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5-25-23

A RAYNE MAN IS NOW A SUSPECT IN AN INVESTIGATION INTO HUMAN REMAINS LEFT AT A CHURCH.  DANIELLE DUNCAN REPORTS.

 

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A LAFAYETTE DAY CARE WORKER HAS BEEN ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH CRUELTY TO A JUVENILE.  TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD CLEMONIA ONEZIME (OH nuh zeem) IS ACCUSED OF SLAMMING A TWO-YEAR-OLD BOY TO THE GROUND BECAUSE HE DIDN’T WANT TO TAKE A NAP.  NATHANIEL MOORE, THE PRESIDENT AND C-E-O OF LITTLE BLESSINGS CHILDCARE, SAYS ONEZIME WAS FIRED IMMEDIATELY.  HE SAYS THEY ALSO DISCOVERED ON VIDEO TAPES ANOTHER TEACHER WHO WAS IN AND OUT OF THE CLASSROOM, AND WHO MUST HAVE SEEN WHAT HAPPENED.  SHE WAS FIRED AS WELL SINCE SHE DIDN’T REPORT THE INCIDENT TO HER SUPERVISORS.

 

SULPHUR POLICE HAVE CAPTURED AN ESCAPEE FROM A JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER.  THE BOY ESCAPED FROM THE CENTER ON SURREY STREET IN LAFAYETTE SATURDAY BY CLIMBING A FENCE.  SULPHUR POLICE FOUND HIM TUESDAY NIGHT.  HE WILL BE TRANSPORTED BACK TO THE JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER IN LAFAYETTE AND BOOKED WITH AN ADDITIONAL CHARGE OF SIMPLE ESCAPE.

 

A BILL THAT WOULD BAN TRANSGENDER SURGERIES ON CHILDREN IN LOUISIANA FAILED TO MAKE IT OUT OF THE SENATE HEALTH AND WELFARE COMMITTEE.  THE VOTE WAS FIVE-TO-FOUR TO BLOCK THE BILL FROM ADVANCING, WHICH BANNED THE USE OF CROSS SEX HORMONES, PUBERTY BLOCKERS AND SURGERY ON MINORS.  REPUBLICAN STATE SENATOR FRED MILLS OF PARKS JOINED THE FOUR DEMOCRATS ON THE COMMITTEE TO BLOCK THE BILL.  MILLS SAID DURING HEARINGS HE BELIEVED THE DECISION SHOULD BE BETWEEN THE PATIENT AND THEIR PHYSICIAN.

 

For the fifth time in six years, Louisiana lawmakers have blocked attempts to abolish the state’s death penalty. Despite a new push by Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards, a GOP-controlled legislative committee voted against the bill to repeal the state’s longstanding death penalty. Since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, Louisiana has held 28 executions. The last lethal injection came in January 2010.

 

NEW IBERIA POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY AT AROUND ONE-THIRTY IN THE ONE HUNDRED BLOCK OF IBERIA STREET.  POLICE SAY THERE WAS A MALE VICTIM, WHO WAS SHOT AND TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL.  HE IS IN MODERATE BUT STABLE CONDITION.  POLICE DO NOT HAVE ANY SUSPECTS AT THIS TIME.

 

 

LAFAYETTE CITY PARISH ADMINISTRATORS SAYS THEY WERE NOT GIVEN ENOUGH TIME TO RESPOND TO TWENTY-NINE SHORTCOMINGS FOUND IN A RECENT AUDIT.  THEY EXPRESSED SURPRISE THAT THE AUDITOR’S FINDINGS WERE SUBMITTED TO THE LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR BEFORE THEY SAW THE REPORT OR RESPONDED TO IT.  AUDITOR BURTON KOLDER SAYS THE LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT IS USUALLY GIVEN JUST A FEW DAYS TO RESPOND BUT THIS YEAR THERE WERE TWENTY-NINE FINDINGS RATHER THAN THE USUAL THREE TO FOUR.  HE SAYS HE SENT THE REPORT TO THE LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR’S OFFICE FIRST AT THE INSTRUCTION OF ASSISTANT LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR ROGER HARRIS.

 

CONGRESSMAN GARRET GRAVES ANNOUNCED THAT LOUISIANA WILL BE RECEIVING FUNDS FOR HURRICANE PROTECTION.  AMONG THE PARISHES TO RECEIVE FUNDS IS VERMILLION PARISH, WHICH WILL GET ONE-POINT-SIX MILLION DOLLARS.  THE MONEY WILL ALSO BE USED TO HELP WITH COASTAL RESTORATION AND FLOODING CONTROL PROJECTS.  VICTORIA BOURQUE OF THE VERMILLION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE TELLS KLFY TV THAT COASTAL RESTORATION AND PROTECTION IS CRITICAL NOT ONLY FOR VERMILLION PARISH BUT FOR THE NEIGHBORING PARISHES TO THE NORTH.