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A FORMER INMATE OF THE LAFAYETTE PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER, WHO CLAIMED HE WAS BEATEN BY TWO SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES IN A HOLDING CELL, HAS BEEN PAID 400 THOUSAND DOLLARS TO SETTLE A LAWSUIT. 42-YEAR-OLD JASON BRUNGARDT SAYS THE TWO DEPUTIES, 29-YEAR-OLD BRANDON GAILLEN AND 35-YEAR-OLD MICHAEL MCSHEFFREY, PEPPER SPRAYED HIM AND KICKED HIM IN HIS SIDES, BREAKING THREE RIBS AND PUNCTURING A LUNG. THE TWO DEPUTIES WERE FIRED IN APRIL AND WILL GO TO TRIAL IN DECEMBER ON CHARGES OF SECOND DEGREE BATTERY AND MALFEASANCE IN OFFICE. TWO OTHER DEPUTIES, ADRIAN THERIOT AND SCARLA CELESTINE, WHO WERE ACCUSED BY BRUNGARDT OF NOT REPORTING THE INCIDENT, WERE ALSO FIRED IN APRIL.
FOUR LAKE CHARLES RESIDENTS HAVE BEEN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH A SEPTEMBER 20TH SHOOTING. 44-YEAR-OLD STACIE DAPHNE HEBERT, 21-YEAR-OLD TREYLYN MONTREL BEAN, 19-YEAR-OLD MARQUIST B. BROOKS, AND 22-YEAR-OLD DENZEL LATROY BEAN HAVE ALL BEEN CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED FIRST DEGREE MURDEER. BOND HAS BEEN SET AT ONE MILLION DOLLARS EACH EXCEPT FOR BROOKS, WHOSE BOND WAS SET AT 75 THOUSAND DOLLARS. THE SHOOTING HAPPENED IN THE 15-HUNDRED BLOCK OF BRICK STREET, AND THE VICTIM WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT.
Funeral arrangements have been announced for the woman and her two daughters killed in a weekend murder-suicide in Eunice. The Louisiana State Fire Marshal’s Office says the girls’ mother, 39-year-old Carla Watford, shot her daughters, 16-year-old Julia Watford and 9-year-old Jayia Watford, and then started a fire in the home before taking her own life. KLFY-TV reports a celebration of life will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday for all three at Ardoin’s Funeral Home Chapel in Eunice.
The Louisiana Department of Revenue says that, starting Friday, taxpayers cannot get state income tax refunds on debit cards because J.P. Morgan Chase is dropping the prepaid debit cards. Department spokeswoman Kizzy Payton said Tuesday that refunds approved and processed after Thursday will get a paper check if the taxpayer requested a “MyRefund” debit card. Taxpayers can still get refunds by direct deposit. If you already have a state tax refund debit card with money on it, you can use it after Thursday but won’t be able to get future refunds placed on it.
YESTERDAY, RESIDENTS OF A LAFAYETTE MOBILE HOME PARK WERE MOVED OUT. JEFF HORCHEK HAS MORE.
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KEITH’S PAWN SHOP IN DOWNTOWN LAKE CHARLES IS CLOSING AFTER MORE THAN 40 YEARS OF OPERATION. KEITH WALDMEIER DIED OF CANCER IN 2011 AND HIS WIFE, LAURA, KEPT THE BUSINESS GOING FOR AWHILE, BUT HAS DECIDED TO SHUT IT DOWN. THEY WILL BE HOLDING A LIQUIDATION SALE OCTOBER SEVENTH THROUGH THE TENTH. AN ICONIC CLOCK ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE BUILDING AT THE CORNER OF RYAN AND BROAD IS PART OF THE ESTATE SALE, BUT LAKE AREA COLLECTOR JASON MACHULSKI HAS STARTED A CAMPAIGN TO KEEP THE CLOCK WHERE IT IS BECAUSE, HE SAYS, IT’S PART OF LAKE CHARLES HISTORY.
TWO ACADIA PARISH SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN HONORED AS BLUE RIBBON SCHOOLS BY THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THEIR EFFORTS TO CLOSE THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP AMONG STUDENTS OVER A FIVE YEAR PERIOD. THE U-S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AWARDS THE BLUE RIBBON DESIGNATION TO SCHOOLS THAT EITHER CLOSE THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP OR ARE HIGH PERFORMING. MARTIN PETITJEAN ELEMENTARY AND SOUTH CROWLEY ELEMENTARY WILL BE RECOGNIZED DURING EVENTS HELD IN WASHINGTON
D-C ON NOVEMBER NINTH AND TENTH. STATE EDUCATION OFFICIALS SAID IN A NEWS RELEASE SOUTH CROWLEY ELEMENTARY EXCELLED ACADEMICALLY AND SOCIALLY DESPITE HAVING A STUDENT POPULATION THAT HAS A POVERTY LEVEL THAT IS 113 PERCENT HIGHER THAN THE NATIONAL AVERAGE.
Superintendent of Education John White says the first glimpse of how Louisiana students fared on Common Core tests will be Oct. 12. Those statewide results will show how about 320,000 students did on the exams in March and May, and eventually how they compare with their peers in other states. Students will be placed in one of five categories: advanced, mastery, basic, approaching basic and unsatisfactory. White made his comments Monday, the same day education department officials began sharing preliminary results of the tests with roughly half of the state’s 70 local school superintendents.
