6-19-26
SAINT LANDRY PARISH OFFICIALS ARE PREPARING FOR THE POTENTIAL OF MAJOR FLOODING IN THE COMING DAYS. THE FLOODING COULD COME FROM THE WATERWAYS FLOWING FROM AVOYELLES PARISH, WHERE THERE WERE REPORTS OF UP TO THIRTY INCHES OF RAIN IN SOME AREAS YESTERDAY. SAINT LANDRY PARISH RESIDENTS ARE URGED TO MAKE EVACUATION PLANS. THE PARISH GOVERNMENT EVALUATED POSSIBLE EVACUATIONS FOR AREAS EXPECTED TO FLOOD BEGINNING THIS WEEKEND.
GOVERNOR JEFF LANDRY HAS OFFICIALLY DECLARED LOUISIANA UNDER A STATE OF EMERGENCY. IT COVERS SIX PARISHES INCLUDING AVOYELLES AND SAINT LANDRY PARISHES. THE DECLARATION WAS ISSUED YESTERDAY FOLLOWING THE EFFECTS OF TROPICAL STORM ARTHUR. THE ORDER ALLOWS THE GOVERNOR’S OFFFICE OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS TO COORDINATE RESOURCES AND PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AS NEEDED.
THE LAFAYETTE FIRE DEPARTMENT IS SEEKING THE PUBLIC’S HELP IN IDENTIFYING THE PERSON OF INTEREST IN AN ARSON FIRE. A VEHICLE WAS INTENTIONALLY SET ON FIRE AT A HOME ON RAILROAD STREET ON JUNE FOURTH, BUT THE HOME WAS NOT DAMAGED. A PERSON DRESSED IN BLACK AND RIDING A SCOOTER IS SEEN ON VIDEO NEXT TO THE VEHICLE AT THE TIME IT CAUGHT FIRE. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON THE CRIME IS ASKED TO CALL LAFAYETTE CRIME STOPPERS AT TWO-THREE-TWO-TIPS.
A SULPHUR MAN WAS FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER FOR THE SECOND TIME FOR THE SHOOTING DEATH OF JAMES BARILLEAUX IN TWENTY-TWENTY-THREE. TWENTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD ERRON FONTENOT ADMITTED MULTIPLE TIMES ON VIDEO TO SHOOTING BARRILLEAUX AND WAS CONVICTED IN TWENTY-TWENTY-FOUR. THE CONVICTION WAS OVERTURNED DUE TO AN ISSUE WITH JURY SELECTION AND HE WAS GIVEN A NEW TRIAL. IT TOOK THE JURY LESS THAN AN HOUR TO FIND FONTENOT GUILTY OF SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AND HE FACES A LIFE IN PRISON SENTENCE WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE.
A MANHUNT IS UNDERWAY FOR CHRISTIAN BAEZ, WHO’S WANTED IN SAINT LANDRY PARISH ON MULTIPLE CHARGES INCLUDING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND FALSE IMPRISONMENT. THE IBERIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE WANTS TO QUESTION HIM ABOUT A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED JUNE TENTH. DEPUTIES ATTEMPTING TO TAKE BAEZ INTO CUSTODY LED TO A VEHICLE PURSUIT THAT BEGAN IN IBERIA PARISH, CONTINUED IN VERMILLION PARISH AND WAS DISSCONTINUED IN YOUNGSVILLE OVER CONCERNS FOR PUBLIC SAFETY. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON HIS LOCATION IS ASKED TO CALL IBERIA PARISH CRIME STOPPERS AT THREE-SIX-FOUR-TIPS.
ALUMNI, FORMER EDUCATORS, STAFF MEMBERS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS ARE INVITED TO A LEGACY WALK AT COMEAUX HIGH SCHOOL ON THURSDAY. SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS VOTED LAST WEEK TO CLOSE COMEAUX HIGH AND REOPEN IT AS THE OVEY COMEAUX WORKFORCE INNOVATION ACADEMY. THE LEGACY WALK WILL TAKE PLACE BETWEEN FIVE AND SEVEN P-M THURSDAY. IT WILL BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO TOUR THE CAMPUS AND RECONNECT WITH CLASSMATES AND COLLEAGUES.
A DISTRICT COURT JUDGE HAS ISSUED A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER BLOCKING GOVERNOR JEFF LANDRY’S EXECUTIVE ORDER SIGNED ON JUNE SECOND. THE ORDER WOULD HAVE DIRECTED ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS FROM LOUISIANA’S MINIMUM FOUNDATION PROGRAM TO FUND TEACHER AND STAFF STIPENDS. THE TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER CITED FIVE CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES WITH THE EXECUTIVE ORDER.
THE NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD RELEASED NEW INFORMATION ON THE FATAL TWENTY-TWENTY-FOUR PLANE CRASH IN ACADIA PARISH THAT CLAIMED THE LIFE OF A SUNSET MAN. GEORGE FAUST HAS MORE.
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