7-21-23
A PREGNANT NEW IBERIA WOMAN AND HER UNBORN BABY WERE KILLED IN A CAR CRASH THAT INVOLVED AN ALLIGATOR. ON SUNDAY MORNING, THIRTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD GABRIELLE BREAUX, WHO WAS SEVEN MONTHS PREGNANT, WAS DRIVING ON HIGHWAY THIRTY-FIVE NEAR CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, WHEN SHE HIT AN ALLIGATOR THAT WAS CROSSING THE HIGHWAY. IT CAUSED HER TRUCK TO ROLL AND SHE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD SHORTLY AFTER THE CRASH. THE ALLIGATOR WAS KILLED IN THE CRASH AS WELL.
A MILTON WOMAN WAS ARRESTED BY DUSON POLICE FOR TRYING TO DENY MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR HER FOUR-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER, AFTER SHE WAS RUN OVER BY A TRUCK TUESDAY. POLICE SAY THE GIRL EITHER JUMPED OR FELL OUT OF A TRUCK ON F STREET IN DUSON, BEFORE SHE WAS HIT BY THE OTHER VEHICLE. ACCORDING TO POLICE, THIRTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD ANGEL DUHON ADMITTED SHE TRIED TO REFUSE MEDICAL TREATMENT BECAUSE SHE FEARED HER DAUGHTER MAY BE TAKEN FROM HER CUSTODY. DUHON WAS CHARGED WITH CRUELTY TO A JUVENILE AND THE GIRL WAS TAKEN INTO STATE CUSTODY AND PUT IN THE IMMEDIATE CARE OF FOSTER PARENTS.
The Biden administration has announced plans for the first sale of offshore wind power leases in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana and Texas coasts. The Department of the Interior said Thursday that a lease sale involving more than 300,000 acres is set for Aug. 29. Plans for the sale come as wind energy projects are already taking shape in the northeast. Earlier this month, the government gave the go-ahead for New Jersey’s first offshore wind farm to begin construction.
AN ELDERLY LAKE CHARLES WOMAN, WHO WAS ATTACKED AND SEXUALLY ASSAULTED EARLIER THIS MONTH, HAS DIED. OFFICERS FOUND THE WOMAN LATE ON JULY FIFTH AND SHE WAS TAKEN TO A HOSPITAL OUT OF TOWN FOR TREATMENT. ON WEDNESDAY, THE CALCASIEU PARISH CORONER’S OFFICE INFORMED LAKE CHARLES POLICE THAT THE WOMAN, SEVENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD SHERRY VINCENT, HAD DIED. THE INVESTIGATION HAS SINCE BEEN TRANSITIONED INTO A HOMOCIDE INVESTIGATION AND IS ONGOING.
ONE MAN WAS KILLED IN A THREE VEHICLE CRASH THURSDAY MORNING NEAR LAKE PEIGNEUR. STATE POLICE SAY SIXTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD CARROLL DUHON OF NEW IBERIA WAS DRIVING A CHEVY SILVERADO ON HIGHWAY EIGHTY-NINE NEAR LUCIEN ROAD IN VERMILLION PARISH WHEN, FOR AN UNKNOWN REASON, HE CROSSED THE CENTER LINE, HITTING TWO ONCOMING PICKUP TRUCKS. DUHON WAS NOT WEARING A SEATBELT AND WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE BY THE VERMILLION PARISH CORONER’S OFFICE. THE CRASH REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION AND BLOOD SAMPLES WERE TAKEN FROM ALL THREE DRIVERS.
FRANCIS TOUCHET JUNIOR IS THE NEW SUPERINTENDENT FOR LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOLS AFTER IRMA TROSCLAIR OFFICIALLY RETIRED. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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A federal judge visited the Louisiana State Penitentiary to inspect a former death row building where the state is housing juvenile detainees. Judge Shelly Dick visited the facility Thursday. The state began holding juveniles at the adult facility last year amid capacity and safety concerns at state juvenile detention facilities. Juvenile advocates said in a court filing this week that the state failed to provide constitutionally acceptable conditions at the facility in the remote Angola community in southeast Louisiana.
CUSTOMERS OF BRIGHTSPEED IN SUNSET WERE WITHOUT INTERNET FOR FIVE DAYS RECENTLY. WORKERS FOR UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTION SERVICE CUT AN UNDERGROUND INTERNET LINE IN BACK OF SUNSET PHARMACY. THE OWNER OF UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTION SERVICE, TYLER CLARK, TOLD THE ADVOCATE THAT THEY WERE GIVEN THE ALL CLEAR BY BRIGHTSPEED AND NOTHING WAS MARKED. CUSTOMERS WERE UPSET BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT NOTIFIED OF THE SERVICE INTERRUPTION AND CALLS TO THE COMPANY’S CUSTOMER SERVICE LINE RESULTED IN LITTLE INFORMATION.
