8-25-22
A BREAUX BRIDGE MAN WAS KILLED IN A HIT-AND-RUN IN SAINT LANDRY PARISH AT AROUND FIVE THIRTY A-M WEDNESDAY. STATE POLICE SAY TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD DAVONTE CHANE EDWARDS WAS TRAVELING SOUTH ON L-A HIGHWAY ONE EIGHTY-TWO NEAR THE CENTERLINE WHEN HE WAS STRUCK FROM BEHIND BY A TOYOTA CAMRY. EDWARDS WAS KNOCKED FROM THE BICYCLE AND HIT BY ANOTHER CAR COMING FROM THE OTHER DIRECTION. HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. THE DRIVER OF THE SECOND VEHICLE DID NOT STOP AND TROOPERS ARE ASKING THE PUBLIC’S ASSISTANCE IN FINDING THE HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER.
THE CURRENT NEWSPAPER IS REPORTING THAT F-B-I AGENTS ARE LOOKING INTO TWO LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT DRAINAGE PROJECTS AND ITS POTENTIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH MAYOR PRESIDENT JOSH GUILLORY. THREE PEOPLE WHO WERE VOLUNTARILY INTERVIEWED BY THE F-B-I TELL THE CURRENT THEY ARE LOOKING AT LUCRATIVE CONTRACTS AWARDED TO RIGID CONSTRUCTORS WITHOUT BIDS. THEY SAY THE AGENTS WERE PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN THE COMPANY’S INVOLVEMENT IN THE PROJECT TO REMOVE SPOIL BANK LEVEES IN SAINT MARTIN PARISH. ONE SOURCE SAYS THE AGENTS ARE STRUGGLING TO DETERMINE IF THE ACTIVITY VIOLATES ANY FEDERAL REGULATIONS OR LAW.
The Louisiana Department of Health is warning people to take precautions against mosquitoes because West Nile virus is on the rise. The medical director for the region based in Lafayette says it’s shaping up to be a very challenging West Nile season. A news release Wednesday said 14 people have developed dangerous infections of the brain and spinal cord, and two of them have died. One case in Acadiana is the region’s first such case since 2018.
SOME AREAS IN JEFF DAVIS PARISH ARE STILL RECOVERING FROM DAMAGE FROM HURRICANES LAURA, DELTA AND IDA. BECAUSE OF THE DAMAGE TO HOMES AND BUSINESSES, OFFICE OF EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS DIRECTOR TIM MCKNIGHT IS ENCOURAGING RESIDENTS IN JEFF DAVIS PARISH TO GET A PREPARATION PLAN TOGETHER. HE SAYS THE INFORMATION FOR PUTTING THE PLAN TOGETHER CAN BE FOUND ONLINE AT GET A GAME PLAN-DOT-ORG. HE SAYS THEY ARE TRYING TO BETTER HIS OFFICE BY TRYING TO GROW IT AND GET A BETTER GAME PLAN.
AN OPELOUSAS MAN WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY ON AN ARREST WARRANT FROM LAST DECEMBER ON A CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED SECOND-DEGREE MURDER. IT WAS IN CONNECTION WITH A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED IN THE ALICE AND STORY STREETS AREA OF OPELOUSAS IN JUNE OF TWENTY-TWENTY-ONE. NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD NYHIEM HOGANS HAD BEEN ARRESTED LAST OCTOBER IN AN UNRELATED ARMED ROBBERY. THE VICTIM IN THE JUNE TWENTY-TWENTY-ONE SHOOTING RECOGNIZED HOGANS IN HIS MUG SHOT WHICH LED TO THE ARREST WARRANT BEING ISSUED.
A MAN ACCUSED OF EXPOSING HIMSELF INSIDE A LAFAYETTE RESTAURANT HAS BEEN ARRESTED. DANIELLE JOHNSON REPORTS.
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EVANGELINE PARISH SHERIFF CHARLES GUILLORY SAYS PLANS ARE IN PLACE TO BUILD A STATE-OF-THE-ART JAIL FUNDED THROUGH A THIRTY TO FORTY YEAR BOND. THE NEW JAIL WILL BE ABLE TO HOUSE MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED INMATES. GUILLORY SAYS THE POLICE JURY WILL ALLOW HIM TO LEASE TEN ACRES AT THE INDUSTRIAL PARK AND THEY HOPE TO BREAK GROUND BY THE END OF THE YEAR OR EARLY NEXT YEAR. GUILLORY SAYS THEY PAY A HALF MILLION TO HOUSE INMATES OUTSIDE THE PARISH, SO WHY NOT KEEP THEM AT HOME.
STATE SENATOR KATRINA JACKSON SAYS WOMAN’S HOSPITAL IN BATON ROUGE GROSSLY MISINTERPRETED THE STATE’S EXCEPTIONS TO THE ABORTION BAN WHEN IT DENIED THE ABORTION OF A BABY WITHOUT A SKULL. DOCTORS INITIALLY TOLD THE WOMAN SHE COULD GET AN ABORTION BASED ON MEDICALLY FUTILE CONDITIONS BUT LATER TOLD HER SHE WOULD HAVE TO CARRY THE BABY TO TERM OR GO TO FLORIDA FOR AN ABORTION. THE STATEMENT FROM JACKSON AND THIRTY-FIVE OTHER STATE LAWMAKERS SAYS THE HOSPITAL IS NOW INTERPRETING THE LAW CORRECTLYAFTER JACKSON CONTACTED THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. THE LAWMAKERS POINTED OUT IN THE LETTER THAT MANY OF THEM SHARE A FAITH THAT WOULD COMPEL THEM TO CARRY THE CHILD TO TERM.
