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LAFAYETTE MAYOR PRESIDENT JOEL ROBIDEAUX SAYS HE WILL DECIDE LATER THIS SUMMER IF NEW BIKE LANES ON WEST BAYOU PARKWAY SHOULD STAY OR GO. LAST YEAR A PORTION OF WEST BAYOU PARKWAY WAS RESTRIPED, REMOVING A CENTER TURN LANE, SO THAT BIKE LANES COULD BE ADDED ON EACH SIDE. SOME RESIDENTS COMPLAINED ABOUT TRAFFIC CONGESTION AND POTENTIAL SAFETY HAZARDS CAUSED BY THE NEW LANES, AND THEY PRESENTED A PETITION TO REMOVE THE LANES LAST MONTH TO ROBIDEAUX. BUT SUPPORTERS OF THE BIKE LANES ALSO STARTED THEIR OWN ONLINE PETITION THAT HAS GARNERED 16-HUNDRED SIGNATURES AS OF YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.
Ground will be officially broken Thursday for a new $10 million Jefferson Davis Parish Jail. The new regional consolidated jail facility is on U.S. Highway 90, just west of Jennings. Sheriff Ivy Woods tells the American Press the jail will provide the parish with 200 inmate beds – 160 for males, 20 for female and 20 isolated cells for juveniles and quarantined offenders – which will help area law enforcement officials house inmates locally and keep them in custody longer. Plans for the new jail are based on a 2012 feasibility study which called for replacement of the 65-bed facility which officials have said is undersized, outdated, always filled to capacity and in need of costly repairs.
A MAN WANTED BY POLICE FOR A SHOOTING IN THE CROWLEY WALMART PARKING LOT MAY BE IN CALIFORNIA. 26-YEAR-OLD RONALD BABINEAUX IS WANTED FOR ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER. AUTHORITIES BELIEVE BABINEAUX IS IN CALIFORNIA BECAUSE HE HAS TIES THERE. BABINEAUX IS ACCUSED OF SHOOTING AND INJURING A PERSON IN THE CROWLEY WALMART PARKING LOT ON MAY 28TH.
While Louisiana’s law requiring abortion doctors to have hospital admitting privileges may be jeopardized by this week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling, more limitations on the procedure are planned in the state. Lawmakers enacted new abortion restrictions in the regular legislative session that ended earlier this month.
They required a 72-hour wait for most women to get an abortion, toughened criteria for doctors who perform abortions and limited second-trimester abortion options by banning the procedure called dilation and evacuation. The new laws take effect Aug. 1.
A LAFAYETTE CATHOLIC SCHOOL MAY CLOSE. JULIE DARCE HAS THE DETAILS.
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THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS SEEKING THE PUBLIC’S HELP IN FINDING A 50-YEAR-OLD LAKE CHARLES MAN WHO HAS BEEN MISSING FOR A WEEK. JAMES DALTON LYONS THE SECOND WAS LAST SEEN LEAVING HIS HOME ON PORTSMOUTH LANE LAST WEDNESDAY, AROUND MID-MORNING. SHERIFF’S OFFICE SPOKESWOMAN KIM MYERS SAYS LYONS SUFFERS FROM MEDICAL ISSUES THAT REQUIRES DAILY MEDICATION, AND HE EXPRESSED A DESIRE TO HARM HIMSELF. LYONS HAS A TATTOO ON HIS RIGHT WRIST STATING THAT HE IS ALLERGIC TO PENICILLIN AND CLEOCIN, AND HE DRIVES A BLACK 2000 F-150 PICKUP WITH A FADED DUCK DYNASTY BUMPER STICKER THAT SAYS “HAPPY, HAPPY.”
A MAN, WHO WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD, DROVE HIMSELF TO LELEAUX’S GROCERY STORE IN NEW IBERIA. IBERIA PARISH SHERIFF LOUIS ACKAL SAYS THE BULLET DID NOT PENETRATE THE MAN’S SKULL, AND HE IS BEING TREATED AT A LOCAL HOSPITAL. ACKAL SAYS THE MAN IS NOT TELLING DETECTIVES WHAT LED TO THE SHOOTING OR ANY OF THE DETAILS. HE ASKS ANYONE WITH INFORMATION TO CONTACT THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE.
Louisiana voters this fall will decide whether college systems can boost their own tuition rates, whether to sock away money from oil price booms into savings and whether to rewrite the state’s corporate tax laws. Lawmakers passed six proposed constitutional amendments during their three legislative sessions that stretched from February until June. All of the amendment proposals will be on the Nov. 8 ballot for voters to consider. The amendments are not the heavy lift of some years, when voters were asked to sift through a dozen or more constitutional rewrite proposals, but the complex list still could require some homework.
