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5-16-16

AFTER SERVING TEN MONTHS OF A 13 MONTH SENTENCE, SETH FONTENOT IS A FREE MAN.  JULIE DARCE REPORTS.

 

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THE SULPHUR FIRE DEPARTMENT RESPONDED TO A FIRE EARLY THIS MORNING.  THE FIRE IS AT THE CORNER OF WEST LINCOLN AND NORTH IRWIN STREETS.  WITNESSES HAVE TOLD KPLC TV THAT IT IS THE FORMER AMAZING GRACE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH BUILDING.  ONE PERSON NOW LIVES IN THE BUILDING AND WAS ABLE TO GET OUT SAFELY.

 

A PROPOSED REGIONAL BUS SERVICE THAT WOULD TRANSPORT PASSENGERS BETWEEN CROWLEY AND LAFAYETTE IS IN THE WORKS.   THE ACADIANA PLANNING COMMISSION IS SEEKING 450 THOUSAND DOLLARS IN GRANTS AND FROM OTHER SOURCES TO COVER THE FIRST YEAR’S OPERATING EXPENSES.  THE BUS WOULD MAKE FOUR TRIPS IN THE MORNING AND FOUR TRIPS IN THE AFTERNOON, WITH 13 STOPS ALONG THE WAY INCLUDING IN RAYNE, DUSON AND SCOTT.  LAURIE SUIRE, THE C-E-O OF THE ACADIA PARISH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GROUP ONEACADIA, SAYS THE PARISH HAS ENOUGH STUDENT AND WORKFORCE COMMUTERS TO LAFAYETTE TO SUPPORT THE BUS SERVICE.

 

Leaders of the LSU medical schools in New Orleans and Shreveport say they’re slated to take a combined $50 million cut next year that could shutter programs and damage training programs.  Plus, they told the Senate Finance Committee on Sunday they face further hits if the safety net hospitals and clinics where they train students take reductions and scale back patient care.  Louisiana senators were digging into the health care details of a nearly $26 billion budget proposal passed by their House colleagues.  Gov. John Bel Edwards’ administration and the safety net hospitals disagree over the financing needed to keep the facilities on track.

 

GOVERNOR JOHN BEL EDWARDS WILL BE IN LAFAYETTE TOMORROW TO ATTEND THE RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY FOR C-G-I FEDERAL, WHICH IS OPENING A NEW PERMANENT HEADQUARTERS.  THE GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY HAS BEEN IN LAFAYETTE RESIDING IN TEMPORARY HEADQUARTERS DOWNTOWN SINCE 2014.  THEY CURRENTLY HAVE ABOUT 250 EMPLOYEES AND HOPE TO REACH 400 EVENTUALLY.  WILL LABAR, THE VICE PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE IN CHARGE OF THE LAFAYETTE SITE, SAYS ABOUT 60 TO 70 PERCENT OF THEIR EMPLOYEES ARE FROM LAFAYETTE, AND THEY’VE BEEN AGGRESSIVE IN MAKING HIRES FROM U-L AND OTHER LOUISIANA UNIVERSITIES.

CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES ARE INVESTIGATING A FATAL MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT IN MOSS BLUFF.  46-YEAR-OLD JOHNNY COE WAS TRAVELING NORTH ON CRAWFORD DRIVE AT AROUND THREE A-M SUNDAY, WHEN FOR UNKNOWN REASONS HE WENT OFF THE ROAD.  COE WAS WEARING A HELMET BUT WAS EJECTED FROM THE MOTORCYCLE.  HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE.

 

Eight lawsuits have been filed by people seeking damages from a Texas industrial services company that spilled about 12,500 gallons of crude oil in March along and into the Bayou Teche.  The Advocate reports the suits against Houston-based PSC Industrial Outsourcing were filed in April in state court in St. Mary Parish, where the spill occurred. The suits were transferred last week to U.S. District Court in Lafayette.  The plaintiffs seek damages for contamination to property, groundwater and aquifers; contamination to wildlife, ground and vegetation; property devaluation; and punitive damages against the company.

 

More than 30 state lawmakers are asking Louisiana’s attorney general for an opinion on whether an April anti-discrimination order issued by Gov. John Bel Edwards is constitutional.  Edwards’ order bans discrimination in state government based on sexual orientation and gender identity. State contracts will be required to include a similar provision, except for those contractors that are religious organizations.  Thirty-two Republican House members sent a letter Friday to GOP Attorney General Jeff Landry asking for a legal opinion about a dozen different questions, saying the Democratic governor’s order “raises troubling legal and practical questions.”