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9-26-17

AN OKLAHOMA MAN, WHO HAD JUST MOVED TO LAFAYETTE DAYS AGO, WAS ARRESTED FOR A HOME INVASION AND SEXUAL ASSAULT OF THE FEMALE HOMEOWNER.  CORPORAL KARL RATCLIFF OF THE LAFAYETTE POLICE DEPARTMENT SAYS THAT, AFTER THE ALLEGED ASSAULT, 22-YEAR-OLD DEVON ANTHONY BELL FORCED THE WOMAN HE HAD ASSAULTED TO DRIVE HIM TO AN A-T-M TO WITHDRAW MONEY, THEN HE FLED ON FOOT.  A THOROUGH INVESTIGATION AND THE VIEWING OF SURVEILLANCE VIDEO LED TO DETECTIVES TO DETERMINE BELL WAS THE SUSPECT.  BELL WAS LATER ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH HOME INVASION, SEXUAL BATTERY, AGGRAVATED KIDNAPPING AND CRIMINAL TRESPASS.

 

LAKE CHARLES POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING SUNDAY NIGHT ON NORTH SHATTUCK STREET THAT RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF A TEN-YEAR-OLD.  WHEN POLICE ARRIVED AT 8:02 P-M, THEY FOUND THE TEN-YEAR-OLD AND A 17-YEAR-OLD WITH GUNSHOT WOUNDS.  THE TEN-YEAR-OLD, IDENTIFIED AS JAYLYN CITIZEN OF LAKE CHARLES, WAS TAKEN TO A HOSPITAL BUT LATER DIED, WHILE THE 17-YEAR-OLD IS LISTED IN STABLE CONDITION AT A LAFAYETTE HOSPITAL, WHERE HE WAS TAKEN FOR SURGERY.  DEPUTY POLICE CHIEF MARK KRAUS ASKS ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON THE SHOOTING TO CALL CRIME STOPPERS AT 439-2222.

 

IT’S BEEN A LITTLE OVER A YEAR SINCE LAST AUGUST’S HISTORIC FLOOD BUT MAURICE CITY EMPLOYEES ARE STILL WORKING OUT OF A TEMPORARY BUILDING.  JEFF HORCHAK HAS MORE.

 

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THREE CANDIDATES FOR STATE TREASURER ATTENDED A FORUM AT THE PRESS CLUB OF BATON ROUGE – FORMER COMMISSIONER OF ADMINISTRATION ANGELE DAVIS, FORMER STATE REPRESENTATIVE JOHN SCHRODER AND STATE SENATOR NEIL RISER, ALL REPUBLICANS.  THE LONE DEMOCRAT IN THE RACE, NEW ORLEANS ATTORNEY DERRICK EDWARDS, WHO LEADS IN THE POLLS, DID NOT ATTEND THE MONDAY FORUM.  THE RACE HAS GARNERED LITTLE ATTENTION, EVEN THOUGH THE PRIMARY IS ON OCTOBER 14TH, LESS THAN THREE WEEKS FROM NOW.  EARLY VOTING BEGINS THIS SATURDAY.

 

THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE HAS YET TO START HEAD START AND EARLY HEAD START CLASSES IN LAFAYETTE, ST. MARTIN AND IBERIA PARISHES.  C-D-I WAS ASSIGNED TO TAKE OVER THE HEAD START PROGRAM FROM THE SMILE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY AFTER THEIR FEDERAL CONTRACT WAS TERMINATED IN JULY BECAUSE OF ITS HANDLING OF ALLEGED CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT.  PATRICK FISHER OF THE U-S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SAYS C-D-I IS WAITING TO GET LICENSED BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION’S DIVISION OF LICENSING, WHICH HAS BEEN DELAYED BY ISSUES RELATED TO HURRICANE HARVEY.  MEANWILE, THE SMILE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY HAS LAID OFF AT LEAST A DOZEN EMPLOYEES, AND C-E-O CHRIS WILLIAMS WILL PRESENT MORE INFORMATION AT A BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING TODAY.

 

LAKE CHARLES POLICE HAVE MADE AN ARREST IN AN EARLY MONDAY MORNING HOMOCIDE AT THE RICHMOND SUITES ON MOELING STREET.  LIEUTENANT KEVIN KIRKUM SAYS A WITNESS SAW 46-YEAR-OLD JOSEPH OGLESBY BEATING HIS WIFE AND CALLED FOR HELP FROM JARONDRICK JONES, WHO WAS STAYING IN A NEARBY ROOM.  JONES ALLEGEDLY GRABBED OGLESBY BY THE NECK AND, AFTER A FIVE MINUTE STRUGGLE, OGLESBY WAS DEAD, POSSIBLY BY STRANGULATION.  JONES, WHO HAD GOTTEN INTO TWO ARGUMENTS WITH OGLESBY EARLIER THAT NIGHT, WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH NEGLIGENT HOMOCIDE.

 

A Louisiana State University doctoral student is hoping solar-powered GPS transmitters will help her track down what sort of territory mottled ducks prefer for their nests.  Elizabeth Bonczek tells The Daily Review that populations are declining along much of the upper Texas coastline, apparently due to habitat loss. But she says there’s very little known about what’s best for their nests.  She and state wildlife biologists went out into Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge while Hurricane Harvey was in the western Gulf to get the transmitters onto ducks.

 

A STATE REPRESENTATIVE IS WANTING TO WITHDRAW ALL STATE TAX DOLLARS, EXEMPTIONS AND CREDITS THAT ARE CURRENTLY ALLOCATED TO THE NEW ORLEANS SAINTS.  REPUBLICAN STATE REPRESENTATIVE KENNY HAVARD OF ST. FRANCISVILLE MADE THE ANNOUNCEMENT AFTER TEN SAINTS PLAYERS SAT DURING THE PLAYING OF THE NATIONAL ANTHEM AT SUNDAY’S GAME.  HAVARD CALLED IT A DISGRACE TO THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THIS NATION AND STATE THAT HAVE SACRIFICED SO MUCH.  HE SAYS THE PLAYERS HAVE THE RIGHT TO PROTEST, BUT THE STATE DOESN’T HAVE TO PAY FOR IT.