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8-17-17

A CARENCRO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY FOR BRINGING A LOADED GUN ON CAMPUS.  A STUDENT TOLD ADMINISTRATORS THAT HIS FRIEND HAD A GUN AND HAD POSTED PICTURES OF HIMSELF WITH GUNS ON SOCIAL MEDIA.  17-YEAR-OLD BRENDAN LEWIS, WHO TURNED OVER THE GUN TO POLICE YESTERDAY MORNING AT ABOUT TEN, WAS CHARGED WITH CARRYING A FIREARM OR DANGEROUS WEAPON ON SCHOOL PROPERTY.  CARENCRO POLICE HAVE NOT DETERMINED WHY HE BROUGHT THE GUN TO SCHOOL.

 

CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S DETECTIVES ARE SEARCHING FOR A TEXAS MAN, WHO WAS SEEN TRESPASSING ON PRIVATE PROPERTY  IN STARKS.  SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS SHOWED 47-YEAR-OLD JAMES F. CONNOLLY OF VIDOR WALKING AROUND THE PROPERTY, APPROACHING THE FRONT DOOR AND ENTERING A SHOP.  IT ALSO SHOWED HIM WITH A GUN IN HIS POSSESSION.  ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON CONNOLLY’S WHEREABOUTS IS ASKED TO CALL THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE.

 

THE POLICE CHIEF FOR THE VILLAGE OF MORSE WAS ARRESTED.  JEFF HORCHAK TELLS US WHY.

 

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Oil and gas companies offered $121.1 million in high bids on 90 Gulf of Mexico tracts at a federal lease sale.  Wednesday’s sale was the first since 1983 to offer every available tract in the Gulf.  Companies bid on far fewer tracts than in March, when only those off Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama were offered. That’s generally seen as the best part of the Gulf for drilling.

 

A LAFAYETTE CARDIOLOGIST DONATED MORE THAN FORTY PAIRS OF CLEATS TO THE NORTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAM TUESDAY AFTERNOON.  BRENT ROCHON SERVES AS THE TEAM’S DOCTOR AND IS ALSO THE SCHOOL’S HEALTH CENTER DIRECTOR.  HE FOUND OUT THAT FIRST YEAR HEAD COACH JOHN SIMMONS WAS STRUGGLING TO PROVIDE SUITABLE CLEATS FOR HIS PLAYERS AND GOT ASSISTANCE FROM THE LOCAL CHAPTER OF HIS FRATERNITY TO GET THE SHOES.  ROCHON TELLS THE DAILY ADVERTISER NORTHSIDE IS THE MOST UNDERSERVED INSTITUTION IN THE AREA AND HE WILL CONTINUE WITH FUNDRAISERS TO HELP GET MORE SHOES FOR THE TEAM, WHOSE ROSTER IS EXPANDING.

 

THE WEST NILE VIRUS IS SHOWING UP AROUND THE STATE WITH ONE MAN IN ALEXANDRIA DYING FROM THE DISEASE.  SEVERAL PARISHES HAVE SEEN A SPIKE IN POOL SAMPLES OF MOSQUITOES TESTING POSITIVE.  IN ALLEN PARISH, ELEVEN POOL SAMPLES CAME BACK POSITIVE AND ONE PERSON HAS CONTRACTED THE DISEASE.  TREVOR STROTHER OF ALLEN PARISH MOSQUITO CONTROL SAYS THEY ARE STEPPING UP THEIR EFFORTS TO TACKLE THE PROBLEM.

 

FOUR WORKERS AT THE MAMOU POST OFFICE WERE SENT TO THE HOSPITAL AFTER THEY GOT SICK BREATHING TERMITE INSECTICIDE FUMES.  THE CHEMICAL LEAKED FROM A CARDBOARD BOX WHERE THE INSECTICIDE WAS KEPT.  FIREFIGHTERS CLEANED UP THE SPILL IN ABOUT TWENTY MINUTES.  THE POST OFFICE WAS REOPENED AFTER AN AIR QUALITY INSPECTION CAME BACK CLEAR.

 

Louisiana’s education superintendent has again received a positive job evaluation from the state’s top school board, which didn’t address criticism about the current contracting arrangement.  The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education reviewed John White’s performance in a four-hour, closed-door session Wednesday.  White announced he received a 3-point evaluation on a 4-point scale, what he described as an “effective: proficient rating.”  White is operating under a contract from 2012, a prior BESE term. White’s opponents lack the two-thirds board vote needed to fire him, while White’s supporters don’t have the votes for a new contract.