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IN IBERIA PARISH, TWO MEN AND A JUVENILE WERE ARRESTED ON DRUG AND FIREARM CHARGES. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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A NEW FIREFIGHTING PROGRAM IS COMING TO ACADIANA HIGH SCHOOL. THE SCOTT AND LAFAYETTE FIRE DEPARTMENTS ARE BEHIND THE PROGRAM, WHICH BRINGS PROPER FIRE FIGHTING AND EDUCATION TO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. SCOTT FIRE CHIEF CHAD SONNIER SAYS THE COURSES ARE COMPLETED BY STUDENTS OVER THEIR JUNIOR AND SENIOR YEARS AND PROVIDES STUDENTS WITH STATE AND INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATIONS SO THEY CAN BE PREPARED TO JOIN THE SERVICE. SONNIER SAYS THEY ARE STRUGGLING WITH RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION AND HOPEFULLY THE NEW PROGRAM WILL BRING NEW FIREFIGHTERS INTO THE PROFESSION FOR YEARS TO COME.
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has announced Jay Grymes, the chief meteorologist for WAFB-TV in Baton Rouge, will serve as the new state climatologist. Grymes will be working with the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness in an expanded role to serve the state as a weather specialist. Among responsibilities in his role, Grymes will be tasked with monitoring Louisiana’s climate and archiving data. Officials say the position is especially important in a state that consistently faces threats during hurricane seasons.
A FEDERAL JUDGE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS SENTENCED THREE MEN TO AT LEAST TEN YEARS IN PRISON FOR A TWENTY-TWENTY-TWO CRIME SPREE. TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD JAYLON DESHON BRUMFIELD OF LAKE CHARLES AND TWO OTHER MEN FROM HAMMOND EACH PLEADED GUILTY TO CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT HOBBS ACT ROBBERY AND POSSESSING A FIREARM DURING A VIOLENT CRIME. PROSECUTORS SAY THE THREE CONSPIRED TO TAKE PROPERTY FROM MULTIPLE BUSINESSES AND INDIVIDUALS BY FORCE, THREAT AND VIOLENCE BETWEEN APRIL FOURTEENTH AND TWENTY-SEVENTH OF TWENTY-TWENTY-TWO. THE CRIME SPREE ENDED AT A STORE IN VINTON, WHEN THE THREE WERE CAPTURED AFTER A HIGH-SPEED CHASE FOLLOWED BY A FOOT CHASE.
TWO VERMILLION PARISH STUDENTS WERE ELECTED TO THE TWO TOP STATE POSITIONS OUT OF ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY BOYS AT LOUISIANA BOYS STATE. COEYN (KOH uhn) WISE OF KAPLAN WAS ELECTED GOVERNOR OF BOYS STATE FOR THIS YEAR WHILE LUKE ETIE (EH tee eh) OF ERATH WAS CHOSEN AS LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. BOYS STATE IS A PRESTIGIOUS PROGRAM SPONSORED BY THE AMERICAN LEGION FOR JUNIORS GOING INTO THEIR SENIOR YEAR. WISE SAYS IT TEACHES YOUNG PEOPLE ABOUT CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY, LEADERSHIP AND BROTHERHOOD.
AT A SPECIAL MEETING TUESDAY, THE LAFAYETTE PARISH COUNCIL APPROVED THE INTRODUCTION OF AN ORDINANCE BY MAYOR PRESIDENT MONIQUE BOULET TO CREATE TWO POSITIONS, THE DIRECTOR OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICER. THE COUNCIL WILL VOTE ON THE ORDINANCE ON JULY SIXTEENTH. CURRENTLY, EMERGENCY RESPONSE IS COORDINATED BY THE LAFAYETTE PARISH COMMUNICATION DISTRICT’S NINE-ONE-ONE DIVISION. BOULET SAYS A DEDICATED IN-HOUSE DEPARTMENT IS NEEDED TO BRING THE PARISH’S EMERGENCY RESPONSE CAPABILITIES UP TO NATIONAL STANDARDS.
A federal judge on Monday granted the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, as well as employers in two Southern states, temporary relief from complying with a federal rule that would have required them to provide workers with time off and other accommodations for abortions. Judge David Joseph granted the preliminary injunction in two consolidated lawsuits, one brought by the attorneys general of Louisiana and Mississippi, and the other by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic University and two Catholic dioceses. The lawsuits challenge the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s regulations stating that the 2022 Pregnant Workers Fairness Act covers abortion.
EUNICE POLICE ARE SEEKING THE PUBLIC’S HELP IN SOLVING A JUNE SHOOTING AT A MOBILE HOME. ON THE EVENING OF JUNE TWENTY-SECOND, EIGHTEEN SHOTS WERE FIRED AT A MOBILE HOME LOCATED IN THE THREE HUNDRED BLOCK OF DULLES STREET AND A BLACK CHEVY MALIBU WAS SEEN LEAVING THE AREA AT THAT TIME. THREE PEOPLE WERE IN THE HOME AT THE TIME OF THE SHOOTING BUT THERE WERE NO INJURIES. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON THIS CRIME CAN CALL SAINT LANDRY CRIME STOPPERS AND LEAVE A TIP ANONYMOUSLY AT NINE-FOUR-EIGHT-TIPS.
