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TRAHAN CONSTRUCTION, WHICH IS FINISHING UP THE FIRST PHASE OF ST. JULIEN PARK IN BROUSSARD, WAS AWARDED THE CONTRACT FOR THE SECOND PHASE AFTER SUBMITTING A LOW BID OF 25-POINT-3 MILLION DOLLARS. THE SECOND PHASE INCLUDES CONSTRUCTION OF BASEBALL AND SOCCER FIELDS, CONCESSION STANDS, PAVILIONS, ROADS, JOGGING TRAILS, AND PONDS. BROUSSARD SPOKESWOMAN AMY JONES SAYS CONSTRUCTION IS ON TRACK TO BE COMPLETED BY NEXT YEAR. WHEN COMPLETED, ST. JULIEN PARK WILL BE NEARLY TWICE THE SIZE OF THE YOUNGSVILLE SPORTS COMPLEX, WHICH WAS COMPLETED A YEAR AGO.
A MAN WHO CRASHED HIS CAR INTO A SALON IN LAKE CHARLES AROUND 5:30 YESTERDAY MORNING AND THEN FLED THE SCENE, WAS LATER FOUND AND ARRESTED ON D-W-I AND OTHER CHARGES. WITNESSES TOLD POLICE THEY SAW A VEHICLE BEING DRIVEN AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED ON WEST MCNEESE, NEARLY HITTING A VEHICLE AND THEN GOING THROUGH AN INTERSECTION INTO THE FRONT WALL OF SIGNATURE’S SALON. WHEN THE DRIVER LEFT THE SCENE, A WITNESS FOLLOWED IT TO A RESIDENCE ON CANAL STREET. POLICE MADE THE ARREST THERE OF JOSEPH MITCHELL, AND FOUND VODKA AND A LARGE CAN OF BEER ON THE FLOOR BOARD OF HIS VEHICLE.
THE ST. MARTIN PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS INVESTIGATING THE DEATH OF A ARNAUDVILLE MAN LAST THURSDAY. 67-YEAR-OLD GEORGE CURLEY PREJEAN DIED FROM INJURIES RECEIVED IN A FIGHT WITH A NEIGHBOR. NO ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE. ST. MARTIN ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY CHESTER CEDARS TELLS KATC TV THAT HE’S AWAITING A FULL REPORT FROM INVESTIGATORS BEFORE DECIDING IF ANY CHARGES WILL BE FILED.
After a year of high-profile feuding over Common Core, legislators have announced a compromise on the education standards and have started advancing it in the Louisiana House. The deal was announced Wednesday in the House Education Committee, which approved the first piece of the compromise without objection. The proposal calls for a wholesale review of English and math standards used in public schools. Development and review of the standards would remain with the state education board. But the House and Senate education committees and the governor would have the ability to reject the standards.
MORE THAN 450 STUDENTS WILL GRADUATE FROM SOUTH LOUISIANA COMMUNITY COLLEGE TONIGHT. JULIE DARCE HAS MORE.
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THE MURDER TRIAL OF LEO PAUL THIBODEAUX OF DEQUINCY IS UNDERWAY AS THE JURY WAS SELECTED YESTERDAY. THIBODEAUX IS ACCUSED OF SHOOTING AND KILLING HIS GIRLFRIEND, 37-YEAR-OLD TONI MARIE FRABBIELE (fruh BEAL), AT HIS RESIDENCE IN MARCH OF 2012. SHE DIED FROM TWO BULLET WOUNDS, AND THIBODEAUX CLAIMED SHE HAD COMMITTED SUICIDE. CALCASIEU PARISH CORONER DR. TERRY WELKE DETERMINED THAT THE FIRST SHOT WOULD HAVE INCAPACITATED FRABBIELE, AND HE BELIEVES THE SECOND SHOT WAS DESIGNED TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE SUICIDE.
CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS FROM AROUND THE STATE JOINED WITH REVEREND VICTOR WHITE SENIOR TO CALL FOR THE RESIGNATION OF IBERIA PARISH SHERIFF LOUIS ACKAL. AT A PRESS CONFERENCE HELD AT ZION HILL CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP YESTERDAY, THE SPEAKERS CLAIMED THAT ACKAL HAS INSTILLED A SYSTEM OF ABUSE AGAINST THE BLACK COMMUNITY. WHITE’S SON DIED FROM, WHAT THE CORONER SAYS, WAS A SELF-INFLICTED GUNSHOT WOUND IN THE BACK OF A PATROL CAR, BUT WHITE SAYS HE DIED FROM POLICE BRUTALITY, NOT SUICIDE. SHERIFF’S OFFICE PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER MAJOR RYAN TURNER SAYS ACKAL HAS NO INTENTION OF RESIGNING AND HE’S GOING TO DO THE JOB HE WAS ELECTED TO DO.
With the narrowest of votes, the Louisiana House voted to lower the maximum sentence for repeat marijuana possession from 20 years to eight years. The bill by Rep. Austin Badon, a New Orleans Democrat, moved to the Senate with a 53-36 vote. That was the minimum support needed to pass. Law enforcement associations don’t oppose the bill, but Badon called it a tough vote because lawmakers could appear soft on crime in an election year.
