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THE JUDGE IN THE MURDER CASE OF IAN PAUL HOWARD SAYS HE BELIEVES THE TRIAL COULD TAKE PLACE EARLY NEXT YEAR. HOWARD IS CHARGED WITH FIRST DEGREE MURDER FOR THE SLAYING OF LAFAYETTE POLICE CORPORAL MICHAEL MIDDLEBROOK IN OCTOBER AND ATTEMPTED MURDER COUNTS FOR ALLEGEDLY SHOOTING THREE OTHER PEOPLE. PROSECUTOR ALAN HANEY TOLD JUDGE JULES EDWARDS THEY ARE READY TO GO TO TRIAL BUT EDWARDS DISPUTED THAT BECAUSE THEY DID NOT HAVE EVIDENCE RELATED TO VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENTS. HANEY SAID THAT WOULD BE READY BY MAY 30TH.
THE STARKS VOLUNTEER FIRE CHIEF, WHO RESIGNED SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, IS EXPLAINING WHY IN ORDER TO TAMP DOWN RUMORS THAT HAVE BEEN SWIRLING ONLINE. COREY BLANCHARD TELLS KPLC TV THAT IT WAS PUT OUT THERE THAT HE WAS DEMANDING A SALARY, WHICH HE DENIED. HE SAYS THE ISSUE WAS OVER A LACK OF TRAINING AND EQUIPMENT FOR FIREFIGHTERS. HE SAYS HE WAS OFFERED A TRUCK LIKE FIRE CHIEFS IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS HAVE, BUT HE WAS REQUIRED TO KEEP IT AT THE STATION, WHICH, HE SAYS, MADE NO SENSE.
A FUGITIVE, WHO HAS BEEN ON THE RUN SINCE SEPTEMBER, IS BEHIND BARS. JEFF HORCHAK HAS MORE.
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Louisiana senators want a federal court to approve the most restrictive abortion policy in the country before it takes effect in their home state. The Senate voted 31-3 Tuesday to prohibit abortions after 15 weeks . But the ban would begin only after a legal battle over the same policy plays out in neighboring Mississippi.
The proposal moves to the House.
Louisiana’s senators have agreed to allow the state’s riverboat casinos to move on land. The Senate voted 22-14 Tuesday for the proposal by Sen. Ronnie Johns, a Lake Charles Republican. The measure got two votes more than it needed. Passage to the House came after a heated debate about whether the bill’s provisions could be considered an expansion of gambling in a state with 15 riverboat casinos, video poker, a lottery, slot machines at racetracks and a land-based casino in New Orleans.
THE SCOTT CULTURAL DISTRICT HAS UNVEILED NEW SIGNS DEDICATED TO THE DISTRICT. THE ART DESIGNS ARE INSPIRED BY CULTURAL ASPECTS OF THE CITY…A PAINTBRUSH FOR ART, A SWIRL FOR BOUDIN AND A KEYBOARD FOR MUSIC. THERE ARE A TOTAL OF SEVEN SIGNS. THEY WILL BE PLACED AT EACH ENTRY POINT TO THE CULTURAL DISTRICT.
A KINDER MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED AFTER HE DROVE HIS CAR THROUGH PRIEN LAKE PARK IN LAKE CHARLES AND LEFT IT IN A DITCH. ONE WITNESS TOLD KPLC TV THAT THE MAN WAS DRIVING ERRATICALLY ON SIDEWALKS BEFORE CROSSING THE BRIDGE AND CRASHING IT INTO THE DITCH. HE WAS THEN SEEN RUNNING INTO THE WOODS BUT WAS ARRESTED ABOUT TWO HOURS LATER. THE MAN, 35-YEAR-OLD CORY HUMPHRIES, WAS ARRESTED ON NARCOTICS RELATED CHARGES AND OUTSTANDING WARRANTS AND HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AFTER THEY FOUND PROBLEMS WITH HIS SPEECH PATTERNS.
A PEDESTRIAN WAS HIT BY A VEHICLE IN BREAUX BRIDGE LAST NIGHT. ASSISTANT POLICE CHIEF TERRY LATIOLAIS TELLS KATC TV THE PEDESTRIAN WAS STRUCK BY A VEHICLE ON THE GRAND POINT HIGHWAY SOMETIME IN THE NINE O’CLOCK HOUR. THE PEDESTRIAN SUFFERED SEVERE INJURIES AND WAS AIRLIFTED TO A HOSPITAL. LATIOLAIS SAYS THE DRIVER HAS NOT BEEN CITED AT THIS TIME.
