5-30-18
A LAFAYETTE MAN WAS SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON YESTERDAY FOR THE MURDER OF HIS GIRLFRIEND THREE YEARS AGO. TWO WEEKS AGO, A JURY FOUND 30-YEAR-OLD MILES GUILDRY GUILTY OF SECOND DEGREE MURDER. HE WAS INDICTED TWO YEARS AGO FOR THE DEATH OF 26-YEAR-OLD CLAIRE WALLEY, WHOSE BODY WAS FOUND AT THE HOME THEY SHARED IN DUSON ALONG WITH THEIR INFANT SON. JUST DAYS AFTER THE MURDER, GUIDRY WAS APPREHENDED BY AUTHORITIES IN COLORADO, WHERE HE WAS FOUND SLEEPING IN HIS CAR.
THE CALCASIEU PARISH DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE HAS ASKED THE FULL FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS TO REHEAR AN APPEAL ON THE MURDER CONVICTION OF RICKY LANGLEY. A THREE JUDGE PANEL OF THE FIFTH CIRCUIT OVERTURNED A SECOND DEGREE MURDER CONVICTION OF LANGLEY AND RULED THE STATE CANNOT RETRY HIM ON THAT CHARGE. LANGLEY CONFESSED TO MURDERING SIX-YEAR-OLD JEREMY GUILLORY IN 1992. HE’S BEEN CONVICTED THREE TIMES ON THE CRIME BUT EACH CONVICTION HAS BEEN OVERTURNED.
THERE’S NEW INFORMATION ON THE CRASH THAT CLAIMED THE LIFE OF AN ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL. HERE’S JEFF HORCHAK.
VOICER D :35
Lawmakers in the Louisiana House have ended days of inaction on the budget. The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday advanced a package of bills to chart spending on state government operations in the financial year that begins July 1. The panel zipped through the measures quickly, sending them to the full House for debate with no objection. The House is expected to consider them Thursday.
THE OWNER OF ZOOSIANA IN BROUSSARD SAYS HE’S OPTIMISTIC THEY WILL HAVE A BIGGER AND BETTER TRAIN. THE CURRENT TRAIN AND THE DEPOT WHERE IT WAS STATIONED WERE DESTROYED IN A FIRE SATURDAY NIGHT. GEORGE OLDENBURG SAYS THE FIRE ALSO DESTROYED A CONCESSION STAND AND A MUSEUM QUALITY BUTTERFLY DISPLAY THAT INCLUDED A MOUNT THAT WAS MORE THAN A HUNDRED YEARS OLD. HE SAYS A CONCRETE STATUE OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISSI WAS UNTOUCHED, EVEN THOUGH EVERYTHING AROUND IT BURNED.
31-YEAR-OLD RICHARD WAYNE BARRAS HAS BEEN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH TWO ATTEMPTED RAPES AFTER A JOINT INVESTIGATION BY THE LAKE CHARLES POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE. THE FIRST ATTACK HAPPENED ON LEON DRIVE OFF OF NELSON ROAD IN LAKE CHARLES WHEN AN ELDERLY WOMAN WAS ATTACKED, BUT SHE SCREAMED AND THE SUSPECT RAN AWAY. JUST THIRTY MINUTES LATER, A SIMILAR ATTACK WAS MADE ON ANOTHER WOMAN NEAR COUNTRY CLUB AND WEST PRIEN LAKE ROAD. AUTHORITIES SAY THEY ARE CONFIDENT THEY HAVE THE RIGHT MAN AFTER REVIEWING SURVEILLANCE VIDEOS FROM THE AREA.
A STUDENT FROM ST. MICHAEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN CROWLEY IS COMPETING IN THE NATIONAL SPELLING BEE IN WASHINGTON, D-C. EIGHTH GRADER MICHAEL GOSS IS IN HIS THIRD STRAIGHT NATIONAL SPELLING BEE. YESTERDAY HE CORRECTLY SPELLED OXYACETYLENE IN THE PRELIMINARY ROUND AND TODAY HE MOVES TO THE NEXT ROUND. LAST YEAR GOSS FINISHED IN A TIE FOR 41ST PLACE.
Louisiana’s governor has vetoed a bill that would have prohibited local governments from passing zoning ordinances requiring builders to include low-income housing in some residential developments. Gov. John Bel Edwards’ Tuesday veto message says so-called ‘inclusionary zoning’ ordinances have been used around the country to increase affordable housing. He said the bill could jeopardize federal funding for affordable housing programs. However, He says if local governments don’t pursue inclusionary zoning policies over the next year, he will conclude that they don’t intend to do so and, Edwards said, he will be inclined to let similar legislation become law if it passes again in 2019.
