6-20-25
FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT ATTORNEY DONALD LANDRY SAYS TWENTY-FIVE STUDENTS ACCUSED OF VANDALISM AT COMEAUX HIGH SCHOOL HAVE BEEN OFFERED A CHANCE TO MAKE AMENDS OR PLEAD THEIR CASE IN COURT. IF THEY ACCEPT THE DIVERSION PROGRAM AND COMPLETE IT IN FOUR MONTHS, THEY WILL NOT BE CHARGED. LANDRY SAYS EACH STUDENT WILL BE REQUIRED TO PAY ABOUT NINE HUNDRED EIGHTY DOLLARS IN RESTITUTION. THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM SAYS ALL THE STUDENTS WHO WERE ELIGIBLE TO GRADUATE RECEIVED THEIR DIPLOMAS IN MAY.
JEANERETTE POLICE HAVE RELEASED THE NAMES OF TWO MORE SUSPECTS WANTED IN CONNECTION TO A SHOOTING TUESDAY NEAR PEACH AND PELLERIN STREETS. LAYNE MILLER REPORTS.
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ATTORNEY GENERAL LIZ MURRILL SAYS LOUISIANA WILL RECEIVE SIXTY-NINE MILLION DOLLARS FROM THE MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR PURDUE PHARMA OPOID SETTLEMENT. LAYNE MILLER HAS MORE.
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A LAKE CHARLES MAN HAS BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AND OTHER FELONY CHARGES. BETHANY BRYANT OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE SAYS FORTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD DERIK KENDALL RAYBORN BRUTALLY ATTACKED HIS FORMER GIRLFRIEND AND SHOT AND KILLED HER SON, TWENTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD ERIC BOSLEY, WHEN HE TRIED TO INTERVENE. RAYBORN ALSO SHOT AND KILLED A DOG THAT WAS BARKING IN THE HOME. RAYBORN, WHO WILL BE SENTENCED ON AUGUST TWENTY-FIRST, HAS FIVE PREVIOUS FELONY CONVICTIONS AND HAS SERVED TIME IN PRISON.
THERE WERE REPORTS OF GUNFIRE IN A LAFAYETTE NEIGHBORHOOD YESTERDAY. IT HAPPENED ON CHESTER STREET NEAR PINE STREET. THAT’S JUST A FEW BLOCKS FROM J-W FAULK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. LAFAYETTE POLICE HAVE NOT PROVIDED ANY OTHER INFORMATION ON THE SHOOTING.
OPELOUSAS POLICE CHIEF GRAIG LEBLANC HAS COME OUT IN DEFENSE OF SPEED CAMERAS IN THE CITY AFTER A CITY COUNCIL MEMBER STARTED AN ONLINE PETITION TO GET RID OF THEM. LEBLANC SAYS THE CAMERAS HAVE LED TO SPEEDING ON MAIN STREETS BEING REDUCED BY FORTY-FOUR PERCENT. HE SAYS IT ALSO ALLOWS HIM TO POSITION OFFICERS IN AREAS WITH MORE CRIME AND THE CRIME RATE IS DOWN SIXTY-THREE PERCENT. LEBLANC SAYS CITATIONS FROM SPEED CAMERAS HAVE PROVIDED MUCH NEEDED REVENUE FOR THE CITY AS WELL.
HIGH PERFORMING STUDENTS IN LOUISIANA WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A NEW EXCELLENCE AWARD UNDER THE TOPS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM. A HOUSE BILL ESTABLISHING THE AWARD PASSED IN THE LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE LAST WEEK AND GOVERNOR JEFF LANDRY IS EXPECTED TO SIGN IT. THE AWARD WILL PROVIDE UP TO TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR FOR STUDENTS ATTENDING A PUBLIC UNIVERSITY IN LOUISIANA. TO QUALIFY, A STUDENT MUST SCORE THIRTY-ONE OR HIGHER ON THE A-C-T AND EARN A THREE-POINT-FIVE OR ABOVE GRADE POINT AVERAGE.
A FISHING TOURNAMENT IS BEING HELD THIS WEEKEND AT DON’S BOAT LANDING IN ERATH TO RAISE FUNDS FOR SAINT JUDE CANCER PATIENTS. ONE OF THE ORGANIZERS, CRAIG GIROUARD, SAYS A HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE PROCEEDS GO STRAIGHT TO SAINT JUDE. TICKETS FOR THE FISHING TOURNAMENT ARE CLOSED BUT TICKETS FOR THE AUCTION AND GAMES ARE STILL AVAILABLE. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE TICKETS AND EVENTS, GO TO THE CASTING FOR A CAUSE FACEBOOK PAGE.
