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THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM LAUNCHED THEIR NEW TRANSPORTATION HELP CENTER FRIDAY AND PARENTS CAN GET SOME IN PERSON HELP STARTING TODAY. MEGAN KELLY HAS MORE.
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THERE WAS A SHOOTING IN LAKE CHARLES YESTERDAY MORNING. IT HAPPENED IN THE ONE HUNDRED BLOCK OF WEST PRYCE STREET. ONE PERSON WAS SENT TO THE HOSPITAL, ACCORDING TO CORPORAL SCOTT DOUGHERTY. THE SHOOTING IS BEING INVESTIGATED.
THE DEATH OF A MAN, WHOSE BODY WAS FOUND SOUTH OF CROWLEY, HAS BEEN RULED A HOMOCIDE. 40-YEAR-OLD TIMOTHY BREAUX WAS REPORTED MISSING WHEN HE DIDN’T CHECK IN WITH FRIENDS AS PLANNED FRIDAY EVENING AND HIS VEHICLE WAS LATER FOUND ABANDONED AT A CEMETARY ON WEST FOURTH IN CROWLEY. HIS BODY WAS FOUND SATURDAY AFTERNOON ON WILDER ROAD. THERE HAS BEEN NO ADDITIONAL INFORMATION RELEASED ABOUT BREAUX’S DEATH.
The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission has set shrimp season to open today, but at two different times. From the Atchafalaya River Ship Channel at Eugene Island westward to the western shore of Freshwater Bayou, commercial and recreational shrimpers began shrimping at 6 this morning. In the zones east and west of that area, the season will begin tonight at 6.
PURVIS MORRISON, THE FORMER MAYOR OF SCOTT, WAS PRESENTED WITH THE LOUISIANA MUNICIPAL ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT’S AWARD. MORRISON SERVED SEVERAL YEARS ON THE ASSOCIATION’S EXECUTIVE BOARD. THE AWARD WINNERS ARE CHOSEN BY A COMMITTEE OF ASSOCIATION MEMBER’S ACROSS THE STATE. THE AWARD HONORS LONGEVITY IN PUBLIC SERVICE. MORRISON TELLS KATC THAT HE APPRECIATES THE AWARD BUT HIS TIME IN SERVICE IS DEFINITELY NOT COMPLETED.
THERE’S A NEW EXHIBIT ON DISPLAY AT THE HISTORIC CITY HALL IN DOWNTOWN LAKE CHARLES CALLED “THE PELICAN STATE GOES TO WAR”. IT HIGHLIGHTS THE CONTRIBUTION OF LOUISIANANS IN WORLD WAR TWO AND INCLUDES MANY ARTIFACTS. THE EXHIBIT, WHICH IS FREE TO THE PUBLIC, WILL BE ON DISPLAY UNTIL OCTOBER 19TH. THERE WILL BE A PANEL DISCUSSION ON WORLD WAR TWO’S IMPACT ON SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ON SEPTEMBER FIFTH AT MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY’S TRITICO THEATRE.
THE FORMER VERMILLION PARISH SCHOOL BOARD PRESIDENT WAS ARRESTED SATURDAY NIGHT ON MULTIPLE CHARGES. ANTHONY FONTANA, WHO IS ALSO A LOCAL ATTORNEY, WAS BOOKED INTO THE PARISH JAIL ON TWO COUNTS OF HIT AND RUN, AS WELL AS FAILING TO ADHERE TO STOP AND YIELD SIGNS, AND ONE COUNT OF LIMITATIONS OF BACKING. THE DETAILS SURROUNDING HIS ARREST HAVE NOT BEEN RELEASED. ACCORDING TO KATC AND KLFY, FONTANA IS NO LONGER IN JAIL.
Louisiana’s attorney general is rejoining a long-running legal battle over lethal injections of death row prisoners. Federal judges overseeing the lawsuit, which challenges the state’s execution laws and procedures, have put all executions in Louisiana on hold since 2014. The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate reports state Attorney General Jeff Landry abruptly quit the case last summer, claiming that Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards hadn’t fought hard enough to restart executions. That came after a state attorney agreed to another delay in the case, saying that litigating it while Louisiana still lacked execution drugs would be “a waste of resources and time.” But with the latest court-ordered halt to executions set to expire in the coming weeks, Landry filed Thursday to rejoin the litigation and vowed to fight any further delays.
