5-20-24
OPELOUSAS POLICE, INVESTIGATING AN AGGRAVATED ASSAULT WITH A FIREARM COMPLAINT, ENDED UP MAKING NINE ARRESTS. OFFICERS ARRIVING AT A HOME ON ROSS STREET SATURDAY AFTERNOON LEARNED THAT A MAN HAD ALLEGEDLY POINTED A GUN AT A WOMAN. A SEARCH WARRANT WAS OBTAINED AND EXECUTED AND POLICE FOUND FIVE HANDGUNS, A FIREARM, SEVERAL GRAMS OF MARIJUANA, DIGITAL SCALES, PLASTIC BAGS, AND MORE. SEVEN MEN AND A TEENAGE BOY WERE ARRESTED AFTER THE SEARCH AND A WOMAN WAS ARRESTED THE NEXT DAY FOR OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE.
THE TRIAL OF A FORMER SAINT THOMAS MORE TEACHER IS SCHEDULED TO BEGIN TODAY. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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THE STATE SENATE IS DEBATING A BILL TODAY THAT WOULD CRIMINALIZE THE POSSESSION OF TWO DRUGS THAT CAN BE USED TO INDUCE AN ABORTION UP TO ABOUT TEN WEEKS OF GESTATION. THE BILL WOULD CLASSIFY MIFEPRISTONE AN MISOPROSTOL AS SCHEDULE FOUR DRUGS. IF IT BECOMES LAW, POSSESSION OF THE DRUGS WITHOUT A PRESCRIPTION WOULD BE PUNISHABLE BY UP TO TEN YEARS IN PRISON, WITH AN EXCEPTION FOR PREGNANT WOMEN. THIS WOULD BE THE FIRST ATTEMPT TO CURTAIL THE USE OF ABORTION DRUGS BY MAKING THEM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES.
ANOTHER BILL ALLOWING PARENTS TO USE STATE TAX DOLLARS TO PAY FOR PRIVATE SCHOOL TUITION PASSES IN THE SENATE. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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CARE HELP OF SULPHUR HELD A CARNIVAL YESTERDAY IN FRONT OF THEIR THRIFT STORE TO HELP CELEBRATE THEIR FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY. CARE HELP’S MISSION IS TO EXPRESS THE LOVE OF GOD THROUGH MINISTERING TO THOSE IN NEED BY SUPPLYING SHORT-TERM ASSISTANCE AND PROMOTING LIFE SKILLS. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR JODY FARNUM TELL KPLC TV IT WOULDN’T BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF THE COMMUNITY INCLUDING VENDORS, INDUSTRIES, CHURCHES AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS. SHE SAYS SHE HOPES THEY WILL CONTINUE TO HELP EVERYONE THEY CAN FOR YEARS TO COME WITH THE HELP OF THE COMMUNITY.
NEW IBERIA POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING TWO SHOOTINGS OVER THE WEEKEND. ONE ON SATURDAY IS A HOMOCIDE INVESTIGATION THOUGH THE IDENTITIES OF THE SUSPECT AND VICTIM HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED. ANOTHER SHOOTING SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT FIVE-THIRTY HAD TWO VICTIMS. IT HAPPENED ON CENTER AND SAINT PETER STREETS, THOUGH POLICE HAVE NOT RELEASED ANY DETAILS.
THE U-L RAGIN CAJUNS SOFTBALL TEAM’S SEASON HAS COME TO AN END. U-L, THE NUMBER THIRTEEN SEEDED TEAM IN THE NATION, EARNED THE RIGHT TO HOST A REGIONAL TOURNAMENT AT LAMSON PARK FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE TWENTY-SIXTEEN. THEY FORCED A WINNER TAKE ALL GAME, BUT LOST FOUR-TO-THREE TO BAYLOR. U-L FINISHED THE SEASON WITH A FORTY-FIVE AND NINETEEN RECORD.
A MAN WANTED FOR A MURDER IN EUNICE ON APRIL EIGHTH WAS FOUND DURING A TRAFFIC STOP IN SHREVEPORT JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT THURSDAY. EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD DAYLON RAINVILLE OF EUNICE WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE SAINT LANDRY PARISH JAIL ON THURSDAY WHERE HE WAS BOOKED ON A CHARGE OF SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AND AGGRAVATED CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD ROY “TRAY” GUILLORY OF EUNICE WAS FOUND SHOT TO DEATH ALONG WITH HIS DOG AT A HOME ON L-A SEVEN-FIFTY-SEVEN. RAINVILLE IS BEING HELD WITHOUT BOND.
