5-8-23
THREE PEOPLE WERE WOUNDED AFTER A SHOOTING AT HEYMANN PARK SUNDAY EVENING. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CONFIRMED AN E-F-ONE TORNADO STRUCK MORSE IN ACADIA PARISH EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. SOME RESIDENCES ALONG SALLY ROAD SUFFERED DAMAGE INCLUDING GARY DAVIS, WHO TELLS KLFY TV THAT HIS CAMPER WAS PUSHED ON ITS SIDE, THE FRONT AWNING IS MISSING AND THEIR BACK FENCE WAS TORN DOWN. RED CROSS REPRESENTATIVE HARRY MURPHY SAYS THEY IDENTIFIED FOUR RESIDENCES THAT QUALIFIED FOR ASSISTANCE. ANYONE WHO NEEDS HELP CAN CALL ONE- EIGHT-HUNDRED-RED-CROSS AND SEE IF THEY QUALIFY FOR ASSISTANCE.
LIGHTNING STRIKES ARE BEING BLAMED FOR TWO HOUSE FIRES SATURDAY MORNING IN THE THREE HUNDRED BLOCK OF NORMAN DRIVE IN LAFAYETTE. THE FIRE STARTED IN AN ATTIC IN ONE HOME CAUSING HEAVY DAMAGE TO THE ATTIC, BUT THE FAMILY MADE IT SAFELY OUTSIDE. WHILE FIREFIGHTERS WERE PUTTING OUT THAT BLAZE, ANOTHER NEARBY HOMEOWNER NOTIFIED THEM OF A FIRE IN HIS BREAKER PANEL IN THE GARAGE. THEY WERE ABLE TO EXTINGUISH THAT FIRE WITH MINIMAL DAMAGE.
THERE WERE ALSO REPORTS OF DAMAGE TO HOMES AND BUILDINGS IN NEW IBERIA DURING THE SATURDAY STORMS. THE NEW IBERIA FIRE DEPARTMENT SAYS HIGH WINDS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DAMAGE. THE REPORTS CAME FROM CAROLINE STREET AND JEFFERSON ISLAND ROAD AS WELL AS FROM AN UNSECURED CONSTRUCTION SITE. POWER LINES WERE DOWNED ON L-A FOURTEEN AT AVERY ISLAND ROAD.
A JEFF DAVIS PARISH GRAND JURY INDICTED A COUPLE ON SECOND DEGREE MURDER CHARGES IN THE DEATH OF A BOY WHO WAS YOUNGER THAN FIFTEEN. THE BOY WAS FORTY-TWO INCHES AND TWENTY-EIGHT POUNDS AND AN AUTOPSY FOUND HE DIED OF COMPLICATIONS FROM MALNUTRITION. THE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES CALLED THE JEFF DAVIS PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE, WHO LAUNCHED AN INVESTIGATON IN OCTOBER. FORTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD ADAM DUHON AND FORTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD JENNIFER DUHON FACE MANDATORY LIFE PRISON SENTENCES, WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE IF CONVICTED.
A BILL TO INCREASE THE AGE TO ENTER A BAR IS SCHEDULED TO APPEAR IN A SENATE COMMITTEE TOMORROW. STATE SENATOR BETH MIZELL SPONSORED THE BILL THAT WOULD RAISE THE AGE TO TWENTY-ONE TO BE ALLOWED IN A BAR. SHE SAYS THE MINIMUM AGE TO DRINK ALCOHOL IS TWENTY-ONE, SO THERE’S NO POINT FOR ANYONE YOUNGER THAN TWENTY-ONE IN A BAR. MIZELL SAYS SHE BELIEVES IF THE BILL PASSES, IT WILL HELP PREVENT UNDERAGE DRINKING AND FUTURE TRAGEDIES.
REPUBLICAN STATE REPRESENTATIVE STUART BISHOP OF LAFAYETTE IS INTRODUCING A BILL IN THE HOUSE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE THAT WOULD ELIMINATE MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED INCOME AND SALES TAX CREDITS, EXCLUSIONS AND EXEMPTIONS. THEY COULD EACH BE SAVED BUT THEY WOULD HAVE BE VOTED ON BY THE LEGISLATURE ON A CASE-BY-CASE BASIS BY JANUARY TWENTY-FIRST, TWENTY-TWENTY-SEVEN. BISHOP ADMITTED HIS BILL IS VERY UNPOPULAR AND A SIMILAR MEASURE WAS VOTED DOWN TWO YEARS AGO. HE TELLS THE ADVOCATE WE CAN’T KEEP SAYING WE PAY TOO MUCH IN TAXES UNTIL WE LOOK AT ALL THE GIVEAWAY PROGRAMS.
THE HEAVY RAINS LAST WEEK IN SAINT LANDRY PARISH CAUSED FLOODED ROADWAYS AND DAMAGE TO A BARN ROOF. PARISH PRESIDENT JESSIE BELLARD SAYS CANALS NEED TO BE DUG OUT TO HELP REDUCE ROAD FLOODING. HE TELLS KLFY TV THEY’VE HAD ISSUES IN THE WEST PART OF THE PARISH AND BY WASHINGTON. BELLARD SAYS THEY ARE IN THE BID STAGE OF A PROJECT TO DIG OUT CANALS AND SOME BAYOUS, AND THE PROJECT SHOULD BE COMPLETED BY AUGUST.
