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4-6-18

TWO MEN WERE ARRESTED BY LAFAYETTE POLICE OFFICERS IN CONNECTION WITH SEVERAL SKIMMERS THAT WERE FOUND ON FUEL PUMPS AT LOCAL GAS STATIONS.  SKIMMERS ARE DEVICES THAT CAPTURE BANK CARD DATA THAT CAN BE USED FRAUDULENTLY.  OSMANYS FERNANDEZ BARZAGA AND ANTHONY NUNEZ GUERRORO WERE OBSERVED TAMPERING WITH A FUEL PUMP.  THEY WERE THEN IDENTIFIED AS THE MEN WHO WERE SEEN TAMPERING WITH ANOTHER FUEL PUMP ON MARCH 14TH AND THEY HAVE BEEN CHARGED WITH VIOLATING THE LOUISIANA ANTI-SKIMMING ACT.

 

TWENTY PEOPLE PROTESTING THE BAYOU BRIDGE PIPELINE, WHICH IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION, BLOCKED ACCESS TO AN INDUSTRIAL YARD IN IOWA YESTERDAY.  THE ACTIVISTS SAID FOUR OF THE PROTESTERS WERE ARRESTED AND FACE CRIMINAL CHARGES.  THE LOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE ORGANIZED THE PROTEST AND FOUNDING DIRECTOR ANNE ROLFES SAYS THEY BLOCKED ACCESS TO THE YARD FOR THREE HOURS STARTING AT SIX YESTERDAY MORNING.  THE YARD CONTAINS RAILROAD TIES THAT TRUCKS USE TO GET TO MUDDDY CONSTRUCTION SITES ALONG THE PATH OF THE PIPELINE.

 

A MAN WANTED IN CONNECTION TO TWO ARMED ROBBERIES IN NEW IBERIA LAST WEEK HAS BEEN ARRESTED.  23-YEAR-OLD MARK ANTHONY WESLEY IS ACCUSED OF THE ARMED ROBBERY OF A FAMILY DOLLAR STORE ON MARCH 28TH AND A DOLLAR GENERAL THE NEXT DAY, BOTH ON WEST ADMIRAL DOYLE.  ANTHONY HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH FOUR COUNTS OF ARMED ROBBERY AND ONE COUNT OF MARIJUANA POSSESSION.  HIS BOND HAS NOT YET BEEN SET.

 

The governors of Louisiana and Mississippi are praising President Donald Trump’s proposal to put more federal money into infrastructure.  But they say their rural states would be hard-pressed to pay a bigger share of the tab for projects paid by a combination of federal and state money.  Many highway projects are now paid 80 percent by the federal government and 20 percent by state or local governments. Trump’s proposal would flip that, with the federal government paying 20 percent.

 

TWO LAFAYETTE PHARMACIES ARE VYING FOR A SINGLE PERMIT TO OPERATE A MEDICAL MARIJUANA FACILITY IN ACADIANA.  THEY ARE ACADIANA THERAPEUTIC REMEDIES, WHICH WOULD BE LOCATED ON KALISTE SALOOM, AND THE APOTHECARY SHOPPE, TO BE LOCATED ON GUILBEAU ROAD.  THE LOUISIANA BOARD OF PHARMACY COULD MAKE A DECISION BY APRIL 17TH.  IN 2015, A STATE LAW WAS ENACTED ALLOWING PHYSICIANS TO PRESCRIBE MEDICAL MARIJUANA TO PATIENTS WITH CERTAIN CONDITIONS, WHICH WOULD ONLY BE AVAILABLE AT SELECT PHARMACIES.

 

JENNINGS POLICE RECEIVED REPORTS OF MULTIPLE SHOTS FIRED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.  THE FIRST CALL CAME AT 3:45 P-M AND THE CALLER SAID PEOPLE WERE FIRING SHOTS AT A VEHICLE NEAR MCKINLEY AND CRAIG STREETS.  WITNESSES SAY THEY SAW TWO MALES AND ONE FEMALE RUNNING FROM THE AREA.  INTERVIEWS BY DETECTIVES LED THEM TO CHECK UNDER A CRAIG STREET HOME, WHERE THEY FOUND A 9 MILLEMETER GUN STASHED.

 

THE CITY OF OPELOUSAS IS TRYING TO SOLVE ITS TRASH PROBLEM.  JEFF HORCHAK EXPLAINS.

 

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Louisiana’s public elementary and secondary schools would get a $3.7 billion financing formula next year without any inflationary increases, under a plan advancing in the state Senate.  The formula , submitted by the state education board, won easy approval Thursday from the Senate Education Committee. It would pay for more than 700,000 students in the 2018-19 school year.  The amount paid per student would remain frozen at the current rate of $3,961. But the formula would grow slightly to account for an expected increase of nearly 2,800 students.

Education leaders have sought more money to boost teacher pay and cover rising expenses. But lawmakers have resisted such increases amid continued state budget gaps.

The formula moves next to the Senate budget committee for review.