5-12-25
A CANDLELIGHT VIGIL WAS HELD IN FRONT OF THE RAYNE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO HONOR THE LIFE OF LIEUTENANT ALLEN NOOCHIE CREDEUR, WHO DIED IN THE LINE OF DUTY ONE WEEK AGO. OFFICIALS AND FRIENDS SHARED THEIR THOUGHTS ON THE IMPACT OF CREDEUR’S LIFE. THE ORGANIZER OF THE VIGIL, SUZETTE LEONARDS, TOLD KLFY TV IT’S IMPORTANT WHEN PEOPLE ARE GRIEVING TO KNOW THAT THEY STAND TOGETHER AS A COMMUNITY TO HELP REPAIR EACH OTHER’S HEARTS. THE FUNERAL SERVICE IS THIS AFTERNOON AT TWO AT THE RAYNE CIVIC CENTER FOLLOWED BY A BURIAL SERVICE AT THE ARCENEAUX CEMETARY.
STATE POLICE SAY AN EIGHTEEN-WHEELER CRASH ON I-TEN NEAR DUSON CLAIMED THE LIFE OF THE DRIVER. HE’S BEEN IDENTIFIED AS SIXTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD OSCAR MORALES. AN INVESTIGATION DETERMINED MORALES WAS TRAVELING EAST ON I-TEN JUST PAST THE DUSON EXIT WHEN HE VEERED OFF THE ROAD, HITTING A CABLE BARRIER AND OVERTURNING. HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE OF THE CRASH, WHICH HAPPENED AT AROUND FOUR SUNDAY MORNING.
President Donald Trump and Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry have discussed the possibility that Julia Letlow, a congresswoman elected in 2021 after her husband died of COVID, might challenge Sen. Bill Cassidy in next year’s Republican primary. Word of that discussion comes from multiple people familiar with the matter. There’s unease within Trump’s base about the two-term senator. Cassidy voted to convict Trump in Trump’s 2021 impeachment trial over the Jan. 6 riot in Washington.
A KINDER MAN DIED IN A CRASH WITH A TRAIN FRIDAY AFTERNOON FOR REASONS STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION. ACCORDING TO STATE POLICE, TWENTY-YEAR-OLD JASHAWN LAVAN WAS DRIVING A HONDA ACCORD ON LIBERTY CEMETARY ROAD NEAR ELTON WHEN HE STOPPED THE CAR ON THE RAILROAD TRACKS AS A TRAIN WAS APPROACHING. LAVAN WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WITH SERIOUS INJURIES AND LATER DIED. A STANDARD TOXICOLOGY SAMPLE WAS COLLECTED FOR ANALYSIS.
IN IBERIA PARISH, A MAN, KNOWN AS A VIOLENT OFFENDER, WAS ARRESTED AFTER A PURSUIT. GEORGE FAUST REPORTS.
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Bobby Gumpright was in the throws of addiction 25 years ago when he fabricated a story that he had been robbed at gunpoint by a Black man. Jermaine Hudson was arrested and convicted by a nonunanimous jury. In 2022, Gumpright recanted his story and Hudson was exonerated. Now they are working together to advocate for a Louisiana bill that would allow hundreds of people who were convicted by split juries the chance to petition for a retrial. The Senate could debate the bill this week.
NO WAKE RESTRICTIONS HAVE BEEN ISSUED BY SAINT LANDRY PARISH PRESIDENT JESSIE BELLARD ON ALL PARISH LAKES AND WATERWAYS DUE TO THE HIGH WATERS CAUSED BY RECENT RAINS. BELLARD SAYS THE MEASURES ARE CRUCIAL TO PREVENT EROSION AND TO PROTECT PROPERTIES THAT ARE NEAR THE WATER. BAYOUS IN THE PARISH ARE CLOSED TO RECREATIONAL BOATING AND ALL BOAT LAUNCHES WILL BE SHUT DOWN UNTIL THE WATERS RECEDE.
IT’S BEEN TEN MONTHS SINCE SEVENTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD FRANK DAVIS WAS KILLED WHEN STRUCK BY A VEHICLE WHILE RIDING HIS BIKE ON REES STREET IN BREAUX BRIDGE. HIS FAMILY IS STILL SEEKING ANSWERS AND THEY TELL KLFY TV THEY ARE STILL GRIEVING. BREAUX BRIDGE POLICE HAVE NOT MADE ANY ARRESTS. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON THE CRASH IS URGED TO CALL THE BREAUX BRIDGE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
