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A HIGH SPEED CHASE INVOLVING MULTIPLE LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES BEGAN IN ABBEVILLE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AND ENDED WITH A CRASH AT THE CORNER OF KALISTE SALOOM AND LONG PLANTATION DRIVE IN LAFAYETTE. THE DRIVER OF THE VEHICLE, 21-YEAR-OLD GENE WILLIAMS THE THIRD AND 21-YEAR-OLD KAVAN BROUSSARD, WERE WANTED FOR QUESTIONING IN CONNECTION WITH AN ABBEVILLE HOMOCIDE. THE VEHICLE THEY WERE IN WAS REPORTED STOLEN IN LAFAYETTE AND POLICE FOUND A STOLEN GUN AND DRUGS IN THE VEHICLE AFTER THE CHASE. THE SUSPECTS HIT ONE VEHICLE NEAR FREM BOUSTANY DRIVE BEFORE HITTING A SECOND VEHICLE ON KALISTE SALOOM, AND THEN THEY FLED ON FOOT BEFORE BEING CAPTURED.
Jennings Police Department’s interim chief is now permanently in charge. On Thursday, Danny Semmes was chosen from five applicants for the post he’s temporarily held since December. A 32-year law enforcement veteran, Semmes began his career as a reserve officer for the Jeff Davis Parish Sheriff’s Office and worked as an officer at then-University of Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette). He later returned to the sheriff’s office, working in several departments. The department currently has 28 officers, but Semmes would like to increase the roster to 35.
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MORE THAN A DECADE, NEW IBERIA POLICE WERE PATROLLING THE STREETS YESTERDAY. THE IBERIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE HAD BEEN HANDLING PATROLS IN THE CITY AFTER THE POLICE DEPARTMENT WAS CLOSED. MAYOR HILDA CURRY SAYS SHE’S GLAD THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IS BACK BECAUSE NEW IBERIA NEEDS COMMUNITY POLICING. SOME RESIDENTS ARE HOPING THE RETURN OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT WILL HELP STEM THE GROWING CRIME RATE.
For an 11th year, Louisiana’s corrections department is asking people to donate professional clothing they no longer want to help people leaving prison have something to wear for job interviews. The National Suit Drive is a partnership with Refined by Fire Ministries and Men’s Wearhouse. It takes place every July.
Men’s Wearhouse locations around the state are accepting donations of used and cleaned clothing items, including suits, dress shirts, sports coats, shoes, jackets, ties and belts for both men and women.
BRIAN CHASE, THE FATHER OF U-L STUDENT CAITLYN CHASE, WHO WAS REPORTED MISSING LAST WEEK, HAS FOUND HIS DAUGHTER. JEFF HORCHAK HAS MORE.
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THERE WAS A HOUSE FIRE IN THE 18-HUNDRED BLOCK OF MEDORA STREET LAST NIGHT THAT BEGAN AT AROUND 6:30. DISTRICT CHIEF CHRISTOPHER CARROLL SAYS THEY RECEIVED A CALL ABOUT A FIRE AT A HOME WITH CHILDREN AND AN ADULT INSIDE. WHEN THEY ARRIVED, THE CHILDREN WERE SAFELY OUTSIDE BUT THE ADULT HAD TO BE RESCUED FROM THE LIVING ROOM AREA AND WAS TAKEN FOR TREATMENT OF SMOKE INHALATION AND OTHER NON-LIFE THREATENING INJURIES. THE HOME DID NOT HAVE A SMOKE ALARM.
A FIRE DESTROYED THE HOME OF THE MAURICE ASSISTANT POLICE CHIEF FRIDAY MORNING. THE FAMILY OF GUY NERREN WAS ASLEEP IN THEIR MOBILE HOME WHEN THE FIRE BROKE OUT. NERREN SAYS THEY GOT OUT SAFELY BECAUSE THEY HEARD THE SMOKE ALARM GO OFF. HE TELLS KLFY TV THAT HIS STORY IS A LESSON TO EVERYONE TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A WORKING SMOKE ALARM IN YOUR HOME, BECAUSE THE EXTRA FEW SECONDS SAVED THE LIVES OF HIS FAMILY.
Beginning yesterday, Louisiana consumers now pay slightly less for purchases as the state sales tax rate dropped with the start of the new budget year. The sales tax had been slated to decrease from 5 percent to 4 percent. But lawmakers renewed point-4-5 percent of the expiring tax to avert steep cuts to college campuses and government-financed programs. With that legislative action, the sales tax rate is shrinking to 4.45 percent instead.
