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A NINE-YEAR-OLD GIRL WAS KILLED IN AN APARTMENT FIRE IN LAFAYETTE PARISH EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. FIREFIGHTERS WERE CALLED OUT JUST BEFORE FOUR A-M AND IT TOOK THEM ABOUT THIRTY MINUTES TO PUT OUT THE BLAZE. SEARCH CREWS FOUND THE BODY OF THE GIRL IN AN UPSTAIRS BEDROOM. THE GIRL’S MOM AND A MAN WERE TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WITH INJURIES.
THERE WERE TWO SEPARATE SHOOTINGS ON KIM DRIVE IN OPELOUSAS SATURDAY NIGHT. ONE OCCURRED JUST BEFORE SIX P-M, WHILE THE SECOND HAPPENED AT AROUND NINE. TWO PEOPLE WERE INJURED, ACCORDING TO WITNESSES WHO SPOKE WITH KADN TV. OPELOUSAS POLICE HAVE NOT SAID IF THE SHOOTINGS WERE CONNECTED.
THERE WAS ANOTHER SHOOTING IN OPELOUSAS SATURDAY AT AROUND EAST AND MADISON STREETS. ONE PERSON WAS INJURED AND ANOTHER WAS ARRESTED. THIRTY-YEAR-OLD MONTELL AUSTIN WAS CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED SECOND-DEGREE MURDER, ILLEGAL USE OF A DANGEROUS WEAPON AND FELON IN POSSESSION OF A FIREARM. POLICE SAY OTHER CHARGES MAY BE ADDED.
EARLY VOTING IS UNDERWAY FOR THE MAY SIXTEENTH PRIMARY AND CONTINUES THROUGH SATURDAY. CHARLENE MENARD, THE LAFAYETTE PARISH REGISTRAR OF VOTERS, SAYS HER OFFICE HAS FIELDED NUMEROUS CALLS WONDERING IF THE ELECTION WAS STILL HAPPENING BECAUSE OF THE SUPREME COURT’S RECENT DECISION INVALIDATING LOUISIANA’S CONGRESSIONAL MAP. SHE SAYS THEY’VE ASSURED CALLERS THAT THE ELECTION IS STILL GOING ON. MENARD SAYS ANY VOTES ON U-S HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE RACES WILL BE VOIDED AND NOT BE COUNTED.
STATE POLICE HAVE RELEASED THE IDENTITY OF A WOMAN KILLED ON I-TEN NEAR SULPHUR JUST AFTER FOUR A-M FRIDAY. TROOPERS SAY THE DRIVER OF A TOYOTA TACOMA LEFT THE ROADWAY ON THE EASTBOUND SIDE INTO THE MEDIAN, ROLLED MULTIPLE TIMES AND LANDED IN THE WESTBOUND LANES. THE PASSENGER, FORTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD TREMAINE DENSON OF HOUSTON, TEXAS, WAS PARTIALLY EJECTED AND PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. THE DRIVER WAS EJECTED AND WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WITH SERIOUS INJURIES.
THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL BOARD HAS SCHEDULED A SPECIAL MEETING FOR TODAY TO DISCUSS THE LAWSUIT REGARDING THE CLOSURE OF COMEAUX HIGH SCHOOL. GEORGE FAUST HAS MORE.
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NORTHSIDE CHRISTIAN FROM CROWLEY WON THE CLASS C STATE HIGH SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIP YESTERDAY AT FRASCH PARK IN SULPHUR. THEY DEFEATED CLAIBORNE CHRISTIAN TEN-TO-FOUR FOR THEIR FIRST CHAMPIONSHIP IN FIVE YEARS AND THEIR THIRD OVERALL. KAPLAN HIGH MADE THE CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND OF DIVISION THREE NON-SELECT, BUT LOST TO STERLINGTON FIVE-TO-FOUR. KAPLAN ALSO LOST IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME LAST YEAR.
THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ANNOUNCED CHANGES TO SNAP BENEFITS BEGINNING JUNE TWENTY-SEVENTH. ANY UNUSED SNAP BENEFITS WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE E-B-T CARD NINE MONTHS AFTER BEING ISSUED AND CANNOT BE REISSUED. THE DEPARTMENT SAYS SNAP BENEFICIARIES SHOULD USE ALL BENEFITS WITHIN NINE MONTHS AFTER RECEIVING THEM TO AVOID EXPIRATION. ONLY THE SNAP BENEFITS OLDER THAN NINE MONTHS WILL BE REMOVED, NOT THE ENTIRE BALANCE.
