4-25-24
A BICYCLIST IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION AFTER BEING HIT BY A VEHICLE LAST NIGHT ON THE EVANGELINE THRUWAY. LAFAYETTE POLICE DETECTIVES SAY A MAN ON A BICYCLE TRIED TO CROSS THE THRUWAY JUST SOUTH OF I-FORTY-NINE AT I-TEN AND WAS HIT BY A VEHICLE IN THE MIDDLE SOUTHBOUND LANE. THE DRIVER OF THE VEHICLE WAS UNINJURED. ALL THE SOUTHBOUND LANES WERE CLOSED AT AROUND EIGHT-THIRTY LAST NIGHT AND WERE REOPENED A LITTLE BEFORE ELEVEN-THIRTY.
AN OFFDUTY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER IN SAINT LANDRY PARISH WAS KILLED AND ANOTHER PERSON WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED IN A SHOOTING LATE TUESDAY NIGHT. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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Up to $20,000 is being offered for information leading to a criminal conviction or civil penalty involving a dolphin that was found shot to death in southwest Louisiana. Federal wildlife officials say a juvenile bottlenose dolphin was found shot to death March 13 along the coast of Cameron Parish. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says a necropsy showed multiple bullets lodged in the dolphin’s brain, spinal cord and heart. NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement is investigating the killing, which is prohibited under federal law.
A BILL THAT WOULD GIVE THE GOVERNOR MORE AUTHORITY OVER STATE BOARD AND COMMISSION APPOINTMENTS IS MOVING TO THE FULL SENATE. GOVERNOR JEFF LANDRY LOBBIED THE SENATE AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE YESTERDAY MORNING FOR A BILL BY STATE SENATOR VALERIE HODGES OF DENHAM SPRINGS. THE BILL WOULD ALLOW THE GOVERNOR TO APPOINT THE CHAIRS AND OFFICERS OF ALL STATE BOARDS. LANDRY SAYS THE CURRENT SYSTEM DOES NOT ALLOW NEWLY ELECTED GOVERNORS TO ENACT THEIR POLITICAL AND POLICY PRIORITIES SWIFTLY ENOUGH.
A BILL CALLING FOR A TWO-WEEK CONVENTION TO REWRITE THE STATE CONSTITUTION HAS ADVANCED OUT OF THE HOUSE AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE ON A PARTY-LINE VOTE. IT MOVES TO THE FULL HOUSE WHERE IT NEEDS A TWO-THIRDS VOTE TO MOVE IT TO THE STATE SENATE. THE ADVOCATE REPORTS THAT THE STATE SENATE HAS NOT YET SHOWN MUCH ENTHUSIASM FOR THE BILL. GOVERNOR JEFF LANDRY HAS PROMOTED THE BILL THIS WEEK ON RADIO TALK SHOWS AND PLANS TO PUSH IT AT A NEWS CONFERENCE TODAY IN BATON ROUGE.
A MOBILE HOME ON HOLLIER ROAD BETWEEN SCOTT AND DUSON IS A TOTAL LOSS AFTER A FIRE EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. A NEIGHBOR SPOTTED FLAMES ON THE PORCH AND ALERTED THE HOMEOWNER, WHO MANAGED TO ESCAPE SAFELY WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND, BUT A CAT IN THE HOME DIED. DUSON DEPUTY FIRE CHIEF GLENN CORMIER SAYS THE HOMEOWNER TOLD THEM HE WAS BURNING LOGS IN A FIRE PIT TUESDAY NIGHT AND THOUGHT THEY WERE OUT. THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE IS UNDER INVESTIGATION BUT CORMIER SAYS IT’S LIKELY ACCIDENTAL.
A FIRE STATION IN VILLE PLATTE WAS STRUCK BY STRAY BULLETS DURING A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED MONDAY NIGHT AT THE NEARBY GABRIEL VILLA APARTMENT COMPLEX. TWO FIREFIGHTERS WERE ASLEEP INSIDE THE STATION BUT NO ONE WAS INJURED. THERE WAS ONE PERSON INJURED IN THE SHOOTING AT THE APARTMENT COMPLEX, LOCATED ON LINCOLN ROAD. POLICE SERGEANT DARRIAN GUILLORY SAYS THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL OCCASIONS WHEN POLICE RESPONDED TO REPORTS OF SHOTS FIRED AT THAT COMPLEX, AND THE FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTEDLY SUSTAINED DAMAGE FROM THOSE SHOOTINGS AS WELL.
A WEST MONROE MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR THE MURDER OF A NEW IBERIA WOMAN. THE TORSO OF NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD SHERYL TURNER WAS FOUND BY A HUNTER IN THE OUACHITA RIVER IN CATAHOULA PARISH ON JANUARY TWENTY-FOURTH. TWENTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD ANTHONY HOLLAND JUNIOR WAS ARRESTED TUESDAY AND AUTHORITIES SAY HE CONFFESSED TO KILLING AND DISMEMBERING THE BODY OF TURNER. HOLLAND IS BEING HELD WITHOUT BOND ON A CHARGE OF SECOND-DEGREE MURDER.
