7-10-18
NEARLY TWENTY CHILDREN ARE SAFE AFTER THEY WERE CAUGHT IN A THUNDERSTORM AND STRANDED ON THE VERMILLION RIVER. JEFF HORCHAK HAS MORE.
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A DRIVER ABANDONED A BURNING VEHICLE ON L-A 109 NORTH OF DEQUINCY, ACCORDING TO STATE POLICE. THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE IS UNKNOWN. THE VEHICLE WAS FOUND ON THE NORTHBOUND SIDE OF L-A 109 JUST PAST EXIT TWELVE. THE DRIVER WAS NOT WITH THE VEHICLE AND STATE POLICE ARE NOT SEARCHING FOR THE DRIVER AT THIS TIME.
WAITR, THE RESTAURANT DELIVERY APP, IS EXPANDING THEIR SERVICES TO NEW IBERIA. THEY ARE HOSTING A FREE LAUNCH PARTY AT EL PASO MEXICAN GRILL ON THURSDAY AT FIVE. DOZENS OF RESTAURANTS IN NEW IBERIA HAVE SIGNED UP WITH WAITR AND MORE ARE EXPECTED. WAITR, WHICH CURRENTLY SERVES MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED CITIES IN NINE STATES ACROSS THE SOUTH, HAS NO PLANS FOR EXPANDING TO OTHER ACADIANA CITIES AT THIS TIME.
Louisiana is getting ready to release the results of its spring 2018 round of student testing. Education Superintendent John White is scheduled to discuss the results with reporters during a Tuesday briefing. The Louisiana Education Assessment Program tests are given each year to students in grades 3 through high school.
TWO LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES WERE TREATED FOR EXPOSURE TO THE DRUG FENTANYL, WHICH IS MORE POTENT THAN HEROIN. THE DEPUTIES WERE EXPOSED WHILE SEIZING HEROIN FROM A HOME IN YOUNGSVILLE SATURDAY. THE DEPUTIES BEGAN SHOWING SYMPTOMS AND IT WAS LATER DETERMINED THAT THE HEROIN WAS LACED WITH FENTANYL. THE HEROIN WAS FOUND AFTER MEDICAL AID WAS ADMINISTERED TO A MAN IN THE HOME, WHO WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL.
A SULPHUR WOMAN IS HOPING TO RECLAIM HER R-V, WHICH WAS STOLEN FROM THE WALMART PARKING LOT. ERICKA MALONE TELLS KPLC-TV THAT SHE HAD TO LEAVE IT THERE BECAUSE TWO TIRES BLEW OUT WHILE IT WAS BEING MOVED BACK TO SULPHUR. SHE SAYS THAT WHEN THE TIRES ARRIVED AND THEY WENT TO PUT THEM ON, THE R-V WAS GONE. SHE SAYS PICTURES OF THE 26-FOOT LONG FLEETWOOD WILDERNESS R-V HAVE BEEN POSTED ON FACEBOOK AND SHARED MORE THAN 800 TIMES. THE SULPHUR POLICE DEPARTMENT IS INVESTIGATING AS WELL.
A ST. MARTINVILLE MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY SETTING TWO FIRES AT HIS EX-GIRLFRIENDS MOBILE HOME IN NEW IBERIA. THE FIRST FIRE HAPPENED UNDERNEATH THE HOME ON JUNE 17TH WHEN THE EX-GIRLFRIEND AND HER TWO CHILDREN WERE AT THE HOME, AND THE SECOND HAPPENED ON JULY FOURTH, WHEN THEY WEREN’T THERE. SHE TOLD INVESTIGATORS THAT 36-YEAR-OLD RAMSAY JOSEPH HAD LEFT VOICE MAIL MESSAGES THREATENING TO BURN HER HOME DOWN, WHICH IS LOCATED ON FIELD STREET. JOSEPH WAS ARRESTED ON JULY FIFTH AND BOOKED INTO THE IBERIA PARISH JAIL ON A CHARGE OF AGGRAVATED ARSON AND VIOLATION OF A PROTECTIVE ORDER.
A RAYNE WOMAN WAS KILLED IN A SINGLE VEHICLE CRASH LATE LAST NIGHT ON RIDGE ROAD NEAR DUSON. SHORTLY BEFORE MIDNIGHT, LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTY DISCOVERED A WHITE 2005 NISSAN, THAT HAD LEFT THE ROAD AND STRUCK A TREE. THE DRIVER, WHO WAS NOT WEARING A SEATBELT, WAS DEAD AT THE SCENE. DEPUTIES IDENTIFIED THE DRIVER AS 27-YEAR-OLD SKYE MILLER.
