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THE FIRST OF EIGHT DELIVERIES OF FURNITURE FOR FLOOD VICTIMS IN SOUTH LOUISIANA ARRIVED IN LAFAYETTE YESTERDAY. THE FURNITURE IS BEING DONATED BY MANUFACTURERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO HELP THOSE WHO LOST FURNITURE BUT CAN’T AFFORD TO REPLACE IT. ORGANIZER RAE GREMILLION SAYS TO RECEIVE AID, VICTIMS MUST FILL OUT AN APPLICATION BY OCTOBER SEVENTH AND HAVE A FEMA NUMBER. APPLICATIONS CAN BE REQUESTED BY EMAILING FLOOD AID AT V-O-A-G-B-R-DOT-ORG.
KINDER POLICE HAVE RELEASED THE IDENTITY OF THE MAN WHO IS BEING CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTING TO ROB A MCDONALDS RESTAURANT WITH A HAMMER. HE IS 24-YEAR-OLD QUINTON PAPILLION OF LAKE CHARLES AND HE WAS ARRESTED IN CONROE, TEXAS. PAPILLION IS BELIEVED TO BE THE MAN WHO PULLED UP A THE DRIVE THRU WINDOW MONDAY AFTERNOON AND THREATENED EMPLOYEES WITH A HAMMER AND MACE, BEFORE REACHING IN AND STEALING THE CASH DRAWER. POLICE DETECTIVE ROCKY FONTENOT SAYS PAPILLION WILL BE TRANSPORTED BACK TO KINDER AND WILL BE CHARGED WITH ARMED ROBBERY AND CRIMINAL DAMAGE TO PROPERTY.
A VILLE PLATTE MAN WAS KILLED IN A CRASH SUNDAY IN WHICH THE OTHER DRIVER IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN IMPAIRED. 31-YEAR-OLD DUSTIN VIDRINE WAS TRAVELING NORTH ON HIGHWAY 13 NEAR GILBERT ROAD AT AROUND 2:20 SUNDAY MORNING WHEN HE STRUCK AN ONCOMING TRUCK THAT CROSSED THE CENTER LINE. HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. CHARGES ARE PENDING AGAINST THE DRIVER OF THE TRUCK, 31-YEAR-OLD ARTHUR VELASQUEZ OF MAMOU, WHO WAS NOT WEARING HIS SEAT BELT AND RECEIVED MODERATE INJURIES.
Louisiana is among a coalition of 21 states suing the U.S. Department of Labor over a new rule that would make more higher-earning workers eligible for overtime pay. Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt filed the lawsuit in Texas on Tuesday, urging the court to block implementation before the regulation takes effect on Dec. 1. The measure would shrink the so-called “white collar exemption” and more than double the salary threshold under which employers must pay overtime to their workers. Laxalt said the rule would burden private and public sectors and represents inappropriate federal overreach.
LAFAYETTE POLICE AND SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES FOUND A BODY STUFFED IN A TOOL BOX YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. THEY WERE ACTING ON A TIP WHICH LED THEM TO THE BODY, LOCATED IN THE 300 BLOCK OF SOUTH WILDERNESS TRAIL. THEY HAVE NOT DETERMINED THE IDENTITY OF THE BODY AND THE CORONER’S OFFICE IS INVESTIGATING THE CAUSE OF DEATH. KATC TV IS REPORTING THAT, ACCORDING TO WITNESSES, THE MEDIUM SIZE ROLLING SHOP TOOL BOX WAS FLOATING ON THE VERMILLION RIVER AND ENDED UP IN SOME BUSHES.
TWO MEN ESCAPED FROM THE ALLEN CORRECTIONAL CENTER YESTERDAY BUT WERE LATER RECAPTURED. DURING A HEAD COUNT AT 12:15 A-M, IT WAS DETERMINED THAT 39-YEAR-OLD RAYMOND KING OF LAPLACE AND 27-YEAR-OLD GERELLE CALISTE OF NEW ORLEANS WERE MISSING. A SEARCH BEGAN ON THE PRISON GROUNDS AND IN THE AREAS SURROUNDING THE PRISON WITH THE HELP OF THE ALLEN PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE. THE TWO WERE FOUND IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE PRISON AT AROUND 6:30 YESTERDAY MORNING.
IBERIA PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES SAY A 39-YEAR-OLD MAN WAS SHOT IN A DRIVE BY SHOOTING. JULIE DARCE REPORTS.
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LOUISIANA HAD TWO OF THE FASTEST GROWING ECONOMIES IN THE NATION AND TWO OF THE FASTEST SHRINKING ECONOMIES, ACCORDING TO STATISTICS RELEASED BY THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS. LAKE CHARLES’ ECONOMY GREW BY 8-POINT-3 PERCENT, THE THIRD FASTEST IN THE NATION, WHILE BATON ROUGE’S ECONOMY GROWTH OF 5-POINT-4 PERCENT WAS THE 17TH FASTEST. THE HOUMA THIBODEAUX METRO AREA HAD THE SECOND WORST ECONOMY, SHRINKING 7-POINT-8 PERCENT. LAFAYETTE WAS FIFTH WORST, WITH THE ECONOMY DECLINING BY THREE-POINT-8 PERCENT.
