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5-18-22

BROUSSARD POLICE HAVE ARRESTED A WOMAN MONDAY AFTER FINDING AN INFANT IN HER CARE DEAD AND A TWO-YEAR-OLD INJURED AND IN CRITICAL CONDITION.  POLICE WERE RESPONDING TO AN ADDRESS ON EAST THIRD STREET IN REFERENCE TO A WELFARE CONCERN.  THE CARETAKER, FORTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD TAMMY CLAUSE OF BROUSSARD, WAS CHARGED WITH SECOND DEGREE MURDER AND SECOND-DEGREE CRUELTY TO JUVENILES.  POLICE, WHO ARE STILL INVESTIGATING, HAVE NOT EXPLAINED HOW THE BABY DIED OR RELEASED DETAILS OF THE INJURY.

 

A RAYNE MOTHER IS CALLING FOR JUSTICE AFTER SHE SAYS HER DAUGHTERS WERE BEATEN WITH A BASEBALL BAT AND ONE WAS PISTOL WHIPPED.  ONE OF THE DAUGHTERS, EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD TY’RENAE CHARLOT IS RECOVERING IN A HOSPITAL.  THE MOTHER, EVELYN MALBROUGH, TELLS KLFY TV THE SAME GROUP OF BOYS APPROACHED THE FAMILY ON SATURDAY WITH BASEBALL BATS AND HER SISTER FIRED A GUN IN THE AIR TO GET THE BOYS TO RUN AWAY.  THERE WERE NO REPORTED INJURIES IN SATURDAY’S INCIDENT BUT RAYNE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING THE SHOOTING.

 

Louisiana State Police said Tuesday an elderly Crowley man, reported missing over the weekend, has been found dead. Troopers say Kinder Police found the body of 86-year-old James Hubert Breaux. Further details, including a cause of death, were not released. Breaux’s family reported him missing Saturday.

 

THE STATE HOUSE HAS PASSED A BILL THAT WOULD BAN TRANSGENDER ATHLETES FROM COMPETING IN GIRL’S SPORTS.  NOW IT HEADS TO THE SENATE TO ADDRESS MINOR CHANGES.  CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS MORE.

 

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A state lawmaker’s attempt to set restrictions on what public schools in Louisiana can teach about race has been rejected by a House committee. Some panel members said the legislation needlessly encroached on state and local education officials’ duties. Other critics said the legislation was so broadly written it could squelch classroom debate. Rep. Ray Garofalo, a St. Bernard Parish Republican, said the bills were needed to prevent attempts at “indoctrinating” students with political opinions.

 

 

LAFAYETTE PARISH HAS SEEN A SLIGHT UPTICK IN THE NUMBER OF POSITIVE COVID-NINETEEN CASES, MATCHING WHAT’S HAPPENING AROUND THE STATE.  THE STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENT IS EXPECTED TODAY TO INCREASE THE POSITIVITY RATE AMONG THOSE TESTED AND REPORTED FROM THREE-POINT-ONE PERCENT TO SIX PERCENT.  HOWEVER, HOSPITALIZATIONS FOR COVID-NINETEEN ARE WAY DOWN.  AS OF TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCSHNER LAFAYETTE GENERAL HAD ONLY ONE CASE IN ALL SEVEN OF THEIR HOSPITALS AND THAT ONE WAS IN THE LAFAYETTE HOSPITAL.

 

A FORMER SAINT MARTIN PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTY WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO TAKE BACK HER GUILTY PLEA.  CHRYSTAL CLUES-ALEXANDER ARGUED BEFORE THE STATE SUPREME COURT THAT SHE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO CHANGE HER TWENTY-EIGHTEEN PLEA BECAUSE SHE MADE IT RATHER THAN FACE A JURY PROCESS THAT WAS LATER FOUND UNCONSTITUTIONAL BY THE

U-S SUPREME COURT.  THE STATE SUPREME COURT SAYS THAT THE FACT SHE COULDN’T FORSEE THAT SPLIT CONVICTIONS WOULD BE NOT ALLOWED ANYMORE “DID NOT MAKE HER GUILTY PLEA INVOLUNTARY OR UNKNOWING OR OTHERWISE UNDO ITS BINDING NATURE.”  CLUES-ALEXANDER PLED GUILTY TO MANSLAUGHTER IN THE SHOOTING DEATH OF HER HUSBAND, KENDALL ALEXANDER.

 

IBERIA PARISH COUNCILMAN MARTY TRAHAN PASSED AWAY MONDAY AT OUR LADY OF LOURDES REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER IN LAFAYETTE.  HE WAS FIFTY-EIGHT.  TRAHAN HAS REPRESENTED THE DISTRICT THIRTEEN SEAT IN IBERIA PARISH SINCE HE WAS FIRST ELECTED IN TWENTY-TWELVE.  THE FUNERAL SERVICE WILL BE HELD FRIDAY MORNING AT TEN AT THE PELLERIN FUNERAL HOME IN NEW IBERIA.