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ONE PERSON IS DEAD AND TWO OTHERS INJURED IN A SHOOTING SATURDAY NIGHT IN THE 400 BLOCK OF JEFFERSON STREET IN LAFAYETTE. IT HAPPENED AFTER FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITES HAD CLOSED. POLICE SPOKESMAN CPL. KARL RATCLIFF SAYS IT APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN AN ISOLATED INCIDENT BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS IN THE AREA. A MOMENT OF SILENCE WAS HELD BY ORGANIZERS OF FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DURING CLOSING CEREMONIES YESTERDAY EVENING.
SUNDAY MORNING’S STORMS CAUSED FLOODING IN OAKDALE, ACCORDING TO REPORTS FROM KPLC TV. THE ALLEN PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS A HOME WAS DAMAGED POSSIBLY BY A TORNADO. THE STORMS CAUSED A LOT OF POWER OUTAGES THAT BEAUREGARD ELECTRIC AND CLECO HAD TO REPAIR. IN CALCASIEU PARISH, THERE WERE ALSO REPORTS OF STORM DAMAGE MAINLY SOUTH OF LAKE CHARLES.
THE CITY OF MAMOU HAD TO ENFORCE A CURFEW DUE TO THE FLOODING FROM WEEKEND STORMS. JULIE DARCE HAS MORE.
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Louisiana civil engineers have graded the state’s roads and bridges, and they claimed the results were “embarrassing.” The Advocate reports that roads were given a D grade and bridges a D-plus in the report card from the Louisiana chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The report card looked at the state of Louisiana’s roads, bridges, aviation, dams and seven other areas. The grades are mostly unchanged since the same group issued a similar report in 2012.
LAFAYETTE PARISH VOTERS REJECTED A HALF CENT SALES TAX PROPOSAL THAT WAS EXPECTED TO RAISE AROUND 195 MILLION DOLLARS FOR THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL BOARD TO ELIMINATE 248 CLASSROOMS. THE TAX PROPOSAL FAILED WITH 59 PERCENT VOTING AGAINST IT. ALSO SATURDAY, LAFAYETTE ATTORNEY CANDYCE PERRET WON ELECTION TO THE STATE’S THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL. SHE DEFEATED SUSAN THEALL, ALSO OF LAFAYETTE, IN A RUNOFF, TAKING 54 PERCENT OF THE VOTE.
LAKE CHARLES HAS A NEW MAYOR. NIC HUNTER DEFEATED WILFORD CARTER IN A RUNOFF SATURDAY 56-44 PERCENT. HUNTER IS REPLACING MAYOR RANDY ROACH, WHO HAS HELD OFFICE FOR 17 YEARS. JENNINGS VOTERS ALSO SELCTED A NEW MAYOR SATURDAY. 31-YEAR-OLD HENRY GUINN RECEIVED 52 PERCENT OF THE VOTE, DEFEATING JIMMY SEGURA. THE PREVIOUS MAYOR TERRY DUHON DID NOT SEEK REELECTION.
LAFAYETTE CITY MARSHALS APPREHENDED A MAN WHO EARLIER SUNDAY GOT INTO SHOOTOUT WITH BREAUX BRIDGE POLICE. ACCORDING TO THE BREAUX BRIDGE POLICE DEPARTMENT, THADDEUS LANDOR HAD BEEN REPORTED SHOOTING AT A VEHICLE NEAR BEGNAUD STREET YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. WHEN POLICE ARRIVED, LANDOR FLED AND FIRED MULTIPLE SHOTS AT THE OFFICERS. HE WAS LATER CAPTURED BY LAFAYETTE CITY MARSHALS NEAR LAFAYETTE GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER AFTER A BRIEF PURSUIT.
Louisiana’s corrections department is getting $1.5 million in federal funds to cover costs related to last summer’s historic flooding. The Federal Emergency Management Agency said in a statement Friday that the funding will reimburse the state Department of Public Safety and Corrections for emergency work at nine facilities affected by August’s floods. Those expenses included emergency supplies and the costs of evacuating and sheltering prisoners. The state’s only women’s prison, in St. Gabriel, was damaged by the floodwaters.
