4-19-19
LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED LATE LAST NIGHT IN THE 16-HUNDRED BLOCK OF NORTH UNIVERSITY AVENUE. JEFF HORCHAK REPORTS.
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TELLURIAN ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY THAT FEDERAL REGULATORS HAVE APPROVED THEIR PLANS FOR A LIQUIFIED NATURAL GAS FACILITY IN LAKE CHARLES AS WELL AS A 96 MILE LONG PIPELINE TO GET NATURAL GAS FROM MAJOR PIPELINE HUBS. THE COMPANY STILL SAYS THEY NEED TO SEE HOW NEGOTIATIONS GO WITH POTENTIAL INVESTORS AND PARTNERS BEFORE MAKING ITS DECISION ON GOING AHEAD WITH THE PROJECT. THE DRIFTWOOD L-N-G PROJECT WOULD SUPPORT 64-HUNDRED CONSTRUCTION JOBS AND AROUND THREE HUNDRED PERMANENT JOBS. TELLURIAN IS ALSO AWAITING A PERMIT FROM THE U-S ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS AND A DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ORDER FOR NON-FREE TRADE AGREEMENT EXPORTS, BUT THEY EXPECT THAT TO COME SOON.
A crowdfunding drive to help rebuild three African American churches gutted by arson fires in St. Landry parish has surpassed its original $1.8 million goal. A spokeswoman for GoFundMe says in a Thursday email that people in all 50 states and around the world have made more than 35,000 donations. Donations totaled more than $1.97 million as of Thursday afternoon. The money is to be distributed equally among the three century-old St. Landry Parish churches: St. Mary Baptist Church, Greater Union Baptist Church and Mount Pleasant Baptist Church.
Louisiana’s legislative leaders are proposing to raise spending on their own agencies by $12 million next year, even as they sit on hefty surpluses. The budget proposal for legislative agencies was filed late Wednesday by House Speaker Taylor Barras. Barras’ bill would spend $97.6 million in the financial year that begins July 1 for the House, Senate, legislative auditor and other offices that work for lawmakers. Plus, the agencies receive an additional $10 million annual earmark that’s not included in the bill’s tally.
SIX RESIDENTS FROM A LAFAYETTE NEIGHBORHOOD WANT A JUDGE TO THROW OUT A LAWSUIT CHALLENGING THE CHARTER AMENDMENT ELECTION. LAST DECEMBER, VOTERS APPROVED THE AMENDMENT CREATING SEPARATE CITY AND PARISH COUNCILS, BUT THERE WERE PROBLEMS WITH DISTRICT BOUNDARIES. THE LAWSUIT BY BUSINESSMAN KEITH KISHBAUGH SEEKS TO OVERTURN A COUNCIL ORDINANCE TO CORRECT THE PROBLEM AND ULTIMATELY SEEKS TO HOLD A NEW ELECTION. THE SIX RESIDENTS OF THE ELMHURST PARK NEIGHBORHOOD SAY THAT KISHBAUGH FILED HIS LAWSUIT TOO LATE AND IT SHOULD BE DISMISSED.
The Environmental Protection Agency says cleanup of a DeRidder site, contaminated with a heavy-duty wood preservative, should be complete by 2027.
The American Press reports EPA Remedial Project Manager Mike Hebert outlined the cleanup process to the DeRidder City Council last week. The 55-acre site was placed on the national priorities list last year. Hebert says preliminary assessments have found issues including soil contamination and piles of the preservative creosote.
A JEANERETTE MAN IS FACING MULTIPLE CHARGES AFTER ATTEMPTING TO FLEE FROM DEPUTIES WITH THE JEANERETTE MARSHAL’S OFFICE. CITY MARSHAL PAC-MAN MARTIN SAYS THIRTY-YEAR-OLD JOSEPH SAM THE THIRD LOST CONTROL OF HIS VEHICLE WHILE TRYING TO FLEE AND THEN TOOK OFF ON FOOT BEFORE EVENTUALLY BEING CAPTURED IN A CANE FIELD. A DEPUTY FOUND AN ORANGE JUICE CONTAINER DURING THE INVESTIGATION CONTAINING MARIJUANA WITH A STREET VALUE OF ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS. SAM HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE, RECKLESS OPERATION, AGGRAVATED FLIGHT AND DRIVING UNDER SUSPENSION.
A KROTZ SPRINGS MAN WAS KILLED IN A TWO VEHICLE CRASH ON L-A 105 BETWEEN MELVILLE AND KROTZ SPRINGS YESTERDAY EVENING. A SPOKESMAN WITH STATE POLICE TROOP I SAYS 21-YEAR-OLD MICKEY O’CONNOR WAS DRIVING NORTH WHEN HE CROSSED THE CENTER LINE AND HIT ANOTHER CAR HEAD-ON. O’CONNOR, WHO WAS NOT WEARING A SEAT BELT, WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE LATER DIED. THE DRIVER OF THE OTHER VEHICLE, WHO WAS WEARING A SEATBELT, WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WITH MODERATE INJURIES.
