8-7-17
A LAFAYETTE WOMAN WAS ABDUCTED FROM HER HOME AROUND 2:30 SUNDAY MORNING. JEFF HORCHAK REPORTS.
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THE CITY OF WESTLAKE HAS SOLD 73 ACRES OF LAND IN THE WEST TRACE COMMUNITY TO A DEVELOPMENT COMPANY FOR ONE-POINT-4 MILLION DOLLARS. THE WEST TRACE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY PLANS TO BUILD 270 AFFORDABLE HOMES NEAR THE MIDDLE OF A GOLF COURSE. THE COMPANY WILL TAKE CARE OF ALL DRAINAGE TO REDUCE THE POSSIBLITY OF FLOODS AND, IN EXCHANGE, THE CITY WILL TAKE CARE OF THE CLUBHOUSE. MAYOR BOB HARDY TELLS KPLC TV THAT IT WILL RESULT IN A TREMENDOUS INCREASE IN REVENUE TO THE CITY.
A PRISONER IN THE PINE PRAIRIE CORRECTIONAL CENTER MANAGED TO ESCAPE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON BUT WAS CAPTURED A SHORT WHILE LATER. AUTHORITIES WITH THE EVANGELINE PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAY THE INMATE ESCAPED BY CLIMBING A BARBED WIRE FENCE SHORTLY AFTER FOUR YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. SOME RESIDENTS TOLD KLFY TV THAT POLICE WERE GOING DOOR-TO-DOOR IN THE AREA AND CHECKING VEHICLES LOOKING FOR THE INMATE. HE WAS LATER FOUND HIDING IN A WOODED AREA ABOUT ONE HOUR AFTER HIS ESCAPE.
Louisiana’s flood recovery program is trying to determine the needs of flood-damaged companies by asking small businesses to fill out a statewide survey. The small business survey is expected to take about 10 minutes to complete and doesn’t require supporting documentation. It can be submitted anonymously. Restore Louisiana hopes it can use the data gathered from small companies impacted by the March and August 2016 floods to develop additional aid programs.
A 14-YEAR-OLD BOY WAS SHOT AND KILLED LAST NIGHT IN LAFAYETTE. TOBY AGUILLARD WITH THE LAFAYETTE POLICE DEPARTMENT SAYS THE SHOOTING HAPPENED IN THE 100 BLOCK OF CHAMPAGNE STREET. POLICE FOUND THE BOY LYING IN FRONT OF A RESIDENCE AND PRONOUNCED HIM DEAD AT THE SCENE FROM A GUNSHOT WOUND. AGUILLARD ASKS ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON THE SHOOTING TO CALL LAFAYETTE CRIME STOPPERS AT 232-TIPS.
THERE WAS ANOTHER SIGHTING OF A PINK DOLPHIN IN CAMERON PARISH SATURDAY AFTERNOON. BRIDGET A. BOUDREAUX SAYS SHE SAW TWO PINK DOLPHINS IN THE CALCASIEU SHIP CHANNEL NEAR HACKBERRY. SHE WAS ABLE TO GET A PHOTO OF ONE OF THEM PLAYING WITH A NON-ALBINO DOLPHIN, WHICH SHE SENT TO KPLC TV. THERE WERE TWO OTHER SIGHTINGS OF PINK DOLPHINS IN CAMERON PARISH IN LATE JULY.
THE IBERIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE ARRESTED THREE PEOPLE FRIDAY AFTERNOON AFTER THEY RESPONDED TO SHOTS BEING FIRED AT A HOME. THE HOME WAS LOCATED IN THE 31-HUNDRED BLOCK OF KEVIN DRIVE IN NEW IBERIA, AND WHEN THEY ENTERED, THEY FOUND POSSIBLE ILLEGAL DRUG ACTIVITY. AFTER OBTAINING A SEARCH WARRANT, THEY RECOVERED NEARLY TWO POUNDS OF MARIJUANA, 49 XANAX TABLETS AND ALMOST TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS IN CASH. THEY ALSO LOCATED A SEMI-AUTOMATIC RIFLE, TWO GLOCK HANDGUNS AND HUNDREDS OF ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION.
President Donald Trump has nominated a state judge and an attorney to serve as federal judges in the Western District of Louisiana. The White House announced the nominations of Judge Terry Doughty and Michael Juneau in a statement Thursday. Doughty has served as a judge in Louisiana’s 5th Judicial District Court since his 2008 election. Juneau is a founding member and shareholder of a Lafayette-based law firm.
