6-10-16
THE YOUNGSVILLE CITY COUNCIL INTRODUCED AN ORDINANCE LAST NIGHT THAT SETS RULES FOR THE LOCATION AND STANDARDS AT R-V PARKS. THE ORDINANCE IS BEING CONSIDERED BECAUSE OF A PLANNED 6-POINT-4 ACRE RV PARK THAT WOULD BE BUILT BY LIFELONG RESIDENTS, JOHN AND TIA TRAHAN. JOHN TRAHAN SAYS HE DECIDED TO PUT AN R-V PARK ON LAND HE PURCHASED OFF DÉTENTE ROAD IN 2007 AFTER HE DID HIS HOMEWORK AND FOUND THAT “RIFFRAFF” DO NOT FREQUENT THOSE PARKS. ANOTHER YOUNGSVILLE RESIDENT, FRANCES HICKS, ASKED THE COUNCIL TO BAN R-V PARKS BECAUSE, SHE SAYS, THEY LEAD TO INCREASED CRIME AND LOWER PROPERTY VALUES.
LAKE CHARLES POLICE HAVE ARRESTED A 16-YEAR-OLD MALE JUVENILE AND CHARGED HIM WITH SECOND DEGREE MURDER FOR SHOOTING 79-YEAR-OLD ROBERT COLSTON SENIOR SUNDAY. COLSTON HAD CRASHED HIS TRUCK INTO A TREE, AND WHEN FIRST RESPONDERS WERE REMOVING HIM FROM THE CAB, THEY FOUND HE HAD BEEN SHOT. AT A NEWS CONFERENCE YESTERDAY, POLICE CHIEF DON DIXON SAYS THEY FOUND SECURITY FOOTAGE THAT SHOWED THE 16-YEAR-OLD WALK UP TO COLSTON’S TRUCK, WHICH WAS AT A STOP SIGN, AND SHOOT HIM. DIXON SAID THAT A “16-YEAR-OLD PUNK” SHOT A HARD WORKING MAN FOR NO APPARENT REASON.
The Iberia Parish sheriff, who’s awaiting trial on charges over the alleged beatings of five jail inmates, has been indicted on a new charge that he plotted to have another man arrested and beaten. Thursday’s indictment charges Iberia Parish Sheriff Louis Ackal with conspiring in 2014 to assault a man who was accused of assaulting one of Ackal’s relatives. The new indictment also charges two of Ackal’s subordinates with assaulting a pre-trial detainee at the parish jail in September 2011. On March 10, Ackal was initially indicted on charges that he directed officers to assault inmates in the parish jail’s chapel, where no video surveillance cameras would record the April 2011 beatings.
Lawmakers in the Louisiana House have agreed to a package of tax bills that would raise more than $220 million for next year’s budget. That reaches slightly more than one-third of the $600 million sought by Gov. John Bel Edwards to stop what he describes as deep cuts to health care, education and public safety programs. The majority-Republican House tax committee has stalled many other measures sought by the Democratic governor, particularly income tax changes that could hit middle- and upper-income residents. The biggest-ticket bill passed Thursday by the House would raise taxes on health care organizations known as HMOs.
Louisiana gentlemen’s clubs will be barred from hiring dancers under the age of 21, under a new law signed by the governor. Governor John Bel Edwards signed legislation raising the dancers’ minimum age from 18. The change takes effect Aug. 1. Bill sponsor Sen. Ronnie Johns, a Lake Charles Republican, says the provision will help to fight human trafficking in Louisiana.
ZOOSIANA IN BROUSSARD HAS A NEW ARRIVAL. THE ZOO ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY THE BIRTH OF A BABY GIRAFFE. THEY SAID THE NEW GIRAFFE, NAMED JOSIE, WAS BORN ON MEMORIAL DAY, AND WAS FIVE FEET, FIVE INCHES TALL, AND WEIGHED 123 POUNDS. JOSIE IS THE OFFSPRING OF THE ZOO’S TWO GIRAFFES, GABRIEL AND EVANGELINE.
A PETITION HAS STARTED IN A SULPHUR NEIGHBORHOOD TO GET A NEARBY RESTAURANT TO TURN DOWN THE MUSIC. DANIELLE MILLER, A RESIDENT IN NEARBY SUMMERWOOD, SAYS SHE STARTED THE PETITION AFTER CALLING THE QUAKER STEAK AND LUBE RESTAURANT, THE POLICE AND THE MAYOR, BUT GETTING NO RESULTS. THE QUAKER STEAK AND LUBE HAS STARTED ITS OWN PETITION ON ITS FACEBOOK PAGE TO SUPPORT LIVE MUSIC AT THE RESTAURANT. COUNCILMAN STUART MOSS, WHO REPRESENTS THAT DISTRICT, SAYS THE COUNCIL’S GOAL IS TO COME TO AN AGREEMENT WHERE THE RESTAURANT CONTINUES TO HAVE LIVE MUSIC, BUT NOT SO LOUD AS TO DISTURB THE NEIGHBORS.
IN ACADIA PARISH, A MAN IS IN JAIL AFTER, POLICE SAY, HE STABBED HIS NEPHEW DURING A FIGHT LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT. JULIE DARCE HAS MORE.
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