7-16-26
A DOUBLE SHOOTING IN BALDWIN HAS LEFT TWO MEN IN CRITICAL BUT STABLE CONDITION. THE SHOOTING HAPPENED TUESDAY NEAR THE COULEE AND BAPTISTE STREET INTERSECTION. AUTHORITIES BELIEVE AN ONGOING DISPUTE BETWEEN THE TWO MEN LED TO THE DOUBLE SHOOTING. POLICE CHIEF ANTHONY GIBSON SAYS A WEAPON WAS RECOVERED AT THE SCENE AND AN ARREST IS EXPECTED SOON.
SEVENTEEN FIRST RESPONDERS WERE PRESENTED WITH MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARDS BY ACADIAN AMBULANCE. A SEVENTY-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WENT INTO CARDIAC ARREST AT FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL IN APRIL AND, WITHIN ONE MINUTE, LAFAYETTE POLICE OFFICERS WERE ADMINISTERING CPR. THEY WERE QUICKLY JOINED BY LAFAYETTE FIRE FIGHTERS, E-M-S CREW MEMBERS FROM ACADIAN AMBULANCE, AND THREE HIGH-SCHOOLERS FROM ACADIAN’S EXPLORER PROGRAM. AFTER TWELVE MINUTES, THE WOMAN REGAINED CONSCIOUSNESS AND WAS DISCHARGED FROM A HOSPITAL A FEW DAYS LATER WITH NO FURTHER COMPLICATIONS.
JURY SELECTION CONTINUES IN THE SECOND-DEGREE MURDER TRIAL OF ADAM AND JENNIFER DUHON OF JEFF DAVIS PARISH. THEY ARE ACCUSED OF KILLING THEIR TWELVE-YEAR-OLD SON, BROGAN, WHO DIED IN TWENTY-TWENTY-TWO FROM MALNUTRITION. THE COURT HAS BEEN HARD PRESSED IN FINDING A JURY WITH ELEVEN SELECTED SO FAR AND NEEDING THREE MORE. THE JUDGE HAS ORDERED SEVENTY-FIVE TO ONE HUNDRED MORE POTENTIAL JURORS BE SUBPOENAED, WHO WILL SHOW UP MONDAY MORNING WHEN COURT RESUMES.
NEARLY TWO THOUSAND CASES OF CYCLOSPORIASIS HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN THIRTY-FOUR STATES INCLUDING THIRTY-SIX CASES IN LOUISIANA. CYCLOSPORA IS A PARASITE FOUND IN CONTAMINATED FECAL MATTER AND IS CONTRACTED BY CONSUMING CONTAMINATED FOOD OR WATER. THE INTESTINAL ILLNESS IS DESCRIBED AS SEVERE, CAUSING HOSPITALIZATION IN SOME CASES BUT IS NOT CONSIDERED LIFE-THREATENING. HEALTH OFFICIALS SAY TO WASH HANDS BEFORE AND AFTER HANDLING RAW PRODUCE AND THOROUGHLY WASH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES WHILE CUTTING OR REMOVING BRUISED OR DAMAGED AREAS.
THE SAINT MARTINVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT HELD ITS FIRST COMMUNITY WALK YESTERDAY. OFFICERS WENT DOOR-TO-DOOR IN DISTRICT ONE TO MEET WITH RESIDENTS AND TO LEARN ABOUT CONCERNS IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS. INTERIM POLICE CHIEF ANDREW BROUSSARD SAYS THEY PLAN ON VISITING EACH DISTRICT IN THE CITY. THE DEPARTMENT PLANS ON BRINGING THE NEXT COMMUNITY WALK TO DISTRICT FIVE IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS.
THE IBERIA PARISH SCHOOL BOARD RECENTLY APPROVED AN AGREEMENT ALLOWING THE GPAL/TEEN COURT FOUNDATION TO USE THREE CLASSROOMS AT THE FORMER BANK AVENUE ELEMENTARY CAMPUS. THE DECISION ALLOWS THE YOUTH ORGANIZATION TO EXPAND ITS PROGRAM. GPAL EDUCATION COORDINATOR LAWANA STOKES SAYS THE PROGRAM HAS GROWN EXTENSIVELY. THEY OFFER SERVICES THAT INCLUDES TRUANCY PREVENTION, SUBSTANCE ABUSE SUPPORT, LIFE SKILLS AND MENTORING.
OPELOUSAS IS ONE OF NINETEEN LOUISIANA CITIES TO RECEIVE AN HONOR FOR THEIR MAIN STREEET PROGRAM. CITY OFFICIALS SAY IT’S A LONG TIME IN COMING AND WILL PROVIDE THEM A STRONGER PLATFORM TO PURSUE GRANTS AND OTHER FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES. THE MAIN STREET PROGRAM’S MISSION IS TO EMBRACE THE CULTURE AND HERITAGE OF DOWNTOWN OPELOUSAS WHILE STRENGTHENING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES. GOING FORWARD, THE CITY OF OPELOUSAS EXPECTS TO OPERATE ON A LARGER SCALE TO RECEIVE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO AID ITS DEVELOPMENT.
THE LOUSIANA OFFFICE OF ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO CONTROL AND THE EVANGELINE PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE CITED TWO BUSINESSES FOR ALLEGED SALES OF ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO PRODUCTS TO UNDERAGE BUYERS. GEORGE FAUST HAS MORE.
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