9-14-17
ONE OF THE TWO PERSONS OF INTEREST IN THE DEATH OF A PREGNANT WOMAN FROM ST. MARTIN PARISH HAS BEEN ARRESTED. JEFF HORCHAK HAS MORE.
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GOVERNOR JOHN BEL EDWARDS IS SENDING HIS CONSTITUENT SERVICES OFFICIAL TO DERIDDER TODAY TO HEAR RESIDENT’S CONCERNS. KIM LACOUR SAYS SHE AND REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE GOVERNOR’S OFFICE WILL BE AT THE BEAUREGARD PARISH POLICE JURY BUILDING FROM TEN A-M TO ONE P-M. SHE SAYS THIS PROGRAM IS VERY IMPORTANT TO THE GOVERNOR AND HE WILL GIVE EACH COMMENT HIS TIME AND CONSIDERATION. LACOUR AND THE REPRESENTATIVES WILL GO TO ALLEN PARISH AT TWO THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL ALSO VISIT JEFF DAVIS AND CALCASIEU PARISHES NEXT WEEK.
A LAFAYETTE PARISH GRAND JURY HAS INDICTED A LAFAYETTE BUSINESSMAN, WHO ALLEGEDLY ORCHESTRATED THE KIDNAPPING OF HIS ESTRANGED WIFE ON AUGUST SIXTH. 49-YEAR-OLD LAWRENCE MICHAEL HANDLEY WAS INDICTED ON SIX CHARGES INCLUDING CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT SECOND DEGREE MURDER AND CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT SECOND DEGREE KIDNAPPING. HIS WIFE HAS CLAIMED IN DIVORCE FILINGS FOLLOWING THE KIDNAPPING THAT HANDLEY WANTED HER KIDNAPPED AND KILLED SO THAT SHE COULD NOT ACCESS THEIR COMMUNITY PROPERTY. TWO MEN FROM MISSISSIPPI KIDNAPPED HANDLEY’S WIFE, BUT ABANDONED HER IN THE VAN AFTER ENCOUNTERING TRAFFIC CONGESTION ON I-TEN, AND FLED INTO THE WOODS. THEY LATER DROWNED IN THE INTRACOASTAL CANAL.
With $1 billion in temporary taxes expiring in months, Louisiana House Speaker Taylor Barras says he expects lawmakers in his chamber to rally around tax ideas by January to close the shortfall. Barras struck an optimistic tone about chances of reaching an agreement in a majority-Republican chamber that has been reticent to support any taxes. He’s been visiting with House members around the state and says they appear more engaged as the July 1 tax expiration grows closer. If the Republican House speaker can build consensus around a slate of ideas, that could break a logjam between the House and Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards that stalled nearly all tax proposals this year.
A NEW IBERIA MAN WAS ONE OF THREE MEN IN LOUISIANA TO BE ARRESTED ON CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CHARGES. THE LOUISIANA BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION’S CYBER CRIME UNIT AND HOMELAND SECURITY INVESTIGATIONS WORKED WITH LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES TO ARREST THE THREE MEN. THE NEW IBERIA MAN IS 32-YEAR-OLD PAUL KLEINPETER. HE FACES FORTY COUNTS OF POSSESSION OF SEXUAL ABUSE IMAGES AND/OR VIDEOS OF CHILDREN.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE A-B FRANKLIN OF LAKE CHARLES HAS STARTED A GO FUND ME PAGE TO HELP RAISE MONEY FOR THE RESIDENTS OF GREINWICH TERRACE, WHICH WAS RECENTLY RAVAGED BY FLOODING. HE BELIEVES A MAJOR REASON FOR THE FLOODING IS THE KAYOUCHE COULEE, WHICH RUNS BEHIND GENERAL WAINWRIGHT DRIVE. HE TELLS KPLC TV THAT THE COULEE NEEDS TO BE DREDGED AND THE DRAINAGE UNCLOGGED. HE’S HOPING TO RAISE AT LEAST FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR EACH HOUSEHOLD THAT WAS AFFECTED.
A LOT OF PEOPLE FROM TEXAS, WHO WERE FLOODED OUT OF THEIR HOMES BY HURRICANE HARVEY, ARE STAYING TEMPORARILY IN LOUISIANA. LAFAYETTE PARISH HAS THE MOST RECIPIENTS OF THE TRANSITIONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. 1,723 PEOPLE, REPRESENTING 650 HOUSEHOLDS, ARE STAYING IN HOTELS IN THE PARISH. THE PARISH WITH THE NEXT MOST IS CALCASIEU PARISH WITH 1,143 USING SHORT TERM LODGING ASSISTANCE.
THREE PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND TWO INJURED IN A HEAD ON COLLISION ON I-TEN BETWEEN LACASSINE AND WELSH YESTERDAY AT AROUND FIVE P-M. SERGEANT JAMES ANDERSON WITH STATE POLICE SAYS THE DRIVER OF A 2008 MAZDA CROSSED THE MEDIAN FOR AN UNKNOWN REASON AND STRUCK A WESTBOUND PICKUP TRUCK PULLING A TRAILER HEAD ON. THE THREE PEOPLE IN THE MAZDA WERE ALL KILLED. THEIR NAMES HAVE NOT YET BEEN RELEASED. THE DRIVER OF THE PICKUP, 56-YEAR-OLD PAUL ALBERT OF LAFAYETTE, WAS TAKEN BY HELICOPTER TO LAFAYETTE GENERAL WITH SERIOUS INJURIES.
