6-14-24
LAST NIGHT THE LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT BOARD OF ZONING APPROVED ZONING REQUIREMENTS FOR PROPERTY THAT BUC-EE’S IS CONSIDERING. THE POPULAR CONVENIENCE STORE IS LOOKING AT BUILDING A NEW STORE AT THE CORNER OF I-TEN AND LOUISIANA AVENUE. THE DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING FOR BUC-EE’S, SCOTT RATCLIFFE, GAVE THE BOARD A LIST OF VARIABLES THAT HE SAID ARE NEEDED TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THE STORE’S LAYOUT, ALL OF WHICH WERE APPROVED. RATCLIFF SAYS CONSTRUCTION PLANS ARE WELL UNDERWAY AND IT WILL TAKE ABOUT THIRTEEN MONTHS TO BUILD.
AN OPEN GRAVESITE WAS DISCOVERED YESTERDAY AT THE WEST CROWLEY CEMETARY ON FOURTH STREET. A MAN MOWING FOUND A COLLAPSED GRAVE WITH SOME OF THE REMAINS REVEALED, INCLUDING A SKULL. OFFICIALS TELL KADN TV THAT THE GRAVESITE IS ROUGHLY ONE HUNDRED TWENTY YEARS OLD AND EXPOSURE TO THE ELEMENTS ROTTED THE WOOD FRAME, EXPOSING THE GRAVE. THE OFFICIALS SAY THE AREA IS CORDONED OFF AND WILL BE FIXED WITHIN A DAY OR TWO.
The Biden administration’s new Title IX rule expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students has been temporarily blocked in four states after a federal judge in Louisiana found that it overstepped the Education Department’s authority. In a preliminary injunction granted Thursday, U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty called the new rule an “abuse of power” and a “threat to democracy.” His order blocks the rule in Louisiana, which filed a challenge to the rule in April, and in Mississippi, Montana and Idaho, which joined the suit. The Education Department did not immediately respond to the order.
THE CALCASIEU REPUBLICAN PARTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE HELD A RECEPTION AT THE LAKE CHARLES COUNTRY CLUB YESTERDAY TO WELCOME THE NEW PRESIDENT OF MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY. DOCTOR WADE ROUSSE OFFICIALLY STEPS INTO THE POSITION ON JULY FIRST. ROUSSE, WHO HAS WORKED AT MCNEESE SINCE TWENTY-NINETEEN IN VARIOUS POSITIONS, SAYS HE IS EXCITED TO ENTER HIS NEW ROLE. HE SAYS HE’S BEEN IN DIFFERENT EDUCATION SYSTEMS IN LOTS OF PARTS OF THE COUNTRY AND WILL BRING BACK SOME OF THE BEST PRACTICES AND IMPLEMENT THEM AT THE UNIVERSITY THAT GAVE HIM HIS START.
POST-STORM DEBRIS PICKUP CONTINUES IN LAFAYETTE PARISH. GEORGE FAUST HAS MORE.
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LAFITTE PARK ON SOUTH JOHN HARDY DRIVE IN ABBEVILLE IS NOW OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, JUST IN TIME FOR THE FATHER’S DAY WEEKEND. MAYOR ROSLYN WHITE SAYS THE PARK ALLOWS FISHING AT THE FISHING PIER AND HAS WALKING TRAILS WITH NEWLY ENHANCED ACCESSIBILITY FEATURES. WHITE SAYS THEY ARE PLANNING TO MOVE THE DOG PARK TO AN AREA WITH MORE SHADE FROM TREES. SHE SAYS PEOPLE CAN BRING DOGS TO THE PARK NOW AS LONG AS THEY ARE ON A LEASH AND THEY ARE ASKED TO PICK UP AFTER THE DOGS AND PROPERLY DISPOSE OF THE WASTE.
Police say a Louisiana woman has been found dead in her home and her two young daughters were abducted and found hours later in Mississippi. One was dead and the other alive. Investigators say a Louisiana resident suspected in the deaths and abduction was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi. Chief Deputy Jimmy Travis of the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Office in Louisiana says the suspect had a car belonging to Callie Brunett and had the woman’s 6-year-old daughter. The body of the woman’s 4-year-old was found near the car in a wooded area in Jackson. Louisiana State Police issued an Amber Alert for the girls after their mother’s body was found in her home.
THE OPELOUSAS POLICE CHIEF WAS UNHURT AFTER AN ATTACK DURING A TRAFFIC STOP. AN OFFICER ON THE SCENE CALLED FOR BACKUP AND CHIEF GRAIG LEBLANC WAS ONE OF THE RESPONDING OFFICERS. AT SOME POINT A SCUFFLE HAPPENED. KADN TV IS REPORTING THAT THE SUSPECT IN QUESTION WAS NOT ARRESTED.
