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9-27-19

STUDENTS AT LAFAYETTE HIGH ARE BACK ON CAMPUS TODAY AFTER BEING ON LOCKDOWN MOST OF THE SCHOOL DAY YESTERDAY.  GERALD GREUNIG HAS MORE.

 

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The Deridder police department is asking the public to pay attention to what they’re putting in their wallets.  They told news outlets that they’ve seen an increase in counterfeit bills since March, particularly with hundred dollar bills.  Chief of Detectives James Halbert says the telltale signs of the counterfeit bills are poor paper quality and foreign stamps on the front or back of the bills. He says the money can be purchased online and is referred to as “movie money.”

 

A ST. LANDRY PARISH GRAND JURY HAS INDICTED TWO OPELOUSAS MEN ON MURDER CHARGES STEMMING FROM SEPARATE CASES.  THEY INDICTED 28-YEAR-OLD KENDALL RANDELL PAYNE ON A SECOND DEGREE MURDER CHARGE FOR THE MAY 21ST SHOOTING DEATH OF 22-YEAR-OLD STEVEN JAMES ANDRUS JUNIOR AFTER A DISPUTE.  ALSO INDICTED ON A SECOND DEGREE MURDER CHARGE IS 30-YEAR-OLD JOHN DEANDRE LEBLANC.  HE ALLEGEDLY SHOT AND KILLED DAVID SCOTT THOMAS ON JUNE 18TH AFTER AN ARGUMENT.

 

Gov. John Bel Edwards and his Republican challengers drew starkly different pictures of Louisiana’s economic and fiscal health in their second TV debate together.  The Deep South’s only Democratic governor described a Louisiana rebounding from an economic recession and a decade of budget crises. His GOP competitors U.S. Rep. Ralph Abraham and businessman Eddie Rispone depicted a state lagging the South and chasing away its residents with high taxes and anti-business policies.  Thursday’s TV debate was broadcast from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette campus.  Voters start casting their ballots for the Oct. 12 election in the weeklong early voting period that begins tomorrow.

 

THE EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY IN LAFAYETTE HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED AS A NATIONAL BLUE RIBBON SCHOOL.  THEY ARE ONE OF FOUR SCHOOLS STATEWIDE TO RECEIVE THE NATIONAL BLUE RIBBON FOR BEING AN EXEMPLARY HIGH PERFORMING SCHOOL.  THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-TWO SCHOOLS NATIONWIDE WERE RECOGNIZED AS NATIONAL BLUE RIBBON SCHOOLS BY THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.  TWO REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY WILL TRAVEL TO WASHINGTON D-C TO RECEIVE A PLAQUE AND FLAG FOR THE SCHOOL.

 

THE JENNINGS EIGHT MURDERS ARE BACK IN THE NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT IN A SHOWTIME DOCUMENTARY SERIES, CALLED “MURDER IN THE BAYOU.”  BETWEEN 2005 AND 2009, EIGHT WOMEN WERE KILLED IN THE AREA AROUND JENNINGS AND THEIR MURDERS HAVE NEVER BEEN SOLVED.  INVESTIGATORS ARE HOPING THE CONTINUED COVERAGE WILL LEAD TO A CONVICTION.  CHIEF DEPUTY CHRIS IVEY SAYS A TASK FORCE FORMED IN 2008 TO SOLVE THE MURDER CASES IS STILL ACTIVE AND THERE IS STILL AN 85 THOUSAND DOLLAR REWARD BEING OFFERED FOR INFORMATION THAT HELPS SOLVE THE CASES.

 

AN ACADIA PARISH JURY CONVICTED A FORMER CROWLEY RESIDENT YESTERDAY ON A CHARGE OF MOLESTATION OF A JUVENILE.  60-YEAR-OLD LANCE BARTON, WHO IS CURRENTLY FROM DAYTON, TEXAS, IS NOW A FIVE TIME CONVICTED SEX OFFENDER.  HE WILL BE SENTENCED ON OCTOBER 14TH.  HE FACES UP TO NINETY-NINE YEARS AT HARD LABOR AND AT LEAST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF THE SENTENCE WILL BE WITHOUT BENEFITS.

 

Lawyers representing coastal Louisiana parishes have negotiated their first settlement with one of the oil and gas companies accused of damaging the state’s coast.  The New Orleans Advocate/The Times-Picayune reports the settlement is with Freeport McMoRan Inc. and its subsidiaries. Attorney John Carmouche says the deal will result in payments totaling $100 million in cash and environmental credits over many years.  The deal establishes a potential settlement template for the dozens of other companies that have been similarly sued.