9-22-22
A FRATERNITY AT U-L LAFAYETTE HAS BEEN SUSPENDED FOR THREE YEARS AFTER REPORTS OF HAZING. THE HAZING HAPPENED IN THE SPRING SEMESTER AND THE SUSPENTION WENT INTO EFFECT ONE MONTH AGO. THE FRATERNITY THAT WAS SUSPENDED WAS ZETA XI, AN UNDERGRAD CHAPTER OF ALPHA PHI ALPHA. THE HAZING THAT WAS ALLEGED INCLUDED SLEEP DEPRIVATION, PADDLING AND CODE OF CONDUCT VIOLATIONS.
TWO PEOPLE FROM MAURICE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY THREATENING THREE TEENAGERS WITH A MACHETE AND ROBBING THEM LAST SATURDAY. AN EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD AND TWO JUVENILES WERE STUCK IN A FIELD IN THE LEROY AREA WHERE THEY WERE JOYRIDING AND A MAN AND WOMAN CAME UPON THEM. THE MAN SLAPPED THE EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD WITH THE MACHETE AND HELD IT TO HIS NECK, AND THEN THEY TOOK A CELL PHONE AND DRIVER’S LICENSE FROM TWO OF THE VICTIMS. DETECTIVES IDENTIFIED THE TWO SUSPECTS AS FORTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD CODI MORRIS BAUDOIN AND THIRTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD BRITTNIE LEA DAVIS, WHO WERE BOTH TAKEN INTO CUSTODY WITHOUT INCIDENT.
A LAKE CHARLES WOMAN WAS KILLED YESTERDAY MORNING IN A CRASH ON I-TEN BETWEEN HENDERSON AND BREAUX BRIDGE. THE DRIVER OF THE VEHICLE, AUSTIN LEE OF LAKE CHARLES, STRUCK A GUARDRAIL, CAUSING MAJOR DAMAGE TO THE PASSENGER SIDE OF THE VEHICLE. TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD KARALAN HAYES WAS ON THE PASSENGER SIDE AND SHE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE SHE DIED FROM HER INJURIES. INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE FATIGUE MAY HAVE PLAYED A ROLE IN THE CRASH.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOUISIANA SHRIMP ASSOCIATION IS PROPOSING HIRING A LOBBYIST TO REPRESENT THEM IN WASHINGTON AND BATON ROUGE. ACY COOPER SAYS THE IMPORTING OF SHRIMP HAS DRIVEN DOWN COSTS FROM FOUR DOLLARS A POUND TO A DOLLAR-TWENTY. HE SAYS, AT THAT PRICE, MANY SHRIMPERS ARE DOCKING THEIR BOATS, WHICH IMPACTS MANY COASTAL TOWNS THAT RELY ON ON COMMERCIAL SHRIMPING FOR A LIVING. THE ASSOCIATION BELIEVES A LOBBYIST WILL GIVE THEM REPRESENTATION, HELPING THEM TO BE PROTECTED AND TO THRIVE AGAIN.
THE VICTIM OF A HIT-AND-RUN OVER THE WEEKEND IS SPEAKING OUT. DANIELLE JOHNSON HAS MORE.
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RAYNE POLICE ARE STILL SEARCHING FOR THREE MEN BELIEVED TO BE INVOLVED IN THE SHOOTING AND WOUNDING OF TWO JUVENILES ON SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH ON CRANDALL AVENUE. THE SHOOTING WAS BELIEVED TO BE RETALIATION FOR A SHOOTING IN JANUARY IN CROWLEY IN WHICH TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD DARIUS SENEGAL WAS THE VICTIM. SENEGAL IS ONE OF THE THREE POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR AS WELL AS TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD CHASTEN BLAKE CARRIER OF CHURCH POINT AND TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD DEANTE CARRIER OF RAYNE. ANYBODY WHO KNOWS THEIR WHEREABOUTS IS ASKED TO CALL THE CRIMESTOPPERS TIPS LINE AT SEVEN-EIGHT-NINE-TIPS, WHERE UP TO A TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED DOLLAR CASH REWARD IS BEING OFFERED.
CONGRESSMAN CLAY HIGGINS ANNOUNCED THAT FEMA HAS AWARDED LOUISIANA TWENTY-SIX MILLION DOLLARS FOR HURRICANE RECOVERY EFFORTS. THE BIGGEST CHUNK OF IT, NEARLY TWENTY-TWO-POINT-FIVE MILLION WILL GO TO THE JEFF DAVIS ELECTRIC CO-OP. IT WILL BE USED FOR TRANSMISSION LINE RESTORATION. NEARLY THREE-POINT-SEVEN MILLION WAS AWARDED TO THE CALCASIEU PARISH SCHOOL BOARD TO MAKE PERMANENT REPAIRS AT LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL.
AIDEN PAUL IS A FIFTH GRADER DEALING WITH BRAIN CANCER AND, NOW THAT HE’S BACK IN SCHOOL, BULLIES. AIDEN TELLS KLFY TV THAT HE WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO HIS FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL AT HEROD ELEMENTARY IN ABBEVILLE BUT THAT CHANGED WHEN STUDENTS BEGAN BULLYING HIM, HURTING HIM, AND CALLING HIM NAMES. WHEN AIDEN CAME HOME ONE DAY AND TOLD HIS MOM HE DIDN’T DESERVE TO LIVE, SHE WENT TO THE PRINCIPAL AND HELPED AIDEN BUILD AN ALLIANCE. SOME STUDENTS HAVE SENT AIDEN HEARTFELT LETTERS AFTER LEARNING OF WHAT HE’S GONE THROUGH.
