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APPLICATIONS FOR TWO PROPOSED CHARTER SCHOOLS WILL BE INTRODUCED AT TOMORROW NIGHT’S LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL BOARD MEETING. ATHLOS ACADEMY WANTS TO OPERATE A KINDERGARTEN THROUGH EIGHTH GRADE SCHOOL, WHILE THE JEFFERSON CHAMBER FOUNDATION ACADEMY IS LOOKING AT OPENING AN ALTERNATIVE HIGH SCHOOL FOR OVERAGE STUDENTS. TWO INDEPENDENT EVALUATORS FROM U-L HAVE RECOMMENDED THAT THE BOARD REJECT THE APPLICATION FOR ATHLOS ACADEMY. THEY ARE SEEKING MORE INFORMATION ON THE HIGH SCHOOL BEFORE MAKING A RECOMMENDATION.
AN ELDERLY MAN FROM ROSENBURG, TEXAS, WHO’S BEEN MISSING FROM HIS HOME SINCE SUNDAY, WAS SEEN IN LAKE CHARLES MONDAY AFTERNOON. 78-YEAR-OLD ROBERT ELLIOT MILBURN SUFFERS FROM DEMENTIA AND HIS FAMILY SAYS HE DOES NOT HAVE HIS MEDICATION WITH HIM THAT HE’S SUPPOSED TO TAKE DAILY. MILBURN IS 6-3, 265 POUNDS, WITH GREY HAIR, AN ANCHOR TATTOO ON HIS LEFT WRIST, AND HE WAS WEARING A BLUE CAP WITH THE WORDS “ALASKA” ON IT. ANYONE WHO SEES HIM IS ASKED TO CALL THE FORT BEND COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE IN TEXAS.
SOME ABBEVILLE SCHOOLS WERE SHUT DOWN MONDAY AND WILL REMAIN CLOSED TODAY BECAUSE OF WATER PROBLEMS. JULIE DARCE HAS MORE.
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House lawmakers are proposing to cut spending across legislative agencies next year, reversing course from an initial plan that would have shielded their budget from slashing. The House Appropriations Committee on Monday backed an $86 million financing proposal for the House, Senate, legislative auditor and other offices that work for lawmakers in the budget year that begins July 1. That’s down from $96 million this year. Lawmakers on the committee also advanced a proposed 10 percent cut next year to the $187 million budget for the Louisiana Supreme Court and other judicial agencies.
SIX OF THE SEVEN HIGH SCHOOLS IN LAFAYETTE PARISH SAW AN INCREASE IN THE GRADUATION RATE FOR 2015. THE STATE RELEASED THE GRADUATION RATES OF EACH SCHOOL ON MONDAY. NORTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOL SAW THE HIGHEST INCREASE OF MORE THAN TEN PERCENT. THE ONLY SCHOOL WHICH DIDN’T HAVE AN INCREASE IN THE GRADUATION RATE WAS THE EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY, WHERE THE OVERALL GRADUATION RATE OF 95 PERCENT WAS THE SAME AS THE PREVIOUS YEAR.
THE POLICE CHIEF FOR OBERLIN ASKED THE CITY COUNCIL LAST NIGHT TO GIVE HIS OFFICERS A TWO DOLLAR AN HOUR PAY RAISE. CHIEF OF POLICE GRADY HAYNES SAYS HE DID A SURVERY OF POLICE DEPARTMENTS ALONG U-S 165 BETWEEN ALEXANDRIA AND I-TEN AND FOUND THAT HIS OFFICERS ARE THE LOWEST PAID. THE COUNCIL MEMBERS SAID THEY WILL TRY TO HAVE AN ANSWER FOR HIM BY THE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING. IF APPROVED, PART TIME OFFICERS WOULD BE PAID TEN DOLLARS AN HOUR WHILE FULL TIME OFFICERS WOULD GET TWELVE DOLLARS PER HOUR.
THE SUCCESS OF THE DAIRY QUEEN STORE IN LAFAYETTE HAS LED THE COMPANY TO LOOK AT OPENING SIX MORE LOCATIONS IN ACADIANA OVER THE NEXT THREE TO FIVE YEARS. THE LAFAYETTE RESTAURANT SET RECORDS FOR THE COMPANY WHEN IT OPENED, AND THEY ARE OPENING A NEW DAIRY QUEEN THIS SUMMER IN ABBEVILLE. VICE PRESIDENT OF FRANCHISE DEVELOPMENT JIM KERR TELLS THE DAILY ADVERTISER THAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR PRIME PIECES OF REAL ESTATE AND STRONG FRANCHISE OPERATORS THAT CAN OPEN A NEW LOCATION. HE SAYS THEY ARE LOOKING AT POSSIBLE OPENINGS IN LAFAYETTE, YOUNGSVILLE, AND BROUSSARD, AS WELL AS CROWLEY, BREAUX BRIDGE, NEW IBERIA, AND JENNINGS.
Louisiana State Police will add two names to a memorial of state troopers who have been killed in the line of duty. WBRZ-TV says 29 troopers have died while serving the people of Louisiana since the department formed in 1922. Today, the names of Steven J. Vincent and Frank Brown, Jr., will be added to a memorial at the Louisiana State Police headquarters in Baton Rouge. The ceremony is at 6:30 tonight.
