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SCOTT FIREFIGHTERS AND THE LAFAYETTE FIRE DEPARTMENT HAZMAT UNIT WERE CALLED TO THE SCENE OF A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS CRASH SUNDAY AFTERNOON. DANIELLE JOHNSON REPORTS.
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OPELOUSAS POLICE ARRESTED A MAN WHO IDENTIFIED AS A LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL SPANISH TEACHER. HE WAS ACCUSED OF UNLAWFULLY TOUCHING FOUR EMPLOYEES AT A BUSINESS ON HEATHER DRIVE. FORTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD RAYMUNDO CLORIO WAS BELIEVED TO BE INTOXICATED AT THE TIME. CLORIO FACES TWO COUNTS OF SEXUAL BATTERY AND TWO COUNTS OF SIMPLE BATTERY.
Anthony Claude “Buddy” Leach Jr., who spent a term in the U.S. House and ran the budget committee in the Louisiana House before leading the state Democratic party, has died. The 88-year-old Leach died Saturday. A statement by Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards did not include a cause of death. Leach was elected to the Louisiana House in 1968 and to the U.S. House in 1978 from the state’s 4th District along the state line with Texas.
THE OFFICE OF MOTOR VEHICLES IN LAKE CHARLES IS REOPENING TODAY. IT WAS CLOSED LAST WEEK BECAUSE OF COVID-NINETEEN PRECAUTIONS. OFFICIALS ENCOURAGE CUSTOMERS TO GO TO EXPRESS LANE-DOT-ORG TO BOOK APPOINTMENTS.
FOR THE FIFTH STRAIGHT MONTH, HOME SALES IN ACADIANA DROPPED, ACCORDING TO DATA COMPILED BY BILL BACQUE OF MARKET SCOPE CONSULTING. SALES IN JULY WERE DOWN BY SIXTEEN PERCENT COMPARED TO ONE YEAR AGO FOR ACADIANA AND THEY DROPPED BY TWENTY-ONE PERCENT IN LAFAYETTE PARISH. THE AVERAGE SALE PRICE FOR A HOME IN LAFAYETTE PARISH IS DOWN SLIGHTLY FROM JUNE BUT INCREASED BY ELEVEN PERCENT COMPARED TO LAST YEAR. THE PRICE OF A NEWLY CONSTRUCTED HOME IS UP FIFTEEN PERCENT.
A DEPUTY WITH THE IBERIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE CIVIL DIVISION WAS KILLED IN A SINGLE VEHICLE CRASH THURSDAY AFTERNOON. BY THE TIME DEPUTIES ARRIVED ON THE SCENE, THE VEHICLE OF SEVENTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD FELTON J. OLIVIER WAS COMPLETELY SUBMERGED IN A POND IN THE FORTY-FOUR-HUNDRED BLOCK OF WEST ADMIRAL DOYLE. RESCUE ATTEMPTS WERE MADE BY PATROL DIVISION DEPUTIES BUT WERE UNSUCCESSFUL. AN AUTOPSY WILL BE CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE THE ACTUAL CAUSE OF DEATH.
AS SCHOOLS GET READY TO OPEN, THE LOUISIANA HIGHWAY COMMISSION REMINDS DRIVERS TO BE AWARE OF SCHOOL ZONES AND TO BE CAUTIOUS AROUND SCHOOL BUSES. DANIELLE JOHNSON HAS MORE.
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The Saint Landry parish school system is banning paddling students, saying the time to use corporal punishment in the classroom is long past. The School Board voted unanimously Thursday to specifically prohibit corporal punishment in the district’s policy manual, though district employees can use “reasonable and appropriate physical force” to prevent or defend a student or others being attacked. Louisiana is one of 15 states that allows corporal punishment in school districts and nearly 40 parishes across the state still allow paddling in schools.
