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A STEPHENSVILLE MAN IS FACING A SECOND-DEGREE MURDER CHARGE AFTER A PERSON HE ALLEGEDLY INJURED IN AN ALTERCATION DIED. THE PHYSICAL ALTERCATION HAPPENED LAST SATURDAY AT A BUSINESS ON HIGHWAY SEVENTY IN STEPHENSVILLE. THE VICTIM DIED FROM HIS INJURIES WEDNESDAY. FORTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD CHAD GROS, WHO HAD TURNED HIMSELF INTO THE SAINT MARTIN PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE ON A CHARGE OF SECOND-DEGREE BATTERY, HAD THE CHARGE UPGRADED TO SECOND-DEGREE MURDER.
SEVENTY PERCENT OF ILLEGAL DRUGS TAKEN OFF THE STREETS IN LAFAYETTE CONTAINED FENTANYL, A DEADLY SUBSTANCE THAT HAS CONTRIBUTED TO AN INCREASE IN OVERDOSE DEATHS. THAT’S ACCORDING TO THE LAFAYETTE PARISH CORONER’S OFFICE. CHIEF MEDICOLEGAL DEATH INVESTIGATOR KEITH TALAMO SAYS ONLY THREE GRAINS OF FENTANY THE SIZE OF SALT CAN KILL AND YOU CAN’T SEE IT OR SMELL IT. FENTANYL OVERDOSES IN LAFAYETTE PARISH HAVE STEADILY INCREASED UNTIL LAST YEAR WHEN THERE WERE SIXTY-SIX OVERDOSE DEATHS WITH FENTANYL COMPARED TO ONE HUNDRED FOURTEEN IN TWENTY-TWENTY-TWO.
AN EDUCATIONAL SAVINGS ACCOUNT BILL IN THE STATE SENATE WAS PUT ON HOLD WEDNESDAY. IT WOULD ALLOW FAMILIES TO USE TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO PUT THEIR CHILDREN IN PRIVATE SCHOOLS OR USE THEM FOR HOMESCHOOLING. FORMER STATE REPRESENTATIVE JOHN STEFANSKI OF CROWLEY SAYS THE EDUCATION SAVINGS ACCOUNT LEGISLATION IS NOT DEAD YET BECAUSE A BILL IS STILL ALIVE IN THE STATE HOUSE. HE SAYS THIS EFFORT TO CREATE SAVINGS ACCOUNTS AND GIVE PEOPLE MORE OPTIONS WHERE TO SEND THEIR KIDS TO SCHOOL IS A GROWING TREND.
FORMER STATE SENATOR AND REPRESENTATIVE JAMES DAVID CAIN DIED WEDNESDAY AT HIS HOME IN DRY CREEK. HE SERVED IN THE STATE LEGISLATURE FROM NINETEEN SEVENTY-TWO UNTIL TWO THOUSAND EIGHT. CAIN, WHO HAD ALZHEIMERS, PASSED AWAY SURROUNDED BY HIS SON, FEDERAL JUDGE JAMES DAVID CAIN JUNIOR, AND HIS GRANDDAUGHTERS. GOVERNOR JEFF LANDRY WROTE THAT CAIN LEFT AN INDELIBLE MARK ON LOUISIANA POLITICAL HISTORY AND FOUGHT TIRELESSLY FOR THE NEEDS OF HIS CONSTITUENTS.
NEW IBERIA POLICE NEED YOUR HELP FINDING A SUSPECT WHO FIRED SEVERAL SHOTS AT A HOME. GERALD GRUENIG HAS MORE.
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A RECENT AUDIT OF THE LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT FOUND THAT SEVERAL PEOPLE CLOSE TO FORMER MAYOR PRESIDENT JOSH GUILLORY RECEIVED FREE SERVICES FROM L-U-S FIBER. THOSE INCLUDED GUILLORY’S WIFE. CURRENT CITY PARISH ATTORNEY PAT OTTINGER SAYS THEY ARE EXAMINING THOSE INCIDENTS TO DETERMINE IF ANY REACHED A FELONY LEVEL WORTHY OF PROSECUTION. GUILLORY, HIS WIFE AND THREE OTHERS DENIED ANY KNOWLEDGE OF RECEIVING THE SERVICE FOR FREE, ACCORDING TO THE ADVOCATE NEWSPAPER.
FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP MAINTAINS HEALTHY SUPPORT IN LOUISIANA THOUGH IT’S LESS THAN DURING THE TWENTY-TWENTY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. TRUMP GOT 58 PERCENT OF THE VOTE IN THE LAST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION COMPARED TO 40 PERCENT FOR PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN. A NEW POLL BY THE ADVOCATE SHOWS TRUMP’S SUPPORT IN LOUISIANA AT FIFTY-TWO PERCENT COMPARED TO THIRTY-EIGHT PERCENT FOR BIDEN. THE POLL SHOWS TRUMP’S SUPPORT DROPPING BY TWO TO NINE PERCENT IF HE’S CONVICTED IN ONE OF FOUR CRIMINAL CASES HE’S FACING, WHICH WOULD HAVE HIM STILL WINNING BY A COMFORTABLE MARGIN.
A SAINT LANDRY PARISH JURY TOOK LESS THAN AN HOUR TO CONVICT FORTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD KENDALL SINGLETON OF LAPLACE OF SECOND-DEGREE MURDER. DISTRICT ATTORNEY CHAD PITRE SAYS SINGLETON BRUTALLY GUNNED DOWN FORTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD JOSEPH BOXIE OF OPELOUSAS ON FATHER’S DAY OF TWENTY-NINETEEN. PITRE SAYS BOXIE HAD JUST RETURNED HOME WHEN HE WAS SHOT TEN TIMES BY A SHORT BARREL, A-K FORTY-SEVEN STYLE PISTOL. SINGLETON FACES A MANDATORY SENTENCE OF LIFE IN PRISON WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE OR PROBATION.
