7-15-24
A RAYNE MAN WAS KILLED IN A HIT-AND RUN YESTERDAY AND STATE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING. FORTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD RYAN TRAHAN WAS WALKING EAST IN THE WESTBOUND LANE OF HIGHWAY NINETY YESTERDAY MORNING AT AROUND NINE A-M WHEN HE WAS HIT BY A VEHICLE THAT FAILED TO STOP. TRAHAN WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. ANYONE WHO HAS INFORMATION ABOUT THE VEHICLE INVOLVED IS ASKED TO CALL LOUISIANA STATE POLICE TROOP I AT TWO-SIX-TWO-FIFTY-EIGHT HUNDRED.
ANOTEHR PEDESTRIAN DIED AFTER BEING HIT BY A VEHICLE SATURDAY NIGHT. GEORGE FAUST REPORTS.
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LEADERS IN LOUISIANA SHARED THEIR SENTIMENTS AFTER THE ATTEMPTED ASSISSINATION OF FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SATURDAY. GEORGE FAUST HAS MORE.
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STATE POLICE HAVE RELEASED THE IDENTITY OF A MAN KILLED IN AN OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTING AS THIRTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD MARK HAYDEN JUNIOR OF SULPHUR. THE SHOOTING HAPPENED WHEN OFFICERS LOOKED FOR AND FOUND HAYDEN THURSDAY EVENING AFTER HE HAD LEFT THE SCENE OF A DOMESTIC INCIDENT. THE SHOOTING TOOK PLACE IN THE SIX HUNDRED BLOCK OF SOUTH KENT STREET IN SULPHUR. NO OFFICERS WERE HARMED.
THE MAN SHOT AND KILLED BY LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES WEDNESDAY WHEN THEY WERE TRYING TO ARREST HIM, HAD VIOLATED PAROLE TWICE, ACCORDING TO K-L-F-Y NEWS TEN. FIFTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD TONY POLLARD WAS PAROLED IN FEBRUARY OF TWENTY-TWENTY-TWO AFTER SERVING TWENTY YEARS OF A FORTY-EIGHT-YEAR-SENTENCE FOR ARMED ROBBERY. HE WAS ARRESTED MONTHS LATER FOR THEFT AND AGAIN IN TWENTY-TWENTY-THREE FOR SECOND-DEGREE BATTERY. THE ATTEMPTED ARREST WEDNESDAY THAT LED TO THE SHOOTING WAS FOR TWO RECENT VIOLENT CRIMES THAT POLLARD HAD ALLEGEDLY COMMITTED.
LOUISIANA INSURANCE COMMISSIONER TIM TEMPLE SAYS RECENT INDUSTRY FRIENDLY CHANGES FOR INSURANCE COMPANIES ARE ALREADY SEEING SOME BENEFITS. TEMPLE TELLS THE ADVOCATE THAT ONE INSURANCE COMPANY HAS APPLIED TO WRITE BUSINESS HERE WHILE THE C-E-O OF ANOTHER COMPANY TOLD HIM HE IS CONSIDERING IT. TEMPLE DIDN’T DISCLOSE THEIR NAMES CITING CONFIDENTIALITY RULES. TEMPLE SAYS IT’S UNLIKELY THAT RATES IN LOUISIANA WILL RETURN TO LEVELS BEFORE THE INSURANCE CRISIS AND HE WOULDN’T BE SURPRISED IF THEY STABILIZE RATHER THAN DECREASE.
L-U-S FIBER IS EXPANDING INTO VERMILLION PARISH THANKS TO GUMBO GRANTS THAT ORIGINALLY CAME FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. THE EXPANSION WILL BE FROM MAURICE TO ABBEVILLE ALONG HIGHWAY ONE SIXTY-SEVEN AND ALONG HIGHWAY FOURTEEN FROM ABBEVILLE TO ERATH AND FROM ABBEVILLE TO GUEYDAN, EXCLUDING KAPLAN. L-U-S FIBER DIRECTOR MICHAEL SOILEAU SAYS THE FIBER NETWORK SHOULD BE FINISHED BY THE END OF NOVEMBER. HE SAYS THEY WILL ANNOUNCE THE TOWNS THAT ARE GOING TO LAUNCH AS THEY GET CLOSER TO THE LAUNCH DATE AND WILL INCLUDE AN ADDRESS-FINDER SO RESIDENTS CAN FIND OUT IF THEY CAN GET THE SERVICE.
THE MECHE’S DONUT SHOP ON EAST SAINT PETER STREET IN NEW IBERIA WAS DAMAGED BY A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED BEFORE TWO-THIRTY SUNDAY MORNING. NO ONE WAS INJURED IN THE SHOOTING BUT THE FRONT WINDOWS WERE SHATTERED, ACCORDING TO A STATEMENT ISSUED BY MANAGEMENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA. THAT MECHE’S STORE WILL BE CLOSED UNTIL TOMORROW TO GIVE TIME FOR REPAIRS TO BE MADE. ANYONE WHO HAS INFORMATION ON THE SHOOTING IS ASKED TO CALL NEW IBERIA POLICE.
