4-18-23
BREAUX BRIDGE POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR A SUSPECT WANTED IN CONNECTION TO A SHOOTING ON WEST PATIN STREET. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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TWO PEOPLE WERE FOUND DEAD INSIDE A HOME IN LAFAYETTE PARISH YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. DEPUTIES RESPONDING TO A SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES CALL FOUND THE BODIES IN A HOME ON NORTH GIROURD ROAD. A SPOKESPERSON FOR THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS THE INCIDENT APPEARS TO BE DOMESTIC IN NATURE. NO FURTHER INFORMATION WAS MADE AVAILABLE.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE RICHARD NELSON OF MANDEVILLE HAS PULLED HIS PLAN TO ELIMINATE LOUISIANA’S INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX IN THIS LEGISLATIVE SESSION. HE CONCEDED THAT THE PLAN WAS TOO COMPLICATED AND UPSET TOO MANY SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS TO GET PASSED. THE PLAN WOULD HAVE REPLACED THE INCOME TAX WITH A HIGHER PROPERTY TAX AND SALES TAXES ON ITEMS AND ACTIVITIES THAT ARE NOW EXEMPT. NELSON IS RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR AND WILL PRESENT HIS PLAN TO VOTERS AS PART OF HIS CAMPAIGN.
A WATER OUTAGE IS SCHEDULED FOR THE TOWN OF ELTON TOMORROW. A WATER VALVE WILL BE REPAIRED. THE OUTAGE IS EXPECTED TO LAST ABOUT FIVE HOURS. ONCE THE WATER IS TURNED BACK ON, RESIDENTS WILL BE UNDER A BOIL WATER ADVISORY.
ANIMAL HOARDING IS ON THE RISE IN ACADIA PARISH WHICH IS LEADING TO OVERCROWDING IN THE PARISH’S SHELTERS. LISA PRIMEAUX, WHO’S BEEN RESCUING ANIMALS FROM EUTHANIZATION, TELLS KATC SHE WAS ON THE SCENE OF A HOARDING CASE THIS PAST SATURDAY INVOLVING THIRTY-THREE DOGS. SHE SAYS IT WAS THE FOURTH HOARDING CASE SHE’S BEEN ON THIS MONTH. BRYAN BORILL WITH THE ACADIA PARISH POLICE JURY SAYS THEY ARE IN THE EARLY STAGES OF REVISITING PLANS TO EXPAND THE PARISH SHELTER.
THE YOUNGSVILLE CITY COUNCIL WILL APPOINT SOMEONE TO FILL THE SEAT OF COUNCILMEMBER KAYLA MENARD REAUX AT A SPECIAL MEETING TOMORROW NIGHT. REAUX RESIGNED AT THE END OF MARCH FOLLOWING NEWS REPORTS ABOUT HER BEHAVIOR AT THE SCENE OF A NOVEMBER CRASH. ELEVEN PEOPLE HAVE APPLIED FOR THE INTERIM COUNCIL POSITION. A SPECIAL ELECTION FOR A PERMENANT REPLACEMENT WILL BE HELD IN OCTOBER.
Adult websites that don’t require their users in Louisiana to present proof of their age could face fines of $5,000 a day under a bill advancing in the House. Lawmakers in the state House overwhelmingly approved the measure on Monday and sent it to the Senate. The legislation would allow the state’s Attorney General to investigate and fine adult websites that do not comply with the state’s recently enacted age verification law. The bill is a companion to a law that went into effect at the start of the year that requires adult websites to screen their visitors using “reasonable age verification.”
NINETY-FOUR SHOTS WERE FIRED AT A HOME IN OPELOUSAS LAST NIGHT. THE HOME WAS LOCATED IN THE ONE HUNDRED BLOCK OF PAVY ROAD. A THIRTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD WOMAN IN THE HOME WAS TAKEN TO LAFAYETTE GENERAL BECAUSE OF A GUNSHUT WOUND TO THE ELBOW. AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE SHOOTING IS ONGOING.
