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SEVERAL CLASSROOMS AT GROLEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN OPELOUSAS WERE VANDALIZED. OPELOUSAS POLICE SAY SOMEONE BROKE INTO THE SCHOOL ON TUESDAY AND COMMITTED DESTRUCTIVE ACTS OF VANDALISM IN SEVERAL CLASSROOMS. THEY ARE LOOKING FOR THE PERSON OR PERSONS RESPONSIBLE AND ASK ANYONE WHO HAS INFORMATION TO CALL SAINT LANDRY CRIME STOPPERS AT NINE-FOUR-EIGHT-TIPS. ALL CALLERS REMAIN ANONYMOUS AND UP TO A THOUSAND DOLLAR CASH REWARD IS BEING OFFERED FOR INFORMATION LEADING TO AN ARREST.
MORE THAN SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS HAS BEEN RAISED SO FAR TO HELP A LAFAYETTE PARISH WOMAN REBUILD AFTER A HOUSE FIRE HEAVILY DAMAGED HER HOME TUESDAY NIGHT. RUTH LOPEZ, WHO LIVES IN THE FOUR HUNDRED BLOCK OF BOURQUE ROAD, WAS AWAKENED BY TAPPING NOISES AT HER WINDOW AT AROUND ELEVEN TUESDAY NIGHT, AND SHE MANAGED TO GET OUT OF THE HOUSE WITH HER DOG AND CALL NINE-ONE-ONE. JUDICE FIRE CHIEF TROY LOPEZ SAYS THE HOME WAS FULLY INVOLVED IN FLAMES WHEN THEY ARRIVED. THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION BUT THEY ARE FOCUSING ON AN ELECTRICAL SERVICE UNDER THE PATIO THAT MAY HAVE MALFUNCTIONED.
Louisiana has beaten back several spikes of the coronavirus disease, but the state is seeing troubling new upticks in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations as it struggles to persuade people to get vaccinated and the highly contagious delta variant increases its spread. The increases are nowhere near the height of previous outbreaks. In prior spikes, more than 2,000 COVID-19 patients in Louisiana were hospitalized at a time and dozens of people died from the disease each day. But health care officials Thursday worried Louisiana could be headed in that direction as the more virulent delta variant widens its footprint across the region.
A JUVENILE IN LAKE CHARLES WAS SHOT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. POLICE WERE DISPATCHED TO AN APARTMENT COMPLEX ON FIFTH AVENUE SHORTLY BEFORE THREE P-M BECAUSE OF REPORTS OF A SHOOTING. THEY FOUND A JUVENILE WITH A GUNSHOT WOUND WHO WAS TRANSPORTED TO A LOCAL HOSPITAL. ANYONE WHO HAS INFORMATION ON THE SHOOTING IS ASKED TO CONTACT THE LAKE CHARLES POLICE DEPARTMENT.
TWO MORE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN CHARGED IN CONNECTION WITH A HOMOCIDE IN MAMOU THAT HAPPENED ONE MONTH AGO. NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD JASON PATIN OF MAMOU WAS SHOT IN THE LEFT SHOULDER AND LATER DIED FROM HIS INJURIES. DURING THE INITIAL INVESTIGATION, A FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD WAS ARRESTED AND WILL BE TRIED AS AN ADULT ON A CHARGE OF SECOND DEGREE MURDER. YESTERDAY, DARIUS TEZENO OF MAMOU WAS ARRESTED ON A CHARGE OF ACCESSORY AFTER THE FACT TO SECOND DEGREE MURDER AND A FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD, CURRENTLY BEING HELD IN MONROE ON UNRELATED CHARGES, WAS CHARGED WITH PRINCIPLE TO SECOND DEGREE MURDER.
FUNDING FOR THE ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS HAS BEEN RESTORED BY THE LAFAYETTE CITY COUNCIL IN A UNANIMOUS VOTE. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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President Joe Biden is relaunching the council of governors. It’s an advisory board of governors and a number of key Cabinet secretaries and top administration officials focused on strengthening federal and state collaboration on major national security issues. According to details shared first with The Associated Press on Thursday, Biden is appointing a bipartisan group of nine governors to the council, including seven new governors. They include Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards.
HUNDREDS OF SAINT LANDRY PARISH RESIDENTS ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING THEIR PROPERTY BECAUSE OF A FAILURE TO PAY PROPERTY TAXES. CURRENTLY THERE ARE OVER ONE THOUSAND ADJUDICATED PROPERTIES IN THE PARISH, AND HUNDREDS MORE COULD SOON BE ADDED TO THE LIST. PARISH PRESIDENT JESSIE BELLARD TELLS K-L-F-Y TV THAT PEOPLE NOT TAKING CARE OF THEIR PROPERTIES OR PAYING THEIR TAXES ARE HAVING A BIG IMPACT ON THE COMMUNITY. HE SAYS HE DOESN’T WANT TO ADD MORE PROPERTIES TO THE PARISH’S LONG LIST OF ADJUDICATED PROPERTIES, BUT HE MAY HAVE TO.
