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FROM EIGHT TONIGHT UNTIL EIGHT TOMORROW MORNING, A SECTION OF VEROT SCHOOL ROAD, FROM AMBASSADOR CAFFERY TO FAILLA ROAD, WILL BE CLOSED. THAT’S SO ROAD CREWS CAN TRANSITION TRAFFIC FROM THE ORIGINAL ROADWAY TO THE NEW ROAD. ONLY RIGHT TURNS WILL BE ALLOWED ON THIS SECTION OF THE ROAD WHILE LEFT TURNS ONTO OR OFF VEROT SCHOOL ROAD WILL ONLY BE ALLOWED AT NEWLY CONSTRUCTED INTERSECTIONS. A MORE THAN THREE MILE SECTION OF VEROT SCHOOL ROAD IS BEING WIDENED TO FOUR LANES BETWEEN VINCENT AND PINHOOK ROADS.
JENNINGS POLICE HAVE ARRESTED A 42-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WHO SHOT A MAN YESTERDAY AFTERNOON WHO WAS IN A PHYSICAL ALTERCATION WITH HER SON. THE MAN HAD TO UNDERGO SURGERY AFTER HE WAS SHOT IN THE LEG AND TORSO, BUT IS IN STABLE CONDITION. POLICE CHIEF DANNY SEMMES SAYS KATHLEEN MOUTON OF JENNINGS ADMITTED TO SHOOTING THE VICTIM SEVERAL TIMES. SHE WAS BOOKED INTO THE PARISH JAIL ON A CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER AND HER BOND IS SET AT 200 THOUSAND DOLLARS.
THE CITY OF OPELOUSAS WILL INTRODUCE ITS PROPOSED BUDGET FOR THE UPCOMING YEAR. JEFF HORCHAK HAS MORE.
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Louisiana is spending $13 million this budget year to start obeying terms of a federal legal settlement involving people with serious mental illnesses. The five-year, court-monitored settlement with the U.S. Justice Department is aimed at resolving accusations the state illegally warehouses the mentally ill in nursing homes rather than helping them live in their communities. Louisiana’s health department has agreed to expand home- and community-based services and screen those in nursing homes to determine if they can be diverted to less-restrictive settings. A two-year federal investigation determined Louisiana violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by its over-reliance on nursing homes to house mentally-ill people.
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THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM IS LOOKING TO HIRE 15 MORE TEACHERS BEFORE SCHOOL BEGINS ON WEDNESDAY. THERE IS A CRITICAL SHORTAGE OF MIDDLE SCHOOL MATH TEACHERS, SO THEY ARE GOING THROUGH THE PROCESS OF TRYING TO HIRE RETIRED TEACHERS, WHICH, BY LAW, CAN RETURN UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS. SUZANNE THIBODEAUX SAYS NO CLASS WILL GO WITHOUT A TEACHER. SHE SAYS THEY HAVE SOME CERTIFIED TEACHERS READY TO SUBSTITUTE IN CASE THEY CAN’T FILL A POSITION.
THE HOUSTON ROCKETS WILL SPEND PART OF THEIR PRESEASON TRAINING CAMP AT MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY’S NEW ON-CAMPUS BASKETBALL FACILITY. THE TEAM WILL STAY AT THE GOLDEN NUGGET HOTEL AND CASINO, WHICH IS OWNED BY THE ROCKETS OWNER TILMAN FERTITTA. MCNEESE DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS BRUCE HEMPHILL CALLED THE ROCKETS A FIRST CLASS ORGANIZATION AND SAID THEY ARE BUILDING A FIRST CLASS FACILITY. THE MCNEESE STATE MEN’S AND WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TEAMS WILL BEGIN USING THE NEW FACILITY IN OCTOBER.
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says a 52-year-old man is accused of killing an endangered whooping crane. A news release Thursday says Gilvin Aucoin of Ville Platte admitted July 26 that he’d shot the bird a day earlier while working near a crawfish pond in northeast Evangeline Parish. He was cited with violating the Endangered Species Act, which carries up to a year in jail and a $50,000 fine. The male bird was among the first 10 of 125 whooping cranes released in Louisiana since 2011.
ACADIA PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES HAVE ARRESTED A NEW ORLEANS MAN FOR INAPPROPRIATELY TOUCHING A WOMAN ON A BUS. FELTON MOORE THE THIRD WAS ARRESTED WHEN THE BUS STOPPED IN EGAN. HE HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH ONE COUNT OF SEXUAL BATTERY. MOORE WAS BOOKED INTO THE ACADIA PARISH JAIL ON A TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLAR BOND.
