9-1-22
A MAN WAS ATTACKED BY FIVE PIT BULLS YESTERDAY MORNING WHILE WALKING ON DYNASTY LANE WEST OF SUNSET. SAINT LANDRY PARISH PRESIDENT JESSIE BELLARD SAYS THE DOGS HAVE BEEN CONFISCATED. FIFTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD JOHNATHAN ZENON SUFFERED BITES TO THE HEAD AND ARMS AS WELL AS OTHER PARTS OF THE BODY. HE IS AT A LOCAL HOSPITAL BUT HIS CONDITION HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED.
LAFAYETTE POLICE HAVE ARRESTED A MAN BELIEVED TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR A STRING OF BURGLARIES IN A DOWNTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD OFF THE EVANGELINE THRUWAY. NEARLY A DOZEN BURGLARIES HAPPENED IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD IN AUGUST BUT RING CAMERAS CAPTURED IMAGES OF THE SUSPECT TRYING TO GET IN HOUSES, SOMETIMES IN BROAD DAYLIGHT. THE SUSPECT HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS MICHAEL WALKER. HE WAS BOOKED INTO THE LAFAYETTE PARISH JAIL ON SEVEN COUNTS OF SIMPLE BURGLARY AND THREE COUNTS OF IDENTITY THEFT.
Kentucky will receive up to 300 donated travel trailers from Louisiana to shelter people displaced by flooding that ravaged parts of Appalachia. The governors of both states made the announcement Wednesday. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says the first 65 donated trailers are being transported this week to eastern Kentucky. Louisiana’s assistance comes as Kentucky officials try to arrange intermediate housing for families whose homes washed away or were inundated with water and mud.
A JENNINGS MAN WAS SHOT IN THE FACE MONDAY AT A HOME ON MADISON STREET. JENNINGS POLICE CHIEF DANNY SEMMES SAYS ALL INDICATIONS ARE THAT THE SHOOTING WAS ACCIDENTAL BUT THEY ARE TREATING IT AS A CRIMINAL ACT BASED ON INFORMATION THEY HAVE RECEIVED. THE MAN, TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD JONAH LANDRY, ARRIVED IN CRITICAL CONDITION AT LAFAYETTE GENERAL AND DOCTORS WERE UNABLE TO SAVE HIS LEFT EYE AND MAY NOT BE ABLE TO SAVE THE RIGHT EYE. HIS MOTHER TELLS KLFY TV THAT LANDRY WILL HAVE TO UNDERGO FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION AND HIS FAMILY IS PRAYING FOR THE BEST AND TAKING IT DAY BY DAY.
THE CITY OF NEW IBERIA IS MOVING FORWARD WITH CLEANING UP THE CITY BY TEARING DOWN RUNDOWN HOMES. COUNCILMAN MARLON LEWIS TELLS KLFY TV THAT THESE HOUSES LEAVE THE COMMUNITY IN A BAD SITUATION. HE SAYS THIS PROJECT WILL PROTECT THE PROPERTY VALUES OF NEARBY HOMES AND WILL MAKE PEOPLE’S QUALITY OF LIVING AND SAFETY A PRIORITY. LEWIS SAYS MORE PLANS ARE IN THE WORKS TO MAKE NEW IBERIA A MORE ATTRACTIVE PLACE TO LIVE.
THE CITY OF CARENCRO IS MOVING FORWARD WITH DEMOLISHING SEVEN CONDEMNED PROPERTIES. CITY MANAGER DON CHAUVIN SAYS THESE PROPERTIES ARE IN DEPLORABLE CONDITION AND HAVE BEEN A CONSTANT BURDEN ON THE CITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD. CHAUVIN SAYS THE PROCESS TO DO THIS HAS TAKEN A YEAR WITH LEGAL HURDLES TO CLEAR. THE DEMOLITION WILL BEGIN ON OCTOBER FIFTEENTH SO, CHAUVIN SAYS, ANYONE INTERESTED IN THE PROPERTIES SHOULD ACT NOW.
Another 15,000 Louisiana homes and businesses are in line to get faster, more affordable internet over the next two years. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards announced Wednesday that an additional $35 million in federal funding received from the American Rescue Plan last year will be used to provide broadband in underserved areas. In July, Edwards announced an earlier batch of funding, $130 million, to provide broadband to more than 66,000 households and small businesses. Edwards says the lack of affordable, high-speed internet has hit especially hard in Louisiana’s rural communities.
A COMMUNITY MEETING WAS HELD WEDNESDAY NIGHT TO DISCUSS A WATER PROBLEM IN ARNAUDVILLE. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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