7-8-25
AUTHORITIES HAVE MADE A SECOND ARREST IN THE ABBEVILLE PARTY SHOOTING INCIDENT SATURDAY IN WHICH THREE PEOPLE WERE INJURED. GEORGE FAUST REPORTS.
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A POWER OUTAGE IS PLANNED FOR PARTS OF BROUSSARD TOMORROW MORNING. ENTERGY LOUISIANA HAS NOTIFIED CITY OFFICIALS THAT THE ELECTRICITY WILL BE TURNED OFF FOR MAINTENANCE BETWEEN EIGHT-THIRTY AND TEN-THIRTY A-M. CUSTOMERS FROM NORTH MORGAN AVENUE NORTH AND WEST TO THE CITY LIMITS WILL BE AFFECTED. THOSE CUSTOMERS ARE URGED TO PLAN ACCORDINGLY FOR THE OUTAGE.
LAKE CHARLES POLICE HAVE RELEASED THE IDENTITY OF A MAN KILLED IN AN OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTING THURSDAY. TWENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD DIAMONTE LAFANETTE OF LAKE CHARLES WAS REPORTEDLY POINTING A GUN AT PASSING MOTORISTS. INVESTIGATORS SAY, WHEN POLICE ARRIVED, THERE WAS AN EXCHANGE OF GUNFIRE BEFORE LAFANETTE RAN AWAY. AUTHORITIES SAY LAFANETTE WAS LATER SHOT WHEN HE EMERGED FROM BEHIND A RESIDENCE AND OPENED FIRE ON THE OFFICERS. HE LATER DIED AT THE HOSPITAL.
IN THE SPRING, NEARLY ONE IN FOUR LOUISIANA THIRD GRADERS FAILED TO EARN THE MINIMUM READING SCORE REQUIRED BY A NEW LAW TO ADVANCE TO THE FOURTH GRADE, PUTTING THOUSANDS AT RISK OF RETENTION, ACCORDING TO A REPORT IN THE ADVOCATE. HOWEVER, IT’S LIKELY THAT MANY OF THOSE WILL ADVANCE TO THE NEXT GRADE LEVEL BECAUSE OF EXEMPTIONS FOR SUCH THINGS AS DYSLEXIA AND OTHER DISABILITIES. OTHERS WILL ADVANCE BECAUSE OF IMPROVED SCORES DUE TO THE HARD WORK OF TEACHERS. DISTRICT OFFICIALS IN RAPIDES PARISH SAY ABOUT HALF OF THE STUDENTS AT RISK OF BEING HELD BACK QUALIFIED FOR EXEMPTIONS.
OPELOUSAS POLICE HAVE ARRESTED TWO WOMEN IN CONNECTION TO A SHOOTING SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT AN APARTMENT ON BERNICE STREET. A WOMAN REPORTEDLY FIRED A SHOT DURING A CONFRONTATION WITH SEVERAL WOMEN, LOCKED HERSELF IN A ROOM AND LEFT THROUGH A REAR DOOR WHEN POLICE WERE ESCORTING PEOPLE OUT OF THE APARTMENT. NYLA WILLIAMS HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH ILLEGAL USE OF WEAPONS OR DANGEROUS INSTRUMENTALITIES, RESISTING AN OFFICER, OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE AND SIMPLE CRIMINAL DAMAGE TO PROPERTY. THE SECOND PERSON ARRESTED WAS BREANNA LAFOUNTAIN FOR OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE.
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ACADIANA AND KLFY TV IS HOSTING A SUPPLY DRIVE FOR SURVIVORS OF MASSIVE FLASH FLOODS IN THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY. THE DEATH COUNT HAS SURPASSED ONE HUNDRED AS RECOVERY EFFORTS CONTINUE. THE SUPPLY DRIVE WILL TAKE PLACE ON WEDNESDAY, JULY SIXTEENTH, FROM SEVEN A-M TO FOUR P-M AT THE CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ACADIANA REGIONAL DISASTER RESPONSE WAREHOUSE, LOCATED AT FOUR-OH-THREE AMBASSADOR CAFFERY PARKWAY IN SCOTT. URGENTLY NEEDED ITEMS INCLUDE LARGE BLACK TRASH BAGS, LAUNDRY DETERGENT, PAPER TOWELS, CLEANING SUPPLIES, DIAPERS AND TWENTY-FIVE DOLLAR VISA GIFT CARDS.
GOVERNOR JEFF LANDRY AND THE LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE ADDED NEW RULES THAT WILL AFFECT HOW THE LOUISIANA BOARD OF ETHICS INVESTIGATES ALLEGATIONS OF CONFLICTS OF INTEREST, NEPOTISM AND OTHER FORMS OF CORRUPTION. AT ITS MONTHLY MEETING HELD THURSDAY, TWO BOARD MEMBERS RAISED CONCERNS THAT THE NEW RULES COULD UNDERMINE ITS POWER AND INDEPENDENCE. THE LONGEST SERVING MEMBER, LA KOSHIA ROBERTS, SAYS THE CHANGES WILL RENDER THE BOARD NONESSENTIAL AND ULTIMATELY LEAD TO ITS EXTINCTION. STATE REPRESENTATIVE BEAU BEAULLIEU ( BOH yay) OF NEW IBERIA, WHO SPONSORED THE BILL CHANGING THE RULES, SAYS SOME OF THE BOARD’S INVESTIGATIONS WERE EGREGIOUS AND LEFT SOME UNDER INVESTIGATION FEELING LIKE THEY WERE GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT.
A BOND HEARING IN SAINT LANDRY PARISH FOR PATRICK GREENE HAS BEEN PUSHED BACK AGAIN. GREENE WAS ARRESTED IN EARLY JUNE FOR ALLEGEDLY STABBING A SIX-YEAR-OLD BOY MULTIPLE TIMES. HIS BOND HEARING HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED SEVERAL TIMES AND THE LATEST HEARING WAS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN YESTERDAY. KLFY TV IS REPORTING THAT THE HEARING WAS RESCHEDULED TO JULY SIXTEENTH BECAUSE A DOCTOR WHO TREATED THE BOY, AND WHO WAS NEEDED FOR TESTIMONY, WAS UNABLE TO ATTEND.
