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STATE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A STUN GUN DEATH BY A POLICE OFFICER IN CARENCRO. POLICE CHIEF DAVID ANDERSON SAYS THE INCIDENT HAPPENED LAST WEDNESDAY. HE SAYS THE PERSON WHO WAS HIT BY THE STUN GUN DIED AT A HOSPITAL YESTERDAY. HE SAYS HE ASKED THE STATE POLICE TO COME IN AND INVESTIGATE.
CONVICTED MURDERER BRYCE PERKINS OF LAKE CHARLES WANTS A NEW TRIAL. PERKINS WAS CONVICTED FOR SHOOTING AND KILLING 20-YEAR-OLD DANIEL GUERINGER AT A FOURTH OF JULY PARTY IN LAKE CHARLES NINE YEARS AGO. PERKINS, WHO CLAIMS THE SHOOTING WAS ACCIDENTAL, CLAIMS HE WAS DENIED THE OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE THE STAND AT HIS TRIAL. JUDGE RON WARE HAS DENIED PERKINS REQUEST, BUT HE PLANS TO APPEAL TO THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS.
LOCAL EDUCATORS ARE IN BATON ROUGE TRYING TO KEEP EDUCATION AT THE FOREFRONT. JEFF HORCHAK HAS MORE.
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Gov. John Bel Edwards told Louisiana lawmakers that the tax disagreements that derailed prior special sessions are not tied to policy, but partisan politics. The Democratic governor spoke to the majority-Republican Legislature on Monday evening, after the House and Senate opened their fourth legislative session this year. Edwards called the session a last-ditch effort to raise dollars to lessen budget cuts only two weeks away. Edwards thanked the lawmakers, who supported a sales tax plan in the last special session that failed because it lacked the backing of House GOP leaders.
A Lafayette man has been charged with phoning in a bomb threat to a restaurant at the Trump Tower building in New York City last year. A federal grand jury in Louisiana handed up an indictment last Thursday charging 27-year-old Paul Miller with making the bomb threat last September. The indictment says Miller called Trump Café at President Donald Trump’s namesake skyscraper in Manhattan and told the person who answered that a bomb was in the building. Miller is scheduled to make his initial court appearance on July 24 in Lafayette.
The Coast Guard is searching for a 55-year-old Texas man who fell from a fishing boat anchored off southwest Louisiana. A news release says the captain of the fishing vessel Captain Edwin radioed about 3 a.m. Monday, reporting that a crewman had fallen off of the nearby Captain Kent about 100 miles south of Cameron. Petty Officer Edward Wargo says the man is from Brownsville, Texas, but he cannot release his name. Wargo says investigators were told he was not wearing a life vest, making it hard to find him in the darkness.
THE WARDEN FOR THE ST. MARY PARISH PRISON HAS BEEN REASSIGNED AND TWO OTHER DEPUTIES HAVE BEEN FIRED. THE DECISIONS BY SHERIFF SCOTT ANSLUM ARE BECAUSE OF THE ESCAPE OF FOUR INMATES FROM THE JAIL LAST WEEK. PATROL COMMANDER CAPTAIN NICK ROGERS WILL SERVE AS ACTING WARDEN AS ANSLUM SEARCHES FOR A PERMANENT REPLACEMENT. ANSLUM SAYS HE’S COMMITTED TO INVESTIGATING THE REASONS FOR THE SECURITY LAPSES AND INSTITUTING WHATEVER ADDITIONAL TRAINING, MANPOWER AND POLICIES THAT ARE NECESSARY.
Officials say a Scottish industrial rental company will expand its facilities in New Iberia and create 30 new jobs. Gov. John Bel Edwards told news outlets Monday that Aggreko is expanding its operations and will also retain 265 employees. The 30 new jobs will have an average annual salary of $65,000, plus benefits. The company will also centralize its inside sales and call centers in New Iberia to support its business in North America.
