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A YOUNGSVILLE MAN IS ACCUSED OF STABBING A JUVENILE DURING A FIGHT EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. GERALD GRUENIG REPORTS.
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CARGILL WILL BEGIN TODAY THE PROCESS OF CLOSING THEIR SALT MINE ON AVERY ISLAND IN IBERIA PARISH. THE COMPANY WILL BE FILLING THE MINE WITH WATER, A PROCESS THAT WILL TAKE AROUND FORTY-FIVE DAYS TO COMPLETE. AFTER THAT, THERE WILL BE MONITORING OF THE SITE FOR THIRTY DAYS TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THE AREA. RESIDENTS AND VISITORS TO THE ISLAND WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO COME WITHIN EIGHT HUNDRED FEET OF THE MINE DURING THIS TIME.
A proposed law to prevent Louisiana women from getting abortion-inducing drugs by mail has won final passage in the state’s Legislature. The state Senate voted 31-1 Friday to approve House changes to the bill by Sen. Sharon Hewitt, a Slidell Republican. The bill says that abortion-inducing drugs in Louisiana can only be administered in person by a state-licensed physician. The bill goes next to Gov. John Bel Edwards.
A SPECIAL ELECTION WAS HELD IN SULPHUR SATURDAY FOR A SEAT ON THE CITY COUNCIL. INCUMBENT MIKE KOONCE WAS DEFEATED BY CHALLENGER NICK NEZAT FOR THE DISTRICT TWO SEAT, WITH NEZAT GETTING NEARLY TWO THIRDS OF THE VOTE. NEZAT WON THE ELECTION IN MARCH BUT KOONCE CHALLENGED HIS DEFEAT DUE TO A REDISTRICTING ERROR AND A JUDGE AGREED, ORDERING THE NEW ELECTION. THOUGH HE LOST, KOONCE SAYS HE FELT IT WAS A WIN FOR SULPHUR BECAUSE A PROBLEM IN THE ELECTION SYSTEM WAS FIXED.
A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD LAFAYETTE GIRL, WHO HAS BEEN MISSING SINCE MAY TWENTY-SEVENTH, IS BELIEVED TO HAVE RUN AWAY. JOANNA ANDERSON, THE MOTHER OF EVA DAVIS, SAYS HER DAUGHTER HAD A BACKPACK AND RAN AWAY WHEN JOANNA WAS DOING A DOOR DASH DELIVERY. THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME THAT EVA HAS RUN AWAY. ANYONE WHO KNOWS HER LOCATION IS ASKED TO CALL LAFAYETTE POLICE OR NINE-ONE-ONE.
THERE WERE TWO FATAL ACCIDENTS IN ACADIA PARISH LATE LAST WEEK. AT AROUND MIDNIGHT THURSDAY NIGHT, THE DRIVER OF A FORD S-U-V, WHOSE IDENTITY WAS NOT RELEASED, LOST CONTROL ON I-TEN WEST OF EGAN AND ENTERED THE PATH OF AN EIGHTEEN-WHEELER. THE DRIVER OF THE S-U-V DIED AFTER BEING EJECTED FROM THE VEHICLE. THE OTHER ACCIDENT HAPPENED JUST AFTER THREE A-M FRIDAY IN CHURCH POINT WHEN A PEDESTRIAN, FORTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD KEVEN LEJEUNE OF CROWLEY, WAS STRUCK AND KILLED BY A VEHICLE ON L-A NINETY-FIVE NEAR WIKOFF LANE. STATE TROOPERS ARE TRYING TO IDENTIFY AND FIND THE POSSIBLE SUSPECT VEHICLE.
Most Louisiana Entergy customers will see higher rates this month because of rising natural gas costs and recent storm restoration expenses. The company said Friday that electricity rates will go up by as much as $25 for an average household. The Advocate reports the rate increases will affect areas covered by Entergy Louisiana, which supplies power to roughly 1.1 million customers in 58 parishes, including most of south Louisiana.
A NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD OPELOUSAS MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED AFTER A SHOOTING THAT LEFT A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL WOUNDED IN THE LEG THURSDAY NIGHT. AN INVESTIGATION REVEALED JASHAN LAWS BEGAN FIRING A WEAPON RECKLESSLY INSIDE A VEHICLE THAT HE AND THE SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD WERE IN. LAWS MAY HAVE BEEN SHOOTING BECAUSE OF SHOTS FIRED TOWARD HIS VEHICLE. THREE FIREARMS WERE SEIZED DURING THE INVESTIGATION AND MORE ARRESTS ARE POSSIBLE.
