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8-29-22

SCHOOLS IN ERATH WILL BE CLOSED TODAY.  THAT’S BECAUSE OF ELECTRICITY ISSUES AFFECTING THE ENTIRE CITY.  HERE ARE THE SCHOOLS THAT WILL BE CLOSED TODAY: ERATH HIGH AND ERATH MIDDLE SCHOOLS AS WELL AS DOZIER ELEMENTARY.

 

AFTER BEING DELAYED DUE TO WEATHER, DRIVERS IN SCOTT ARE DEALING WITH ROAD CONSTRUCTION FOR THE NEXT EIGHT MONTHS WHILE THE LARGEST ROUNDABOUT IN THE CITY IS BEING BUILT.  DANIELLE JOHNSON HAS THE DETAILS.

 

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The Beauregard Parish sheriff’s office says four people have drowned — three men and the juvenile male they tried to rescue from the Sabine River. The Beauregard Parish Sheriff’s Office tells KPLC-TV that crews found three bodies on Sunday in the river near Merryville. Deputies went to a popular boat launch late Friday after a caller reported people in distress. Sheriff Mark Herford says it’s a beautiful spot but it’s dangerous because water levels change daily, and the current is very strong.

 

THE IBERIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS INVESTIGATING A VEHICLE FIRE EARLY THIS MORNING IN NEW IBERIA.  THE VEHICLE WAS IN A CANE FIELD OFF OF GRAND PRAIRIE ROAD.  THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE TELLS KLFY TV THAT THERE WAS NO ONE IN THE CAR.  THERE IS AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION INTO THE FIRE.

 

OASIS FOOD COMMUNITY COTERIE HAS TEAMED WITH LAFAYETTE CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS AND OTHER LEADERS TO START A FOOD PANTRY.  COUNCILMAN GLENN LAZARD SAYS THE COMMUNITY IS EXPERIENCING FOOD SCARCITY AND THIS IS AN INITIATIVE TO BRING FRESH FOOD TO THE AREA.  THE PRESIDENT OF OASIS, JOSHUA EDMOND, SAYS THE FOOD PANTRY IS JUST ONE OF THE ORGANIZATION’S EFFORTS TO SUPPLY FOOD TO THE COMMUNITY.  THE FOOD PANTRY IS STOCKED WITH DONATIONS FROM ANYONE WHO WANTS TO DROP OFF EXTRA GROCERIES AND IS FREE TO THE PUBLIC.

 

 

FOUR MEN HAVE BEEN ARRESTED AFTER THEY ALLEGEDLY FOLLOWED A MAN TO HIS HOME IN LAKE CHARLES AND ROBBED HIM.  THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS THE FOUR FOLLOWED A MAN INVOLVED IN A HIT-AND-RUN WHO LEFT THE SCENE TO GO TO HIS RESIDENCE.  THE FOUR ALLEGEDLY DRUG THE MAN INTO THE ROADWAY AND BEGAN HITTING HIM WHILE DEMANDING PAYMENT.  THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS THE MAN TRIED SENDING MONEY USING A MOBILE PAYMENT APP, AND THEN ONE OF THE MEN STOLE THE VICTIM’S PHONE.

 

THE SEARCH FOR AN ACADIA PARISH MAN ENDED LAST WEEK WHEN IT WAS LEARNED HE WAS THE VICTIM OF A HIT-AND-RUN.  ERIC SIMAR HAD BEEN MISSING SINCE AUGUST SIXTEENTH UNTIL LAST WEDNESDAY WHEN HIS BODY WAS FOUND ON THE ESTHERWOOD HIGHWAY.  SHERIFF K-P GIBSON SAYS HIS PERSONNEL FOUND FRAGMENTS OF A VEHICLE WHICH LED THEM TO ARREST FORTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD TINA KIBODEAUX OF ESTHERWOOD.  SHE’S BEEN CHARGED WITH ONE COUNT OF HIT-AND-RUN IN DEATH OR SERIOUS BODILY INJURY.

 

A LAFAYETTE PARISH GRAND JURY HAS INDICTED A MOTHER AND HER BOYFRIEND MONTHS AFTER THE DEATH OF HER ONE-YEAR-OLD BOY.  BROOKE BLANCHARD AND BRADY LEBLANC HAVE BEEN CHARGED WITH SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AFTER HER CHILD WAS FOUND TO HAVE MULTIPLE INJURIES, INCLUDING A CRACKED SKULL.  BLANCHARD INSISTS SHE DID NOT KILL HER CHILD BUT TELLS KLFY TV SHE HAD BEEN USING METH THAT TURNED OUT TO BE MIXED WITH FENTANYL AND ANGEL DUST.  SHE SAYS SHE WAS ASLEEP WHEN HER BOYFRIEND AWAKENED HER BECAUSE HER SON WAS UNRESPONSIVE AND SHE DOESN’T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED.