KAJN Jesus FM 102.9


6-20-17

COASTAL PARISHES IN LOUISIANA ARE UNDER A TROPICAL STORM WARNING.  TROPICAL STORM CINDY IS EXPECTED TO FORM TODAY.  SOME PARISHES ARE MAKING SANDBAGS AVAILABLE SO RESIDENTS CAN PREPARE FOR HEAVY RAINS.  JULIE DARCE HAS DETAILS.

 

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THE MANHUNT FOR WILL CELESTINE OF LAKE CHARLES HAS ENDED AFTER EIGHT DAYS.  THE 31-YEAR-OLD MAN WAS ARRESTED EARLY MONDAY ON ZIM CIRCLE IN LAFAYETTE.  AUTHORITIES BEGAN THE SEARCH FOR CELESTINE ON JUNE 11TH AFTER HE BECAME A SUSPECT IN THE BEATING OF TWO WOMEN IN FRONT OF THEIR CHILDREN, AND HE ALLEGEDLY SHOT ONE OF THE WOMEN.  CELESTINE WAS RETURNED TO LAKE CHARLES WHERE HE WAS BOOKED INTO THE CALCASIEU CORRECTIONAL CENTER ON NUMEROUS CHARGES.

 

EUNICE POLICE HAVE ARREST A SECOND TEENAGER IN CONNECTION WITH A SHOOTING ON JUNE SIXTH THAT LEFT TWO MEN WOUNDED.  BRYCELYN RAY ANDERSON OF EUNICE WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY AND CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER.  HE IS ACCUSED OF SHOOTING TWO MEN ON SOUTH MALLET STREET, ONE OF WHOM IS STILL IN THE HOSPITAL.  THE TWO MEN WERE RELATED TO A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD, WHO WAS SHOT AND INJURED EARLIER THAT EVENING.

 

Louisiana’s public colleges and universities will only have limited authority to ask applying students about their criminal histories to determine admission.  Gov. John Bel Edwards’ office said Monday the governor has signed into law the “ban the box” legislation sponsored by Rep. Vincent Pierre, a Lafayette Democrat.  The legislation contains exceptions.  Schools still can ask about convictions for stalking, rape and sexual battery during the admissions process.

 

Gov. John Bel Edwards announced Monday that he has signed into law a bill enacting a new 4.5-cent monthly tax on cellphones.  The dollars will pay for technology assistance and services for people who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Current law imposes a 5-cent monthly tax on landline phones, with the money deposited into the Telecommunications for the Deaf Fund. The bill will drop that rate to 4.5 cents a month but expand the tax to wireless services.

 

FORMER STATE REPRESENTATIVE BRYAN ADAMS HAS BEEN APPOINTED THE DIRECTOR OF THE LOUISIANA SEAFOOD PROMOTION BOARD AND HE BEGINS HIS JOB TODAY BY HOSTING THE BOARD’S SIGNATURE EVENT.  CHEFS FROM ACROSS THE STATE WILL COMPETE IN THE LOUISIANA SEAFOOD COOK OFF, TAKING PLACE THIS EVENING AT THE CAJUNDOME CONVENTION CENTER IN LAFAYETTE.  TICKET PRICES BEGIN AT TWENTY DOLLARS.  ADAMS TELLS THE USA TODAY NETWORK THAT LAFAYETTE IS AMONG THE STATE’S CULINARY CAPITALS AND HE LOOKS FORWARD TO MEETING NEW FRIENDS AND CHEFS IN THE HEART OF CAJUN COUNTRY.

 

A JURY HAS BEEN SELECTED IN THE SECOND DEGREE MURDER TRIAL OF RODERICK CAWTHORNE JUNIOR.  CAWTHORNE IS ONE OF ELEVEN PEOPLE CHARGED IN CONNECTION WITH THE KILLING OF 73-YEAR-OLD CHARLES RAYMOND TALEN SENIOR OF LAKE ARTHUR, AND THE FIRST TO GO TO TRIAL.  TALEN DIED FROM BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA ON FEBRUARY FIRST OF 2015.  COMMANDER CHRIS IVEY OF THE JEFF DAVIS PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAID AT THE TIME THAT RUMORS OF LARGE AMOUNTS OF CASH IN TALEN’S HOME LED TO THE ATTACK AND THE ROBBERY OF HIS SAFE WITH AN ESTIMATED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH OF GOLD COINS.

 

YESTERDAY THE ST. MARTINVILLE CITY COUNCIL VOTED 4-TO-1 TO APPOINT JOSEPH NEDIE TO THE POSITION OF INTERIM POLICE CHIEF.  HE TAKES OVER FOR CALDER HEBERT, WHO OFFICIALLY RESIGNED TWO WEEKS AGO.  NEDIE HAS SERVED AT THE DEPARTMENT OF 23 YEARS, AND HE SAYS HE WILL FOCUS ON MAKING THE DEPARTMENT THE BEST IT CAN BE.  THE COUNCIL WILL BEGIN THE SEARCH FOR A PERMANENT POLICE CHIEF, AND NEDIE SAYS HE PLANS TO APPLY FOR THE JOB.