6-12-23
LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING BOMB THREATS AT BOTH TARGET LOCATIONS. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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RAYNE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A FATAL ACCIDENT ON I-TEN THAT HAPPENED AT AROUND TEN-THIRTY FRIDAY NIGHT. THIRTY-YEAR-OLD KEVIN JOHNSTON OF LAFAYETTE WAS TRAVELING WEST ON THE INTERSTATE WHEN HE WAS STRUCK BY ANOTHER VEHICLE. AFTER THE COLLISION, HE EXITED HIS VEHICLE ONTO I-TEN AND WAS KILLED WHEN HIT BY A VEHICLE. SEVERAL WITNESSES TOLD POLICE JOHNSTON WAS DRIVING ERRATICALLY AND RAYNE POLICE TOOK A TOXICOLOGY SAMPLE FROM JOHNSTON TO DETERMINE IF HE WAS IMPAIRED OR IF HE HAD A MEDICAL CONDITION THAT CAUSED THE ERRATIC DRIVING.
A PEDESTRIAN WAS STRUCK AND KILLED IN JEFF DAVIS PARISH AT AROUND THREE-THIRTY SATURDAY MORNING. STATE POLICE SAY THE DRIVER OF A TOYOTA CAMRY WAS TRAVELING SOUTH ON HIGHWAY ONE-SIXTY-FIVE APPROACHING THE HIGHWAY ONE-OH-ONE INTERSECTION. SIXTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD BARRY LEE CORBINS OF LAKE CHARLES, WHO WAS WALKING IN THE OUTSIDE LANE, WAS HIT BY THE CAR AND PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. TOXICOLOGY SAMPLES WERE COLLECTED BUT STATE POLICE DO NOT BELIEVE THE DRIVER OF THE CAMRY WAS IMPAIRED.
THE A-C-L-U, THE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND AND OTHER ATTORNEYS HAVE FILED A MOTION TO LIFT A STAY ON A FEDERAL LAWSUIT CHALLENGING LOUISIANA’S HOUSE AND SENATE DISTRICT MAPS. THE LAWSUIT, WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY FILED IN MARCH OF LAST YEAR, ALLEGES THAT THE CURRENT MAPS DENY BLACK RESIDENTS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN THE POLITICAL PROCESS AND TO PICK CANDIDATES OF THEIR CHOICE. THE LOUISIANA FEDERAL COURT ISSUED THE STAY LAST AUGUST WHILE AWAITING THE SUPREME COURT’S DECISION IN THE ALLISON VERSUS MILLAGAN CASE. THE DECISION CAME THURSDAY, WHICH REAFFIRMED THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK THAT GUIDES COURTS IN EVALUATING CHALLENGES TO REDISTRICTING PLANS UNDER SECTION TWO OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT.
LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING THE ASSAULT OF A WOMAN AT AN ART WALK IN DOWNTOWN LAFAYETTE. MELANIE MORRISON TELLS KLFY TV THAT SHE WENT UP TO SOMEONE IN THE PASSENGER SIDE OF A VEHICLE WHO HAD CALLED HER, WHEN SUDDENLY THE PERSON GRABBED HER AND STARTED HITTING IN THE HEAD. SHE SAYS THEN THE DRIVER STARTED OFF DOWN JEFFERSON STREET, DRAGGING HER A FEW YARDS BEFORE SHE HIT HER HEAD ON THE CONCRETE. MORRISON SAYS SHE’S HAPPY TO BE ALIVE BUT SHE’S TRYING TO FIGURE WHY SHE WAS ASSAULTED.
OPELOUSAS POLICE HAVE MADE TWO ARRESTS IN CONNECTION TO A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED JUNE SECOND IN THE AREA OF HAYWARD AND MOUTON STREETS. POLICE, USING HIGH QUALITY VIDEO FROM AREA RESIDENCES, IDENTIFIED A SUSPECT VEHICLE WHICH LED TO THE ARREST OF THE TWO. TWENTY-YEAR-OLD QUINNTARIOUS EDWARDS OF LAFAYETTE AND A SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD MALE JUVENILE WERE BOTH CHARGED WITH ILLEGAL USE OF WEAPONS. NO ONE WAS INJURED IN THE SHOOTING.
THE EIGHT MEMBER ALLEN PARISH SCHOOL BOARD IS EXPECTED TO HOLD A FIFTH VOTE TONIGHT TO SELECT A NEW SUPERINTENDENT. NO BOARD MEMBER HAS CHANGED THEIR MIND IN THE FOUR PREVIOUS VOTES BETWEEN THE FINALISTS, INSTRUCTIONAL SUPERVISOR BRAD SOILEAU AND TRANSPORTATION SUPERVISOR KENNEY COURVILLE. THERE’S NO PROCEDURE IN PLACE TO DECIDE WHAT TO DO IN CASE OF A TIE. IF IT ENDS IN ANOTHER TIE, THE BOARD COULD REINTERVIEW THE CANDIDATES OR HIRE AN INTERIM SUPERINTENDENT.
THE CITY OF SAINT MARTINVILLE IS APPLYING FOR A FEDERAL GRANT OF FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS TO REJUVINATE DILAPIDATED PROPERTIES. IT WOULD ALLOW THE CITY TO PROVIDE REFURBISHMENTS FREE OF CHARGE TO THE OWNERS OF BLIGHTED PROPERTIES WHO CANNOT AFFORD TO FIX THEM UP. THOSE IN THAT POSITION SHOULD CALL SAINT MARTINVILLE CITY HALL AND THEY WILL HELP WITH FILLING OUT THE APPLICATION. SAINT MARTINVILLE RECENTLY WON FIRST PLACE IN THE LOUISIANA CLEANEST CITY CONTEST AND MAYOR JASON WILLIS SAYS THIS HELPS THEM MOVE ONE STEP IN THE DIRECTION OF CONTINUING THAT MOMENTUM.
