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SOME SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAVE DECIDED TO SHUT DOWN SCHOOLS FOR TODAY DUE TO EXPECTED SEVERE WEATHER. OFFICIALS IN JEFF DAVIS PARISH AND CALCASIEU PARISHES AS WELL AS ALLEN AND CAMERON PARISHES HAVE MADE THE DECISION TO CLOSE SCHOOLS TODAY. BEAUREGARD PARISH SCHOOLS WILL HAVE VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION. A FOUR-H ACHIEVMENT DAY WAS SCHEDULED FOR TODAY IN ACADIA PARISH. THAT HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR A LATER DATE.
THREE PEOPLE ARE INJURED INCLUDING A PEDESTRIAN AFTER A MAJOR ACCIDENT ON VEROT SCHOOL ROAD IN LAFAYETTE SATURDAY. GERALD GRUENING REPORTS.
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THE MAYOR OF ELTON WAS RECALLED IN AN ELECTION ON SATURDAY. THE MARGIN WAS TWO HUNDRED FIVE VOTES TO RECALL KEISA LEMOINE AND ONE HUNDRED NINETY-SEVEN VOTES AGAINST THE RECALL, AN EIGHT VOTE DIFFERENCE. MAYOR PRO TEM TONY GUILLORY WILL TAKE OVER AS MAYOR. HE TELLS KLFY NEWS TEN THAT THINGS ARE PRETTY SCRAMBLED RIGHT NOW AND THEY NEED TIME TO STEP BACK AND REGROUP.
THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION AT THE STATE CAPITOL IS JUST PAST THE MIDWAY POINT AND GOVERNOR JEFF LANDRY’S CONSERVATIVE AGENDA HAS MADE IT’S WAY OUT OF THE HOUSE. THE ADVOCATE NEWSPAPER IS REPORTING THAT IT MAY FACE MORE HURDLES IN THE STATE SENATE. THE BIGGEST QUESTION MARK IS THE GOVERNOR’S REQUEST FOR A SPECIAL CONVENTION ON MAY TWENTIETH TO REWRITE THE STATE CONSTITUTION FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FIFTY YEARS. SENATE PRESIDENT CAMERON HENRY TELLS THE ADVOCATE THAT THEY MOSTLY SUPPORT WHAT HAS BEEN SENT OVER BUT THEY SEE THEIR ROLE AS CLOSELY SCRUTINIZING LEGISLATION TO MAKE SURE LANDRY DOESN’T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKES THAT PAST GOVERNORS HAVE MADE.
A SALES TAX FOR IBERIA PARISH WAS APPROVED BY VOTERS SATURDAY. FIFTY-EIGHT PERCENT VOTED FOR THE SALES TAX THAT WILL BE USED FOR THE IBERIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE. THE MONEY RAISED WILL GO TOWARD PAYING SALARIES AND BENEFITS FOR CURRENT LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL. MEANWHILE A PROPERTY TAX RENEWAL FOR VERMILLION PARISH ROADS WAS REJECTED WITH FIFTY-TWO PERCENT VOTING AGAINST IT.
A LAFAYETTE MAN WAS KILLED JUST BEFORE ONE A-M FRIDAY WHILE WALKING ON EVANGELINE THRUWAY. SERGEANT ROBIN GREEN WITH LAFAYETTE POLICE SAYS SIXTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD ANTHONY DEROUEN WAS WALKING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD WITH TRAFFIC WHEN HE WAS STRUCK BY A VEHICLE. EARLIER IN THE WEEK ON TUESDAY, A BICYLIST WAS CRITICALLY INJURED ON THE THRUWAY WHEN HIT BY A VEHICLE. GREEN SAYS IN BOTH INSTANCES THEY HAPPENED LATE AT NIGHT OR EARLY IN THE MORNING.
A BICYCLIST WAS KILLED AT AROUND NINE THURSDAY NIGHT WHILE RIDING ON ZIN ZIN ROAD IN BREAUX BRIDGE. SHERIFF BECKET BREAUX SAYS SIXTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD SHELTON EDMOND OF BREAUX BRIDGE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE AFTER BEING HIT BY A VEHICLE. BREAUX SAYS THE DRIVER WAS NOT IMPAIRED. HE SAYS EDMOND WAS WEARING DARK COLORED CLOTHING AND DID NOT HAVE A BACK LIGHT OR REFLECTOR ON HIS BIKE.
A new president has been named for McNeese State University in southwest Louisiana. The University of Louisiana System announced Thursday that Wade Rousse will succeed Daryl Burckel, who announced in December that he was stepping down after seven years. Rousse currently serves as the university’s executive vice president. He has worked at the university since 2019 in various roles, including dean and professor in the College of Business and vice president of university advancement.
