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THE MAN, WHO BRIBED SEVERAL PEOPLE IN THE 15TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE TO HELP SOME OF HIS CLIENTS FACING DRUNK DRIVING CHARGES, WILL BE SENTENCED TOMORROW. ROBERT WILLIAMSON PLED GUILTY IN JUNE TO THREE CHARGES AND, IN EXCHANGE, FEDERAL AGENTS AGREED TO DROP SIX OTHER CHARGES AGAINST HIM. WILLIAMSON COULD BE SENTENCED TO TWENTY YEARS IN PRISON AND FACES UP TO 750 THOUSAND DOLLARS IN FINES. THREE PEOPLE IN THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE HAVE ALREADY BEEN SENTENCED ON BRIBERY CHARGES INCLUDING BARNA HAYNES, THE LONG-TIME SECRETARY FOR FORMER DISTRICT ATTORNEY MIKE HARSON.
A JENNINGS WOMAN AND HER BOYFRIEND WERE ARRESTED TUESDAY AFTER HER ONE-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER SUFFERED THIRD DEGREE BURNS TO HER LEGS AND FEET. DEPUTY CHIEF DANNY SEMMES OF THE JENNINGS POLICE DEPARTMENT SAYS THAT APPARENTLY THE BOYFRIEND, 24-YEAR-OLD JAPHAEL GRIFFIN, GOT UPSET WHEN THE TODDLER SOILED HERSELF, AND HE PUT HER IN A TUB OF HOT WATER. HE SAYS GRIFFIN CONTACTED THE MOTHER, WHO WAS AWAY, AND THEY WAITED FORTY MINUTES BEFORE TAKING HER TO THE HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT. GRIFFIN HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH SECOND DEGREE CRUELTY TO A JUVENILE AND THE MOTHER, 25-YEAR-OLD SHELBY JONES, WAS CHARGED WITH ACCESSORY AFTER SHE WAS FOUND TO HAVE GIVEN FALSE STATEMENTS TO AUTHORITIES.
THE MAN WHO SHOT AND KILLED A SUNSET POLICE OFFICER AND FATALLY STABBED HIS SISTER IN LAW LAST MONTH MADE HIS FIRST APPEARANCE IN COURT YESTERDAY. IT WAS THE THIRD COURT HEARING IN THE CASE, BUT 35-YEAR-OLD HARRISON RILEY DID NOT ATTEND THE OTHER TWO BECAUSE HE WAS UNDERGOING MEDICAL TREATMENT. RILEY WAS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN INFLUENCED BY DRUGS WHEN HE KILLED 41-YEAR-OLD SHEMEKA JOHNSON AND SUNSET POLICE OFFICER HENRY NELSON. SHEMEKA’S SISTER, GRAND COTEAU MAYOR SHATERRAL JOHNSON, CONFRONTED RILEY AS HE WAS BEING ESCORTED FROM THE COURTROOM BY DEPUTIES.
Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration is quietly notifying legislative leaders that Louisiana closed the books on the last budget year with a deficit. But the administration won’t release a figure publicly. The announcement of the deficit’s size is expected in mid-October to the Legislature’s joint budget committee.
House Speaker Chuck Kleckley and Appropriations Committee Chairman Jim Fannin said Wednesday they’ve been told by administration officials Louisiana ended the last fiscal year June 30 in the red.
LAFAYETTE PARISH RESIDENTS HAVE UNTIL NOVEMBER 17TH TO APPEAL PROPOSED FLOOD MAPS FOR THE PARISH. THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY FIRST UNVEILED THE PROPOSED NEW FLOOD MAPS IN 2007, AND THE CITY PARISH GOVERNMENT AND SMALLER MUNICIPALITIES HAVE SPENT YEARS CHALLENGING SOME OF THE FLOOD ZONE CHANGES. SINCE THEN, SOME OF THE FLOODWAYS HAVE BEEN REDUCED. FOR INFORMATION ON THE MAPS AND THE ADOPTION PROCESS, GO ONLINE TO RISK-MAP-6-DOT-COM.
THE DRIVER OF A PICKUP TRUCK WALKED AWAY UNHURT AFTER A MAJOR CRASH ON I-TEN NEAR WELSH LAST NIGHT. ACCORDING TO REPORTS OBTAINED BY KPLC TV, THE DRIVER OF THE PICKUP WAS TRAVELING IN THE WESTBOUND LANES WHEN HE CLIPPED AN 18-WHEELER. HE THEN WENT ACROSS THE MEDIAN AND HIT AN EASTBOUND 18-WHEELER. THE TRUCK THEN ROLLED SEVERAL TIMES AND LANDED UPSIDE DOWN.
THE FATHER-IN-LAW AND BROTHER-IN-LAW OF ALI LANDRY HAVE BEEN KILLED. JULIE DARCE HAS MORE.
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A decade after Hurricane Rita, Cameron Parish still bears the scars of her wrath. Vacant slabs, weed-choked lots and solitary stairs to nowhere permeate the landscape in the tiny town of Cameron. Residents travel 30 miles away for the nearest grocery store. Some people still live in campers. Rita was one of the fiercest storms on record when it roared ashore near the Texas/Louisiana border on Sept. 24, 2005.
