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7-11-16

AFTER POLICE SHOOTINGS AND PROTESTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY, LAW ENFORCEMENT IS LOOKING TO INCREASE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN OFFICIALS AND THE PUBLIC.  JULIE DARCE HAS MORE.

 

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A 64-YEAR-OLD VINTON WOMAN WAS KILLED WHEN SHE WAS HIT BY A TRAIN SUNDAY MORNING.  CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE SPOKESWOMAN KIM MYERS SAYS SALLY HOOKER WAS WALKING ON THE TRACKS WHEN THE TRAIN APPROACHED.  THE TRAIN ENGINEER SOUNDED THE HORN BUT HOOKER DID NOT MOVE.  THE INCIDENT HAPPENED AT THE CROSSING LOCATED NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF EDGERLY DEQUINCEY HIGHWAY AND EDGERLY CUTOFF ROAD IN VINCENT AT AROUND FOUR A-M YESTERDAY.

 

AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD BOY DROWNED AT A FAMILY GATHERING IN YOUNGSVILLE SATURDAY.  FAMILY MEMBERS PULLED THE BOY FROM THE WATER AND PERFORMED C-P-R, BUT HE WAS LATER PRONOUNCED DEAD AT WOMEN’S AND CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL.  IT HAPPENED IN THE COPPERFIELD SUBDIVISION.

 

A MAN DIED AFTER COLLAPSING YESTERDAY AT THE HACKBERRY C-B-AND-I PLANT.  CAMERON PARISH SHERIFF RON JOHNSON SAYS IT HAPPENED AT AROUND ELEVEN-FIFTY A-M.  THE REPORT WAS THAT THE MAN WAS HAVING A HEART ATTACK, BUT ONCE AUTHORITIES ARRIVED, IT APPEARED TO BE A SEIZURE INSTEAD.  THE MAN, WHO’S NAME HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED, DIED WHILE BEING TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL.

 

State police say a Bossier City man has died in a two-car crash in Iberia Parish.

Friday’s accident happened at around 10:15 a.m.  Twenty-four-year-old Rakeem Blakes was heading east in a Ford Explorer on a U.S. 90 service road when he failed to negotiate a curve. He crossed into the westbound lane and struck a truck driven by a New Iberia man.

 

Authorities made more than 160 arrests in Louisiana’s capital during a long hot weekend of protests over killings by police, with only one reported injury among the ranks when an officer was hit by a projectile.  Police in riot gear kept protesters from entering Interstate 110 in Baton Rouge on Sunday, thwarting a tactic activists have attempted around in the country in the aftermath of the killings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota.  More than a thousand demonstrators left a Black Lives Matter rally in Memphis, Tennessee, and occupied a Mississippi River bridge Sunday night, temporarily halting traffic on Interstate 40. Hundreds walked onto I-264 in Portsmouth, Virginia, marooning motorists for hours.  Demonstrators failed to block highways in Atlanta, and in San Francisco in recent days.

 

A man has been injured following an explosion and a two-alarm fire at a New Orleans home.  The New Orleans Fire Department tells news outlets that Sunday morning’s blast leveled the house and shook neighboring homes in the Gentilly Terrace neighborhood.  New Orleans Fire Department spokesman Edwin Holmes Jr. says one man was home at the time of the explosion.  Holmes says the cause of the fire is unknown.