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6-4-19

THE OPENING OF THE MORGANZA SPILLWAY HAS BEEN DELAYED AGAIN.  MEGAN KELLY HAS MORE.

 

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CHENIER ENERGY IS INVESTING THREE BILLION DOLLARS TO EXPAND THEIR LIQUIFIED NATURAL GAS EXPORT FACILITY AT SABINE PASS IN CAMERON PARISH.  THEY HAVE FIVE UNITS AT THE PLANT AND THE INVESTMENT WILL BE IN A SIXTH UNIT, WHICH SHOULD BE COMPLETED BY 2023.  THEY ARE HOPING A NEW UNIT WILL PREVENT BOTTLENECKS IN ITS LIQUIFIED NATURAL GAS EXPORTING BUSINESS.  THE PROJECT, ONCE FINISHED, IS EXPECTED TO RESULT IN 68 ADDITIONAL JOBS.

 

RESIDENTS OF BROUSSARD WERE ABLE, LAST NIGHT, TO GIVE THEIR IDEAS ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MASTER PLAN FOR THE DOWNTOWN AREA BEING PUT TOGETHER BY THE PYRAMID GROUP.  THE MAIN RESPONSE, ACCORDING TO THE ADVOCATE, WAS A DESIRE FOR ACTION INSTEAD OF A PLAN THAT SITS ON A SHELF.  THE REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT WILL PRIMARILY INVOLVE MAIN STREET BETWEEN ALBERTON PARKWAY AND SOUTH BERNARD.  THE PYRAMID GROUP WILL BE PRESENTING THEIR MASTER PLAN THURSDAY AT 5:30 AT THE BALLROOM OF BROUSSARD.

 

Louisiana’s public school teachers will get $1,000 pay raises next year and districts will get $39 million more to spend on operations.  The House gave final passage to the school financing plan with a 103-0 vote, ending a stalemate between House Republicans and Gov. John Bel Edwards.  Under pressure from school leaders in an election year, House GOP leaders a few days earlier ended their stalling of the financing plan, which was backed by the Democratic governor and the Senate.

The legislation will raise spending on public schools by $140 million in the upcoming school year.

 

Louisiana senators have revived a proposal to let Louisiana’s medical marijuana patients inhale cannabis, only two days after rejecting the idea.  The House overwhelmingly agreed to the inhalation proposal by Baton Rouge Democratic Rep. Ted James, which would let therapeutic cannabis patients use an inhaler, like asthma patients use.  On Monday, Sen. Fred Mills, a Parks Republican, successfully amended the measure to spell out the metered-dose inhalers that would be allowed. The Senate passed that reworked bill with a 31-7 vote, sending it back to the House.

 

THREE PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED AFTER A HIGH SPEED CHASE SUNDAY AFTERNOON IN IBERIA PARISH THAT ENDED IN A CANE FIELD.  25-YEAR-OLD ANTRE JOSEPH LED DEPUTIES ON A CHASE THAT REACHED UP TO 90 MILES AN HOUR.  THE THREE OCCUPANTS WERE FOUND HIDING IN THE CANE FIELD AND ARRESTED.  DEPUTIES FOUND MARIJUANA, COCAINE, METHAMPHETAMINE, A LOADED FIREARM AND TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS CASH IN THE VEHICLE, AND ANOTHER TWO FIREARMS TOSSED FROM THE VEHICLE WERE ALSO RECOVERED.

 

THE LAKE CHARLES FIRE DEPARTMENT IS CONTINUING THEIR INVESTIGTION OF AN ATTEMPTED ARSON AT NEW SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH ON MAY 22ND.  CHURCH MEMBER ZACHARY MODEST TELLS KPLC TV THAT THEY ARE THANKFUL THE SUSPECT NEVER SUCCEEDED IN SETTING THE CHURCH ABLAZE.  IT RESULTED IN ONLY THREE BURNT SPOTS.  CASE INVESTIGATOR CALDWELL FONTENOT SAYS THEY HAVE LEARNED FROM SURVEILLANCE VIDEOS THAT THE SUSPECT WAS DRIVING WHAT APPEARS TO BE A SILVER EARLY TWO THOUSAND MODEL CHEVY MONTE CARLO WITH TWO BLACK RACING STRIPES FROM THE HOOD TO THE TRUNK.

 

BLACK BEARS HAVE BEEN SPOTTED AROUND ACADIANA RECENTLY, ESPECIALLY IN THE MILTON AND MAURICE AREAS.  OVER THE WEEKEND, A BLACK BEAR WAS SEEN ON CHEMIN METARIE IN YOUNGSVILLE, NEAR PIPER CREST LANE.  OFFICIALS ARE NOT SURE IF IT’S DIFFERENT BEARS OR THE SAME ONE.  ANYONE WHO SEES A BLACK BEAR SHOULD NOT APPROACH IT BUT CALL WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES AT 262-20-80.