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A LAFAYETTE WOMAN, ACCUSED OF FATALLY SHOOTING HER BOYFRIEND ONE WEEK AGO, TOLD POLICE SHE WOULDN’T PUT DOWN HER GUN BECAUSE SHE FEARED BEING BEATEN. ACCORDING TO A POLICE REPORT, MEGAN MANUEL SAYS, AS SHE WAS ARGUING WITH HER BOYFRIEND, CHRISTOPHER “STUBBY” WILLIAMSON, SHE PULLED OUT A .40 CALIBER HANDGUN FROM HER CLOSET AS A SCARE TACTIC. A SECOND FIGHT BEGAN WHEN WILLIAMSON RETURNED TO THE HOME AND, AS IT PROGRESSED, SHE FIRED A SHOT INTO HIS CHEST, KILLING HIM. MANUEL IS IN THE LAFAYETTE JAIL ON A SECOND DEGREE MURDER CHARGE AND HER BAIL HAS BEEN SET AT 250 THOUSAND DOLLARS.
THE LAKE CHARLES POLICE DEPARTMENT IS INVESTIGATING A RASH OF BURGLARIES AT THE GULF STREAM MANOR MANUFACTURED HOME COMMUNITY. THERE HAVE BEEN EIGHT INCIDENTS OF BURGLARY SINCE MAY. ONE RESIDENT TOLD KPLC TV THAT, NOT ONLY DID THEY TAKE SEVERAL VALUABLE ITEMS, BUT THEY CRACKED A COMPUTER SCREEN, LEFT FOOD OUT TO SPOIL AND POURED LAUNDRY DETERGENT OVER HER PET BIRDS. MANAGEMENT AT GULF STREAM MANOR SAY THEY ARE IN THE PROCESS OF INCREASING SECURITY MEASURES.
A U-S MAGISTRATE JUDGE HAS RECOMMENDED THAT A LAWSUIT BY VERMILLION PARISH AGAINST OIL AND GAS COMPANIES GO BACK TO STATE COURTS, BUT IT NEEDS THE BACKING OF U-S DISTRICT JUDGE SHELLY DICK. VERMILLION PARISH CLAIMS OIL AND GAS COMPANIES VIOLATED A 1978 LAW THAT REQUIRED THEM TO FILL IN EXPLORATION CANALS USED FOR OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION, AND CLEAN UP OIL WASTE PITS. THEY WANT THE COURTS TO REQUIRE THE DEFENDANTS TO RESTORE WETLANDS DAMAGED FROM THE ACTIVITIES AT ELEVEN OIL AND GAS FIELDS. STATE COURTS ARE OFTEN SEEN AS FRIENDLIER VENUES FOR THE PLAINTIFFS IN A LAWSUIT.
State officials say agents arrested five boaters on drunk-driving charges over the holiday weekend. The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says four men were arrested around the state on Saturday and one on Sunday. One of the locations was Grassy Lake in St. Martin Parish. Enforcement division spokesman Adam Einck said in a news release Wednesday that the charge and penalties are the same whether the driver is running a vehicle or a boat. The driver can go to jail, be fined, and lose his or her driver’s license.
THE MAN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE DISAPPEARANCE OF DAISY LYNN LANDRY WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE IN LAFAYETTE PARISH, ACCORDING TO THE DAILY ADVERTISER. ON DECEMBER SEVENTH, COURT DOCUMENTS SHOW THAT 22-YEAR-OLD MALIK DAVIS REQUESTED BANISHMENT FROM THE PARISH AFTER HIS CONVICTION FOR POSSESSION OF METHAMPHETAMINE, AND HIS CASE WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE MONROE OFFICE OF PROBATION AND PAROLE. HE LEFT THE AREA IN FEBRUARY AND DID NOT NOTIFY HIS PROBATION OFFICER. DAVIS IS IN THE LAFAYETTE PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER ON A CHARGE OF SECOND DEGREE MURDER, THOUGH LANDRY HAS NOT BEEN FOUND SINCE SHE DISAPPEARED IN MAY.
THE PRICE FOR WORK ON THE LAKE STREET AND MCNEESE STREET INTERSECTION TO RELIEVE TRAFFIC CONGESTION THERE HAS DOUBLED. LAKE CHARLES DIRECTOR OF PLANNING MIKE HUBER TELLS KPLC TV THAT IN ORDER TO ADD ADDITIONAL NORTH AND SOUTHBOUND LANES, THEY HAD TO BASICALLY DOUBLE THE SIZE AND LENGTH OF THE PROJECT IN ORDER TO DO IT PER THE EXISTING CODE. THAT MEANS THE PRICE TAG GOES FROM JUST OVER ONE-AND-A-HALF MILLION DOLLARS TO THREE-POINT-2 MILLION. THE CITY TRANSFERRED MONEY FROM OTHER STREET PROJECTS AND WAS ABLE TO TAKE A HALF MILLION FROM THE CALCASIEU PARISH DRAINAGE AND TRUST FUND IN ORDER TO MAKE UP THE DIFFERENCE.
ONE MAN IS DEAD FOLLOWING A MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT IN EVANGELINE PARISH. JULIE DARCE REPORTS.
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CONGRESSMAN CLAY HIGGINS HAS ISSUED AN APOLOGY FOR FILMING A VIDEO AT THE AUSCHWITZ GAS CHAMBER, WHERE JEWS WERE KILLED DURING WORLD WAR TWO. HIGGINS CAME UNDER INTENSE CRITICISM FROM THE AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM IN POLAND AND THE ANN FRANK CENTER FOR MUTUAL RESPECT IN NEW YORK, BECAUSE HE WASN’T SILENT IN THE GAS CHAMBER, WHICH IS REQUESTED. HIGGINS SAYS HIS INTENT WAS TO PAY RESPECT TO THOSE MURDERED IN AUSCHWITZ AND REMIND THE WORLD THAT EVIL STILL EXISTS AND FREE NATIONS NEED TO REMAIN STRONG. HE ACKNOWLEDGED HIS MESSAGE CAUSED PAIN TO SOME AND ANNOUNCED HE HAD RETRACTED THE VIDEO POSTING.
