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LANDRY’S FEED STORE IN RAYNE, WHICH CELEBRATED ITS SEVENTIETH ANNIVERSARY LAST MONTH, WAS DESTROYED BY A FIRE EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING. THE FIRE WAS SO BIG THAT IT TOOK THE RAYNE FIRE DEPARTMENT FIVE TO SIX HOURS TO PUT IT OUT WITH THE HELP OF NEIGHBORING FIRE DEPARTMENTS. CO-OWNER KEN LANDRY SAYS THE FIRE WAS FED BY CHEMICALS, FERTILIZER AND HAY, WHICH CONTRIBUTED TO ITS INTENSITY. AN INVESTIGATION IS UNDERWAY TO DETERMINE THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE.
IF YOU’RE TRAVELING FROM THE LAFAYETTE REGIONAL AIRPORT, ALLOW EXTRA TIME. THAT’S BECAUSE THE T-S-A SCREENING EQUIPMENT IS BEING REPAIRED, WHICH MEANS ALL CHECKED BAGS HAVE TO BE SCREENED BY HAND. PASSENGERS WHO INTEND TO CHECK BAGS ARE ASKED TO ARRIVE TWO HOURS BEFORE THE FLIGHT TO ALLOW SUFFICIENT TIME FOR T-S-A PERSONNEL TO SCREEN BAGS. IT MAY TAKE UP TO A MONTH FOR THE EQUIPMENT TO BE FIXED.
Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards has vetoed parts of Louisiana’s budget. The move Thursday followed pleading from Louisiana lawmakers for Edwards to clean up the state’s hastily passed budget. Edwards steered a chunk of money away from paying down debt to increase funding for the health department and early childhood education. Edwards line-item vetoed various parts of the $45 billion budget, balancing it using surplus funds that the Republican-dominated Legislature had allocated to pay down state retirement debt.
A GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY WAS HELD YESTERDAY FOR A NEW THIRTY-ONE MILLION DOLLAR PRESS BOX AT COWBOY STADIUM ON THE MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS. THE ORIGINAL PRESS BOX WAS DESTROYED IN TWENTY-TWENTY BY HURRICANE LAURA. THE NEW PRESS BOX WILL INCLUDE TWENTY-FIVE SUITES, A SEVENTEEN-HUNDRED SQUARE FOOT SKY CLUB AND AN OPEN PATIO-TYPE AREA. DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS HEATH SCHROYER SAYS THE NEW PRESS BOX WILL BE STATE OF THE ART, RIVALING ANY OTHER PRESS BOX.
REPORTS OF THE GRAND COTEAU POLICE CHIEF RESIGNING TURNED OUT TO BE PARTIALLY TRUE. SYLVIA MASTERS EXPLAINS.
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A THREE-VEHICLE ACCIDENT ON I-FORTY-NINE NEAR PONT DES MOUTON BEGAN YESTERDAY AFTERNOON WHEN THE DRIVER OF AN EIGHTEEN-WHEELER HIT AN S-U-V FROM BEHIND, PUSHING IT INTO A TRUCK. THE EIGHTEEN-WHEELER THEN FLIPPED ONTO THE SOUTHBOUND FRONTAGE ROAD. THE DRIVER SUFFERED MODERATE INJURIES WHEN HE WAS EJECTED FROM THE RIG. THE DRIVERS OF THE OTHER TWO VEHICLES DID NOT SUFFER MAJOR INJURIES.
SNAP RECIPIENTS IN LOUISIANA WILL HAVE AN INCENTIVE TO GET HEALTHIER FOODS BEGINNING NEXT YEAR. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS THE DETAILS.
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AN OPELOUSAS MOM TURNED IN HER FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD SON AFTER LEARNING HE HAD ALLEGEDLY SHOT A TWENTY-YEAR-OLD PORT BARRE MAN. THE SHOOTING RESULTED FROM A VERBAL DISPUTE BETWEEN THE TWO WEDNESDAY NIGHT. WHEN THE FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD PULLED A GUN, THE VICTIM ATTEMPTED TO RUN AWAY BUT WAS SHOT TWICE, THOUGH HIS INJURIES WERE NOT LIFE-THREATENING. PORT BARRE POLICE CALLED THE JUVENILE’S MOM ABOUT THE SHOOTING AND SHE BROUGHT HIM TO THE DEPARTMENT, WHERE HE WAS BOOKED FOR ATTEMPTED SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AND ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF A HANDGUN BY A JUVENILE.
