5-30-17
THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS SEARCHING FOR AN 18-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WHO WAS LAST SEEN ON TUESDAY. JACQUELYN “DAISY LYNN” LANDRY HAD LEFT FOR A FRIEND’S HOUSE BUT NEVER ARRIVED. HER FAMILY TOLD KATC TV THAT SHE HAS NEVER BEEN GONE THIS LONG WITHOUT CONTACTING THEM. THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE DESCRIBES LANDRY AS FIVE-ONE AND 105 POUNDS WITH A SMALL TRIANGLE TATTOO ON THE INSIDE OF HER RIGHT WRIST AND A BURN MARK ON THE OUTSIDE OF HER LEFT FOREARM.
AN ATTORNEY FROM IOWA WAS SHOT EARLY SUNDAY MORNING AND IS RECOVERING AT A LAFAYETTE HOSPITAL. THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS LOOKING FOR TWO PEOPLE IN CONNECTION WITH THE SHOOTING OF JONATHAN BROWN AT HIS HOUSE ON P-E DAIGLE ROAD. SHERIFF’S OFFICE SPOKESWOMAN KIM MYERS SAYS 27-YEAR-OLD ROBERT HANDY IS WANTED ON TWO COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER, AND HE IS CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS. THEY HAVE NOT YET IDENTIFIED THE SECOND SUSPECT.
KAPLAN POLICE HAVE ARRESTED A 40-YEAR-OLD MAN ON A THIRD DEGREE RAPE CHARGE. POLICE CHIEF BOYD ADAMS TOLD KLFY TV THAT JAMIE ABSHIRE MET THE ALLEGED VICTIM OUTSIDE OF NEIGHBORS TWO BAR AT AROUND 1:30 MONDAY MORNING, WHILE HE WAS THROWING AWAY TRASH IN THE DUMPSTERS. THE VICTIM IS A 28-YEAR-OLD MAN WITH A LEARNING DISABILITY. ABSHIRE WAS BOOKED INTO THE KAPLAN CITY JAIL ON A 25 THOUSAND DOLLAR BOND.
Gov. John Bel Edwards’ administration has presented to senators a grim picture of the fallout from the House-proposed version of next year’s budget. The governor is threatening a veto if anything resembling the spending plan reaches his desk.
Agency leaders say they’d have to release prisoners early, shutter health programs and damage critical services in the financial year that begins July 1. House Republican leaders call that scare tactics and say state government can’t afford the spending trajectory proposed by the Democratic governor.
VIOLENCE BROKE OUT AT A VIGIL THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BRING PEACE AND HEALING AFTER LAST WEEK’S DEADLY SHOOTINGS. JULIE DARCE HAS MORE.
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THE RAINS LAST NIGHT DIDN’T DAMPEN THE ENTHUSIASM AT A MEMORIAL DAY PARADE AND CEREMONY IN JENNINGS. MARCUS CAIN, A SOLDIER FROM JENNINGS WHO WAS KILLED IN IRAQ IN 2006, WAS REMEMBERED AS A GOOD PERSON WHO SERVED HIS COUNTRY. THE CEREMONY WAS HELD AFTER THE PARADE AT MARCUS CAIN MEMORIAL PARK. A NUMBER OF VETERANS WERE AT THE CEREMONY INCLUDING DON HALL, WHO TOLD KPLC TV THAT WITHOUT THEM, THE U-S WOULD LIKELY BE ENSLAVED LIKE MANY OTHER COUNTRIES, BUT, INSTEAD, WE ARE FREE.
THE MEMORIAL DAY CEREMONY IN NEW IBERIA LAST NIGHT WAS HELD IN BOULIGNY PLAZA. THE IBERIA VETERANS ASSOCIATION SPONSORED THE CEREMONY. THE ASSOCIATION’S PRESIDENT TOLD KATC THAT THEY SHOULD SHOW VETERAN’S THE PLEASURE OF WHAT WE HAVE, WHAT THEY’VE DONE FOR US, AND WHAT’S GETTING DONE FOR US. THERE WAS A LAYING OF A MEMORIAL WREATH, A 21 GUN SALUTE, AND THE CEREMONY CONCLUDED WITH A RENDITION OF “GOD BLESS AMERICA.”
U.S. Coast Guard officials say a tug boat has sunk off the coast of Louisiana and a crewmember is missing. The Coast Guard Sector New Orleans says in a statement that it received a report around 5 a.m. Monday that the tug vessel Crosby Commander was taking on water. Three of the four people aboard were able to get into a life raft before the boat sank about 30 nautical miles south of Marsh Island.
Crews are still searching in the water and from overhead for the missing crewmember, whose identity was not released.
