4-6-17
A FORMER RAGIN’ CAJUN FOOTBALL PLAYER, ACCUSED OF RAPE, HAS BEEN ARRESTED. JULIE DARCE REPORTS.
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THE CALCASIEU RIVER CONTINUES TO RISE IN ALLEN PARISH. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IS PREDICTING THAT THE RIVER WILL CREST AT 24 FEET IN OBERLIN SOMETIME ON THURSDAY. SOME RESIDENTS FEAR THAT, IF THE RIVER GETS TO 24 OR 25 FEET, IT WILL BRING WATER INTO SOME HOMES. SOME OAKDALE RESIDENTS HAVE BEEN EVACUATED, BUT THE RIVER IS ALREADY BEGINNING TO RECEDE THERE.
STATE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A TWO VEHICLE CRASH IN IBERIA PARISH IN WHICH A FRANKLIN WOMAN WAS KILLED. 58-YEAR-OLD JODY CHARPENTIER WAS TRAVELING ON L-A 86 NEAR AUCOIN ROAD, WHEN ANOTHER VEHICLE CROSSED INTO HER LANE AND STRUCK HER MINIVAN. CHARPENTIER WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE, WHILE THE DRIVER OF THE OTHER VEHICLE, 36-YEAR-OLD JESSE ROMERO, WAS TAKEN TO A HOSPITAL WITH CRITICAL INJURIES. STATE POLICE ARE TRYING TO DETERMINE WHY ROMERO CROSSED INTO CHARPENTIER’S LANE.
The National Weather Service has confirmed that at least 17 tornadoes struck Louisiana during a severe weather outbreak that began Sunday and ended Monday.
A Sunday morning storm flipped a Breaux Bridge mobile home, killing 38-year-old Francine Gotch and her 3-year-old daughter, Nevaeh Alexander. It’s rated EF-1 on the enhanced Fujita scale, with top winds of 110 mph and a path less than a mile long. One storm, with top winds of 105 mph ran 5.4 miles through Alexandria, causing light damage.
NATALIE HARDER, THE CHANCELLOR AT SOUTH LOUISIANA COMMUNITY COLLEGE, HAS BEEN CHOSEN AS THIS YEAR’S RECIPIENT OF THE RICHARD E. BAUDOIN JUNIOR AWARD. THE AWARD, NAMED AFTER THE LATE JOURNALIST WHO DIED IN 2000, WILL BE GIVEN BY THE JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ACADIANA AT A BUSINESS HALL OF FAME CEREMONY ON MAY SECOND. IT’S AWARDED TO SOMEONE WHO HAS HAD AN INDIRECT IMPACT ON THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY. HARDER SAYS SHE’S EXCITED ABOUT RECEIVING THE AWARD. SHE TELLS THE DAILY ADVERTISER ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUILT THIS STATE, AND S-L-C-C IS VERY ENTREPRENEURIAL.
A WORKER ON THE SASOL PROJECT SITE IN WESTLAKE DIED YESTERDAY MORNING. KIM MYERS OF THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS 24-YEAR OLD TYLER J. TRUETT OF SULPHUR FELL 55 FEET FROM A SCAFFOLDING. KIM CUSIMANO WITH SASOL NORTH AMERICAN OPERATIONS SAYS HIS COMPANY, ALONG WITH F-T-I AND PERFORMANCE CONTRACTORS, WILL PERFORM A THOROUGH INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE WHAT HAPPENED. WORK WAS STOPPED FOR THE DAY YESTERDAY AFTER THE INCIDENT, BUT IS EXPECTED TO RESUME TODAY AFTER THE EMPLOYERS TALK TO THE WORKERS THIS MORNING ABOUT SAFETY.
15 FIREARMS WERE STOLEN FROM A HUNTING CAMP IN VERMILLION PARISH TUESDAY NIGHT. SHERIFF MIKE COUVILLON SAYS THE CAMP, LOCATED AT L-A 82 ON PECAN ISLAND, WAS BROKEN INTO THROUGH A BACK DOOR. THE 15 FIREARMS ARE VALUED AT AROUND TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. THE LIST OF GUNS IS ON THE K-L-F-Y T-V WEBSITE. SHERIFF COUVILLON SAYS THAT IF YOU ENCOUNTER ANYONE ATTEMPTING TO SELL FIREARMS MATCHING THE DESCRIPTION LISTED, THEY SHOULD CALL THE SHERIFF’S CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS DIVISION.
Gov. John Bel Edwards tangled with Republican members of Congress over Louisiana’s response to damaging flooding last year. The Advocate reports GOP congressmen from Utah, Kentucky, Georgia and other states took turns blasting Louisiana’s effort Wednesday, in combative exchanges with the Democratic governor. U.S. House Oversight Committee members also questioned the Federal Emergency Management Agency and contractor CB&I about an 84-year-old blind man found dead inside a FEMA-issued manufactured housing unit. The unit allegedly had a faulty heating system.
