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LAFAYETTE PARISH SUPERINTENDENT DONALD AGUILLARD SAYS HE WILL BRING A RECOMMENDATION ON A RECYCLING PROGRAM TO THE SCHOOL BOARD AT THE JULY 13TH MEETING AND THE BOARD WILL VOTE ON THE MATTER AT THE AUGUST THIRD MEETING. AGUILLARD SAYS THE PLAN IS TO START WITH FIVE SITES AND SPREAD THE PROGRAM TO AS MANY SCHOOLS AS POSSIBLE. HE SAYS THEY WANT A RECYCLING PROGRAM, BUT ONE THAT DOESN’T FINANCIALLY BURDEN THE DISTRICT. AGUILLARD TELLS THE ADVOCATE THEY’VE RECEIVED WASTE MANAGEMENT PROPOSALS THAT INCLUDE RECYCLING COSTS FROM FOUR COMPANIES.
THE MAYOR OF SULPHUR SAYS THE CITY’S FLAT RATE FOR WATER, SEWER AND GARBAGE IS UNFAIR. MAYOR CHRIS DUNCAN SAYS ITS NOT RIGHT FOR A SINGLE PERSON AND A FAMILY OF FIVE TO BE PAYING THE SAME RATE FOR WATER. THE CITY’S ORIGINAL CHARTER, ADOPTED IN 1984, REQUIRES A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE BEFORE THEY CAN MOVE TO A METERED SYSTEM. A COMMITTEE IS REVIEWING THE CHARTER, AND THEY COULD RECOMMEND TO THE COUNCIL CHANGING TO A METERED SYSTEM.
IBERIA PARISH SHERIFF LOUIS ACKAL ALLEGEDLY MADE ANTISEMITIC REMARKS ABOUT A FEDERAL PROSECUTOR AND MADE COMMENTS ABOUT SHOOTING HIM BETWEEN THE EYES. PROSECUTORS SAYS THE COMMENTS WERE SECRETLY RECORDED BY AN UNSOLICITED INFORMANT EARLIER THIS YEAR AND RECENTLY SUBMITTED TO FEDERAL AUTHORITIES. BECAUSE OF THE ALLEGED COMMENTS, PROSECUTORS WANT NEW CONDITIONS ADDED IN ORDER FOR ACKAL TO REMAIN OUT OF JAIL WHILE HE AWAITS A TRIAL FOR HIS ALLEGED INVOLVEMENT WITH THE BEATINGS OF IBERIA PARISH JAIL INMATES. ACKAL’S ATTORNEY, JOHN MCCLINDON, TOLD THE ADVOCATE IN AN EMAIL THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF THE RECORDINGS ARE LEGITIMATE, WHO MADE THEM, AND WHO ASKED THE PERSON TO DO IT.
Three of the main Republican contenders for Louisiana’s U.S. Senate seat say they oppose pending federal legislation to require companies to collect sales taxes on Internet purchases. U.S. Rep. Charles Boustany, U.S. Rep. John Fleming and state Treasurer John Kennedy participated Wednesday in a candidate forum hosted by small business groups. Boustany said he had problems with the current proposal, but left open the door for considering future ideas. Fleming said he didn’t think a tax increase was the right way to get a fairer playing field, while Kennedy said Congress should leave the Internet alone.
MEMORIAL SERVICES HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED FOR ASHLEY METZ. JULIE DARCE HAS MORE.
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A GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY WAS HELD YESTERDAY IN LAKE CHARLES FOR A NEW V-A CLINIC. IT WILL BE BUILD AT THE FORMER TOYOTA CENTER OFF OF GERSTNER MEMORIAL. IT IS EXPECTED TO TAKE ABOUT A YEAR TO CONSTRUCT THE 24 THOUSAND SQUARE FOOT CLINIC. UNTIL IT’S READY, AN INTERIM CLINIC THAT OPENED LAST YEAR OFF OF MCNEESE STREE WILL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE HEALTH SERVICES.
IT TOOK A ST. LANDRY PARISH JURY LESS THAN TWENTY MINUTES TO CONVICT HANK MORAN ON A CHARGE OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER FOR THE STABBING DEATH OF HIS WIFE, CONSTANCE, IN 2013. POLICE TESTIFIED IN THE TRIAL THAT THEY FOUND MORAN STANDING OVER HIS WIFE’S BODY AND SAYING, “I GUESS SHE’LL LISTEN TO ME NOW.” DISTRICT ATTORNEY EARL TAYLOR SAYS MORAN’S DEFENSE WAS THAT HE AND HIS WIFE HAD BEEN DOING DRUGS AND DRINKING ALL NIGHT. TAYLOR SAYS CONSTANCE DIDN’T SOUND OUT OF HER MIND WHEN SHE CALLED 9-1-1 THAT NIGHT.
An attorney for one of two deputy city marshals charged in a shooting that killed a 6-year-old boy and wounded his father says the child’s father was suicidal and had drugs in his system at the time of the deadly encounter. Derrick Stafford’s attorney, Jonathan Goins, told a judge Wednesday the father’s state of mind at the time of the November 2015 shooting will be a crucial element of Stafford’s trial defense. Stafford and the other deputy, Norris Greenhouse Jr., have pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder.
They were arrested after the shooting that killed Jeremy Mardis and wounding his father, Chris Few.
