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THE BREAUX BRIDGE POLICE CHIEF IS RECOVERING AFTER ACCIDENTALLY SHOOTING HIMSELF IN THE LEG. IT HAPPENED YESTERDAY MORNING AT AROUND NINE-THIRTY. CHIEF ALBERT BUZ LEBLANC SHOT HIMSELF WHILE DOING A TRAINING EXERCISE AT THE SAINT MARTIN PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE’S GUN RANGE. HE WAS TREATED AT A LOCAL HOSPITAL AND RELEASED.
IT’S BEEN A LITTLE MORE THAN TWO YEARS SINCE THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ELLA GOODIE OF SCOTT AND HER CASE IS BEING INVESTIGATED AS A HOMOCIDE, ACCORDING TO STATE POLICE. GOODIE WAS LAST SEEN GIVING BRANDON FRANSISCO A RIDE TO TEXAS. FRANSISCO WAS NAMED A PERSON OF INTEREST IN THE CASE BUT HE’S NOW SERVING A THIRTY-YEAR-SENTENCE AT THE DIXON CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTE OF JACKSON FOR ATTEMPTED SECOND-DEGREE MURDER IN AN UNRELATED CASE. THE FAMILY OF GOODIE HAS SET UP A FACEBOOK PAGE CALLED “HELP FIND ELLA” WHERE TIPS CAN BE MADE ANONYMOUSLY.
A BILL WAS INTRODUCED AT THE STATE CAPITOL THAT INCLUDES DISCLOSING INFORMATION WHEN DONATING BLOOD. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS THE DETAILS.
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MORE THAN TWENTY CARS WERE INVOLVED IN TWO ACCIDENTS ON THE I-TWO-TEN BRIDGE IN LAKE CHARLES YESTERDAY MORNING. MASTER TROOPER DEREK SENEGAL OF THE STATE POLICE SAYS THE MAJORITY OF THE CARS INVOLVED WERE REAR-ENDED. HE SAYS IT BEGAN WHEN A DRIVER GOT A FLAT AND STOPPED ON THE DOWNSLOPE OF THE BRIDGE, MAKING IT HARDER FOR VEHICLES COMING BEHIND TO STOP. SENEGAL SAYS THE BEST THING TO DO IN AN EMERGENCY IS TO GET OFF THE ROAD AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.
THE TWENTY-SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE HAS SAID IT WILL BE RECUSING THE CASE OF OPELOUSAS POLICE OFFICER SAVANNAH BUTLER. IT WILL BE HANDLED NOW BY THE LOUISIANA ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE. BUTLER IS ACCUSED OF SHOOTING POLICE CHIEF GRAIG LEBLANC AND HIS WIFE, CRYSTAL LEBLANC, WHO IS A CAPTAIN IN THE SAINT LANDRY PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE. AN ARRAIGNMENT DATE HAS NOT BEEN SET FOR BUTLER.
A NEW SKATE PARK IN LAFAYETTE COULD BE COMPLETED BY THE END OF MAY, ACCORDING TO TIMOTHY SENSLEY, THE DIRECTOR OF PARKS, ARTS, REC AND CULTURE. THE FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR PARK IS BEING ADDED TO THOMAS PARK ON GERALDINE STREET. SOME OF THE COSTS TO BUILD THE THIRTEEN THOUSAND SQUARE FOOT DESTINATION PARK IS BEING COVERED BY FEDERAL AMERICAN RESCUE ACT FUNDS, WHICH ARE DESIGNED TO HELP COMMUNITIES RECOVER FROM THE COVID-NINETEEN PANDEMIC. LAFAYETTE HAS NOT HAD AN OUTDOOR SKATE PARK SINCE TWENTY-EIGHTEEN, WHEN ANOTHER SKATE PARK WAS REMOVED TO MAKE WAY FOR APARTMENTS TO BE BUILT ON THE U-L CAMPUS.
GOVERNOR JEFF LANDRY’S CRITICISM OF THE L-S-U LADY TIGERS HAS GONE VIRAL. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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THE BODY OF A BREAUX BRIDGE MAN, WHO WAS REPORTED MISSING SATURDAY DURING A FISHING TRIP, HAS BEEN RECOVERED. SAINT MARTIN PARISH DEPUTIES RESPONDED TO REPORTS OF A POSSIBLE DROWNING LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT THE CATAHOULA LOCKS. THEY LEARNED TWENTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD RONALD BATISTE FELL INTO THE WATER AFTER SLIPPING WHILE WALKING ALONG THE BANK. HIS BODY WAS FOUND TUESDAY MORNING AT AROUND EIGHT-THIRTY AT THE CATAHOULA LOCKS.
