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SAINT LANDRY PARISH SHERIFF BOBBY GUIDROZ ADMITTED HIS OFFICE MADE A MISTAKE IN ARRESTING MELVILLE MAYOR CARETTA ROBERTSON. GUIDROZ SAYS A DIRECTIVE CAME FROM A DISTRICT JUDGE TO NOTIFY THE MAYOR TO APPEAR IN COURT. HE SAYS A SHIFT SUPERVISOR MISUNDERSTOOD IT TO MEAN THEY WERE TO ARREST AND DETAIN THE MAYOR AND BRING HER TO COURT IN THE MORNING. TO PREVENT SIMILAR ERRORS IN THE FUTURE, THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE PLANS TRAINING SESSIONS TO HELP DEPUTIES RECOGNIZE THE LEGAL DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN CIVIL AND CRIMINAL WARRANTS.
A NEW PROPOSAL IS REVISITING AN EXPRESSWAY LOOP AROUND LAFAYETTE. GEORGE FAUST HAS DETAILS.
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A RECENT POLL SHOWS TIGHTENING IN THE RACE BETWEEN JULIA LETLOW AND JAMIE DAVIS TO BECOME LOUISIANA’S NEXT SENATOR. IN THE POLL CONDUCTED BY HART RESEARCH ASSOCIATES FOR THE JAMIE DAVIS CAMPAIGN, FORTY-EIGHT PERCENT OF THOSE SURVEYED SUPPORTED LETLOW WHILE FORTY-FOUR PERCENT WERE FOR DAVIS AND EIGHT PERCENT WERE UNDECIDED. THE MARGIN OF ERROR IN THE POLL WAS FOUR-AND-A-HALF PERCENT. INCUMBENT SENATOR BILL CASSIDY, WHO THE TWO ARE SEEKING TO REPLACE, EXPRESSED SKEPTICISM ABOUT THE POLL AND SAYS HE CAN’T SEE A SCENARIO IN WHICH JAMIE DAVIS WINS THE RACE.
A JUDGE HAS DISMISSED A PROTECTIVE ORDER AGAINST MAYOR JACOB STUTES OF SULPHUR. HIS WIFE HAD FILED FOR THE PROTECTIVE ORDER EARLIER THIS MONTH ALONG WITH A DIVORCE PETITION. SHE ALLEGED THAT STUTES HAD PHYSICALLY ABUSED HER, WHICH STUTES DENIED. STUTES WAS ELECTED IN MAY AND TOOK OFFICE IN JULY.
TWO PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN A CRASH MONDAY IN SAINT MARTINVILLE INVOLVING TWO SUGARCANE TRACTORS AND A CAR. WHEN POLICE ARRIVED ON THE SCENE AT RESWEBER HIGHWAY NEAR EAST BRIDGE STREET, THE CAR WAS OVERTURNED. THE DRIVER OF THE CAR, SOLANGE CHAMPAGNE, AND THE DRIVER OF ONE OF THE TRACTORS, STEPHAN CORMIER, WERE PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. THE INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING.
THE LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT IS ASKING RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES TO WEIGH IN WITH THEIR OPINIONS ON THE FUTURE OF THE JOHNSTON STREET LOUISIANA AVENUE CORRIDOR. THE PROJECTED TWO HUNDRED FIFTY MILLION DOLLAR PROJECT IS INTENDED TO IMPROVE TRANSPORTATION AND COMMERCIAL ROUTES ALONG THE CORRIDOR WHILE PREPARING THE CITY FOR FUTURE GROWTH. THE FIRST PHASE OF THE PROJECT IS UNDERWAY AND INCLUDES DRAINAGE AND UTILITY IMPROVEMENTS NEAR DOWNTOWN AND THE U-L CAMPUS. THE SURVEY IS AVAILABLE AT LAFAYETTE-LA-DOT-GOV.
ACCORDING TO A NEW NATIONAL REPORT, LOUISIANA’S ADULT OBESITY RATE HAS DROPPED, MOVING THE STATE FROM THE THIRD HIGHEST IN THE COUNTRY TO NINETEENTH. GEORGE FAUST HAS MORE.
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IBERIA PARISH FIRE DISTRICT CHIEF GUY BONIN IS REMEMBERING CAPTAIN JOHNATHAN DUNBAR, WHO DIED RECENTLY. BONIN SAYS DUNBAR WAS BIGGER THAN LIFE AND THEY’LL TRY TO REPLACE HIM, BUT IT’S NEVER GONNA HAPPEN. DUNBAR WAS MARRIED FOR EIGHTEEN YEARS AND A FATHER OF FOUR. A GOFUNDME ACCOUNT HAS BEEN SET UP TO HELP DUNBAR’S FAMILY.
