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NEW FACILITIES ARE BEING BUILT AT THE NEW IBERIA RESEARCH CENTER THAT WILL ALLOW RESEARCHERS TO TEST AND MANUFACTURE DRUGS AND VACCINES. IBERIA PARISH PRESIDENT LARRY RICHARD SAYS, “THIS IS GOING TO BE THE CORRIDOR FOR PHARMACEUTICALS THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.” SENATE PRESIDENT PAGE CORTEZ SAYS LEGISLATORS FROM ACADIANA AND U-L LAFAYETTE, ALONG WITH THE LEGISLATURE, CAME TOGETHER TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN. THE FACILITIES ARE EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED WITHIN TWO YEARS.
THE PROPOSED RATE INCREASE BY L-U-S WAS ON YESTERDAY’S LAFAYETTE CITYAND PARISH COUNCIL BUDGET HEARING’S AGENDA. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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Officials say Louisiana will receive nearly $100 million in additional federal transportation aid that went unused by other states. Gov. John Bel Edwards said the aid, which the state landed after successfully obligating the full amount of its federal assistance for 2021-22, is the largest redistributed funds Louisiana has collected. What the money will specifically be used for is unclear, but officials at the Department of Transportation and Development are hopeful the aid will allow work on certain projects to be accelerated.
A FAMILY OF NINE LOST THEIR HOME IN WELSH TO A FIRE, WHICH LEFT THE HOUSE UNLIVEABLE. FIRE CHIEF JOHN HALL SAYS THEY RESCUED A DOG FROM THE HOUSE BUT NO FAMILY MEMBERS WERE THERE AT THE TIME. AN ELECTRICAL MALFUNCTION IS BELIEVED TO BE THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE. THE FAMILY DID NOT HAVE INSURANCE AND THE NINETY-ONE STOP GAS STATION AT EAST RUSSELL AVENUE IS ACCEPTING DONATIONS FOR THE FAMILY.
SHOTS WERE FIRED IN MORGAN CITY DURING A FIGHT BETWEEN TWO WOMEN. MORGAN CITY POLICE SAYS NO ONE WAS WOUNDED. POLICE FOUND THE GUN WHICH WAS DETERMINED TO HAVE BEEN STOLEN. THE WOMAN WHO FIRED THE GUN, TIARA KNIGHTEN, WAS ARRESTED AND BOOKED INTO THE MORGAN CITY JAIL. POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR THE OTHER WOMAN, TIEKA JUNIFER. BOTH WOMEN ARE FROM MORGAN CITY.
A DRAINAGE PROJECT CONSIDERED THE MOST AGGRESSIVE EVER UNDERTAKEN IN BROUSSARD WILL BEGIN IN SEPTEMBER ALONG A FOUR MILE STRETCH OF COULEE FORTUNE. THE MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR PROJECT WILL IMPACT ABOUT ELEVEN-HUNDRED HOMES AND TWO HUNDRED BUSINESSES IN THE COULEE’S NEARLY TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED ACRE DRAINAGE AREA. PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR MEL BERTRAND SAYS WORK WILL BEGIN ON THE NORTHERN END OF THE PROJECT AT BAYOU TORTUE AND THE HALFWAY POINT AT HIGHWAY NINETY SHOULD BE REACHED WITHIN SIX TO EIGHT MONTHS. THE CITY OF BROUSSARD HAS DEDICATED A FULL-TIME CREW TO COULEE AND DRAINAGE MAINTENANCE.
YOUTH JUSTICE ADVOCATES ARE DEMANDING THAT GOVERNOR JOHN BEL EDWARDS ABANDON THE PLAN TO TRANSFER JUVENILE INMATES FROM BRIDGE CITY TO A FACILITY ON THE GROUNDS OF ANGOLA STATE PRISON. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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THE RAYNE POLICE DEPARTMENT IS SEEKING TO FIND SEVERAL YOUNG MALES WHO FIRED MULTIPLE SHOTS WHILE WALKING ON SIXTH STREET NEAR AMERICAN LEGION DRIVE AND LOCUST STREET ON AUGUST FOURTH. ONE BULLET ENTERED A NEARBY HOME, BUT NO ONE WAS INJURED. POLICE BELIEVE THE SUSPECTS SHOT AT OTHER PEOPLE AND THE HOME WAS NOT A TARGET. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON THE SHOOTING IS ASKED TO CALL SEVEN-EIGHT-NINE-TIPS, WHERE UP TO A TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED DOLLAR REWARD IS BEING OFFERED FOR INFORMATION LEADING TO AN ARREST IN THIS CASE.
