9-28-15
U-L LAFAYETTE OFFICIALS ARE URGING STUDENTS AT UNIVERSITY PLACE APARTMENTS TO USE A SHUTTLE SERVICE, INSTEAD OF CROSSING A BRIDGE THAT WAS CLOSED EARLIER THIS MONTH. ON SEPTEMBER TENTH, THE CITY PARISH GOVERNMENT CLOSED THE BRIDGE, THAT CONNECTS OAK CREST DRIVE AND EAST LEWIS STREET, AFTER INSPECTORS FOUND SUPPORT PILLARS WERE UNSTABLE. BARRICADES WERE PUT UP BUT THEY WERE REPLACED BY A FENCE BECAUSE STUDENTS ON FOOT AND BICYCLE WERE STILL USING THE BRIDGE. THE BRIDGE IS CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE BECAUSE THE CITY PARISH GOVERNMENT DOESN’T HAVE THE FUNDS TO REPLACE THE BRIDGE.
A FIRE STARTED AT A HOME IN THE CALCASIEU PARISH TOWN OF EDGERLY YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. WARD SEVEN FIRE OFFICIALS TOLD KPLC TV THAT THE HOME, LOCATED ON LLOYD BERRY ROAD NEAR HIGHWAY 90, WAS DESTROYED ALONG WITH AN R-V IN THE BACK YARD. A FAMILY OF FOUR, INCLUDING TWO SMALL CHILDREN, ESCAPED WITHOUT INJURIES. THE FIRE IS BELIEVED TO HAVE STARTED IN THE CENTER BEDROOM OF THE HOUSE.
A house fire has left three people dead in Eunice. Police Chief Randy Fontenot tells KLFY-TV that Eunice firefighters and two other neighboring fire districts responded to the blaze early Sunday. Fontenot says the bodies of a mother and her two daughters — ages 16 and 8 — were pulled from the home after the fire was extinguished. He says a patrolman in the area noticed the home was engulfed by flames and alerted authorities.
Republican presidential candidate Bobby Jindal is calling on the GOP’s top senator to step down. The Louisiana governor told The Associated Press on Friday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell should follow the lead of House Speaker John Boehner, who announced on Friday plans to resign. Jindal says it’s time for “a clean slate” of Republican leaders in Congress. He says Boehner and McConnell “need to surrender their gavels” to make room for “someone who is willing to fight to protect our conservative ideals.”
THE BODY OF AN ADULT MALE WAS PULLED FROM THE VERMILLION RIVER ON SUNDAY NIGHT. JEFF HORCHEK REPORTS.
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State prosecutors say a former Allen Parish sheriff’s deputy has been convicted of malfeasance in office for buying more than $24,000 in gas with an office credit card, selling it and pocketing the profit. Attorney General James D. “Buddy” Caldwell says an Allen Parish jury on Thursday found 46-year-old Patrick Buxton guilty of illegally using the office’s credit card. Prosecutors say Buxton filled industrial-sized storage drums with gasoline and resold the fuel for personal gain.
Buxton had been a sheriff’s deputy for more than a decade before he resigned in 2012.
California authorities have arrested an Abbeville man who had been mistakenly released from a Louisiana jail while awaiting trial on a first-degree murder charge.
An FBI news release says 24-year-old Derrick Mitchell was arrested Thursday in Stockton, California, about 50 miles south of Sacramento. The Advocate reports he’s accused in the Dec. 20, 2012, killing of 25-year-old Darrell Broussard Jr. in Abbeville. Mitchell is accused of forcing his way into Broussard’s home and shooting him several times in the head.
After years of study, the state’s coastal protection authority plans to present recommendations next month about where Mississippi River sediment diversions should be created to build up coastal marsh land that has been slipping away. Scientists have been dissecting the options, evaluating the potential negative and positive effects of diversions on everything from water quality to fisheries. The Advocate reports those studies and an array of computer models will help form the basis of the final decision that will pick among the 10 diversions included in the state’s 2012 master plan. Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Executive Director Kyle Graham says it’s arguably the most important decision the board will face.
