6-13-25
ALL LAFAYETTE PARISH TEACHERS WILL BE GETTING A SALARY INCREASE. GEORGE FAUST HAS THE DETAILS.
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A NEW IBERIA MAN WAS KILLED LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT IN A SINGLE-VEHICLE CRASH IN LOREAUVILLE. STATE POLICE SAY FIFTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD BARRY BOUILLION WAS TRAVELING ON L-A THIRTY-TWO-FORTY-TWO, WHEN HE CROSSED THE CENTER LINE, WENT OFF THE ROAD AND FLIPPED. BOUILLION, WHO WASN’T WEARING A SEATBELT, WAS DECLARED DEAD AT THE SCENE OF THE CRASH. A BLOOD SAMPLE WAS TAKEN FROM BOUILLION AS PART OF THE INVESTIGATION.
THE BODY OF A MAN REPORTED MISSING WAS FOUND YESTERDAY MORNING IN A HEAVILY WOODED AREA EAST OF DERIDDER. TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD THOMAS BROOKS WAS LAST SEEN ON JUNE THIRD AND HE WAS REPORTED MISSING FOUR DAYS LATER. THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE’S K-NINE UNIT ASSISTED THE BEAUREGARD PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IN FINDING THE BODY. SHERIFF MARK HERFORD SAYS THE BODY HAS BEEN TRANSPORTED FOR AN AUTOPSY.
Louisiana lawmakers concluded their 2025 legislative session yesterday by passing the state’s $51 billion budget. Traditionally this year’s gathering is fiscally focused. But the GOP-dominated legislature filed hundreds of bills to tackle issues that they felt were plaguing the state. Among the legislation were measures that mirror President Donald Trump’s national agenda and conservative priorities — immigration enforcement, tough-on-crime measures, strengthening the state’s abortion laws and localizing the Make America Healthy Again quest.
A BILL BY STATE REPRESENTATIVE DUSTIN MILLER OF OPELOUSAS, THAT WOULD HAVE PROHIBITED PHARMACY BENEFIT MANAGERS FROM OPERATING IN LOUISIANA, WAS NOT ADDRESSED BEFORE THE CLOSE OF THE REGULAR LEGISLATIVE SESSION. C-V-S, WHICH IS A MAJOR PHARMACY BENEFIT MANAGER, STARTED A TEXT CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE BILL, SAYING IT WOULD LEAD TO THE CLOSURE OF MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED TWENTY PHARMACIES. LOUISIANA ATTORNEY GENERAL LIZ MURRILL SAYS THE LEGISLATURE WAS PROPERLY EXAMING THE ROLES OF PHARMACY BENEFIT MANAGERS IN DRIVING UP COSTS AND DRIVING INDEPENDENT PHARMACISTS OUT OF BUSINESS. SHE ISSUED A CEASE-AND-DESIST LETTER AND CIVIL INVESTIGATIVE DEMANDS TO C-V-S RELATED TO THE TEXT MESSAGE CAMPAIGN.
FIVE WORKERS AT THE LAFAYETTE PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER HAVE BEEN DETAINED AFTER IT WAS DETERMINED THEY WERE IN THE COUNTRY WITHOUT PROPER DOCUMENTATION. THE LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT SAYS THE WORKERS WERE HIRED BY AN OUTSIDE CONTRACTER AND WERE NOT DIRECTLY EMPLOYED BY L-C-G. IN A NEWS RELEASE, L-C-G SAYS THE CONTRACTOR IS STUMPF WATERPROOFING. THE COMPANY WAS HIRED TO DO EMERGENCY WATERPROOFING REPAIRS AT THE JAIL.
IN OPELOUSAS, A FORMER MARINE WAS SHOT AND KILLED WEDNESDAY MORNING. THE FAMILY OF DAVID JOACHIN (JOH uh chan) SAY THAT HE HAD A LARGER-THAN-LIFE PERSONALITY. FAMILY MEMBERS TELL KLFY TV THAT DAVID WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR HIS STRENGTH AND LOVE FOR OTHER PEOPLE. THE SAINT LANDRY PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE HAS A SUSPECT IN CUSTODY BUT THEY’VE NOT RELEASED THE NAME.
TWO PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED ON DRUG CHARGES AFTER A TRAFFIC STOP WAS CONDUCTED EARLIER THIS MONTH IN MAURICE. THE TRAFFIC STOP LED TO THE SEARCH OF A NEARBY HOME BY THE VERMILLION MUNICIPAL AND SHERIFF’S NARCOTICS TASK FORCE. THEY FOUND NUMEROUS DRUGS AND EVIDENCE OF COCKFIGHTING. FORTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD DAMIEN DEBLANC WAS CHARGED WITH POSSESSION WITH THE INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE COCAINE, FENTANYL AND METH AS WELL AS FOR COCKFIGHTING.
