6-23-25
OPELOUSAS POLICE HAVE ARRESTED A MAN WHO ALLEGEDLY ADMITTED KILLING HIS MOTHER, AFTER HER BODY WAS FOUND IN A TRASH CAN. THIRTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD AARON LLOYD CONFESSED KILLING SIXTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD LISA LLOYD BY INJECTING HER WITH METHAMPHETAMINE AND THEN BEATING HER. LISA’S BODY WAS FOUND IN A TRASH CAN UNDER THE CARPORT OF THEIR HOME ON PARK CIRCLE YESTERDAY. AARON FACES MULTIPLE CHARGES INCLUDING FIRST-DEGREE MURDER.
A MOTORCYCLIST IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION AFTER A CRASH IN LAFAYETTE. THE MOTORCYCLIST COLLIDED WITH A CAR ON VEROT SCHOOL ROAD NEAR PINHOOK. IT HAPPENED AT AROUND THREE-FIFTEEN FRIDAY AFTERNOON. THERE WAS SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO BOTH THE MOTORCYCLE AND THE CAR. THE CAUSE OF THE CRASH IS BEING INVESTIGATED.
A THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL FROM OAKDALE WAS KILLED IN A UTILITY TERRAIN VEHICLE CRASH IN RAPIDES PARISH AT AROUND MIDNIGHT SUNDAY. KYNDAL VIDRINE WAS A PASSENGER ON A U-T-V BEING DRIVEN BY ANOTHER JUVENILE. THEY WERE BOTH EJECTED AFTER STRIKING A PARKED VEHICLE. VIDRINE SUFFERED SEVERE INJURIES AND DIED AFTER BEING TAKEN TO A HOSPITAL.
A panel of three federal appellate judges has ruled that a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in each of the state’s public school classrooms is unconstitutional. The court’s order on Friday comes amid an ongoing legal battle spurred by a lawsuit filed last year by parents of Louisiana school children from various religious backgrounds, who say the law violates First Amendment language guaranteeing religious liberty and forbidding government establishment of religion. Backers of the law argue that posting the Ten Commandments does not violate the Constitution because the commandments are historical and part of the foundation of U.S. law.
A PEDESTRIAN WAS STRUCK BY A TRAIN IN NEW IBERIA YESTERDAY. IT HAPPENED JUST BEFORE TWO A-M ALONG WASHINGTON STREET NEAR ARMAND STREET. THE IBERIA PARISH CORONER PRONOUNCED THE VICTIM AS DEAD AT THE SCENE. THE NAME OF THE VICTIM HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED.
A FEMALE PASSENGER DIED IN DEQUINCY AFTER THE VEHICLE SHE WAS IN WAS STRUCK BY A TRAIN. THE CRASH HAPPENED SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT SUNDAY AT THE CROSSING ON FOURTH STREET NEAR DEQUINCY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. THE FEMALE PASSENGER WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. THE DRIVER WAS ABLE TO EXIT THE VEHICLE ON HIS OWN AND WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL.
THERE IS A DECLINE IN OVERALL SHOOTINGS IN LAFAYETTE THIS YEAR, ACCORDING TO POLICE CHIEF PAUL TROUARD. HE SAYS TWO SHOOTINGS LAST WEEK WERE THE TWENTY-FOURTH AND TWENTY-FIFTH SHOOTINGS SO FAR THIS YEAR. LAST YEAR AT THIS TIME THERE WERE THIRTY-SIX INSTANCES OF GUN VIOLENCE. TROUARD CREDITS THE REDUCTION TO IMPROVED COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND INCREASED EFFORTS TO RECRUIT NEW OFFICERS.
POLICE IN RAYNE ARE WARNING RESIDENTS ABOUT YET ANOTHER SCAM THAT’S CIRCULATING AROUND THE AREA. LAYNE MILLER HAS THE DETAILS.
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