KAJN Jesus FM 102.9


6-10-19

LAFAYETTE FIREFIGHTERS ARE STEPPING UP TO SUPPORT THEIR CAPTAIN, WHO HAS HAD TO MISS WORK TO BE AT HIS SON’S SIDE AT A NEW ORLEANS HOSPITAL.  ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD MICAH CARRANZA DEVELOPED ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME WITH FLUID IN THE LUNGS AND HAD TO BE AIRLIFTED TO NEW ORLEANS AND PUT IN A MEDICALLY-INDUCED COMA, BUT HE’S EXPECTED TO MAKE A FULL RECOVERY.  MICAH’S FATHER, LAFAYETTE FIRE CAPTAIN LOUIS CARRANZA, HAS BEEN BY HIS SIDE FOR TWO WEEKS, MISSING WORK.  HIS FELLOW FIRE FIGHTERS HAVE DONATED VACATION TIME TO CARRANZA AND STARTED A GO FUND ME ACCOUNT FOR HELP WITH THE FINANCIAL EXPENSES, WITH MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS RAISED SO FAR.

 

TWO ESCAPEES FROM THE PINE PRAIRIE PRISON FACILITY WERE RECAPTURED IN OAKDALE.  KELMAN BEJARANO-BATIZ AND WILMER RAMIREZ-ESPANA ESCAPED FROM THE PRISON ON SUNDAY MORNING.  OAKDALE POLICE RESPONDED TO REPORTS OF A SUSPICIOUS GROUP OF MEN AT A CIRCLE K STORE.  THEY WERE DETAINED AFTER A STRUGGLE AND BROUGHT BACK TO PINE PRAIRIE.

 

POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING AN OVERNIGHT SHOOTING IN CROWLEY.  MEGAN KELLY REPORTS.

 

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Louisiana is expanding its foster care program to cover youth in the state’s care until age 21.  Lawmakers passed the plan , which will cost an estimated $3 million next year, in the just-ended legislative session. Gov. John Bel Edwards signed it into law Thursday.  The voluntary program, sponsored by Baton Rouge Sen. Regina Barrow, builds on 2018 legislation that extended foster care to 21 for anyone still in high school.

 

Gov. John Bel Edwards’ bid to ensure that public high school juniors and seniors have free access to two courses for college credit didn’t win legislative backing.

Instead, lawmakers in the just-ended regular session created a task force to study the issue, including how to pay for classes that cost up to $250 each.  The Advocate reports the Democratic governor signed the Dual Enrollment Framework Task Force bill Thursday.  The plan sets up a 12-member study group that will review a wide range of issues about the courses, including how to address uneven access among students statewide, particularly in rural areas.

 

THE INTERSTATE TEN EASTBOUND EXIT IN SCOTT WAS CLOSED FOR A WHILE SATURDAY AFTER A TRACTOR TRAILER OVERTURNED AT AROUND TEN A-M.  THE BOX TRAILER CONTAINED ELECTRIC BLASTING CAPS WHICH ARE USED IN OIL FIELD OPERATIONS.  FIRE CHIEF CHAD SONNIER SAYS THEY CLOSED THE EXIT AS A PRECAUTION.  THE SCENE WAS UNDER CONTROL QUICKLY.

 

KINDER POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING THE DUMPING OF A PUPPY IN A TRASH BIN AT FAUSTO’S RESTAURANT.  ACCORDING TO THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF LOUISIANA, MANAGER MICHAEL “DALLAS” KERR WAS EMPTYING THE TRASH BIN AND SPOTTED TWO EARS STICKING UP.  HE PUSHED TRASH ASIDE TO FIND A BLUE HEELER-MIXED PUPPY WITH A TWO INCH GASH ON ITS NECK.  AFTER GETTING TREATMENT FOR THE PUPPY AT THE OAKDALE VETERINARY CLINIC, HE INFORMED THE KINDER POLICE DEPARTMENT.  THEY ARE CHECKING SURVEILLANCE VIDEO FROM A NEARBY BUSINESS IN AN ATTEMPT TO IDENTIFY THE PERSON WHO DUMPED THE PUPPY.

 

A MAN WAS SHOT AND KILLED IN IBERIA PARISH EARLY SUNDAY MORNING.  IT APPEARS THE SHOOTING, WHICH HAPPENED AT AROUND THREE A-M, WAS A RESULT OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, ACCORDING TO OFFICIALS.  THE VICTIM IS 33-YEAR-OLD KEITH VIATOR, WHO WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT A RESIDENCE IN THE 18-HUNDRED BLOCK OF NORTH FREYOU ROAD.  HE WAS SHOT IN THE UPPER TORSO.