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FORMER JEANERETTE MAYOR APRIL FOULCARD HAS BEEN ARRESTED AGAIN. CAROLINE MARCELLO REPORTS.
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LAFAYETTE POLICE HAVE IDENTIFIED THE SUSPECT IN A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED IN THE POLICE PARKING LOT ON UNIVERSITY AVENUE FRIDAY NIGHT. TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD ARTELLA ANDRUS IS ACCUSED OF SHOOTING AT SIX YOUNG MEN WHO HAD LEFT AN APARTMENT COMPLEX AND WERE WALKING NEAR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. THREE WERE WOUNDED AND ARE IN STABLE CONDITION. ANDRUS HAD LATER BEEN ARRESTED FRIDAY NIGHT BY THE WEST BATON ROUGE SHERIFF’S OFFICE FOR A SHOOTING ON INTERSTATE TEN.
Louisiana’s off-track betting parlors would be able to add hundreds of new slot-like machines, under legislation that won final passage and awaits a decision from the governor. Democratic Sen. Gary Smith said his bill would generate new money to help the state’s horse racing industry, but the Advocate reports it’s not clear if the state will gain more revenue from the gambling expansion. The Senate voted 32-3 for the measure Tuesday. That final passage vote came a day after the House agreed to the legislation with an 85-11 vote.
COMMUNITY ADVOCATES HELD WORKSHOPS SATURDAY FOR RESIDENTS OF THE GREINWICH TERRACE NEIGHBORHOOD IN LAKE CHARLES, WHICH HAS STRUGGLED WITH FLOODING PROBLEMS. THE PURPOSE OF THE WORKSHOPS WAS TO GIVE HOMEOWNERS KNOWLEDGE WHILE GOING THROUGH POTENTIAL BUYOUT OPTIONS. THE STATE IS FUNDING A THIRTY MILLION DOLLAR PROGRAM TO OFFER VOLUNTARY BUYOUTS FOR GREINWICH TERRACE. SOME RESIDENTS ARE UPSET THAT THE FOCUS IS ON BUYOUTS RATHER THAN FLOOD MITIGATION AND RELIEF.
TWO YEARS AGO, GREATER UNION BAPTIST CHURCH IN OPELOUSAS WAS ONE OF THREE CHURCHES BURNED IN SAINT LANDRY PARISH. IN NOVEMBER, HOLDEN MATTHEWS WAS SENTENCED TO TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN PRISON AFTER HE ADMITTED TO SETTING THE FIRES. PROGRESS IS BEING MADE IN REBUILDING THE ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-YEAR-OLD CHURCH, WITH THE LAYING OF THE FOUNDATION ALONG HIGHWAY SEVEN FORTY-TWO. PARISHIONER SHERYL RICHARD TELLS K-L-F-Y T-V TEN THE TWO YEAR JOURNEY HAS NOT BEEN EASY FOR THE CHURCH FAMILY, BUT THEY ARE TRUSTING GOD TO KEEP THEM, SUSTAIN THEM AND PROTECT THEM.
A HOUSE FIRE IN SCOTT LATE SATURDAY WAS STARTED BY A CHILD PLAYING WITH A LIGHTER. FIRE CHIEF CHAD SONNIER SAYS ONCE FIREFIGHTERS ARRIVED IN THE ONE HUNDRED BLOCK OF OWL LANE, HEAVY SMOKE WAS COMING FROM THE MANUFACTURED HOUSE. THEY GOT THE FIRE UNDER CONTROL QUICKLY AND THE FAMILY ESCAPED INJURY. SONNIER SAYS IT WAS LATER DETERMINED THAT THE CHILD ACCIDENTALLY CAUGHT A MATTRESS ON FIRE WHILE PLAYING WITH THE LIGHTER.
Louisiana will recognize the day commemorating the end of slavery in the United Stats as a legal state holiday. The third Saturday in June will be celebrated as Juneteenth, under a law passed without any nay votes and signed by Gov. Jon Bel Edwards. The House voted 87-0 for the the bill by Baton Rouge Democratic Rep. Larry Selders, and senators approved it 37-0. Juneteenth honors the day in 1865 when enslaved Blacks in Texas were freed with the arrival of federal troops.
THE REVEREND BURNELL JACOB ROBERTSON OF NEW IBERIA CELEBRATED HIS NINETY-SEVENTH BIRTHDAY YESTERDAY. ROBERTSON WAS PRESENTED WITH A KEY TO THE CITY AND RECEIVED A SPECIAL PROCLAMATION FROM IBERIA PARISH PRESIDENT LARRY RICHARD. ROBERTSON PASTORED FOUR CHURCHES INCLUDING SAINT PAUL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST IN NEW IBERIA AND HUBBARD UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST IN GUEYDAN. ROBERTSON COMMUTED FROM NEW ORLEANS TO NEW IBERIA FOR TEN YEARS BEFORE MOVING HIS FAMILY TO NEW IBERIA.
