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THE IBERIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS INVESTIGATING A HOMOCIDE IN NEW IBERIA. AT AROUND 2:30 SUNDAY MORNING, DEPUTIES RESPONDED TO A CALL OF A SHOOTING IN THE 600 BLOCK OF FIELD STREET AND FOUND A BLACK MAN ON THE GROUND WITH MULTIPLE GUNSHOT WOUNDS. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE IBERIA MEDICAL CENTER BUT WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD ON ARRIVAL. RESIDENTS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD TOLD DEPUTIES THEY HEARD A VEHICLE LEAVING THE SCENE BUT WERE NOT ABLE TO DETERMINE THE MAKE OR MODEL.
THERE WAS A FIRE LAST NIGHT AT SASOL’S CHEMICAL FACILITY NEAR WESTLAKE. SPOKESWOMAN KIM CUSIMANO SAID IN A NEWS RELEASE THAT THE FIRE IN THE ALCOHOL UNIT INJURED ONE EMPLOYEE, WHO WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT. SHE SAYS THE FIRE HAS BEEN CONTAINED AND THE STATE POLICE AND O-E-P HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED. CALCASIEU PARISH DIRECTOR OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS DICK GREMILLION SAYS THERE HAS BEEN NO IMPACT FROM THE FIRE OUTSIDE OF THE FACILITY.
THE DUSON POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR A WOMAN WHO STOLE 130 DOLLARS FROM A LOCAL BUSINESS. POLICE CHIEF KIP JUDICE SAYS THE WOMAN USED THE SHORT CHANGE SCAM TO STEAL THE MONEY. THAT’S WHERE A SMALL PURCHASE IS MADE WITH A LARGE BILL AND THE PERSON THEN TRIES TO CONFUSE THE CASHIER INTO GETTING EXTRA MONEY BACK. AFTER THE THEFT, THE WOMAN LEFT THE BUSINESS IN A RED FORD EXPLORER. IF YOU KNOW THIS WOMAN, YOU’RE ASKED TO CALL THE DUSON POLICE DEPARTMENT.
Louisiana’s education department is seeking an outside group to review state-run schools for children with special needs. The agency announced it is seeking proposals from organizations that could conduct an evaluation of operations and academic programs at the Louisiana School for the Deaf, the Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired and the Louisiana Special Education Center. Of particular interest to the department is devising improvement plans that comply with the federal Every Student Succeeds Act. The department says the third-party evaluator will be expected to issue a report by the end of the year comparing how the schools stack up against national models for educating similar students.
TWO PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH A DRIVE BY SHOOTING THAT OCCURRED SUNDAY NIGHT IN OPELOUSAS. JULIE DARCE HAS MORE.
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ONE PERSON WAS KILLED IN A BOATING ACCIDENT EARLY SATURDAY MORNING AT THE CAMERON JETTIES. THE PERSON, DRIVING A FISHING BOAT WITH FIVE PASSENGERS, HIT A JETTY JUST BEFORE SUNRISE. 64-YEAR-OLD DARLA WILKERSON OF HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE WHILE ANOTHER PASSENGER WAS TAKEN TO A LAFAYETTE HOSPITAL AND IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION. THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES IS INVESTIGATING THE ACCIDENT ALONG WITH HELP FROM THE CAMERON PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE.
D.L. Menard, whose song “The Back Door” is among the most popular in Cajun music, is dead at the age of 85. Louisiana Funeral Services and Crematory in Broussard said on its website that Menard died Thursday at his home in Scott.
Floyd Soileau, whose Swallow Record Co. released the song as a single in July 1962, says that counting other artists’ covers, it sold more than one million copies.
The funeral home said Menard’s funeral will be this afternoon at Family Life Church in Lafayette.
THE ANNUAL STATE SALES TAX HOLIDAY TAKES PLACE THIS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. BACK TO SCHOOL SUPPLIES, APPLIANCES, ELECTRONICS AND MOST OTHER RETAIL PURCHASES WILL HAVE REDUCED TAXES. THE STATE SALES TAX WILL GO FROM FIVE PERCENT TO THREE PERCENT ON THOSE TWO DAYS. THE EXEMPTION GOES FOR THE FIRST 25-HUNDRED DOLLARS OF THE PURCHASE PRICE FOR ELIGIBLE ITEMS.
