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THE LAFAYETTE GENERAL FOUNDATION ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A MAYCI BREAUX SCHOLARSHIP FUND, WHICH WILL BE FOR WOMEN PURSUING A CAREER AS A RADIATION TECHNICIAN. BREAUX WAS A 21-YEAR-OLD FRANKLIN WOMAN WHO WAS ONE OF TWO PEOPLE SHOT AND KILLED NEARLY ONE YEAR AGO BY AN ALABAMA MAN AT THE GRAND THEATRE IN LAFAYETTE. BREAUX WAS IN THE RADIOLOGY TECHNICIAN PROGRAM AT L-S-U EUNICE. DAVID CALLECOD, THE PRESIDENT OF LAFAYETTE GENERAL HEALTH, SAYS THE SCHOLARSHIP FUND WILL HELP ENSURE THAT HER LEGACY IS NOT FORGOTTEN.
SOME RESIDENTS WHO LIVE NEAR THE SITE OF A PROPOSED MANUFACTURED HOME PARK IN LAKE CHARLES ARE ATTEMPTING TO ORGANIZE AGAINST IT. ABOUT 35 PEOPLE ATTENDED A COMMUNITY MEETING AT OAK PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL THAT WAS HOSTED BY SOME RESIDENTS OPPOSED TO THE PARK. THE PARK WOULD HAVE SPACES FOR UP TO 987 MANUFACTURED HOMES. CHARLOTTE WAYMIRE, WHO HELPED ORGANIZE THE MEETING, SAYS THAT SITE, LOCATED OFF OF GOODMAN ROAD, HAS ONLY ONE WAY IN AND ONE WAY OUT, AND WILL CAUSE MASSIVE TRAFFIC AND ACCESSIBILITY ISSUES.
OFFICIALS SAY THE FIRE THAT DESTROYED THE OLDEST GOVERNOR’S MANSION IN THE STATE WAS INTENTIONALLY SET. JULIE DARCE REPORTS.
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Oil giant BP has put a final price tag on what its catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill cost the company, and it’s a hefty sum: $61.6 billion. The company issued the estimate Thursday, the first time it has put a total cost on the catastrophe. BP said it expects to spend a total of $44 billion after tax deductions are factored in. The new estimate included $5.2 billion in new pre-tax costs.
OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS, A TWO-POINT-2 MILE STRETCH OF KALISTE SALOOM ROAD IN LAFAYETTE WILL BE WIDENED. LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT ENGINEER MARK LAVERGNE TOLD THE DAILY ADVERTISER THAT THEY WILL BE SEEKING BIDS IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF NEXT YEAR TO WIDEN THE PORTION OF KALISTE SALOOM BETWEEN THE GRANDE POINTE APARTMENTS AND E. BROUSSARD ROAD. THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT HAS ALREADY COMPLETED DRAINAGE FOR THAT AREA AND IS INSTALLING WATER AND SEWER SYSTEMS. ONCE THAT PART OF IS COMPLETED, THEY WILL BEGIN WORK ON WIDENING THE ROAD FROM THE GRAND POINTE APARTMENTS TO WHERE KALISTE SALOOM IS FIVE LANES.
ABOUT EIGHTY EMPLOYEES AT THE ALLEN CORRECTIONAL CENTER NEAR KINDER WILL BE GETTING PINK SLIPS. THAT’S BECAUSE OF STATE BUDGET CUTS. REPRESENTATIVE DOROTHY SUE HILL, WHO REPRESENTS ALLEN PARISH, SAYS THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE IS TO CLOSE DOWN THE FACILITY AND LOSE ALL 351 EMPLOYEES. THE GEO GROUP WILL BEGIN OPERATING THE ALLEN CORRECTIONAL CENTER BEGINNING AUGUST FIRST.
A CROWLEY MAN WAS ARRESTED FOR HAVING EXPLICIT IMAGES OF CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13. ACADIA PARISH SHERIFF K-P GIBSON SAYS 27-YEAR-OLD IAN VANNOY FACES 15 CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CHARGES. THIS IS VANNOY’S SECOND ARREST THIS YEAR IN CONNECTION WITH CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. HIS PREVIOUS ARREST CAME IN MARCH.
Three of Louisiana’s Republican statewide elected officials will travel to Cleveland next week for the Republican National Convention. Secretary of State Tom Schedler, Attorney General Jeff Landry and Treasurer John Kennedy are planning to attend the party’s summer convention and events organized for the Louisiana delegation. None is among Louisiana’s official delegates to the convention, which will select the party’s nominee for president. Spokeswomen for Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser, Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon and Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain say those GOP officials aren’t planning to travel to the convention.
