8-24-22
LAFAYETTE UTILITY SYSTEMS IS PROPOSING MOVING A PLANNED ELECTRICITY RATE INCREASE BACK BY ONE YEAR. DIRECTOR JEFFREY STEWART SAYS, UNDER THE NEW PLAN, WATER AND SEWER RATES WILL STILL GO UP BEGINNING IN NOVEMBER. THE RATES WOULD GO UP IN STAGES OVER A TWO-YEAR PERIOD WITH THE AVERAGE CUSTOMER PAYING AN ADDITIONAL TWENTY-TWO DOLLARS BY NOVEMBER OF TWENTY-TWENTY-FOUR. LUS HAS A MEETING PLANNED TONIGHT AT THE MAIN LIBRARY IN LAFAYETTE FROM FIVE-THIRTY TO SEVEN TO TALK ABOUT THE PLAN.
A PERSON JUMPED OUT OF A MOVING VEHICLE AND RAN AWAY WITH HOLDING AN A-R FIFTEEN STYLE RIFLE WHEN OPELOUSAS POLICE ATTEMPTED TO MAKE A TRAFFIC STOP. POLICE CHIEF MARTIN MCCLENDON SAYS THE OFFICER ATTEMPTED TO PULL OVER THE VEHICLE FOR A RED-LIGHT VIOLATION. OFFICERS SEARCHING FOR THE SUSPECT FOUND HIM HIDING WITH THE RIFLE NEAR A RESIDENCE IN THE TWO HUNDRED BLOCK OF WHITE STREET. THE SUSPECT, TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD RICHARD HATFIELD JUNIOR, HAD BEEN RELEASED ON PAROLE IN MAY AFTER PLEADING GUILTY TO POSSESSION OF A FIREARM BY A CONVICTED FELON.
THE BOARD OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION VOTED SEVEN-TO-TWO TO ADOPT NEW LEARNING STANDARDS FOR YOUNG CHILDREN. THEY APPROVED THE NEW STANDARDS DESPITE THE OBJECTIONS OF SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION CADE BRUMLEY AND BOARD PRESIDENT JIM GARVEY, WHO SAID THE STANDARDS NEEDED MORE WORKS. SOME CRITICS OF THE NEW STANDARDS SAID THEY WERE TOO SIMILAR TO RECOMMENDATIONS FROM A NONPROFIT GROUP THAT TOUTS THE NEED FOR GENDER IDENTITY AND RACISM INSTRUCTION. BESE MEMBER HOLLY BOFFY OF LAFAYETTE, WHO VOTED FOR THE NEW STANDARDS, SAYS THEY ARE IN A GOOD PLACE TO BE EVEN BETTER THAN THE STANDARDS PUT IN PLACE IN TWENTY-THIRTEEN.
JENNINGS POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR A SUSPECT IN AN EARLY TUESDAY MORNING SHOOTING. ONE PERSON WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AFTER BEING SHOT ON SOUTH MAIN STREET NEAR SUMNER STREET. JENNINGS POLICE OBTAINED AN ARREST WARRANT FOR TWENTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD DANDRE JAVONTE NIXON. IF YOU KNOW WHERE NIXON IS LOCATED, YOU’RE ASKED TO CALL THE JENNINGS POLICE TIPS LINE AT TWO-SEVEN-FIVE-NINE-ZERO-ZERO-TWO.
FIREFIGHTERS IN SCOTT RESPONDED TO A STRUCTURE FIRE LATE TUESDAY NIGHT. DANIELLE JOHNSON HAS MORE.
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THE WEST NILE VIRUS HAS BEEN DETECTED IN MOSQUITO SAMPLES FROM IBERIA PARISH. THE LOUISIANA ANIMAL DISEASE DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORY AT L-S-U FOUND THE VIRUS IN SAMPLES SUBMITTED BY THE IBERIA PARISH MOSQUITO CONTROL DISTRICT. THEY SAY RESIDENTS MUST TAKE PERSONAL PRECAUTIONS AGAINST MOSQUITO EXPOSURE. THE DISTRICT PLANS ON CONDUCTING AERIAL SPRAYING AS THE WEATHER PERMITS.
Louisiana officials say around two dozen juvenile inmates at a troubled detention center won’t be moved to the notorious state penitentiary at Angola until at least the middle of next month. That’s as a legal battle over their transfer plays out. The defendants in the case include Gov. John Bel Edwards and the Office of Juvenile Justice. They and their attorneys said Tuesday they wouldn’t transfer any of the inmates until at least Sept. 15.
THE MAYOR AND POLICE CHIEF OF SAINT MARTINVILLE ANNOUNCED AN EFFORT TO REMOVE BROKEN DOWN AND ABANDONED VEHICLES FROM CITY STREETS. POLICE CHIEF RICKY MARTIN SAYS ABANDONED VEHICLES ON PUBLIC PROPERTY WILL BE TOWED AFTER TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. HE TELLS KLFY TV THAT IF THEY ENFORCE THE CITY ORDINANCE, OWNERS WILL HAVE FIVE DAYS TO REMOVE THE VEHICLE AFTER A WRITTEN NOTICE IS GIVEN FROM THE CITY. MAYOR JASON WILLIS SAYS THIS PROJECT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO HIM BECAUSE THE ABANDONED VEHICLES ARE AN EYESORE AND BRING DOWN THE VALUE OF THE COMMUNITY.
