8-28-15
NEW JOBS ARE COMING TO ACADIANA IN THE NEAR FUTURE AFTER THE GRAND OPENING YESTERDAY OF THE BELL HELICOPTER LAFAYETTE ASSEMBLY CENTER.
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THE VISITATION FOR STATE TROOPER STEVEN VINCENT HAS BEEN MOVED BECAUSE OF THE LARGE CROWDS THAT ARE EXPECTED. THE VISITATION WILL TAKE PLACE FROM THREE TO NINE TODAY AT THE LAKE CHARLES CIVIC CENTER’S ROSA HART THEATRE. THE FUNERAL IS SCHEDULED FOR NOON TOMORROW AT OUR LADY QUEEN OF HEAVEN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN LAKE CHARLES , WITH BURIAL TO FOLLOW AT THE LACASSINE CEMETARY. VINCENT WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY KEITH DAIGLE ON MONDAY.
THE MAN WHO SHOT AND KILLED A SUNSET POLICE OFFICER, KILLED ANOTHER WOMAN, AND WOUNDED THREE OTHERS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, WAS A KATRINA EVACUEE, WHO HAD MOVED TO ARNAUDVILLE, ACCORDING TO THE ADVOCATE NEWSPAPER. HARRISON LEE RILEY HAD A LENGTHY CRIMINAL RECORD AND WAS SCHEDULED TO GO TO COURT YESTERDAY TO FACE CHARGES FOR DRUG POSSESSION. POLICE SAY RILEY APPEARED TO BE HIGH ON THE DRUG P-C-P AFTER HE HAD SLASHED HIS WIFE AND STABBED THREE OTHER WOMEN, WHEN THEY TRIED TO INTERVENE. WHEN OFFICER HENRY NELSON ARRIVED ON THE SCENE, RILEY STOLE HIS GUN AND SHOT HIM WITH IT.
The super PAC created to boost David Vitter’s candidacy for governor is starting its hefty $2 million advertising blitz a bit unexpectedly, praising the Republican U.S. senator rather than trashing his competitors. Super PACs often are seen as groups that can attack for candidates without the candidates’ involvement. The first TV ad by the Fund for Louisiana’s Future touts Vitter as a “reformer with results.” Four major candidates are in the governor’s race, including Republican Public Service Commissioner Scott Angelle, Republican Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne and Democratic state Rep. John Bel Edwards.
SETH FONTENOT OF LAFAYETTE COULD BE RELEASED FROM JAIL MAY 15TH, ACCORDING TO PAM LABORDE OF THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONS. FONTENOT WAS FOUND GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER FOR THE SHOOTING DEATH OF 15-YEAR-OLD AUSTIN RIVAULT, AND THE WOUNDING OF TWO OTHER TEENS. HE WAS SENTENCED TO 13 MONTHS IN PRISON BUT LABORDE SAYS HE COULD BE RELEASED ON GOOD TIME PAROLE AFTER SERVING 85 PERCENT OF THE JAIL TERM. THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE THIS WEEK ASKED AN APPEALS COURT TO REVIEW THE SENTENCE, WHICH THEY CONSIDER TO BE ILLEGAL.
THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE HAS IDENTFIED A BODY FOUND IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF THE PARISH AS 33-YEAR-OLD JODY L. BARLOW. THE BODY WAS FOUND YESTERDAY MORNING IN A WOODED AREA NEAR THE SABINE RIVER BY HUNTERS. THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE HAS RULED HIS DEATH A HOMOCIDE, THOUGH THEY ARE WAITING TO RELEASE THE CAUSE OF DEATH UNTIL THE CORONER COMPLETES AN EXAMINATION. BARLOW’S WIFE WAS AT THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE FILING A MISSING PERSON’S REPORT WHEN THEY RECEIVED A PHONE CALL FROM THE HUNTERS ABOUT THE BODY.
BAYOU COMPANIES WILL BE BUILDING A NEW PLANT AND EXPANDING OPERATIONS AT THE PORT OF IBERIA. THE DIRECTOR OF MANUFACTURING AND OPERATIONS, DAVID TALDO, TOLD THE IBERIA PARISH COUNCIL WEDNESDAY THAT THEY COULD BEGIN CONSTRUCTION ON THE 39-MILLION DOLLAR PLANT NEXT MONTH AND BE OPEN BY MARCH. THE PLANT, WHICH WILL EMPLOY 15 TO TWENTY PEOPLE TO BEGIN WITH, WILL COAT PIPE WITH A SPECIALIZED, ANTI-CORROSION MATERIAL. THE COUNCIL GRANTED BAYOU COMPANIES ONE-POINT-5 MILLION DOLLARS IN TAX FUNDING ASSISTANCE, WHICH WILL BE USED BY THE COMPANY TO PUT IN THE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE FACILITY.
Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has picked up another challenge to his fall re-election bid. Charlotte McDaniel McGehee, a Democrat and lawyer from Baton Rouge, announced her candidacy this week. In a statement, McGehee described herself as a business owner and working mother who knows “the challenges our families face.” She hasn’t yet filed a campaign finance report.
