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7-11-17

THE HEAD OF ONE ACADIANA IS LEAVING TO TAKE THE NUMBER TWO POSITION AT VIRGINIA’S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY.  JASON EL KOUBI WILL BE LEAVING HIS POSITION AS CHIEF EXECUTIVE AT THE END OF JULY.  HE WILL BE JOINING STEPHEN MORET, WHO IS THE HEAD OF THE VIRGINIA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP AND ONCE LED LOUISIANA’S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY.  ONE ACADIANA’S DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, JIM BOURGEOIS, WILL SERVE AS THE INTERIM PRESIDENT AND C-E-O WHILE THEY CONDUCT A NATIONWIDE SEARCH FOR A PERMANENT REPLACEMENT.

 

THE LAKE CHARLES HOUSING AUTHORITY IS REOPENING THE SECTION EIGHT WAITING LIST FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OVER THREE YEARS.  THE LAST TIME THEY HAD A ONE WEEK OPENING, IN MARCH OF 2014, THEY RECEIVED 15-HUNDRED APPLICATIONS.  THE WAITING LIST WILL BE OPEN FROM MONDAY, JULY 24TH TO FRIDAY, JULY 28TH, FROM EIGHT TO NOON EACH DAY, AT THEIR OFFICE LOCATED AT 800 BILBO STREET IN LAKE CHARLES, SUITE A.  FOR DETAILS ON WHAT IS NEEDED FOR EACH APPLICANT, YOU CAN CALL THE OFFICE AT 436-76-28.

 

A police report claims an Evangeline Parish sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a man after his girlfriend jumped on the officer’s back, bit him and tried to grab his gun.  But the girlfriend’s attorney disputes that account of Thursday’s deadly encounter in Mamou.  Joe Long says 21-year-old Dequince Brown only jumped on the deputy’s back after the deputy shot her boyfriend, 27-year-old Dejuan Guillory. Brown was arrested after the shooting on a charge of attempted first-degree murder of a police officer.

 

Louisiana’s health secretary is clashing with the pharmaceutical industry over the high costs of hepatitis C drugs that she says are so expensive many infected people in the state go without treatment.  Rebekah Gee, a doctor, has enlisted public health and legal experts from around the country to study options to lower the price tag for treatment that costs more than $20,000 per patient.  Among the options, Gee said Monday she is exploring use of a little-known, 1910 federal patent law she hopes could allow the federal government to drastically force down the price of hepatitis C medications.  Louisiana has 35,000 people with hepatitis C who are uninsured or on Medicaid, relying on the state for care.

 

BROUSSARD CITY OFFICIALS HAVE DECIDED TO KEEP THE SPLASH PAD OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AT ALL TIMES AT THE NEW ST. JULIEN PARK AND SPORTS COMPLEX.  SOME RESIDENTS WERE UPSET THIS WEEKEND WHEN THEY BROUGHT CHILDREN TO THE SPLASH PAD ONLY TO FIND IT HAD BEEN RESERVED BY A PRIVATE PARTY.  MAYOR CHARLES LANGLINAIS AND COUNCIL MEMBERS DISCUSSED THE ISSUE AND DECIDED THAT PRIVATE PARTIES CAN ONLY RESERVE A PAVILION AND/OR TABLES IN THE PARK.  THE PARK HAS BEEN OPEN FOR LESS THAN TWO WEEKS AND THE SPLASH PAD HAS PROVEN TO BE THE MOST POPULAR ATTRACTION.

 

THE FAMILY MEMBERS OF STACIE REEVES, MARTY LEBOUEF AND NICOLE GUIDRY, WHO WERE MURDERED TWENTY YEARS AGO THIS MONTH AT K-K’S CORNER IN LAKE CHARLES, ARE HOPING THEY WILL RECEIVE COMPLETE JUSTICE.  17 YEARS AGO, THOMAS FRANK CISCO PLED GUILTY TO MANSLAUGHTER AND IS SERVING THREE CONSECUTIVE 40 YEAR TERMS AT ANGOLA, BUT PROSECUTOR RICK BRYANT BELIEVES THERE WERE OTHERS WHO HELPED HIM.  BRYANT TELLS KPLC TV THAT IT LIKELY TOOK MORE THAN ONE PERSON TO CONTROL THREE PERSONS, SYSTEMATICALLY SHOOT THEM IN THE FREEZER, CUT WIRES TO THE OUTSIDE, TAKE THE VIDEO TAPE FROM SECURITY AND SHUT DOWN THE STORE.  HE SAYS THE ODDS ARE AGAINST IT, BUT OLDER CASES HAVE BEEN PROSECUTED WHEN SOMEBODY BEGAN TALKING.

 

HENDERSON HIGHWAY IN ST. MARTIN PARISH IS CLOSED DUE TO CONSTRUCTION.  JULIE DARCE HAS MORE.

 

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A judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by more than a dozen Louisiana residents trying to remove the state’s public schools superintendent from office.  The lawsuit claimed Superintendent of Education John White needed to be reconfirmed by the state Senate to continue holding the position.  Baton Rouge district Judge William Morvant says only a handful of elected officials have the legal ability to file such a court petition.  State Sen. John Milkovich, the Keithville Democrat who represents the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, says he and his clients are considering their legal options.