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6-22-15

THE CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE JOEL ROBIDEAUX JUST HELPED GET 615 MILLION DOLLARS IN HIGHER TAXES ON BUSINESSES AND SMOKERS PASSED IN THE RECENTLY CONCLUDED LEGISLATIVE SESSION.  HE ACKNOWLEDGES IT COULD HAVE CONSEQUENCES IN HIS BID TO BE THE NEXT LAFAYETTE CITY PARISH PRESIDENT.  HE TELLS THE ADVOCATE NEWSPAPER THAT HE FELT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO STAND UP FOR HIGHER EDUCATION, WHICH, ALONG WITH HOSPITALS, FACED DEEP CUTS.  ROBIDEAUX WILL FACE OFF AGAINST LAFAYETTE CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER DEE STANLEY IN THE FALL ELECTION TO SUCCEED JOEY DUREL AS CITY PARISH PRESIDENT.

 

The Lake Charles City Council is putting off any more permits or zoning approvals for temporary worker housing until it replaces the ordinance governing such projects.  The American Press reports that the city is writing a more comprehensive ordinance.  Ray Miller told the council that temporary worker villages blight nearby communities.  Councilman Dana Jackson says planned construction of big industrial plants will need more workers than the area can provide.

 

A 51-YEAR-OLD MAN WAS THE VICTIM OF A STABBING EARLY SUNDAY MORNING IN IBERIA PARISH.  JULIE DARCE REPORTS.

 

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Authorities say a body found in Toledo Bend Lake is that of a 32-year-old man from DeRidder.  Multiple news outlets report the man’s body was pulled from the lake just south of Many close to a private pier Sunday morning. Authorities have identified the man as Joshua Kyle Justis. Sabine Parish Deputy Coroner Ron Rivers says there were no signs of foul play but they are investigating Justis’ cause of death.

 

A DEVELOPER HAS TOLD THE CARENCRO CITY COUNCIL THAT FEDEX IS CONSIDERING PUTTING A DISTRIBUTION CENTER AT THE OLD EVANGELINE DOWNS RACE TRACK OFF OF I-49, WHICH HAS BEEN CLOSED SINCE 2004.  JAMES SAAD OF THE SAAD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION SAYS THAT IF FEDEX DECIDES TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE PROJECT AT THAT SITE, CONSTRUCTION COULD BEGIN BY THE END OF THIS YEAR OR EARLY NEXT YEAR.  MAYOR GLENN BRASSEAUX SAYS HE HAS MIXED FEELINGS ABOUT THE PROPOSED DISTRIBUTION CENTER.  HE SAYS IT WOULD BE A LOT BETTER THAN THE FEMA TRAILERS THAT OCCUPY THAT SPACE NOW, BUT HE WOULD PREFER A RETAIL CENTER.

 

A former Lake Charles charter school teacher has been indicted.  The indictment, handed up Thursday, accuses 36-year-old Summer Nicole Odom, of Iowa, of molesting three boys — ages 13, 14 and 14 — between Jan. 5 and April 18. Odom was arrested in April and is free on $120,000 bond.  Lake Charles police began investigating Odom, then a teacher at Lake Charles Charter Academy, after a student’s mother complained Odom had inappropriate contact with her son on multiple occasions.

 

A STATE HISTORICAL MARKER NOW SITS AT THE SITE OF A CIVIL WAR BATTLE THAT OCCURRED JUST SOUTH OF OPELOUSAS.  A DEDICATION CEREMONY WAS HELD SATURDAY FOR THE MARKER, WHICH IS LOCATED AT THE JUNCTION OF A FORMER RAILWAY BED AND L-A 182.  LOCAL HISTORIAN JOHN HARPER SAYS IT WASN’T ONE OF THE MAJOR BATTLES OF THE CIVIL WAR, BUT IT WAS IMPORTANT AS UNION TROOPS WERE MOVING THROUGH THE AREA TO TRY TO TAKE TEXAS.  THE GROUP, SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS, HELPED GET FUNDING FOR THE MARKER.

 

Doctors who perform abortions in Louisiana will testify with a screen hiding them from spectators as a federal judge in Baton Rouge hears a challenge to Louisiana’s law requiring them to be able to admit patients to a hospital within 30 miles.  The doctors sued anonymously, as “John Does,” and a court order has made virtually all information about the clinics confidential. That includes any information about the clinics’ staff, physicians and patients.  U.S. District Judge John deGravelles (duh-GRAV-uhl) has scheduled the trial for six days, starting today and ending next Monday.