5-17-22
AUTHORITIES ARE SEARCHING FOR AN EIGHTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD CROWLEY MAN WHO WAS LAST SEEN FRIDAY EVENING AT THE PILOT GAS STATION IN IOWA. CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS MORE.
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TWO CONSTRUCTION WORKERS HAD TO BE RESCUED FROM A CONSTRUCTION SITE AT OCHSNER LAFAYETTE GENERAL HOSPITAL YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. LAFAYETTE FIRE DEPARTMENT SPOKESPERSON ALTON TRAHAN SAYS THE WORKERS WERE INSTALLING WINDOWS WHEN THE MAIN HARNESS BROKE, LEAVING THEM HANGING FROM THEIR SECONDARY HARNESS AT A SEVERE ANGLE. TRAHAN SAYS CREWS FROM THE SAINT GEORGE FIRE DEPARTMENT MANAGED TO RESCUE THE TWO USING A HIGH ANGLE RESCUE BOOM LIFT. ONE OF THE WORKERS WAS HOSPITALIZED WITH SEVERE INJURIES.
THE BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU IS WARNING OF SCAMMERS TARGETING MOTHERS OF INFANTS WHO ARE SEEKING TO FIND BABY FORMULA, WHICH IS IN LOW SUPPLY. LIZ TRAHAN WITH THE B-B-B SERVING SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA SAYS THE SCAMMERS USE SOCIAL MEDIA AND ONLINE ADS TO REACH MOMS WHO PURCHASE THE FORMULA THROUGH DIRECT PAYMENT PLATFORMS BUT THEN IT IS NEVER DELIVERED. DOCTOR DAVID WALLACE, A PEDIATRICIAN FROM THE CHILDREN’S CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA, TELLS KPLC TV THAT HE HAS PATIENTS FREQUENTLY ASKING ABOUT WHERE THEY CAN FIND BABY FORMULA. HE SAYS IT’S THE ULTIMATE SICKNESS TO SCAM MOTHERS WHO FEED THEIR BABIES WITH FORMULA.
A state Senate committee has rejected a plan to phase out a temporary sales tax over three years. The 0.45% sales tax was approved in 2018 and is set to expire in 2025. Rep. Tony Bacala of Prairieville had proposed dropping the tax to 0.30% in mid-2023. It would have dropped to 0.15% the following year and disappeared as scheduled in 2025.
THE STATE HOUSE YESTERDAY UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED A RESOLUTION THAT INCLUDES FOUR-POINT-ONE BILLION DOLLARS IN STATE AID FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. IT INCLUDES A PAY RAISE OF FIFTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR TEACHERS AND SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS FOR SUPPORT WORKERS. GOVERNOR JOHN BEL EDWARDS HAD ASKED FOR A TWO THOUSAND DOLLAR RAISE FOR TEACHERS. THE GOVERNOR’S OFFICE AND TEACHER UNION LEADERS EXPRESSED DISAPPOINTMENT THAT THE LEGISLATURE DID NOT APPROVE THE HIGHER FIGURE.
FIRE FIGHTERS BATTLED A BLAZE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AT THE HISTORIC TOBY’S LOUNGE AND RECEPTION CENTER IN OPELOUSAS. KLFY RECEIVED REPORTS THAT THE BUILDING WAS ALREADY ENGULFED IN FLAMES BY THE TIME THEY ARRIVED. THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE HAS NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED. THE FIRE CHIEF SAYS NO ONE WAS IN THE BUILDING WHEN THE FIRE STARTED.
LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES ARRESTED A SUSPECT IN A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED SUNDAY IN THE FIVE HUNDRED BLOCK OF MARIGNY CIRCLE. THIRTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD ROEL FRANCISCO RIVERA-BRIONES HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY FIRED MULTIPLE SHOTS AT AN INDIVIDUAL. THAT PERSON WAS NOT INJURED. RIVERA-BRIONES WAS BOOKED INTO THE LAFAYETTE PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER AND HIS BOND WAS SET AT ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
AN ALLEGED DRUG DEALER WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY BY EVANGELINE PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES. THEY SEARCHED A HOME IN THE CHATAGNIER AREA WHICH LED TO THE ARREST OF SIXTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD MARSHA HUVAL. SHE WAS CHARGED WITH POSSESSION WITH THE INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE METH, HEROIN, FENTANYL, OXYCODONE, AND OTHER PRESCRIPTION DRUGS. THEY ALSO ARRESTED TWENTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD ATTICUS MILLER OF EUNICE ON A CHARGE OF POSSESSION OF FENTANYL AND BECAUSE OF AN OUTSTANDING WARRANT IN SAINT LANDRY PARISH.
