7-12-23
A PERSON HAS BEEN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION TO A HOMOCIDE ON VAUCLUSE DRIVE LATE SUNDAY NIGHT. TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD SHAWNTRAVIN SAMPY OF LAFAYETTE TURNED HIMSELF INTO POLICE. HE FACES ONE COUNT OF SECOND-DEGREE MURDER. THE VICTIM WAS EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD JOSHUA COBB OF ABBEVILLE.
A LAFAYETTE MAN WAS ARRESTED LAST THURSDAY FOR ALLEGEDLY SHOOTING AT A TRANSFORMER IN SAINT MARTINVILLE. SHERIFF BECKET BREAUX SAYS DEPUTIES, SHORTLY BEFORE MIDNIGHT ON JUNE TWENTY-FIFTH, RESPONDED TO COMPLAINTS OF PROPERTY DAMAGE AT THE SLEMCO SUBSTATION ON SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT ROAD. THEY FOUND A RADIATOR ON A TRANSFORMER HAD BEEN SHOT, CAUSING AN ESTIMATED TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH OF DAMAGE. THE SUSPECT, TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD JOSHUA ANDERSON, WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH CRIMINAL DAMAGE TO A CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE.
GOVERNOR JOHN BEL EDWARDS SIGNED AN ORGAN DONATION BILL INTO LAW AIMED AT GETTING FIRST TIME DRIVERS TO SIGN UP AS ORGAN DONORS. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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ELTON POLICE CHIEF BRUCE LEMELLE IS STARTING A NEW PROGRAM TO HELP REDUCE THE NUMBER OF DRIVERS SPEEDING THROUGH TOWN. THE SPECIAL DETAIL PROGRAM WILL GIVE OFFICERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK OVERTIME TO WATCH FOR SPEEDERS. LEMELLE SAYS THE TOWN COVERS A TWO-MILE STRETCH BUT THEY GET A LOT OF DRIVERS MAKING THEIR WAY THROUGH AT HIGH SPEEDS. HE TELLS KATC TV HE’S TIRED OF DEALING WITH DEAD BODIES AS A RESULT OF SPEEDING.
THE CHICK-FIL-A ON LOUISIANA AVENUE IS CLOSING TEMPORARILY BEGINNING TOMORROW. THE STORE WILL REMAIN CLOSED FOR APPROXIMATELY THREE MONTHS IN ORDER TO REMODEL THE BUILDING AND THE DRIVE-THRU. MEANWHILE THE NEW CHICK-FIL-A AT JOHNSTON STREET AND RIDGE ROAD IS GETTING CLOSE TO OPENING. THEY ARE HOSTING HIRING EVENTS BEGINNING TODAY. THEY ARE LOOKING TO HIRE SIXTY FULL AND PART-TIME EMPLOYEES.
SAINT LANDRY PARISH PRESIDENT JESSIE BELLARD TELLS KATC TV A CONFEDERATE MONUMENT SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM THE PARISH COURTHOUSE SQUARE AS SOON AS WITHIN A MONTH. THE PARISH COUNCIL VOTED IN APRIL OF LAST YEAR TO REMOVE THE MONUMENT BUT DID NOT SET A DEADLINE WHICH, PARISH COUNSEL GARRETT DUPLECHAIN SAYS, IS HOLDING UP THE REMOVAL. HE SAYS THEY ARE ALSO WORKING OUT THE COSTS AND LOGISITICS OF REMOVING IT INTO THE POSSESSION OF THE UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY OR THE SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS. DUPLECHAIN SAYS THE PARISH IS DECIDING BETWEEN CONTRACTORS TO DO THE JOB.
MEDICAL GIANT H-C-A HEALTHCARE SAYS THE PERSONAL DATA OF ABOUT ELEVEN MILLION PATIENTS IN TWENTY STATES MAY HAVE BEEN STOLEN AS THE RESULT OF A DATA BREACH. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS THE DETAILS.
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A VERMILLION PARISH MAN WAS ARRESTED ON ASSAULT CHARGES THAT WERE CONNECTED TO A SHOOTING INCIDENT INVOLVING HIS SON. A PERSON CONTACTED AUTHORITIES AFTER A MAN DRIVING IN A PICKUP TRUCK TRIED TO FORCE THEM TO STOP IN MAURICE AND THREW A TWO-INCH POCKET KNIFE AT HIS VEHICLE. THE DRIVER OF THE PICKUP WAS CORY VERRET SENIOR, WHOSE SON HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN AN ARGUMENT WITH THE DRIVER OF THE OTHER VEHICLE, WHICH LED TO SHOTS BEING FIRED. CORY VERRET SENIOR WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH AGGRAVATED ASSAULT, INTIMIDATING A WITNESS AND AGGRAVATED OBSTRUCTION OF A HIGHWAY.
