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8-1-19

LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A LATE NIGHT SHOOTING THAT LEFT ONE PERSON INJURED.  CAROLINE MARCELLO REPORTS.

 

VOICER I :15

 

A GUEYDAN MAN WAS KILLED IN A HEAD-ON COLLISION IN JEFF DAVIS PARISH YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.  27-YEAR-OLD JOHN RUSSELL VENISSAT, WHO GOES BY THE NAME RUSTY, WAS TRAVELING SOUTH ON L-A 26 WHEN HE CROSSED THE CENTER LINE INTO THE PATH OF AN ONCOMING PICKUP TRUCK.  VENISSAT WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE.  THE DRIVER OF THE PICKUP AND A PASSENGER, WHO WERE PROPERLY RESTRAINED, WERE TAKEN TO A LAFAYETTE HOSPITAL WITH MODERATE INJURIES.

 

A DUPLEX FIRE YESTERDAY HAS LEFT EIGHT OPELOUSAS RESIDENTS LOOKING FOR A NEW PLACE TO LIVE.  THE FIRE HAPPENED AT AROUND 9:15 YESTERDAY MORNING ON LEMOINE STREET AND BY THE TIME FIREFIGHTERS ARRIVED, BOTH SIDES OF THE DUPLEX WERE FULLY ENGULFED IN FLAMES.  THE STRUCTURE IS A TOTAL LOSS BUT EVERYONE INSIDE MANAGED TO GET OUT SAFELY.  INVESTIGATORS SAYS THE FIRE WAS CAUSED BY AN ELECTRICAL ISSUE.

 

Scientists are back from measuring the Gulf of Mexico “dead zone” where there’s too little oxygen to sustain marine life in a large underwater area starting at the sea floor.  One big question is whether Hurricane Barry reduced the size from a predicted near-record 7,800 square miles.  That June forecast was based on the amount of fertilizer and other nutrients carried in Midwestern floodwaters to the Mississippi River. But tropical storms roil the water, mixing in oxygen.

There’s a Thursday afternoon media teleconference to describe their findings.

 

A TRAFFIC STOP ON I-TEN IN LAFAYETTE MONDAY TURNED INTO A DRUG BUST.  LAFAYETTE OFFICERS FOUND CLOSE TO 86 THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH OF DRUGS IN THE VEHICLE.  ACCORDING TO A POLICE DEPARTMENT FACEBOOK POST, THEY FOUND 56-HUNDRED MILLILITERS OF PROMETHAZINE AND THREE THOUSAND HYDROCODONE TABLETS.  THE THREE MEN IN THE VEHICLE, ALL FROM BAKER, WERE ARRESTED ON DRUG POSSESSION CHARGES.

 

A TRACTOR TRAILER WITH AN OVERSIZED LOAD WAS STRUCK BY A TRAIN IN DEQUINCY YESTERDAY MORNING.  THE TRUCK WAS CROSSING THE TRACK AT L-A 27 AND WASHINGTON STREET WHEN THE RAILROAD SIGNALS CAME DOWN.  THE TRUCK WAS HAULING AN EMPTY INDUSTRIAL TANK.  NO ONE WAS INJURED IN THE COLLISION.

 

CLECO CUSTOMERS WILL SEE A MONTHLY CREDIT ON THEIR BILLS STARTING THIS MONTH AND LASTING UNTIL NEXT JULY.  THE AMOUNT OF THE CREDIT IS APPROXIMATELY 14 DOLLARS PER MONTH.  THE CREDIT IS THE RESULT OF A BENEFIT CLECO RECEIVED FROM THE TAX CUTS AND JOBS ACT WHICH REDUCED THE COMPANY’S CORPORATE TAX RATE.  LAST MONTH THE LOUISIANA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION APPROVED A PLAN BY CLECO TO CREDIT OVER 84 MILLION DOLLARS TO THEIR CUSTOMERS.

 

Gov. John Bel Edwards marked the third anniversary of Louisiana’s Medicaid expansion program with a new study showing people eligible for the coverage are seeing doctors more and using emergency rooms less.  The Democratic governor expanded Medicaid in July 2016.  Nearly 500,000 people are enrolled in the Medicaid expansion, and Edwards touts the coverage as he campaigns for a second term in office. Republican critics say expansion has grown Louisiana’s Medicaid program to unsustainable levels.