9-26-23
THE SEARCH CONTINUES FOR A COTEAU HOLMES MAN WHO HAS BEEN MISSING FOR MORE THAN TWO WEEKS. FIFTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD WILLARD DASPIT JUNIOR WAS LAST SEEN LEAVING HOME ON A BIKE ON SEPTEMBER TENTH. HIS WIFE, LARA, SAYS SHE HAS RENEWED HOPE BECAUSE SOMEONE REPORTED SEEING DASPIT BEING PICKED UP BY A WHITE CAR THE NIGHT HE WENT MISSING. SHE SPECULATES THAT MAYBE THE PEOPLE TOOK HIM TO A HOMELESS SHELTER AND THEY ARE CHECKING ON THAT.
A CARENCRO WOMAN HAS SET UP A GOFUNDME ACCOUNT TO RAISE ONE HUNDRED THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS TO REBUILD AFTER LOSING HER HOME IN A FIRE. SIXTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD JOYCE GOODIE, WHO LIVES ON RACEWAY STREET, TELLS KLFY TV THAT THE FIRE STARTED NEAR THE CARPORT NEXT TO A LITTLE SHED AND SPREAD TO HER HOME, THOUGH SHE DOES NOT KNOW HOW IT STARTED. SHE SAYS A NEIGHBOR CAME RUNNING TELLING HER TO GET OUT OF THE HOUSE. THE HOME GOODIE LIVED IN WAS NOT INSURED.
BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD HAS DECIDED AGAINST ITS PLAN TO SELL TO ELEVANCE HEALTH FOR TWO-POINT-FIVE BILLION DOLLARS, AT LEAST FOR NOW. THEY NOTIFIED THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE THAT THEY ARE WITHDRAWING AN APPLICATION TO REORGANIZE INTO A FOR-PROFIT COMPANY THAT WOULD BE PURCHASED BY ELEVANCE HEALTH. A BLUE CROSS SPOKESPERSON SAYS THEY PLAN TO FILE AGAIN SOMETIME NEXT YEAR WHEN THERE IS A NEW GOVERNOR AND INSURANCE COMMISSIONER. IN A PREPARED STATEMENT, BLUE CROSS AND ELEVANCE SAY THEY WANT TO GIVE EVERYONE TIME TO SEE THE ADVANTAGES OF THE PROPOSED DEAL.
ALLEN PARISH COMMUNITY HEALTH RECEIVED ONE MILLION DOLLARS FROM THE STATE. IT’S A NEW HOSPITAL UNDER CONSTRUCTION THAT IS EXPECTED TO OPEN IN THE SPRING. THE MONEY WILL BE USED TO PURCHASE AND INSTALL STATE-OF-THE-ART MEDICAL EQUIPMENT. THE MONEY IS COMING FROM THE CAPITAL OUTLAY FUND WHICH IS USED TO FUND STATE AND LOCAL PROJECTS.
SMOKE FROM A MARSH FIRE IN VERMILLION PARISH IS CAUSING CONCERN. ZANE HOGUE HAS MORE.
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AFTER MORE THAN A DECADE, KATC TV ANCHORS MARCELLE FONTENOT AND JIM HUMMEL WILL LEAVE THEIR POSTS ON FRIDAY. THEIR DECISION COMES AFTER THE OWNER OF KATC, E-W SCRIPPS, DECIDED TO END ITS LIVE LOCAL EVENING BROADCASTS. IT WILL BE REPLACED BY A SHOW WITH PRE-RECORDED ELEMENTS AND LIVE ONLY WHEN NECESSARY AND FOR THE WEATHER SEGMENTS. KATC’S ONLY LIVE SHOW WILL BE GOOD MORNING ACADIANA.
LOUISIANA RICE FARMERS WILL RECEIVE HELP FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THIS YEAR. THE U-S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE ANNOUNCED THAT THEY WILL RECEIVE AN ADDITIONAL PAYMENT THROUGH THE RICE PRODUCTION PROGRAM. RICE PRODUCERS, WHO WERE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED AND WHO RECEIVED AN INITIAL PAYMENT, WILL GET AN ADDITIONAL TWENTY-EIGHT CENTS PER POUND. FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT YOUR LOCAL U-S-D-A SERVICE CENTER.
A PERSON IN IBERIA PARISH HAS BEEN CONFIRMED TO HAVE CONTRACTED THE WEST NILE VIRUS. THAT’S LED OFFICIALS TO SCHEDULE AERIAL SPRAYING THIS EVENING AND THURSDAY NIGHT. TONIGHT’S SPRAYING WILL BE IN THE JEANERETTE AREA, WHILE THURSDAY THEY WILL FOCUS ON HUBERTVILLE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA. AERIAL SPRAYING WILL BE CONDUCTED AT SUNSET, LASTING APPROXIMATELY ONE HOUR.
