9-13-21
AN EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD FROM RAYNE IS IN CUSTODY FOR ALLEGEDLY SHOOTING AND KILLING A SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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TOURISM ADVOCATES AND FRENCH AMERICAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATIONS IN LAFAYETTE ARE CALLING FOR AN END TO A TRAVEL BAN THAT PREVENTS NON-ESSENTIAL TRAVELERS TO COME TO THE UNITED STATES FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION. BEN BERTHELOT OF THE LAFAYETTE CONVENTION AND VISITORS COMMISSION TELLS THE ADVOCATE NEWSPAPER THAT LAFAYETTE IS TAKING A HIT FROM THE TRAVEL BAN BECAUSE INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL WAS THE FASTEST GROWING MARKET. HE SAYS THE NATURAL CONNECTION LAFAYETTE HAS WITH FRENCH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES AND EUROPE HAS BEEN NEGATIVELY INFLUENCED. LAST WEEK, THE WHITE HOUSE SAID IT IS EXAMINING THE CURRENT RESTRICTIONS ON NON-ESSENTIAL TRAVELERS.
Tropical Storm Nicholas is strengthening as it travels up the western Gulf Coast. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami say coastal areas of Texas, Mexico and Louisiana could see heavy rain and flooding. Nicholas is expected to produce total rainfall of up to 10 inches across portions of coastal Texas into southwest Louisiana through midweek. Governor John Bel Edwards has issued a state of emergency for Louisiana.
WITH THE APPROACH OF TROPICAL STORM NICHOLAS, JEFF DAVIS PARISH HAS SET UP MULTIPLE SANDBAG LOCATIONS. FOR A LIST, YOU CAN GO TO THE JEFF DAVIS PARISH OFFICE OF EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FACEBOOK PAGE. CALCASIEU PARISH ALSO HAS SANDBAG LOCATIONS JUST IN CASE THE STORM PRODUCES HEAVY RAINS. DICK GREMILLION, THE DIRECTOR OF THE CALCASIEU PARISH OFFICE OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, SAYS RESIDENTS SHOULD PREPARE FOR THE THREAT OF FLOODING THROUGH WEDNESDAY. CALCASIEU PARISH SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN CLOSED FOR TODAY.
A BREAUX BRIDGE MAN WAS KILLED IN A CRASH ON L-A TWENTY SIX NEAR DENHAM SPRINGS AT AROUND TWO A-M SUNDAY. THIRTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD JOSHUA DORE WAS TRAVELING ON A BICYCLE WHEN HE WAS STRUCK FROM BEHIND BY A PICKUP TRUCK DRIVEN BY FIFTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD TERREL TURNER OF WALKER. STATE TROOPERS SAY TURNER LEFT THE SCENE INITIALLY BUT RETURNED. HE FACES NUMEROUS CHARGES INCLUDING VEHICULAR HOMOCIDE, D-W-I AND HIT AND RUN DRIVING.
A LAFAYETTE ATTORNEY WHO WAS INDICTED FOR PERJURY SAYS HE EXPECTS THE CHARGE TO BE DROPPED ANY DAY NOW. CHARLES MIDDLETON WAS ACCUSED OF LYING WHILE TESTIFYING IN THE MALFEASANCE CASE OF FORMER LAFAYETTE CITY MARSHAL BRIAN POPE. MIDDLETON TOLD KATC TV YESTERDAY THAT THERE IS NO EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM AND HE EXPECTS THE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE, WHICH NOW HAS THE CASE, TO DISMISS IT. MIDDLETON SAYS, ONCE THE CHARGE IS DISMISSED, HE WILL HAVE HIS OWN CAUSE OF ACTION, WHICH HE WILL ASSERT IN THE COURTS, FOR WHAT, HE SAYS, THEY DID TO HIM.
A KROTZ SPRINGS WOMAN IS IN JAIL ON A SECOND DEGREE MURDER CHARGE AFTER SHE ALLEGEDLY SHOT HER HUSBAND FIVE TIMES. KROTZ SPRINGS POLICE CHIEF SUSIE SNYDER SAYS FIFTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD JOHN BARKER AND FORTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD MARGARET BARKER HAD BEEN DIVORCED FOR AWHILE BUT HAD RECENTLY BEEN SEEING EACH OTHER AGAIN. SNYDER SAYS POLICE WERE RESPONDING TO REPORTS OF A DISTURBANCE AT MARGARET’S HOME AT AROUND SIX A-M YESTERDAY MORNING WHEN THEY HEARD MULTIPLE GUNSHOTS COMING FROM THE HOME. WHEN OFFICERS ARRIVED THEY FOUND JOHN BARKER DEAD ON THE FRONT PORCH WITH FIVE BULLET WOUNDS.
Louisiana students were just getting back to class after a year and a half of COVID-19 disruptions when Hurricane Ida struck. Now many of them are missing school again. Nearly 170,000 public school students statewide have no school to report to. Top administrators promise that classrooms will reopen in a matter of weeks, but that’s not enough to keep many parents and educators from worrying about whether kids may fall behind.
