7-25-22
LAFAYETTE POLICE HAVE MADE TWO ARRESTS IN CONNECTION WITH A DRIVE-BY SHOOTING AT MOSS STREET AND MUDD AVENUE SATURDAY AFTERNOON THAT LEFT ONE PERSON DEAD. INVESTIGATORS FOUND THAT TWO VEHICLES WERE INVOLVED IN THE SHOOTING AND THE VICTIM’S VEHICLE STRUCK A POLE. FORTY-YEAR-OLD BILLY JOSEPH OF LAFAYETTE WAS FOUND DEAD IN THAT VEHICLE. POLICE ARRESTED THIRTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD STEVE SOLOMON OF LAFAYETTE ON A CHARGE OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER WHILE ARTIMUS JOHNSON WAS BOOKED ON A CHARGE OF PRINCIPAL TO FIRST DEGREE MURDER.
THE DRIVER OF AN EIGHTEEN-WHEELER WAS KILLED IN A SINGLE VEHICLE CRASH SUNDAY MORNING ON HIGHWAY THIRTEEN IN ACADIA PARISH, BETWEEN MOWATA AND EUNICE. STATE POLICE SAY THE DRIVER, SIXTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD JAMES ANTONY CORMIER OF CROWLEY, LOST CONTROL AT A CURVE. HE WENT OFF THE ROAD TO THE RIGHT AND STRUCK A UTILITY POLE BEFORE OVERTURNING. CORMIER WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE DESPITE WEARING HIS SEATBELT.
THERE WAS A TWO VEHICLE CRASH ON I-TEN NEAR THE BEGLIS EXIT IN SULPHUR YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. MULTIPLE INJURIES WERE REPORTED INCLUDING A SEVERE CASE. AN AIR TRANSPORT HELICOPTER LANDED ON THE INTERSTATE TO TRANSPORT THAT INJURED PERSON. AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT IS ONGOING.
The chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court has won re-election to another 10-year term. The Advocate reports Chief Justice John Weimer was automatically reelected when nobody signed up to challenge him by Friday’s qualifying deadline for the Nov. 8 ballot. Weimer, 67, a former professor at Nicholls State University, first won election to the state’s high court in 2001. U.S. District Judge John deGravelles of Baton Rouge lifted a stay July 13 that had blocked the November election for the state Supreme Court’s 6th District, which Weimer represents.
Candidates qualified last week for Louisiana’s upcoming congressional races and a U.S. Senate race. Among the candidates are incumbents for each seat. Twelve challengers are hoping to unseat first-term GOP Sen. John Kennedy, who has the endorsement of former President Donald Trump. Additionally, Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson, was reelected without opposition after no other candidate signed up before qualifying closed Friday.
A SUSPECT IN A JULY NINTH HOMOCIDE IN LAFAYETTE HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AND ARRESTED. TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD DANTE SAVOY OF LAFAYETTE WAS SHOT AND KILLED IN THE FIVE HUNDRED BLOCK OF NORTH PIERCE STREET. TWENTY-YEAR-OLD DEVIN CELESTINE OF LAFAYETTE WAS PICKED UP IN HOUSTON BY THE UNITED STATES MARSHAL’S SERVICE THURSDAY. HE HAS BEEN BOOKED INTO THE HARRIC COUNTY JAIL ON CHARGES OF SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SECOND-DEGREE MURDER.
BEGINNING TODAY THE OCHSNER HEALTH SYSTEM IS MAKING CHANGES TO ITS MASK POLICIES DUE TO A GROWING NUMBER OF COVID-NINETEEN CASES IN LOUISIANA. GERALD GRUENIG HAS MORE.
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THE SAINT MARTIN PARISH GOVERNMENT HAS SCHEDULED A DRAWDOWN OF HENDERSON LAKE IN ORDER TO MANAGE VEGETATION AND TO ENHANCE THE FISHERIES HABITAT. BEGINNING AUGUST FIRST, THE SOUTHERN CONTROL STRUCTURE GATES WILL BE OPENED RESULTING IN A DEWATER RATE OF TWO TO FOUR INCHES DAILY. THE DRAWDOWN GATES ARE SCHEDULED TO BE CLOSED ON NOVEMBER FIRST AT WHICH TIME THE LAKE WILL BE ALLOWED TO REFILL. HOUSEBOAT OWNERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS AND BOATERS ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION AS OBSTRUCTIONS WILL BE EXPOSED AND MAY BE PRESENT JUST UNDER THE SURFACE.
