4-20-18
LAFAYETTE POLICE HAVE ARRESTED A FORMER U-L AND L-S-U FOOTBALL PLAYER AFTER A WOMAN ACCUSED HIM OF RAPING HER AT HER HOME. 24-YEAR-OLD JERYL BRAZIL WAS BOOKED SATURDAY ON A CHARGE OF THIRD DEGREE RAPE. HE FACES UP TO 25 YEARS IN PRISON IF CONVICTED. BRAZIL, WHO ALSO WAS ON THE U-L TRACK TEAM, WAS DISMISSED FROM L-S-U FOOTBALL IN 2013 AFTER SEVERAL ARRESTS.
THE CITY OF LAKE CHARLES IS HOSTING A RESIDENTIAL TRASH BASH AT THE CHENNAULT INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TOMORROW MORNING FROM EIGHT TO ELEVEN. THEY ARE ACCEPTING ALL KINDS OF TRASH INCLUDING ELECTRONICS, PRODUCTS WITH MERCURY, FLUORESCENT BULBS, FURNITURE, APPLIANCES AND MORE. THE EXCEPTIONS ARE CHEMICAL HOUSEHOLD WASTE, TIRES OR SCRAP IRON. THE CITY IS HOSTING THE TRASH BASH BECAUSE THEY QUALIFIED FOR THE CLEANEST CITY CONTEST AND WILL BE JUDGED ON MAY FIRST.
AN ERATH WOMAN WAS KILLED YESTERDAY TRYING TO CROSS L-A 14 IN VERMILLION PARISH. IT HAPPENED AT AROUND 12:30 P-M NEAR MARKLE ROAD, WHEN 59-YEAR-OLD GLORIA YANNA PARKED HER VEHICLE ON THE WESTBOUND SHOULDER AND GOT OUT TO WALK ACROSS THE HIGHWAY. SHE WAS HIT BY A TRUCK DRIVEN BY 28-YEAR-OLD KAITLIN ROGERS OF ERATH. THE VERMILLION PARISH CORONER’S OFFICE PRONOUNCED YANNA DEAD AT THE SCENE.
The Louisiana House has narrowly approved a $27 billion state operating budget for next year that could shutter health care services and would leave the popular TOPS college tuition program short of full financing. Lawmakers voted 55-47 for the spending plan for the financial year that begins July 1. Nearly all Democrats opposed the proposal. Thursday’s vote was a win for House Republican leaders who pushed for passage of a budget rather than wait to craft something in a special session as Gov. John Bel Edwards prefers. The debate now shifts to the Senate.
THIS WEEK, THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL BOARD VOTED TO HIRE TWO CLERKS FOR THE TRANSPORTATION OFFICE. THEIR JOB WILL BE TO ANSWER THE PHONE AND RESPOND TO COMPLAINTS AND INQUIRIES. SEVERAL BOARD MEMBERS SAID THEY HAVE HAD A NUMBER OF COMPLAINTS FROM PARENTS WHO CANNOT GET PEOPLE TO ANSWER THE PHONE OR CALL BACK. OFFICIALS SAID THAT’S BECAUSE THERE’S NOT ENOUGH STAFF AND THEY ARE STRETCHED THIN.
THE MAN FACING FIRST DEGREE MURDER FOR KILLING STATE TROOPER STEVEN VINCENT IS EXPECTED TO CLAIM INTOXICATION AS A DEFENSE, ACCORDING TO MOTIONS FILED BY THE DEFENSE. SPECIAL PROSECUTOR RICK BRYANT SAYS KEVIN DAIGLE WAS LEGALLY INTOXICATED WITH A BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL THAT WAS THREE TIMES THE LEGAL LIMIT AND WITH DRUGS IN HIS SYSTEM. HE TELLS KPLC TV THAT IT IS A DEFENSE IF A SUSPECT IS SO INTOXICATED AS TO NOT BE ABLE TO FORM SPECIFIC INTENT TO KILL. HOWEVER, BRYANT SAYS, THEY WILL BE ABLE TO PROVE THROUGH HIS ACTIONS, DEEDS AND WORDS THAT HE KNEW EXACTLY WHAT HE WAS DOING.
RAYNE POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR TWO MEN WANTED IN CONNECTION TO SHOTS FIRED AT A GAS STATION. JEFF HORCHAK REPORTS.
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An effort to prohibit Louisiana public schools from embarrassing or penalizing students because they have unpaid lunch debts won’t become state law. The Advocate reports the Senate Education Committee rejected the House-backed bill Thursday, voting 4-2 against it. Rep. Patricia Smith, the Baton Rouge Democrat who sponsored the proposal, says children shouldn’t be held responsible or humiliated for debts of parents. Organizations representing school boards, principals and superintendents opposed the measure, concerned it would leave school districts saddled with debt.
