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ONE PERSON WAS KILLED IN A VEHICLE CRASH NEAR ACADIANA HIGH SCHOOL. IT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT ON WEST CONGRESS STREET NEAR RUE DE BELIER. THE ROAD WAS SHUT DOWN DURING THE PERIOD AFTER THE ACADIANA FOOTBALL GAME AGAINST NEW IBERIA, CAUSING TRAFFIC PROBLEMS AS DRIVERS WERE BEING DIVERTED. THERE ARE NO FURTHER DETAILS AT THIS TIME ON THE CRASH.
SAINT MARTINVILLE POLICE CHIEF RICKY MARTIN WILL BE RECOMMENDING THE FIRING OF DEPUTY CHIEF CODY LAPEROUSE AT THE NEXT CITY COUNCIL MEETING. MARTIN TELLS KLFY TV THAT ON AUGUST TWENTY-SIXTH, LAPEROUSE BARGED INTO AN OFFICE WHERE A MAN WAS BEING QUESTIONED BY DETECTIVES AND PHYSICALLY TRIED TO ATTACK THE MAN. IN TWENTY-FIFTEEN, LAPEROUSE PLED GUILTY AFTER HE STRUCK A HANDCUFFED MAN AT A FESTIVAL IN NEW IBERIA WHEN HE WAS AN IBERIA PARISH DEPUTY. MARTIN SAYS LAPEROUSE WAS A GOOD COP BUT HIS ANGER GOT TO HIM AND WILL PROBABLY COST HIM HIS CAREER.
THE UNITED CAJUN NAVY HAS JOINED HURRICANE RELIEF EFFORTS IN FLORIDA. GERALD GRUENING HAS MORE.
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TWO TEENAGERS HAVE BEEN ARRESTED IN A ROBBERY TURNED DEADLY AND LAKE CHARLES POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR A THIRD SUSPECT. ON SEPTEMBER THIRTEENTH, THE THREE ALLEGEDLY TRIED TO ROB TWENTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD JEREMY JAMAL WARE AT HIS HOME ON RENA STREET WHEN WARE WAS SHOT AND LATER DIED AT THE HOSPITAL. THE THIRD SUSPECT POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR IS SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD MAALIK MARQUESE BRIGNAC, ALSO KNOWN AS MEEZY, WHO IS WANTED FOR FIRST-DEGREE MURDER. POLICE SAY BRIGNAC SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
LAFAYETTE POLICE OFFICER SEGUS JOLIVETTE WAS POSTHUMOUSLY PROMOTED TO THE RANK OF SENIOR CORPORAL. JOLIVETTE, A HOSTAGE NEGOTIATER, WAS KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY IN JULY DURING A STANDOFF WITH A SUSPECT IN JEANERETTE. MAYOR PRESIDENT MONIQUE BOULET SIGNED AN ORDINANCE RECOGNIZING JOLIVETTE’S PROMOTION WITH HIS FAMILY PRESENT. BOULET SAID THE PROMOTION WASN’T GIVEN TO JOLIVETTE BUT A RANK HE EARNED BECAUSE OF HIS HARD WORK OVER MANY YEARS.
IN ABBEVILLE, THERE WAS CONCERN ABOUT ONLINE PAYMENTS BEING PAID THROUGH A THIRD PARTY SITE, WHICH BROUGHT UP A DISCLAIMER TO THE CITY’S WEBSITE. GERALD GRUENING HAS DETAILS.
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THE VICE CHAIRMAN OF THE LOUISIANA BOARD OF REGENTS HAS RESIGNED OVER THE GOVERNOR’S DECISION TO APPOINT MISTI CORDELL AS CHAIR. JAY SEALE THE THIRD TOOK ISSUE WITH GOVERNOR LANDRY OVER MAKING THE DECISION WITHOUT NOTIFYING GARY SOLOMON JUNIOR, WHO WAS THE CHAIRMAN UNTIL THIS WEEK. SEALE WAS ALSO UPSET THAT LANDRY APPOINTED SOMEONE WHO WAS LOYAL TO HIM, WHICH, HE TELLS THE ADVOCATE, WILL MAKE SERVICE ON THE BOARD A CHARADE WHENEVER THE GOVERNOR WANTS TO ORDER SOMETHING TO HAPPEN. SEALE WAS APPOINTED TO THE BOARD IN TWENTY-SEVENTEEN BY FORMER GOVERNOR JOHN BEL EDWARDS.
FOUR OF FIVE EUNICE HOUSING AUTHORITY BOARD MEMBERS WERE REMOVED FOR VIOLATING THE OPEN MEETINGS LAW WHEN THEY CLOSED OFF A PUBLIC MEETING IN AUGUST. ONE OF THE REMOVED BOARD MEMBERS, DAVID GUILLORY, TOLD KLFY TV THAT THEY WERE FAIRLY NEW AND DID NOT INTEND TO HOLD AN IMPROPER MEETING. GUILLORY AND TWO OTHER BOARD MEMBER APPEALED THEIR REMOVAL BUT WERE DENIED. THE FOURTH, KEVIN JOHNWELL, SAID HE DIDN’T FEEL COMFORTABLE APPEALING AND HAVING THE POSSIBILITY OF BEING BACK ON THE BOARD, WORKING WITH THE DIRECTOR IN CHARGE.
