT BEEN DISCLOSED.
THE LOUISIANA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION VOTED YESTERDAY TO END THE STATE’S ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROGRAM. THE REPEAL EFFORT WAS LED BY COMMISSIONER MIKE FRANCIS OF CROWLEY. THE ALLIANCE FOR AFFORDABLE ENERGY WAS CRITICAL OF THE DECISION, CALLING IT A BETRAYAL OF THE PEOPLE OF LOUISIANA. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LOGAN BURKE SAYS THE EFFICIENCY PROGRAMS COULD REDUCE HOME ELECTRICITY BILLS BY TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT, BUT NOW THAT WON’T BE AN OPTION.
THE FIRST SPECIAL OLYMPICS FOR SAINT LANDRY PARISH WAS HELD TUESDAY AT NORTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL IN OPELOUSAS. EXCEPTIONAL STUDENTS FROM THROUGHOUT THE PARISH TOOK PART IN EVENTS SUCH AS THE LONG JUMP, THE SOFTBALL AND TENNIS BALL THROWS, AND METER RELAYS. THE DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL EDUCATION FOR SAINT LANDRY PARISH, ALVADO WILLIS, SAYS SHE WAS HAPPY WITH THE TURNOUT. SHE’S LOOKING FORWARD TO ORGANIZING ANOTHER OLYMPICS FOR NEXT YEAR THAT, SHE SAYS, WILL BE BIGGER AND BETTER.
