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TWO TEENAGERS WERE ARRESTED IN CONNECTION TO THE VANDALISM OF THE MECHE’S DONUT SHOP ON EAST SAINT PETER STREET IN NEW IBERIA. THE FRONT WINDOWS WERE SHOT OUT AND POLICE WERE CALLED AT AROUND TWO-THIRTY SUNDAY MORNING. THERE WERE NO INJURIES. SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD LUKE BEINVENU AND A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD JUVENILE, BOTH FROM SAINT MARTINVILLE, FACE SEVERAL CHARGES INCLUDING AGGRAVATED CRIMINAL DAMAGE TO PROPERTY AND FIRING AN AIR GUN WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS.
THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM HAS RELEASED THEIR BACK-TO-SCHOOL PLANS. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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THERE’S A NEW LAW THAT WILL ALLOW RETIRED TEACHERS TO BE REEMPLOYED DURING A CRITICAL SHORTAGE. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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A SULPHUR MAN WAS SENTENCED TO TWELVE-AND-A-HALF YEARS IN PRISON ON A CHARGE OF RECEIPT OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. ACCORDING TO COURT DOCUMENTS, TWENTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD GABRIEL LYONS ENTICED A FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL TO SEND HIM EXPLICIT VIDEOS IN JULY OF TWENTY-TWENTY-TWO. THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN LAUNCHED AN INVESTIGATION AFTER RECEIVING A CYBER TIP. AFTER A SEARCH WARRANT WAS EXECUTED AT LYON’S RESIDENCE, HE ADMITTED BEING IN COMMUNICATION WITH THE GIRL AND KNOWING THAT SHE WAS FIFTEEN.
A BREAUX BRIDGE MAN WAS KILLED AFTER HE DROVE HIS CAR INTO A LARGE POND NEAR ARNAUDVILLE. IT HAPPENED SUNDAY MORNING WHEN DIVERS WITH THE SAINT LANDRY PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE FOUND THE VEHICLE BUT THE DRIVER WAS NOT INSIDE. AFTER A FIFTEEN MINUTE SEARCH, THEY FOUND THE BODY OF SEVENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD JOSEPH NOEL. STATE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING TO DETERMINE WHAT CAUSED HIM TO DRIVE INTO THE POND.
TONIGHT, LAFAYETTE MAYOR PRESIDENT MONIQUE BOULET WILL PRESENT HER FIRST BUDGET PROPOSAL TO COUNCIL MEMBERS. KADN TV IS REPORTING THAT THE BUDGET INCLUDES PAY RAISES THAT ARE AS HIGH AS THIRTY PERCENT FOR SOME POSITIONS. SOME DEPARTMENTS HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH WORKER SHORTAGES. IT’S HOPED THE PAY RAISES WILL HELP THE LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT TO HIRE AND RETAIN EMPLOYEES.
YESTERDAY GOVERNOR JEFF LANDRY PROCLAIMED THIS WEEK TO BE RURAL ROAD SAFETY AWARENESS WEEK. IN TWENTY-TWENTY-TWO, THERE WERE FIVE HUNDRED THIRTY FATAL CRASHES ON RURAL ROADS IN THE STATE. THAT COMPRISED SIXTY-TWO PERCENT OF ALL FATAL CRASHES. THE LOUISIANA HIGHWAY SAFETY COMMISSION SAYS FORTY- PERCENT OF ALL CRASHES IN THE STATE ARE ON RURAL ROADS BUT THEY TEND TO BE MORE DEADLY.
THE VILLAGE OF ESTHERWOOD IS UNDER A BOIL ADVISORY AGAIN. MAYOR DONNA BERTRAND SAYS THE ADVISORY WAS PUT IN PLACE BECAUSE OF A BUSTED WATER LINE. SHE SAYS THE LINE WAS EXPECTED TO BE FIXED YESTERDAY. TWO WEEKS AGO, ESTHERWOOD WAS PUT UNDER ANOTHER BOIL ADVISORY AFTER MULTIPLE WATER LINE BREAKS.
