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THE TRIAL OF FORMER SAINT THOMAS MORE TEACHER JACOB DE LA PAZ CONTINUES TODAY. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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A SAINT LANDRY PARISH INMATE WAS KILLED WHILE ASSISTING THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE IN A DRIVER TRAINING EXERCISE AT THE SAINT LANDRY PARISH AIRPORT. OFFICIALS BELIEVE THE INMATE LOST CONTROL OF THE SIDE-BY-SIDE HE WAS USING AND IT FLIPPED. IT HAPPENED WHILE HE WAS PICKING UP TRAFFIC CONES ON THE COURSE. SPEED IS BELIEVED TO BE A FACTOR IN THE ACCIDENT.
Louisiana lawmakers have advanced a bill that would reclassify two abortion-inducing drugs, making it a crime to possess without a prescription. Mifepristone and misoprostol have other critical uses, including to induce labor, stop obstetric hemorrhaging and treat miscarriages. The reclassification of the two drugs in Louisiana is an amendment to a bill that would create the crime of “coerced abortion.” The bill will be returned to the Senate for final approval.
A conservative legislative committee in Louisiana has blocked an effort by the Jewish community to bar nitrogen gas as an execution method. Religious leaders, relatives of Holocaust survivors and representatives of a local coalition called Jews Against Gassing argue that the method invokes trauma from the Holocaust, specifically the use of lethal gas by Nazis to murder European Jews. Alabama was the first state in the nation to use the gas earlier this year. Since then, several Republican-led states have added the method, prompting a backlash by opponents who say it is inhumane.
THE LAKE CHARLES SALVATION ARMY CENTER OF HOPE ON LEGION STREET REOPENED YESTERDAY AFTER BEING CLOSED FOR FOUR YEARS. THE CLOSURE WAS DUE TO DAMAGE CAUSED BY HURRICANE LAURA. LIEUTENANT TIM MORRISON WITH THE SALVATION ARMY CALLED IT A LONG, DIFFICULT ROAD TO RECOVERY BUT SEEING THE NEW AND IMPROVED FACILITY GIVES HIM GOOSEBUMPS. HE TELLS KPLC TV THAT THEY’LL BE ABLE TO HOUSE AND FEED MORE THAN THIRTY PEOPLE.
A SEVENTY-YEAR-OLD LAFAYETTE MAN WAS SHOT AND KILLED WHILE SLEEPING IN HIS BED AT HIS HOME ON MACKLYN STREET. HIS WIFE OF FORTY-SIX-YEARS, DEBRA MOUTON, TELLS KLFY TV THAT SHE FOUND BLOOD ALL OVER HIS PILLOW AND A HOLE IN HIS NECK, AND SHE DIDN’T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. SHE SAYS POLICE INVESTIGATING FOUND BULLET HOLES INDICATING BULLETS THAT WENT THROUGH THE CLOSET AND WALL INTO THE VICTIM, STANFORD DAVID MOUTON. DEBRA SAYS STANFORD HAD RECENTLY GONE INTO REMISSION AFTER A YEAR-AND-A-HALF LONG BATTLE WITH LUNG CANCER.
SIX PEOPLE WERE INDICTED FRIDAY IN FEDERAL COURT IN CHICAGO FOR ALLEGEDLY STAGING ROBBERIES IN SEVERAL STATES. THE PURPOSE OF THE ROBBERIES WAS TO HELP THOSE POSING AS VICTIMS TO GET U NON-IMMIGRANT STATUS VISAS, WHICH ARE MADE AVAILABLE FOR VICTIMS OF CERTAIN CRIMES. ONE OF THE STAGED ROBBERIES WAS AT A SUBWAY RESTAURANT IN RAYNE ONE YEAR AGO. POLICE CHIEF CARROLL STELLY SAID ON THEIR FACEBOOK PAGE THAT DEPARTMENT DETECTIVES WORKED WITH FEDERAL INVESTIGATORS TO BUILD CASES AGAINST THOSE INVOLVED IN THE ALLEGED FRAUD.
THE F-A-A HAS RELEASED ITS PRELIMINARY REPORT ABOUT A PLANE CRASH IN CECILIA ON SATURDAY MAY ELEVENTH. THE PLANE WENT DOWN ALONG THE BANKS OF THE BAYOU TECHE NEAR TECHE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. THE PILOT, KENNETH SONNIER, WAS AIRLIFTED TO A BATON ROUGE HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT OF SERIOUS INJURIES. THE F-A-A HAS NOT YET BEEN ABLE TO DETERMINE THE CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT, ACCORDING TO THE REPORT.
