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THREE PEOPLE WERE SHOT AND WOUNDED AT AROUND FIVE THIRTY YESTERDAY MORNING ON I-TEN BETWEEN CROWLEY AND RAYNE. ACADIA PARISH SHERIFF K-P GIBSON SAYS THE THREE HAD LEFT A CLUB ON WEST SECOND STREET IN CROWLEY AND WERE TRAVELING TO THE LAFAYETTE AREA. ANOTHER VEHICLE PULLED UP ALONGSIDE THEM ON THE INTERSTATE AND FIRED MULTIPLE SHOTS HITTING ALL THREE OCCUPANTS. THEIR CONDITIONS HAVE NOT BEEN UPDATED. GIBSON SAYS THE INCIDENT DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE A CASE OF ROAD RAGE.
A dozen past winners will compete against each other this year in the 14th annual Louisiana Seafood Cook-Off. Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser says the winners’ competition will highlight the re-opening of Louisiana restaurants now that the state’s pandemic restrictions are gone and people begin to travel again. The cook-off will take place June 22 at the Cajundome Convention Center in Lafayette. Some of the more than 200 restaurants participating in the city-parish’s EatLafayette summer promotion will be selling food.
Lawmakers are continuing negotiations on ways to steer more tax money to roads and bridges, hoping to strike a deal before the legislative session wraps up Thursday. Senate leaders are proposing to make a temporary 0.45% state sales tax permanent and send those dollars to infrastructure starting in 2025, but that idea faces significant opposition in the House. So, senators have started looking for other approaches that could bolster state spending on a $15 billion list of backlogged transportation needs. Senators meeting in a rare Sunday debate session sent several bills that could be part of any eventual deal out of committee to the full Senate for debate.
The city of Sulphur is in mourning after the death of its former mayor. Sulphur Mayor Mike Danahay confirmed the death early Friday of former Mayor Chris Duncan. He was 59. The American Press reported Nic Duncan said his father had been battling an unknown illness for two years. Funeral services are scheduled Wednesday at Johnson and Robinson Funeral Home in Sulphur.
POLICE IN EUNICE ARE INVESTIGATING A DEADLY SHOOTING. SYVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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FORT WORTH POLICE HAVE MADE AN ARREST IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEATH OF A FORMER U-L FOOTBALL PLAYER. TWENTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD AL RILES, WHO WAS A RECEIVER FOR THE RAGIN’ CAJUNS, WAS SHOT AND KILLED LAST NOVEMBER. TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD TAJUAN BURNETT WAS ARRESTED THURSDAY AND FACES MURDER CHARGES. RILES’ MOTHER TELLS THE STAR TELEGRAM THAT RILES AND BURNETT WERE FRIENDS AND THE SHOOTING HAPPENED DURING AN ARGUMENT BETWEEN THE TWO.
Gov. John Bel Edwards has created a new award to commemorate Louisiana’s only Black governor and to acknowledge the contributions of African American leaders in the state. The Democratic governor held the first P.B.S. Pinchback breakfast Thursday and gave the P.B.S. Legacy Award to retired Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Bernette Johnson. Johnson is the first Black person and second woman to hold that position. The event was created to mark the legacy of Pinchback, a Black man who briefly served as Louisiana’s governor during Reconstruction.
NEW IBERIA POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING THE DEATH OF A WOMAN AS A HOMOCIDE. THE BODY OF FIFTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD KITTY RIDEAUX OF NEW IBERIA WAS FOUND FRIDAY EVENING IN THE BACKYARD OF AN ABANDONED HOME ON LOMBARD STREET. THE CAUSE OF DEATH HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED.
