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LAFAYETTE POLICE HAVE RELEASED THE IDENTITY OF A BICYCLIST KILLED MONDAY NIGHT. HERE’S JULIE DARCE.
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THE ALLEN PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE HAS CAPTURED AN INMATE WHO HAD ESCAPED. 40-YEAR-OLD MICHAEL TAYLOR WAS WORKING AS A TRUSTEE WHEN HE WALKED OFF THE JOB AT AROUND 9:30 YESTERDAY MORNING. HE WAS SPOTTED LATER IN THE DAY IN A WOODED AREA SOUTH OF OBERLIN, BETWEEN HIGHWAYS 1151 AND 165. HE WAS TAKEN BACK INTO CUSTODY A SHORT WHILE LATER.
A WORLD WAR TWO HERO FROM NEW IBERIA CELEBRATED HIS 100TH BIRTHDAY ON JULY FOURTH. LEON MINVIELLE JUNIOR RECEIVED A BRONZE STAR AND PURPLE HEART WHILE SERVING WITH THE SEVENTH ARMORED DIVISION, 31ST TANK BATALLION. HE TOOK PART IN SEVERAL OF THE MAJOR BATTLES DURING THE WAR INCLUDING THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE. MINVIELLE, WHO ALSO SERVED ON THE IBERIA PARISH SCHOOL BOARD AND WAS PRESIDENT OF THE PEOPLES NATIONAL BANK, TELLS KLFY THAT GOD TOOK CARE OF HIM DURING THE WAR AND SAVED HIM.
Officials at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum have criticized a Louisiana congressman for narrating part of a five-minute video from inside a former gas chamber at the Nazi concentration camp in Poland. Louisiana news outlets report that U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins posted the video Saturday. In it, the Republican says the gas chamber killings took only about 20 minutes and show why the U.S. military “must be invincible.” A post on the Auschwitz Memorial’s official Twitter account said Tuesday that a former gas chamber is not a stage but a place where there should be respectful silence.
THE SECOND ANNUAL MICKEY SHUNICK MEMORIAL BIKE RIDE WILL TAKE PLACE TOMORROW EVENING BEGINNING AT 5:45, STARTING AT ROTARY POINT. THE RIDE WILL TAKE PLACE ON THE EIGHT MILE LONG MICKEY SHUNICK MEMORIAL BIKE LOOP. IN 2012, MICKEY SHUNICK WAS MURDERED BY BRANDON SCOTT LAVERGNE WHILE SHE WAS HEADING HOME ON HER BIKE LATE AT NIGHT. MARK DECLOUET OF THE GROUP FORWARD LAFAYETTE, WHICH ORGANIZED THE BIKE RIDE, SAYS IT IS NOT ONLY A CELEBRATION OF MICKEY, BUT ALSO A CELEBRATION OF BIKING.
THE BODIES OF 26-YEAR-OLD BRANDON JEANS OF MERRYVILLE AND A DOG WERE FOUND IN A PICKUP TRUCK THAT WAS BEING PULLED OUT OF A WATER-FILLED DITCH ALONG SAND LAKE ROAD NEAR MERRYVILLE. SERGEANT JAMES ANDERSON OF STATE POLICE TROOP D SAYS THE DRIVER, 26-YEAR-OLD RICHARD KEEL OF MOSS BLUFF, HAD LEFT THE SCENE. HE LATER MET WITH STATE TROOPERS AT THE BEAUREGARD PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE AND CHARGES ARE PENDING. ANDERSON SAYS KEEL LOST CONTROL OF THE VEHICLE AT AROUND EIGHT YESTERDAY MORNING, AND IT CAUSED THE VEHICLE TO ROLL INTO THE DITCH, LANDING ON THE PASSENGER SIDE.
FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS, CROWLEY HAS CELBRATED THE LIFE OF A FORMER N-F-L STAR ON THE FOURTH OF JULY. ORLANDO THOMAS, WHO PLAYED SEVEN YEARS WITH THE MINNESOTA VIKINGS, DIED FROM LOU GEHRIG’S DISEASE THREE YEARS AGO. STUDIES NOW SHOW THAT FOOTBALL PLAYERS ARE FOUR TIME MORE LIKELY TO DIE FROM THAT DISEASE THAN THE POPULATION IN GENERAL. EZORA PROCTOR TELLS KLFY TV THAT THOMAS’ FAMILY DECIDED TO HONOR HIM AND HIS LEGACY BY HAVING THE ANNUAL CELEBRATION, WHICH WAS HELD AT THE M-L-K CENTER.
AN ELECTION TO REPLACE JOHN KENNEDY AS STATE TREASURER WILL TAKE PLACE ON OCTOBER 14TH. FIVE PEOPLE HAVE OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED THEIR CANDIDACY FOR THE POSITION, AND THEY ARE NOT WELL KNOWN. THREE OF THE CANDIDATES HAVE RAISED SIX FIGURES IN CAMPAIGN FUNDS: JOHN SCHRODER, JULIE STOKES AND NEIL RISER. A SIXTH PERSON, ANGELE DAVIS, HAS NOT OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED BUT HAS RAISED A QUARTER MILLION DOLLARS FOR AN ANTICIPATED CAMPAIGN.
