7-20-26
A SHOOTING SUSPECT WANTED IN JEANERETTE IS NOW IN CUSTODY. GEORGE FAUST REPORTS.
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WORK CREWS ARE LAYING THE FINAL ASPHALT SURFACE ALONG UNIVERSITY AVENUE IN LAFAYETTE. THE PAVING WORK IS EXPECTED TO LAST APPROXIMATELY THREE WEEKS DEPENDING ON WEATHER. THE REMAINING PROJECT INCLUDES JOINT CUTTING AND PERMANENT STRIPING. OFFICIALS ARRE REVIEWING PLANS TO REFINE LANE WIDTHS, IMPROVE BUSINESS ACCESS AS WELL AS PLANS FOR A NEW MID-BLOCK PEDESTRIAN CROSSING. THE PROJECT WAS PROJECTED TO BE COMPLETED BY SEPTEMBER.
ENTERGY LOUISIANA HAS SUBMITTED PLANS TO SPEND THIRTY BILLION DOLLRS TO EXPAND IT’S POWER GRID AND IMPROVE ITS INFRASTRUCTURE. IF ALL ENTERGY WANTS TO DO IS APPROVED, RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMER’S MONTHLY BILLS COULD INCREASE BY AROUND FORTY DOLLARS A MONTH, ACCORDING TO DOCUMENTS ENTERGY FILED WITH THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION. C-E-O PHILIP MAY TELLS THE ADVOCATE HE EXPECTS A GROWING BASE OF INDUSTRIAL USERS WILL OFFSET FIFTY PERCENT OR MORE OF THE COSTS.
THE DRIVER OF A PICKUP TRUCK STRUCK A TRAIN SATURDAY MORNING AT PRATER ROAD IN THE SULPHUR AREA NEAR THE HIGHWAY NINETY INTERSECTION. CALCASIEU PARISH DEPUTIES DETERMINED THAT THE DRIVER WENT THROUGH THE WARNING ARMS AND STRUCK A CAR ON THE TRAIN. THE DRIVER, WHO WAS NOT WEARING A SEATBELT, WAS EJECTED FROM THE VEHICLE. THE DRIVER WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL IN SERIOUS CONDITION AND LATER TAKEN TO ANOTHER FACILITY OUT OF TOWN.
A TROPICAL DEPRESSION IS SLOWLY MOVING ACROSS THE GULF AND PROJECTED TO BRING TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS TO ACADIANA BY THE MIDDLE PART OF THIS WEEK. HOMER STELLY OF THE VERMILLION PARISH OFFICE OF EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS SAYS, RIGHT NOW, THEY ARE FOCUSED ON MONITORING THE STORM. HE SAYS ONCE THEY GET TO THE POINT THAT THEY HAVE TO GIVE INFORMATION TO PARISH RESIDENTS, THEY WILL DO SO AT THAT TIME. STELLY SAYS IT’S IMPORTANT FOR RESIDENTS TO BE PREPARED FOR POTENTIAL EVACUATIONS AND POWER OUTAGES.
TWO MEN WERE ARRESTED AFTER A HIGH-SPEED CHASE THROUGH LAFAYETTE ON WEDNESDAY. POLICE IDENTIFIED FIFTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD DAVID WELDON OF LAFAYETTE AS THE DRIVER WHO REFUSED TO PULL OVER FOR A TRAFFIC VIOLATION AT THE JOHNSTON AND JEFFERSON STREETS INTERSECTION. HE EVENTUALLY DID PULL OVER AT WEST CONGRESS STREET AND GUILBEAU ROAD AND WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY FOR AGGRAVATED FLIGHT FROM AN OFFICE AND VARIOUS FELONY DRUG CHARGES. THE PASSENGER IN THE VEHICLE, FORTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD WILLIAM HALL OF LAFAYETTE, WAS BOOKED ON SEVERAL OUTSTANDING DRUG-RELATED ARRREST WARRANTS.
THE LOUISIANA ATTORNEY GENERAL IS SEEKING DONATIONS ON FACEBOOK AS SHE FACES CHARGES IN NEW ORLEANS. THE POST HAS AN IMAGE OF LIZ MURRILL WITH THE WORDS, “STAND WITH LIZ.” A STATEMENT ON THE FACEBOOK PAGE SAYS “A ROGUE NEW ORLEANS GRAND JURY CARRIED OUT A POLITICAL HIT JOB ON LIZ MURRILL FOR THE CRIME OF DOING HER JOB.” THE GRAND JURY INDICTED MURRILL ON CHARGES OF MALFEASANCE IN OFFICE AND PUBLIC INTIMIDATION.
A SAINT MARTINVILLE MAN WAS KILLED IN A TWO-VEHICLE CRASH LATE FRIDAY NIGHT IN TANGIPAHOA PARISH. OFFICIALS SAY BRIANNA HUTSON OF MAGNOLIA, MISSISSIPPI WAS TRAVELING SOUTH ON I-FIFTY-FIVE WHEN SHE STRUCK A CHEVY TRAILBLAZER PARKED ON THE SHOULDER OF THE ROAD WITH ITS HAZARD LIGHTS BLINKING. TWENTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD RANDALL BELAIRE, WHO WAS A REAR SEAT PASSENGER IN THE TRAILBLAZER, WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. HUTSON REPORTEDLY SHOWED SIGNS OF IIMPAIRMENT AND WAS BOOKED ON CHARGES OF VEHICULAR HOMOCIDE, VEHICULAR NEGLIGENT INJURING, CARELESS OPERATION AND OPEN CONTAINER.
