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6-1-21

A PEDESTRIAN IN BROUSSARD WAS KILLED AFTER BEING STRUCK BY A FORD F-TWO-FIFTY EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING.  IT HAPPENED ON HIGHWAY NINETY NEAR KOL ROAD SHORTLY AFTER FIVE A-M.  THE PEDESTRIAN WHO WAS KILLED WAS FORTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD CLARENCE WILLIAMS OF BROUSSARD.  POLICE CAPTAIN ZAC GERARD SAYS WILLIAMS WAS WEARING DARK CLOTHING AND, BECAUSE OF THE LIGHTING CONDITIONS AT THE TIME, THE DRIVER OF THE PICKUP COULDN’T SEE HIM.

 

CROWLEY POLICE CHIEF JIMMY BROUSSARD IS SPEAKING OUT AFTER A SHOOTING AT CITY BAR THAT LEFT FOUR PEOPLE WOUNDED FRIDAY NIGHT.  BROUSSARD TELLS KLFY TV THAT THE SENSELESS SHOOTINGS ARE HAPPENNING TOO MANY TIMES AND IT’S TIME TO PUT THE GUNS DOWN.  HE SAYS HE’S WORKING WITH BUSINESS OWNERS TO TIGHTEN RESTRICTION AND PROVIDE SAFETY NETS THROUGHOUT THE CITY.  BROUSSARD SAYS NONE OF THE WOUNDED FROM FRIDAY NIGHT’S SHOOTINGS HAD LIFE THREATENING INJURIES, AND THE SUSPECT, WHO WAS ALSO SHOT, IS IN GUARDED AND STABLE CONDITION.

 

Louisiana lawmakers passed a 0.45% sales tax in 2018 to stabilize state finances and pledged the tax hike would be a temporary bridge to balance the budget. But three years later, Republican state Senate leaders are proposing to keep the tax on the books permanently and steer the dollars to road and bridge work. Critics are crying foul. They say the proposal being pushed in the waning days of the legislative session would renege on a promise made to residents.

 

RUTHERFORD BEACH IN CAMERON PARISH WAS VERY BUSY ON MEMORIAL DAY WITH FAMILIES LINING THE BEACH.  CHARLES RICHARD OF CHURCH POINT, WHO WAS FISHING THERE WITH HIS DAD AND BROTHER, TOLD KPLC TV IT FELT AMAZING NOT HAVING TO WORRY ABOUT MASKS OR MANDATES OR VIRUSES.  ONE BUSINESS OWNER, RYAN MALLORY, SAID HE WAS SURPRISED HOW STEADY THE CROWDS WERE.  HE SAID IT’S CRUCIAL FOR THE MOM AND POP BUSINESSES IN THAT AREA.

 

ON SUNDAY, THE LAFAYETTE CHAPTER OF P-FLAG, AN L-G-B-T-Q ORGANIZATION, PAINTED THE LAFAYETTE SIGN DOWNTOWN IN RAINBOW COLORS FOR PRIDE MONTH.  ON SUNDAY NIGHT, THE SIGN WAS DEFACED BY SOMEONE WITH PAINT.  YESTERDAY, MEMBERS OF P-FLAG WERE OUT REPAINTING IT.  PRIDE MONTH BEGINS TODAY AND LASTS THROUGH THE MONTH OF JUNE.

 

 

A CEREMONY WAS HELD IN DOWNTOWN NEW IBERIA YESTERDAY TO HONOR SERVICE MEMBERS WHO DIED IN COMBAT.  DURING THE CEREMONY, A VETERAN’S MONUMENT WAS DEDICATED.  IT HONORS THE SOLDIERS WHO DIED IN SERVICE BEGINNING WITH WORLD WAR ONE.  U-S ARMY VETERAN LESLIE LANDRY TELLS KATC TV THAT HE HOPES ALL VETERANS WHO SERVED ARE PAID THE RESPECT THEY ARE DUE.

 

COMMERCIAL FISHING IN SOUTWEST LOUISIANA WATERWAYS HAS BEEN STRUGGLING FOR YEARS, ACCORDING TO LOCAL FISHERMEN.  EDDIE LEJEUNE SAYS THE REPEATED FLOODING AND LAST WINTER’S HARD FREEZE HAS MOVED A LOT OF SEAFOOD OUT OF THE WATERWAYS AND INTO THE GULF.  HE TELLS KPLC TV THAT ITS NOT BEEN SAME FOR HIM SINCE HURRICANE HARVEY.  THE TROUT POPULATION IS LOW, BUT LEJEUNE SAYS CRABBING AND SHRIMPING ARE PICKING UP.

 

LOUISIANA EXPECTES TO EXPAND ITS DRUG COURTS.  CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS MORE.

 

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