5-24-21
THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS INVESTIGATING AFTER MULTIPLE FIGHTS BROKE OUT AT THE CAJUNDOME PARKING LOT SATURDAY NIGHT. BY THE TIME POLICE ARRIVED, THE FIGHTS HAD DISBANDED AND NO ARRESTS WERE MADE. DEPARTMENT SPOKESPERSON VALERIE PONSETI SAYS THERE WERE MULTIPLE REPORTS OF SHOTS BUT DETECTIVES CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT NO SHOTS WERE FIRED. BECAUSE THE FIGHTS HAD DISBANDED BY THE TIME POLICE ARRIVED, IT’S NOT KNOWN IF THERE WERE ANY INJURIES.
A WOMAN IS DEAD AND A MAN IS UNDER ARREST AFTER A SHOOTING IN BREAUX BRIDGE. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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Louisiana drivers would have to use a handsfree device or put their cellphones on speaker mode to talk on the phone while driving or risk a fine from police under a proposal that won House backing. Republican Rep. Mike Huval of Breaux Bridge has tried and failed for years to ban handheld cellphone use while driving. House passage Wednesday with a 77-20 vote sends the measure to the Senate for consideration. Huval calls it a matter of public safety.
JENNINGS POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR A MISSING TEENAGER. FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD KAMIRON CHAISSON WAS LAST SEEN ON THURSDAY NEAR JENNINGS HIGH SCHOOL. HE WAS WEARING A JENNINGS HIGH SCHOOL UNIFORM. IF YOU KNOWOF HIS WHEREABOUTS, YOU’RE ASKED TO CONTACT THE JENNINGS POLICE DEPARTMENT.
SOME RESIDENTS IN LAFAYETTE ARE STILL DEALING WITH HIGH WATER FROM LAST WEEK’S RAINS. THE VERMILLION RIVER WAS STILL AT MODERATE FLOOD STAGE IN THE DERBY HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION, WHICH IS AFFECTING LOW LYING AREAS. SOME RESIDENTS ALONG ARIS DRIVE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO LEAVE HOME FOR A WEEK. THEY ARE HOPING THE WATER CAN BE DRAINED OR PUMPED OUT.
AN ABBEVILLE FAMILY HAS STARTED A GOFUNDME PAGE AFTER LOSING EVERYTHING IN A HOUSE FIRE LAST MONDAY. AVERY LELEAUX SAYS THE FAMILY WAS AT THE GROCERY STORE WHEN THE FIRE STARTED AND THEY LOST ONE OF THEIR THREE DOGS IN THE FIRE. THE FAMILY SAYS THE HOUSE HAD FAULTY WIRING AND A LEAKING ROOF, AND BELIEVE THE STORMS LAST MONDAY LED TO THE FIRE. THE FAMILY IS COPING WITH THE LOSS OF THEIR HOME AND PET BUT ARE GRATEFUL TO STILL HAVE EACH OTHER.
People along rivers in seven states may see a low-flying helicopter towing a long cylinder, starting late this month and going into July. The 30-foot-long tube holds an electromagnetic instrument that the U.S. Geological Survey uses to make maps of aquifers. Those are underground areas from which water can be drawn. Flights are planned along rivers above the Chicot Aquifer in southwest Louisiana.
ON SATURDAY, DERIDDER POLICE ARRESTED A SUSPECT IN A MURDER THAT HAPPENED IN LIVINGSTON PARISH. THE POLICE DEPARTMENT LEARNED THE SUSPECT, THIRTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD EVAN CLONINGER OF DENHAM SPRINGS, WAS AT A RESIDENCE IN DERIDDER. AFTER A BRIEF STANDOFF, CLONINGER WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY WITH HELP FROM THE BEAUREGARD PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE AND STATE POLICE. CLONINGER IS FACING SECOND DEGREE MURDER CHARGES FOR A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED MAY FOURTEENTH IN A DENHAM SPRINGS MOTEL PARKING LOT.
