7-21-15
LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT DONALD AGUILLARD SAYS HE HOPES A TAX OR BOND PROPOSITION WILL BE PUT ON THE SPRING BALLOT. AGUILLARD TOLD THE ACADIANA PRESS CLUB YESTERDAY THAT HIS STAFF IS MOVING QUICKLY TO PUT TOGETHER A PACKAGE FOR THE SCHOOL BOARD TO APPROVE. IF APPROVED THIS MONTH, THE BOND PROPOSAL COULD BE PLACED ON THE BALLOT IN MARCH. HE SAYS HE WILL ASK THE PLANNING FIRM C-S-R-S TO GO OVER A MASTER FACILITIES PLAN THEY CREATED FOR THE PARISH, AND PRIORITIZE THE PROJECTS ON IT.
THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS LOOKING FOR THREE SUSPECTS WHO INVADED A HOME ON SCHUEFENS (SHOO feens) ROAD FRIDAY AT AROUND 2-30 A-M. THE SUSPECTS KICKED IN THE DOOR AND POINTED AN APPARENT GUN AT THE HOME’S OCCUPANTS. THEY FLED THE SCENE IN A LIGHT COLORED
S-U-V. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION IS URGED TO CALL THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE AT 491-36-OH-5.
A FORMER IBERIA PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTY FACES ONE DAY IN JAIL FOR A CIVIL RIGHTS CONVICTION. JULIE DARCE REPORTS.
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A Baton Rouge judge says the state owes local public schools $137 million because lawmakers didn’t properly pass previous school funding formulas.
Judge Janice Clark issued her decision Monday. The St. John the Baptist Parish School Board filed a lawsuit claiming the Legislature didn’t meet passage requirements for the formula used in the 2013-14 budget year. Half of local school boards joined the lawsuit.
EXPANSIONS AND RENOVATIONS AT SIX LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOLS ARE TAKING PLACE NOW, AND MUCH OF IT IS EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED BY AUGUST 13TH, THE BEGINNING OF THE SCHOOL YEAR. NEW CLASSROOMS ARE BEING BUILT AT YOUNGSVILLE MIDDLE AND GREEN T. LINDON ELEMENTARY, BOTH OF WHICH HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH OVERCROWDING. THE OTHER SCHOOLS RECEIVING IMPROVEMENTS ARE LAFAYETTE AND NORTHSIDE HIGH, L-J ALLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL AND THE DAVID THIBODEAUX STEM MAGNET ACADEMY. FUNDS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION CAME FROM A THIRTY MILLION DOLLAR BOND ISSUE.
A VETERAN IS FILING A COMPLAINT AGAINST A LAKE CHARLES RESTAURANT FOR FORCING HIM AND HIS SERVICE DOG TO LEAVE LAST FRIDAY. BRIAN WALLIS WAS DIAGNOSED WITH POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER LAST YEAR AND WAS GIVEN THE SERVICE DOG TO HELP HIM IN DEALING WITH ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION. WALLIS SAYS HE SHOWED PAPERS TO THE MANAGER AT PANDA SUPER BUFFET PROVING THAT HE HAD A SERVICE DOG, AND THE POLICE INTERVENED, BUT TO NO AVAIL. WALLIS HAS SINCE FILED AN OFFICIAL COMPLAINT CHARGING THE RESTAURANT VIOLATED THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT.
AN ALLEGED COMPUTER HACKER FROM OPELOUSAS HAS BEEN ORDERED TO STAY IN JAIL WITHOUT BAIL AND UNDERGO A MENTAL HEALTH EVALUATION. 28-YEAR-OLD RORY GUIDRY WAS ARRESTED LAST TUESDAY FOR ALLEGEDLY RUNNING A COMPLEX AND MALICIOUS HACKING OPERATION OUT OF HIS GRANDPARENT’S TRAILER IN OPELOUSAS, WHERE HE HAD BEEN STAYING SINCE MAY. GUIDRY IS ONE OF SEVENTY PEOPLE IMPLICATED WORLDWIDE AFTER THE GLOBAL TAKEDOWN OF A FORUM USED BY HACKERS TO BUY AND SELL. INVESTIGATORS FOUND EVIDENCE ON HIS SEIZED COMPUTERS OF ONE THOUSAND STOLEN CREDIT CARDS, AND LOGS LISTING AT LEAST 14 THOUSAND COMPROMISED USER NAMES AND THE PASSWORDS FOR ABOUT SEVEN THOUSAND I-P ADDRESSES.
The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission has scheduled a special meeting for Thursday to consider open dates for the 2015 autumn shrimp season. That means the season will likely open before the commission’s next regularly scheduled meeting on Aug. 6. At the commission’s July meeting, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham had requested authority to open the season when department biologists told him white shrimp were nearing marketable sizes in Louisiana’s marshes. If the commission is not able to assemble a quorum of its seven members at Thursday’s meeting, control will automatically transfer to Barham.
