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ONE PERSON WAS INJURED IN A SHOOTING IN THE NINE HUNDRED BLOCK OF NORTH MARKET STREET IN OPELOUSAS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. GERALD GRUENING REPORTS.
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OCHSNER LAFAYETTE GENERAL AND OUR LADY OF LOURDES IS PARTNERING WITH THE UNITED WAY ON A COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT SURVEY. THOSE EIGHTEEN-YEARS AND OLDER ARE ASKED TO COMPLETE A SURVEY BY MAY TWENTIETH, WHICH CAN BE FOUND AT UNITED WAY OF ACADIANA-DOT-ORG. THEY ARE HOPING TO GATHER INPUT FROM THE PUBLIC ABOUT HEALTH NEEDS. THE ASSESSMENT WILL BE REVIEWED AND ADOPTED BY TEN OCHSNER AND LOURDES HOSPITALS IN ACADIANA.
Voting rights advocates say they will go to the Supreme Court in hopes of preserving a new majority Black congressional district in Louisiana for the fall elections. Wednesday’s declaration was the latest step in a complicated legal fight that could determine the fate of political careers and the balance of power in the next Congress. A divided panel of federal judges on Tuesday rejected a map approved in January by an unusual alliance of Republicans, who dominate the Legislature, and Democrats who want a second mostly Black — and mostly Democratic — congressional district. The map protects the districts of powerful Republican incumbents including House Speaker Mike Johnson.
A LAKE CHARLES MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR FIGHTING A MAN AT A SHOP RITE STORE ON AMBASSADOR CAFFERY AND DULLES DRIVE TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND THEN ROBBING HIM. INVESTIGATORS SAY TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD MARCUS FONTENOT AND TWO OTHER MEN WEARING SKI MASKS ATTACKED THE MAN AND ONE OF THE MEN WITH HIM STOLE A GUN FROM THE MAN WHO WAS ATTACKED. THE THREE LEFT THE STORE BUT FONTENOT WAS LATER CAUGHT AND ARRESTED BY POLICE ON DULLES NOT FAR FROM BERTRAND DRIVE. THE OTHER TWO MEN HAVE NOT YET BEEN IDENTIFIED.
VERMILLION PARISH DEPUTIES RESPONDED AT AROUND TWO THIRTY YESTERDAY MORNING TO REPORTS OF A VEHICLE CRASHING INTO A STORE IN GUEYDAN AND AN A-T-M MACHINE BEING STOLEN. THE STORE, LOUGON’S (LOH yahns) SHOPPING CENTER, IS OWNED BY GUEYDAN POLICE CHIEF CRU DELCAMBRE. THE ALLEGED PICKUP TRUCK USED IN THE ROBBERY WAS FOUND ABANDONED IN A FIELD AND THE DISASSEMBLED A-T-M MACHINE WAS FOUND IN THE BED OF THE TRUCK ALONG WITH BUILDING MATERIALS FROM THE STORE. AUTHORITIES SAY THE DODGE RAM PICKUP TRUCK HAD BEEN STOLEN.
THE KIWANIS CLUB OF BROUSSARD AND LAFAYETTE HAS GIFTED TWO AQUATIC WHEELCHAIRS TO THE BROUSSARD SPORTS COMPLEX. THE PURPOSE OF THE WHEELCHAIRS IS TO PROVIDE EASIER ACCESS TO THE SPLASH PAD, LOCATED IN THE BLUE POD AT THE SPORTS COMPLEX. MAYOR RAY BOURQUE THANKED THE KIWANIS CLUB FOR THE DONATION OF EQUIPMENT THAT, HE SAYS, ASSISTS CHILDREN OF ALL ABILITIES. THE WHEELCHAIRS CAN BE RESERVED THROUGH THE BROUSSARD SPORTS COMPLEX’ WEBSITE OR BY CALLING THE COMPLEX’ OFFICE.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE JACK MCFARLAND ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY THAT THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES HAS REVERSED COURSE AND WILL PARTICIPATE IN A SUMMER FEEDING PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN. THE PROGRAM PROVIDES ONE HUNDRED TWENTY DOLLARS EACH FOR FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND IMPOVERISHED CHILDREN FOR FOOD DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS. THE LEGISLATURE IS MOVING TO PROVIDE THREE-POINT-SIX MILLION DOLLARS IN STATE FUNDING IN ORDER TO DRAW DOWN SEVENTY-ONE MILLION FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO FUND THE PROGRAM. HOUSE AND SENATE LEADERS MET WITH D-C-F-S SECRETARY DAVID MATLOCK TO ENCOURAGE THE GOVERNOR’S ADMINISTRATION TO MAKE THE CHANGE.
A TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR MAKEOVER IS UNDERWAY FOR THE CROWLEY RICE THEATRE, WHICH HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED AT ALL FOR MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS. SOME OF THE COST IS BEING COVERED BY THE STATE. THE SOUND AND LIGHTING AT THE THEATRE AS WELL AS ITS EXTERIOR IS BEING UPDATED. CITY OFFICIALS SAY THE PROJECT SHOULD BE FINISHED BEFORE THE RICE FESTIVAL IN OCTOBER.
