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Lafayette Police have arrested the parents of a 2-month-old who died after being brought to the hospital with severe injuries. Local media report the police said in a news release Monday that parents brought the girl and her twin brother to the hospital. Both were injured, and the girl died on March 30. Lafayette police arrested 23-year-old Ayana Ladelle and 24-year-old Dwayne Richard on Monday on charges of first-degree murder and second-degree cruelty to juveniles.
TWO SUSPECTS IN A SHOOTING FRIDAY ON GROUT STREET IN WESTLAKE TURNED THEMSELVES IN TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT YESTERDAY EVENING. THE TWO ARE 20-YEAR-OLD DAVACHI JACOBY ROGERS AND 22-YEAR-OLD SARAH JEWEL THIBODEAUX, BOTH OF WESTLAKE. ROGERS ALLEGEDLY SHOT A PERSON IN THE FOREARM WHO HAD ASKED HIM TO SLOW DOWN HIS DRIVING. ROGERS FACES SEVERAL CHARGES INCLUDING ATTEMPTED FIRST DEGREE MURDER, AND HIS BOND IS SET AT ONE MILLION, 150 THOUSAND DOLLARS.
Two historically black Baptist churches have been destroyed by fires in one week in St. Landry parish. The Greater Union Baptist Church in Opelousas on Tuesday became the second of the churches to burn. The other was St. Mary Baptist Church in Port Barre on March 26. State Fire Marshal’s spokeswoman Ashley Rodrigue says the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is assisting investigators as the federal agency does when a religious building or organization is involved. She says it’s too soon for investigators to connect the fires.
Louisiana’s U.S. senators say they’ve gotten a commitment that the Trump administration will decide in two weeks whether to change regulations that have kept thousands of flood victims from receiving federal aid. Republican Sens. Bill Cassidy and John Kennedy met Tuesday with Russ Vought, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson to hash out the issue. As many as 6,000 Louisiana residents who took out loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration after massive 2016 floods have been unable to access a federally financed disaster grant program. Congress changed the law in October so SBA loans wouldn’t count against the grants, but HUD hasn’t issued legal guidance to match the law changes.
A BREAUX BRIDGE MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR THE ALLEGED SEXUAL ABUSE OF A JUVENILE. JEFF HORCHAK REPORTS.
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A MAN CONVICTED OF A MURDER IN LAKE CHARLES IN 1983 COULD BE PAROLED. THOMAS J. SANDERS WAS 17-YEARS-OLD WHEN HE KILLED 24-YEAR-OLD CAROL KELLOGG IN HER APARTMENT ON DEATON STREET. SANDERS WAS SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE, BUT THE SUPREME COURT RULED RECENTLY RULED THAT THOSE CASES NEEDED TO BE REVIEWED IF THE PERPETRATOR WAS 18 OR YOUNGER AT THE TIME OF THE CRIME. SANDERS PAROLE HEARING IS SET FOR JULY 18TH, AND KELLOGG’S MOTHER, CAROL HESS, TELLS KPLC TV THAT SHE WILL BE AT THE HEARING AND HOPES TO BE HEARD.
AN ACADIA PARISH MAN, WHO, TWO WEEKS AGO, WAS PULLED FROM HIS BURNING HOME BY TWO MEN, HAS DIED FROM HIS INJURIES. 70-YEAR-OLD JAMES BURNETTE SENIOR, WHO USES A WHEELCHAIR, WAS BADLY INJURED IN THE HOUSE FIRE ON JEFFERSON AVENUE IN ESTHERWOOD. TWO MEN WHO SAW SMOKE COMING FROM THE HOUSE SPOTTED BURNETTE JUST OUTSIDE OF THE HOUSE NEAR THE CARPORT AND THEY CAME TO PULL HIM TO SAFETY. HE DIED EARLY MONDAY MORNING. THE FAMILY OF BURNETTE TELLS KATC TV THAT AN ELECTRICAL SHORTAGE STARTED THE FIRE.
Louisiana’s secretary of state hopes to restart efforts to replace thousands of voting machines this summer, after the last effort was derailed by allegations of improper bid handling. Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin said Tuesday the replacement work won’t be complete for the fall election, so his office will spend $2 million renting temporary machines. Ardoin told the House Appropriations Committee he’ll rent early voting machines for the October and November elections, when statewide and legislative positions are on the ballot. Ardoin’s office will use spare parts to make sure the decade-old Election Day voting machines are running properly.
