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A COUPLE WITH TIES TO BROUSSARD HAVE BEEN ARRESTED FOR ABDUCTING THEIR CHILDREN FROM THE ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF CHILD SAFETY. AN AMBER ALERT WAS ISSUED FOR THE TWO CHILDREN, AGES TWO-YEARS-OLD AND FIVE MONTHS. THE PARENTS, MELISSA JOY GLADDEN AND JERRY JAY KIRKLEY, WERE CAPTURED IN BIENVILLE PARISH WHEN STATE POLICE SPOTTED THEIR PICKUP ON I-TWENTY. THE CHILDREN WERE FOUND SAFE.
TWO FEDERAL AGENCIES HAVE SENT LETTERS TO CHENIERE ENERGY WARNING THEM NOT TO USE LIQUIFIED NATURAL GAS STORAGE STRUCTURES THAT LEAKED LAST YEAR AT ITS CAMERON PARISH L-N-G EXPORT TERMINAL. A LETTER FROM THE AGENCIES DATED JULY NINTH SAID THEY FOUND OUT CHENIERE WAS MAKING REPAIRS WITHOUT THEIR APPROVAL. THEY SAID CHENIERE ENERGY MUST FOLLOW ITS RULES BEFORE THEY CAN RECEIVE WRITTEN APPROVAL TO USE THE STORAGE STRUCTURES AGAIN. THE WARNING LETTER COMES AT A TIME WHEN THE COMPANY IS PUSHING TO GROW ITS OPERATIONS AT ITS SABINE PASS TERMINAL.
OPELOUSAS POLICE ARRESTED A MAN THEY SAY COMMITTED THREE DRIVE BY SHOOTINGS ON THE NIGHT OF JUNE 25TH. THE SHOOTINGS TOOK PLACE IN BUNKIE, MORROW AND OPELOUSAS. OFFICERS WITH THE BUNKIE AND OPELOUSAS POLICE DEPARTMENTS, WORKING WITH THE BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, FIREARMS AND EXPLOSIVES, COMPARED EVIDENCE AND WERE ABLE TO PLACE TWENTY-YEAR-OLD DEQUAVIOUS TRAVON JOHNSON AT THE SCENE OF EACH SHOOTING. DURING HIS ARREST, OFFICERS CONFISCATED MULTIPLE GUN MAGAZINES AND AMMUNITION THAT MATCHED THOSE USED IN THE SHOOTINGS.
THE DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES SAYS TO BE MINDFUL OF DISPLACED WILDLIFE AFTER HURRICANE BARRY. CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS MORE.
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THE REDEVELOPMENT BOARD FOR THE HOLY ROSARY INSTITUTE IN LAFAYETTE WILL BE GETTING FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS THIS YEAR FROM THE STATE AND AN ADDITIONAL FOUR MILLION DOLLARS TO BE DISTRIBUTED OVER THE NEXT FOUR YEARS. THE LOUISIANA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN 2014 CLASSIFIED THE SITE AS ONE OF THE STATE’S MOST ENDANGERED HISTORIC BUILDINGS. THE SCHOOL, WHICH OPENED IN 1913 AND WAS SHUTTERED IN 1993, IS IN BAD SHAPE, ACCORDING TO DUSTIN CRAVINS, PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD. HE SAYS THE FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND, ALONG WITH 450 THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, WILL BE USED FOR PHASE ONE OF THE REDEVELOPMENT, WHICH WOULD FOCUS ON STABILIZING THE STRUCTURE AND REFRAMING THE INTERIOR.
A LAKE CHARLES WOMAN ESCAPED THROUGH A WINDOW AFTER TWO BOYS ENTERED HER HOUSE, THEN SHE RAN TO A NEIGHBOR’S HOUSE TO CALL 9-1-1. KAREN BARKER TELLS KPLC TV THAT HER DOG WOKE HER UP, WHICH IS WHEN SHE DISCOVERED THERE WERE INTRUDERS IN HER HOME. SHE ADMITS SHE FAILED TO LOCK HER BACK DOOR, WHICH WAS HOW THEY GAINED ENTRANCE. STATE POLICE LATER ARRESTED THREE TEENAGERS IN OPELOUSAS WHO WERE DRIVING A STOLEN TRUCK AND TWO OF THEM CONFESSED TO BEING IN BARKER’S HOME.
NEW IBERIA POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING. IT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT ON MAIN STREET. THERE WAS ONE VICTIM WHO WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL. THERE ARE NO OTHER DETAILS AT THIS TIME.
Louisiana Republican Congressman Ralph Abraham says he’ll pay for four minority congresswomen to leave the country, piggybacking off comments by President Donald Trump. Trump tweeted Sunday that the “progressive” Democrat congresswomen should go back to the “broken and crime infested places” they came from. News outlets report Abraham tweeted Monday that the congresswomen have said anti-American and anti-Semitic things. The gubernatorial candidate said he’d pay for their tickets out of this country if they just tell him where they’d rather be.
