9-20-22
NEW IBERIA POLICE HAVE MADE AN ARREST IN THE STABBING DEATH OF A MAN FOUND UNRESPONSIVE NEAR THE SAINT MATTHEW CEMETARY. DANIELLE JOHNSON REPORTS.
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ATTORNEYS REPRESENTING THE CURRENT AND THE ACADIANA ADVOCATE FILED A LAWSUIT MONDAY AGAINST LAFAYETTE MAYOR PRESIDENT JOSH GUILLORY. THEY ALLEGE HE HAS VIOLATED THE LOUISIANA PUBLIC RECORDS LAW BY CHARGING A DOLLAR PER PAGE FOR ELECTRONIC RECORDS. THEY ALLEGE EGREGIOUS AND INTENTIONAL ABUSE OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS LAW. THE STATE LEGISLATURE PASSED A LAW THAT WENT INTO EFFECT IN AUGUST ALLOWING GOVERNMENT AGENCIES TO CHARGE A REASONABLE FEE FOR TRANSMITTING PUBLIC RECORDS ELECTRONICALLY, JUST AS THEY HAVE BEEN DOING FOR PRINT RECORDS FOR YEARS.
THE TOWN OF LAKE ARTHUR WATER SYSTEM WILL SHUT OFF WATER TO THE ENTIRE TOWN TOMORROW TO REPAIR A MAJOR WATER LINE. TOWN OFFICIALS SAY WATER SERVICE WILL BE OUT BEGINNING AT EIGHT A-M AND STAY OFF THROUGH MOST OF THE DAY. WHEN WATER IS TURNED BACK ON, LAKE ARTHUR WILL BE UNDER A BOIL ADVISORY. IT WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HOSPITALS DETERMINES THE WATER IS SAFE TO DRINK.
Lucille Fremin Babineaux, mother of Louisiana’s first female governor and matriarch of a large family, is dead at age 102. Her family says Babineaux died Monday surrounded by family at her home in New Iberia, two weeks before what would have been her 103rd birthday. Her daughter, Kathleen Blanco, who was Louisiana’s governor when Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the state in 2005, died of cancer in 2019. Lucille and Louis Babineaux were married 59 years, until he died in 2001.
STUDENTS AND FACULTY AT RENE ROST MIDDLE SCHOOL IN KAPLAN WERE EVACUATED YESTERDAY WHEN A BOMB THREAT WAS FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOY’S BATHROOM. A K-NINE WAS BROUGHT IN TO HELP SEARCH FOR THE BOMB BUT NONE WAS FOUND. KAPLAN POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING THE THREAT AND REVIEWING VIDEO. THEY HAVE NOT YET MADE AN ARREST.
THIEVES STOLE A MONEY-FILLED SAFE FROM ALL SEASON’S NURSERY IN LAFAYETTE FRIDAY AT AROUND NOON. ACCORDING TO POLICE, SEVERAL MEN DISTRACTED EMPLOYEES WHILE TWO WOMEN STOLE THE SAFE FROM A SECURED LOCATION IN THE STORE. THE WOMEN GOT AWAY CARRYING THE SAFE UNDER A JACKET. ANYONE WHO HAS INFORMATION ON THE THEFT IS ASKED TO CONTACT LAFAYETTE POLICE OR NINE-ONE-ONE.
THE ACADIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS LOOKING FOR A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL WHO RAN AWAY FROM HER HOME SATURDAY NIGHT. BRYANA BROWN IS BLACK, FIVE-FOUR, ONE HUNDRED TWENTY POUNDS, WITH BROWN EYES AND BLACK HAIR. BRYANA IS KNOWN FOR CHANGING HER HAIR COLOR WITH WIGS. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON HER LOCATION IS ASKED TO CONTACT DETECTIVE NICK MILLER AT SEVEN-EIGHT-EIGHT-EIGHTY-SEVEN-TWENTY-THREE.
SAINT LANDRY PARISH SHERIFF’S DETECTIVES RAIDED A HEROIN STASH HOUSE LAST THURSDAY AND ARRESTED TWO PEOPLE. A YEAR-LONG INVESTIGATION LED TO THE SEARCH OF THE HOUSE, WHICH RESULTED IN THE CONFISCATION OF NINETEEN BAGS OF HEROIN VALUED AT OVER ONE HUNDRED SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS, AS WELL AS AN A-R FIFTEEN PISTOL AND ALMOST A THOUSAND DOLLARS CASH. TWENTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD TEMPESTT TRAKESE HOLMES OF OPELOUSAS AND TWENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD CHRISTOPHER JAVON PIERRE OF CHURCH POINT FACE MULTIPLE CHARGES. PIERRE, WHO HAS BEEN UNDER INVESTIGATION BY THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE FOR ALLEGEDLY SELLING HEROIN AND FENTANYL, IS BEING HELD WITHOUT BOND AT THIS TIME.
