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6-25-21

AN ARREST HAS BEEN MADE IN A DEADLY SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED WEDNESDAY NIGHT IN OPELOUSAS.  SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.

 

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THE LAFAYETTE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM HAS PRIDE MONTH BOOK DISPLAYS AT THE CARENCRO, SOUTH REGIONAL AND MAIN LIBRARY BRANCHES.  DIRECTOR DANNY GILLANE TELLS KLFY TV-TEN THAT THE DISPLAYS ARE NOT MEANT TO ENCOURAGE MULTIPLE VIEWPOINTS BUT TO MAKE PEOPLE AWARE OF THE VARIOUS TOPICS THAT CAN BE FOUND IN A LIBRARY.  HE SAYS STAFF MEMBERS AT THE INDIVIDUAL LIBRARY BRANCHES SELECT THE DISPLAYS THEY WANT TO PUT UP.  HE SAYS THERE HAVE BEEN NO REQUESTS TO TAKE THE PRIDE DISPLAYS DOWN, INCLUDING BY THE LIBRARY BOARD.

 

GOVERNOR JOHN BEL EDWARDS HAS SIGNED A BILL INTO LAW EXEMPTING FEMININE HYGIENE PRODUCTS AND DIAPERS FROM THE STATE SALES TAX, WHICH IS FOUR-POINT-FOUR-FIVE PERCENT.  IT GOES INTO EFFECT NEXT YEAR.  THE BILL LEAVE THE DOOR OPEN FOR OTHER GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TO DO THE SAME WITH THEIR LOCAL SALES TAX.  LOUISIANA CURRENTLY HAS THE SECOND HIGHEST COMBINED AVERAGE STATE AND LOCAL SALES TAX RATE, ONLY TRAILING TENNESSEE.

 

A LAKE ARTHUR MAN WAS ARRESTED BY JENNINGS POLICE IN A STRING OF CATALYTIC CONVERTER THEFTS.  POLICE SPOTTED A VEHICLE THAT LOOKED LIKE ONE DESCRIBED IN RECENT THEFTS AND FOUND AN ASSORTMENT OF TOOLS IN THE BACK SEAT.  JENNINGS POLICE CHIEF DANNY SEMMES SAYS TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD DAMIEN ROBINSON ADMITTED TO USING THE TOOLS IN STEALING CATALYTIC CONVERTERS AND ALSO CONFESSED THAT THE NEARLY THIRTY-TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS HE HAD ON HIM CAME MOSTLY FROM THE SALE OF CATALYTIC CONVERTERS.  SEMMES SAYS ROBINSON ADMITTED PLANNING TO STEAL CATALYTIC CONVERTERS FROM JENNINGS POLICE CARS AT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, BUT CHANGED HIS MIND WHEN HE SAW THE LOT WAS UNDER VIDEO SURVEILLANCE.

 

ACADIANA WORFORCE SOLUTIONS IS HOSTING AN OPPORTUNITY EVENT IN VILLE PLATTE THIS AFTERNOON.  THE EVENT PROVIDES ASSISTANCE FOR THOSE LOOKING FOR JOBS OR TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL.  THOSE BETWEEN THE AGES OF SIXTEEN AND TWENTY-FOUR WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE ASSISTANCE.  THE OPPORTUNITY EVENT TAKES PLACE AT THE EVANGELINE LIBRARY ON MAIN STREET IN VILLE PLATTE.

 

ARSON HAS BEEN RULED AS THE CAUSE OF TWO RECENT HOUSE FIRES IN RURAL LAFAYETTE PARISH.  FIREFIGHTERS ARRIVED TUESDAY AFTERNOON TO PUT OUT A HOUSE FIRE ON SAINT FIDELIS STREET WHEN THEY FOUND ANOTHER HOUSE ON FIRE A BLOCK OVER.  ONLY ONE OF THE HOUSES HAD AN OCCUPANT WHO WAS NOT HOME AT THE TIME AND BOTH HOUSES AND A CAMPER SUFFERED HEAVY DAMAGE.  A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION IS UNDERWAY TO DETERMINE WHO SET THE FIRES.

 

One of Louisiana’s oldest whooping cranes hatched her first chicks this year, and 24 mating pairs nearly doubled the state’s previous record for the critically endangered birds, but state biologists say that while 14 hatchlings made it out of eggs, only four survived. They include both chicks from eggs laid by the female dubbed L7-11. She was among 10 birds released as youngsters in 2011 to start a new flock in Louisiana. There are only about 800 whooping cranes in the world.

 

RAYNE POLICE WILL BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR KIDS DOING GOOD DEEDS.  THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IS TEAMING WITH FROZEN RAYNE SNOCONES ON THE INITIATIVE THAT’S DESIGNED TO BUILD COMMUNITY SUPPORT, SPREAD POSITIVITY TO YOUTH, AND BUILD A PARTNERSHIP WITH CITIZENS.  POLICE WILL GIVE TICKETS TO KIDS DOING GOOD THINGS WHICH THEY CAN TURN IN TO FROZEN RAYNE FOR A SNOCONE.  FROZEN RAYNE OWNER EMILY DUPUIS SAYS SHE’S DOING IT TO HELP KIDS DEVELOP A POSITIVE RELATIONSHIP WITH POLICE.