5-4-16
A TWO VEHICLE CRASH YESTERDAY MORNING ON LAKE STREET NEARI-210 ENDED IN THE DEATH OF 58 YEAR OLD GERALDINE VEZINA OF LAKE CHARLES. ACCORDING TO POLICE, THE OTHER DRIVER FAILED TO YIELD TO VEZINA, WHEN THEY ATTEMPTED TO TURN LEFT ONTO THE 1-210 WEST ENTRANCE. VEZINA WAS TAKEN TO A LOCAL HOSPITAL WITH MODERATE TO SEVERE INJURIES, WHERE SHE LATER DIED. ALTHOUGH HER DEATH IS CURRENTLY UNKNOWN AND IS BEING INVESTIGATED. THE OTHER DRIVER WAS TAKEN TO A LOCAL HOSPITAL WITH MINOR TO MODERATE INJURIES.
JOSHUA FRANCIS, 35 OF LAKE CHARLES, DIED LAST NIGHT AFTER BEING STABBED SERVERAL TIMES. POLICE RESPONDED TO THE INCIDENT AROUND 9:01 LAST NIGHT AT THE SUNLIGHT MANOR APARTMENT COMPLEX ON WINTERHALTER STREET. WHEN THEY ARRIVED THEY SAW FRANCIS LYING IN THE PARKING LOT OF THE COMPLEX. THE INVESTIGATION REVEALED THAT TAJJELL HUMPHREY PULLED A KNIFE ON FRANCIS DURING AN A FIGHT AND STABBED HIM SEVERAL TIMES. AFTER A SHORT FOOT PURSUIT BY POLICE, HUMPHREY WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGES WITH MANSLAUGHTER. FRANCIS WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL, WHERE HE LATER DIED.
THERE’S A MAJOR COUNTERFEIT CHECK CASHING SCHEME IN ST.LANDRY PARISH. JULIE DARCE HAS MORE.
VOICER O :25
ELAINE FREEMAN OF MAMOU, WHO IS ACCUSED OF ABDUCTING HER CHILD LAST WEEK IS NOW IN THE EVANGELINE PARISH JAIL. FREEMAN WAS FOUND LAST WEDNESDAY WITH HER 12 YEAR OLD SON JAYLON BRADLEY IN JACKSON MISSISSIPPI. FREEMAN DID NOT HAVE CUSTODY OF HER SON AND HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH SIMPLE KIDNAPPING. TWO OTHER ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE INCLUDING KEYAINA FREEMAN CHARGED WITH OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE AND DAPHNE FONTENOT CHARGED WITH SIMPLE KIDNAPPING AND CRIMINAL TRESPASSING.
(AP) State lawmakers in both the House and Senate have voted to triple the wait time for an abortion in Louisiana. The proposal, approved by the Senate on Tuesday in a 34-4 vote, would require a woman to wait 72 hours. Five other states have similar waits. A woman in Louisiana currently has to wait 24 hours from the time she consults with a doctor and gets a mandatory ultrasound to the moment she gets an abortion. The longer wait period is supported by Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards. But before the bill can get to his desk, the House must sign off on a technical wording change made in the Senate. House Bill 386: www.legis.la.gov
(AP) An animal rights activist says it’s “high time” that a Louisiana university retired 220 chimpanzees in a research lab and moved them to a sanctuary. And Michael Budkie of the group Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! says the University of Louisiana at Lafayette is taking a positive step by paying at least part of their cost at the new sanctuary in north Georgia. But he says 5,000 monkeys still at the university’s New Iberia Research Center also should be removed from research. University spokesman Charlie Bier did not respond directly, saying the university’s comments all are in a news release and frequently asked questions webpage.
The university says it’s been planning retirement and sanctuary for its chimpanzees for more than two years, and “the vast majority” were never part of any research. It says all were retired last year, and all have daily access to outdoor play areas and natural sunlight.
