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ACADIAN SEARCH AND RESCUE AND CAJUN COAST SEARCH AND RESCUE ARE CONTINUING TO LOOK FOR DAISY LYNN LANDRY, WHO HAS BEEN MISSING SINCE MAY 23RD. HOWEVER, SEARCHES FROM A BUILDING AT 401 MECCA DRIVE, WHERE TEXAS EQUUSEARCH WAS PRIMARILY WORKING, HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED. TODAY’S SEARCH EFFORTS ARE BEGINNING AT EIGHT THIS MORNING AT THE ACADEMY STORE PARKING LOT ON AMBASSADOR CAFFERY IN LAFAYETTE. LANDRY’S SISTER, LORI SONNIER, TELLS THE DAILY ADVERTISER THE FAMILY HAS CONFIDENCE IN THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE THAT THEY ARE DOING EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO SOLVE THE CASE.
THE SHERIFF OF VERNON PARISH SAYS THEY HAVE RECEIVED BACK SOME LAB RESULTS THAT PUTS THEM ONE STEP CLOSER TO CHARGING SOMEONE FOR THE DEATH OF TWO-YEAR-OLD WILLOW RENTERIA-MOLINA. IT WAS A YEAR AGO IN MAY THAT WILLOW WAS REPORTED MISSING AND HER BODY WAS FOUND AFTER SCOURING WOODED AREAS OF BEAUREGARD PARISH. SHERIFF SAM CRAFT SAYS THE LAB RESULT WAS FROM A DNA TEST AND HIS OFFICE CONFIRMED THE IDENTITY OF THE PERSON IT BELONGED TO. THE PERSON WHO WAS NAMED A PRIMARY SUSPECT IN THE INVESTIGATION LAST YEAR, RODNEY BAILY JUNIOR, IS STILL A SUSPECT AND IS IN JAIL ON OTHER CHARGES.
DEPUTIES IN IBERIA PARISH HAVE ARRESTED A 14-YEAR-OLD IN THE SHOOTING DEATH OF 18-YEAR-OLD DARREL ROY OF NEW IBERIA. JULIE DARCE REPORTS.
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Louisiana lawmakers have opened a 12-day special legislative session to try to resolve their differences over next year’s $28 billion-plus operating budget.
The session began Thursday night, 30 minutes after the House and Senate were unable to reach an agreement on the budget bill in the final hours of the two-month regular legislative session. House Republican leadership and the Senate couldn’t come to terms on how much money to spend in the financial year beginning July 1.
The special session must adjourn by June 19.
Louisiana lawmakers have agreed to add an exception to a law requiring people to produce a birth certificate to get a marriage license. A federal judge in March stopped enforcement of the 2016 statute after a foreign-born U.S. citizen sued because he was unable to produce the birth document and obtain a marriage license. Language added into a bill by Rep. Jerome “Zee” Zeringue, a Houma Republican, would allow applicants who aren’t able to provide a birth certificate to get a waiver from a judge. Sen. Danny Martiny, a Kenner Republican, says he hopes the adjusted language can resolve the litigation.
SAFETY MANAGEMENT SERVICES OF LAFAYETTE HAS ACQUIRED A TEXAS-BASED PIPELINE SERVICES CONSULTING FIRM OUT OF TEXAS. PRESIDENT SCOTT DOMINGUE SAYS THEIR ACQUISITION OF LIBERTY PIPELINE SERVICES, BASED IN THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS, WILL ENABLE THEM TO EXPAND THEIR REACH. SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS PROVIDES SAFETY, MEDICAL, RESCUE, TRAINING, INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE AND SECURITY SERVICES TO THE ENERGY INDUSTRY. DOMINGUE SAYS THAT, BY PURCHASING LIBERTY PIPELINE, WHICH PROVIDES CONSULTING AND INSPECTION SERVICES FOR PIPELINE COMPANIES, THEY WILL BE ABLE TO OFFER MORE COMPLETE PACKAGES TO THE CLIENTS OF BOTH COMPANIES.
THE PARENTS OF SEVEN-YEAR-OLD GAGE MECHE, WHO WAS ACCIDENTALLY SHOT AT MOSS BLUFF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAST MONTH, ARE SUING THE MAN WHO OWNED THE GUN, MICHAEL DUGAS. ANTOHER STUDENT BROUGHT THE GUN TO SCHOOL IN HIS BACKPACK, AND IT ACCIDENTALLY DISCHARGED WHEN IT FELL OUT. GAGE’S FATHER, TRINITY MECHE, TELLS KPLC TV THAT THE BULLET WENT THROUGH HIS COLON, HIT HIS INTESTINES IN THREE PLACE AND NICKED A VEIN, AND HE HAD TO GO THROUGH FOUR SURGERIES. HIS MOM KATE SAYS HE’S DESTINED FOR GREAT THINGS BECAUSE GOD WANTED HIM ALIVE FOR A REASON.
A WEEK LONG INVESTIGATION OF A MASSAGE PARLOR IN RAYNE HAS LED TO AN ARREST. 64-YEAR-OLD ZHOU XINFENG, A PERMANENT RESIDENT FROM CHINA, HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH PROSTITUTION BY MASSAGE. SHE WAS ARRESTED AFTER A SEARCH WARRANT WAS EXECUTED AT THE ASIAN SPA MASSAGE PARLOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THE INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING AND MORE ARRESTS ARE EXPECTED.
