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6-8-17

TWO PEOPLE FROM LAFAYETTE WERE KILLED YESTERDAY MORNING IN A TWO VEHICLE CRASH WEST OF ELTON.  SERGEANT JAMES ANDERSON OF STATE POLICE TROOP D SAYS 53-YEAR-OLD USHABEN PATEL OF LAFAYETTE WAS TRAVELING NORTH ON L-A 26 JUST AFTER TEN A-M WHEN HE RAN A STOP SIGN AT HIGHWAY 190.  HIS VEHICLE WAS STRUCK IN THE PASSENGER SIDE BY A 2016 FORD VAN DRIVEN BY 42-YEAR-OLD JAMES FELIX OF CARENCRO.  PATEL AND HIS PASSENGER, 64-YEAR-OLD DHANUBED PATEL, WERE BOTH KILLED, WHILE TWO OTHER PASSENGERS IN PATEL’S VEHICLE SUFFERED MINOR TO MODERATE INJURIES AND FELIX HAD SOME MINOR INJURIES.

 

AN ARTIFICIAL REEF IS BEING BUILT IN CALCASIEU LAKE.  THE 350 THOUSAND DOLLAR PROJECT INVOLVES DROPPING LARGE CONCRETE PILINGS IN THE WATER AND ADDING CRUSHED MATERIALS.  JOHN WALTHER OF THE COASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION OF LOUISIANA SAYS THE REEF IS DESIGNED TO CREATE A NEW FISH HABITAT TO HELP REPLACE FISHERIES THAT HAVE BEEN LOST DUE TO AN ERODING COASTLINE.  IT WILL BE KNOWN AS BIG JACK’S REEF IN HONOR OF LAKE AREA BUSINESSMAN JACK LAWTON SENIOR, WHO WAS ALSO A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE COASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION.

 

EUNICE POLICE HAVE ARRESTED A 17-YEAR-OLD IN CONNECTION WITH TWO SEPARATE SHOOTINGS TUESDAY NIGHT.  17-YEAR-OLD JAMIE NED, ALSO KNOWN AS JAMIE FREEMON, HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH FIVE COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED FIRST DEGREE MURDER.  HE ALLEGEDLY SHOT AT TWO PEOPLE IN A CAR TUESDAY NIGHT AT AROUND EIGHT P-M, BUT HIT AND WOUNDED A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD CHILD, WHO WAS NOT IN THE CAR.  LATER TWO UNCLES OF THE CHILD WERE SHOT AND WOUNDED, AND POLICE CHIEF RANDY FONTENOT SPECULATES THAT THEY WERE OUT LOOKING FOR THE SHOOTER AND ENDED UP BECOMING VICTIMS.

 

The Senate has rejected the House’s initial offer in negotiations over a final version of Louisiana’s budget.  Senate Finance Chairman Eric LaFleur, a Ville Platte Democrat, said senators have notified House leaders that they won’t accept it.

The proposal, obtained by The Associated Press, is $50 million higher than the House’s original proposal. But it would still remove dollars the Senate proposed to spend on health services, colleges, prisons, state police, the child welfare agency and state worker pay raises in the 2017-18 budget year.

 

Nearly all 10 criminal justice proposals backed by Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards are now awaiting his signature, while the remaining proposal is one step away from final passage.  The House on Wednesday approved two bills which are focused on easing the financial burdens ex-offenders face when they are released.

The Senate then backed a conference committee’s proposal to grant parole eligibility after 25 years to murderers who are serving life sentences for crimes they committed as teenagers. It’s unclear whether the House will approve the measure.

 

U-L LAFAYETTE IS OFFERING A NEW ONLINE GENERAL STUDIES BACHELOR DEGREE PROGRAM.  THE U-L BOARD OF REGENTS APPROVED THE NEW PROGRAM LAST APRIL, WHICH WILL BEGIN WITH THE FALL SEMESTER.  IT’S DESIGNED FOR WORKING PROFESSIONALS WHO DID NOT FINISH GETTING THEIR DEGREE.  THE REGISTRATION DEADLINE FOR THE NEW PROGRAM IS JULY 15TH.

 

THE LAKE ARTHUR CITY COUNCIL LAST NIGHT SELECTED COUNCILWOMAN SHERRY CROCHET TO TAKE OVER AS THE TOWN’S INTERIM MAYOR.  SHE REPLACES ROBERT BERTRAND, WHO RESIGNED MAY 31ST, THE DAY BEFORE A RECALL PETION WAS SUBMITTED BY SOME TOWN RESIDENTS.  BERTRAND SAYS IT WASN’T BECAUSE OF THE RECALL PETITION THAT HE RESIGNED BUT BECAUSE OF INCREASED RESPONSIBILITIES WITH HIS JOB AT CITGO.  A SPECIAL ELECTION WILL BE HELD ON OCTOBER 14TH TO ELECT A NEW MAYOR.

 

THERE WAS A FATAL SHOOTING IN NEW IBERIA LAST NIGHT.  JULIE DARCE REPORTS.

 

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