7-23-18
THE VEROT SCHOOL ROAD WIDENING PROJECT IS PROGRESSING. JEFF HORCHAK HAS MORE.
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A SINGER MAN PLED GUILTY ON WEDNESDAY TO ROBBING A BANK IN DEQUINCY LAST DECEMBER. 56-YEAR-OLD GORDON SCOTT COOPER ADMITTED USING AN AIR POWERED BB GUN THAT LOOKED LIKE AN AUTOMATIC PISTOL AND STOLE NEARLY 16 THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM TWO TELLER DRAWERS. COOPER FACES UP TO 25 YEARS IN PRISON WHEN HE IS SENTENCED ON OCTOBER FIRST. HIS NEPHEW, 39-YEAR-OLD CHAD ALLEN COOPER OF SINGER, WAS THE GETAWAY DRIVER AND PLED GUILTY ON JUNE FIFTH.
A ST. MARTINVILLE MAN CALLED POLICE EARLY SUNDAY MORNING TO TELL THEM HE HAD BEATEN A MAN DURING A FIGHT. WHEN POLICE ARRIVED AT BERARD STREET, THEY FOUND 53-YEAR-OLD RANDY LEDET LYING IN THE ROAD. 63-YEAR-OLD JUAN GALICIA ADMITTED TO THE POLICE THAT HE HAD USED A PIECE OF CONCRETE TO BEAT LEDET, WHO IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION. GALICIA HAS BEEN BOOKED INTO THE ST. MARTIN PARISH JAIL ON A CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER.
The tax deal struck by lawmakers and Gov. John Bel Edwards to balance this year’s budget will end Louisiana’s state sales tax holidays for seven years.
When lawmakers renewed 0.45 percent of an expiring 1 percent state sales tax, they also reworked sales tax breaks. Louisiana’s revenue department says that means shoppers won’t see annual state sales tax holiday weekends through mid-2025. Those state sales tax holidays that won’t be held include a general sales tax holiday on the first Friday and Saturday in August, a hurricane preparedness sales tax holiday on the last Saturday and Sunday in May and a Second Amendment sales tax holiday on the first Friday through Sunday in September.
The University of Louisiana-Lafayette plans to open a public policy center in honor of former Gov. Kathleen Blanco, a 1964 graduate of the university. Citing a news release, The Advocate reports plans call for the center to open next year in the Dupre Library, with $2.7 million in funding coming primarily from private gifts. The university says the center will contribute independent research focused on criminal justice reform, poverty and economic issues, governmental ethics and education. Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Jordan Kellman, says Blanco championed those issues throughout her career.
TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO TAKE IN THE COMPASSION EXPERIENCE IN LAKE CHARLES. COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL BRINGS THIS FREE EVENT TO THE AREA IN WHICH VISITORS CAN EXPERIENCE THE TRUE LIFE STORIES OF CHILDREN FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD. VISITORS CAN GRAB A HEADPHONE AND IPOD AND ENTER COUNTRIES SUCH AS UGANDA OR INDIA. THE COMPASSION EXPERIENCE WILL TAKE PLACE TODAY FROM TEN UNTIL 5:40 AT CHURCH OF THE KING AT 21-45 OAK PARK BOULEVARD IN LAKE CHARLES.
CROWLEY POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A HOMOCIDE THAT HAPPENED EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. POLICE CHIEF JIMMY BROUSSARD SAYS THEY RECEIVED CALLS ABOUT A MAN SHOT AT AROUND 1:30 SATURDAY MORNING AND WHEN POLICE ARRIVED THEY FOUND A MAN, WHO HAD BEEN SHOT TWICE IN THE HEAD. HE DIED LATER AT THE HOSPITAL. THE FAMILY OF THE MAN TELLS KLFY TV THAT HE IS 20-YEAR-OLD MALCOLM DANIEL OF CROWLEY, WHO LEAVES BEHIND A ONE-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER AND AN INFANT SON.
Gov. John Bel Edwards is telling President Donald Trump that Louisiana will be harmed with his use of tariffs in trade disputes with other countries. The Democratic governor wrote to the White House, asking the president to reconsider his approach. In the letter, Edwards says the tariffs Trump has imposed on certain imports, along with retaliatory tariffs enacted by countries in response, will damage Louisiana’s ports, liquefied natural gas facilities and farms. Edwards says one in six jobs in Louisiana depend on international commerce.
