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5-4-22

POLICE HAVE IDENTIFIED A SUSPECT IN THE DOWNTOWN SHOOTING FROM SUNDAY EVENING.  CAROLINE MARCELLO REPORTS.

 

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A BROUSSARD POLICE OFFICER WAS ARRESTED BY NEW IBERIA POLICE AFTER AN INVESTIGATION INTO AN ALLEGATION OF INAPPROPRIATE CONTACT WITH A JUVENILE.  THE INVESTIGATION BEGAN AFTER A COMPLAINT WAS MADE TO NEW IBERIA POLICE ON APRIL FIRST.  BROUSSARD POLICE CHIEF VANCE OLIVIER SAYS THE OFFICER, THIRTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD RYAN LEE CARLIN, HAS BEEN ON PAID ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE SINCE THEY WERE NOTIFIED OF THE INVESTIGATION.  CARLIN WAS BOOKED INTO THE IBERIA PARISH JAIL ON ONE COUNT OF INDECENT BEHAVIOR WITH A JUVENILE.

 

LAKE CHARLES POLICE HAVE IDENTIFIED TWO VICTIMS OF A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED LAST WEEK.  ON FRIDAY MORNING AT TWELVE-FORTY-FIVE, OFFICERS WERE CALLED TO AN APARTMENT COMPLEX ON WEST LAGRANGE STREET BECAUSE OF REPORTS OF GUNFIRE.  THEY FOUND TWO MEN DEAD OF GUNSHOT WOUNDS IN AN APARTMENT WHO HAVE SINCE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS THIRTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD ABLE GARCIA JUNIOR AND THIRTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD PEDRO OSWALDO DUARTE RANGEL, BOTH OF HOUSTON.  POLICE ARE CONTINUING TO INVESTIGATE.

 

Legislation forbidding teachers from discussing their gender identity or sexual orientation in Louisiana public schools was rejected Tuesday in a state House committee. Rep. Dodie Horton’s bill would have prohibited a teacher or school employee from discussing — in the words of the bill — “his own sexual orientation or gender identity with students in kindergarten through grade twelve.” It also said the topics of sexual orientation or gender identity could not be covered in kindergarten through eighth grade. The House Education Committee voted the bill down 7-4.

 

 

The House has passed legislation aimed at drawing some retired teachers back to the classroom by increasing the money they can earn without reducing their retirement benefit. Under current rules, former teachers can return to the classroom and earn 25% of the final average compensation they earned as a teacher without reducing their retirement benefit. The bill approved 96-0 on Monday would push up that limit to 50% of their final average compensation. The Advocate reports that the bill applies to those certified to teach math, science, English language arts and to any teacher’s aide.

 

STATE POLICE SAY THEY ARE TRANSITIONING THE CASE OF ELLA GOODIE OF SCOTT.  THEY SAY IN A PRESS RELEASE THAT, BECAUSE OF INVESTIGATIVE TECHNIQUES AND WITNESS STATEMENTS, DETECTIVES AND INVESTIGATORS ARE MOVING IT FROM A MISSING PERSONS CASE TO A HOMOCIDE INVESTIGATION.  THE THIRTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD GOODIE HAS NOT BEEN SEEN SINCE MARCH NINTH.  ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ABOUT GOODIE IS ASKED TO CALL STATE POLICE AT THREE-ONE-EIGHT-FOUR-EIGHT-FOUR-TWENTY-ONE-NINETY-FOUR.

 

AUTHORITIES ARE SEARCHING FOR FORTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD EDWARD CARLTON LITTLE IN CONNECTION WITH A SERIES OF THEFTS OF COIN OPERATED MACHINES ALONG THE I-TEN CORRIDOR.  IT’S BEEN MAINLY AIR MACHINES AT CONVENIENCE STORES THAT HAVE BEEN BROKEN INTO FOR THE COINS, USING TORCHES AND CROWBAR-TYPE DEVICES.  LITTLE HAS BEEN SOUGHT BECAUSE HE POSSESSES A VEHICLE THAT MATCHES THE VEHICLE USED IN THE THEFTS.  LITTLE HAS AN OUTSTANDING WARRANT IN ACADIA PARISH FOR FAILURE TO APPEAR IN COURT ON SIMILAR CHARGES.  IF YOU HAVE INFORMATION ON THESE THEFTS, YOU’RE URGED TO CALL SEVEN-EIGHT-NINE-TIPS.

 

LIFE CHURCH IN OPELOUSAS IS TRANSFORMING THE OLD INDIAN HILLS GOLF CLUB INTO A COMMUNITY COMPLEX, WITH A GRAND OPENING SET FOR MAY TWENTY-EIGHTH.  TYRONE GLOVER, THE DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES FOR THE COMPLEX, TELLS KLFY TV THAT THE PLAN IS TO CHANGE LIVES AND THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE COMMUNITY.  GLOVER SAYS THE COMPLEX WILL HAVE SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE INCLUDING TENNIS COURTS, BASKETBALL, A KITCHEN, AND CHURCH.  THE CLUB WILL ALSO OFFER SUMMER PROGRAMS, MENTORING, TUTORING, AND AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS.