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A HOMOCIDE SUSPECT WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY IN NEW IBERIA. POLICE SPOTTED TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD REGINALD PETERS JUNIOR IN A STORE ON EAST DALE STREET AND CAPTURED HIM AFTER A BRIEF FOOTCHASE. AN ARREST WARRANT WAS OBTAINED BY POLICE ON THURSDAY FOR PETERS, WHO HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH SECOND-DEGREE MURDER. HE’S ACCUSED OF SHOOTING A MAN TO DEATH ON LASALLE STREET LAST MONTH.
ABOUT A HUNDRED PEOPLE GATHERED IN DOWNTOWN LAFAYETTE SATURDAY TO JOIN A NATIONAL PROTEST AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP. THE CROWD SIZE WAS CONSIDERABLE SMALLER THAN A PROTEST HELD IN THE SAME LOCATION TWO WEEKS AGO. ORGANIZER SALLY DONLON SAYS THEY ARE DEMONSTRATING THAT NOT ALL PEOPLE SUPPORT WHAT’S GOING ON IN WASHINGTON. SHE SAYS DEMONSTRATIONS LIKE THIS LET PEOPLE KNOW THEY ARE NOT ALONE AND THERE IS HOPE.
AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD GIRL WAS KILLED IN A THREE-VEHICLE CRASH ON L-A TWENTY-SIX NEAR ANDRUS COVE CEMETERY ROAD IN JENNINGS. STATE POLICE SAY, ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON, THE DRIVER OF A TOYOTA TACOMA HIT A TOYOTA COROLLA THAT WAS SLOWING DOWN BECAUSE ANOTHER VEHICLE IN FRONT OF IT WAS MAKING A TURN. THE CHILD, PENELOPE RICHARD OF TEXAS CITY, WHO WAS IN THE COROLLA, WAS TAKEN TO A HOSPITAL OUT OF THE AREA, WHERE SHE LATER DIED. NO CHARGES HAVE BEEN FILED BUT STATE POLICE ARE CONTINUING TO INVESTIGATE.
THE STATE HOUSE NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE IS EXPECTED TO HAVE A POTENTIALLY MARATHON HEARING AS THEY DEAL WITH CLOSE TO TWO DOZEN BILLS THAT WOULD REGULATE AND POSSIBLY BLOCK CARBON STORAGE. REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE BRETT GEYMANN OF LAKE CHARLES SAYS IT COULD BE A WILD RIDE. A SENATE COMMITTEE HAS UNANIMOUSLY ENDORSED A BILL BY GEYMANN AND STATE REPRESENTATIVE BOB HENSGENS THAT COULD BE A COMPROMISE TO OTHER BILLS THAT WOULD BLOCK UNDERGROUND CARBON STORAGE. SOME PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT CARBON DIOXIDE LEAKS FROM PIPELINES POLLUTING UNDERGROUND DRINKING WATER.
RAYNE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING AFTER TWO PEOPLE WERE SHOT. GEORGE FAUST REPORTS.
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AN ANNUAL EVENT CALLED “NICK DAY” WAS HELD SATURDAY IN LAFAYETTE TO HONOR THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF NICHOLAS ALFRED, WHO WAS MURDERED BY JUVENILES. THE EVENT PUT ON BY HIS MOTHER, JESSICA DUGAR, WAS DESIGNED TO EDUCATE YOUTH ABOUT GUN VIOLENCE. SHE TELLS KLFY TV THAT THEY WANT TO GIVE JUVENILES SOMETHING ELSE TO LOOK FORWARD TO SO THEY DON’T PICK UP GUNS. DUGAR IS PLANNING TO HOST ANOTHER NICK DAY NEXT YEAR IN HOUSTON, WHERE HE WAS SHOT AND KILLED, AND SHE’S HOPING TO GET A STREET RENAMED IN HIS HONOR.
AN EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD FROM CROWLEY WAS FOUND DEAD. MARKELL LAZARD WAS REPORTED MISSING ON SATURDAY. HE HAD BEEN WITH A GROUP OF PEOPLE AT A BEACH NEAR THE CALCASIEU RIVER IN OBERLIN. ALLEN PARISH SHERIFF DOUG HEBERT CONFIRMED THAT A BODY BELIEVED TO BE LAZARD WAS FOUND THIS MORNING AND FOUL PLAY IS NOT SUSPECTED BUT AN AUTOPSY WAS ORDERED.
HERE’S GEORGE FAUST WITH A TRAFFIC ALERT FOR SAINT MARY PARISH.
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