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FIVE OF SEVEN FEMALE PRISONERS, WHO ESCAPED FROM A JAIL IN COTTONPORT, HAVE BEEN RECAPTURED. THE ESCAPE HAPPENED TUESDAY MORNING. ONE OF THE FIVE WHO WAS RECAPTURED WAS FROM CHURCH POINT, TWENTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD KA’DASHA GALLOW. A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION DETERMINES THEY WERE ABLE TO ESCAPE BY GETTING PAST A LOCKING MECHANISM ON THE BACK DOOR FIRE ESCAPE. THE SEARCH IS CONTINUING FOR THE TWO REMAINING ESCAPEES.
CONTROVERSY CONTINUES TO SURROUND LAFAYETTE LIBRARY BOARD OF CONTROL MEMBER ROBERT JUDGE. DANIELLE DUNCAN HAS MORE.
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LOUISIANA’S NEW INSURANCE COMMISSIONER SAYS HE WANTS THE LEGISLATURE TO HOLD A SPECIAL MEETING IN JANUARY TO PASS NEW LAWS ATTRACTING INSURANCE COMPANIES BACK TO THE STATE. REPUBLICAN TIM TEMPLE BECAME INSURANCE COMMISSIONER WHEN HIS ONLY CHALLENGER IN THE UPCOMING ELECTION WITHDREW. TEMPLE TELLS THE ADVOCATE HE WANTS TO TACKLE LAWS THAT MAKE LOUISIANA AN OUTLIER COMPARED TO OTHER STATES. HE SAYS HE HAS TALKED TO THE MAJOR GOVERNOR CANDIDATES AND HAS RECEIVED POSITIVE FEEDBACK ABOUT THE SUGGESTION OF CALLING A SPECIAL SESSION.
THE CITY OF LAKE CHARLES COULD BE GETTING A NEW EIGHT-MILE-LONG BIKE TRAIL IF VOTERS APPROVE A NEW BOND PROPOSAL. ITS ONE OF SEVERAL PROJECTS THAT WOULD BE FUNDED THROUGH THE BOND PROPOSAL KNOWN AS L-C REBOUND. AT A COMMUNITY MEETING LAST NIGHT, MAYOR NIC HUNTER SAYS IT WOULD NOT INVOLVE A TAX INCREASE BUT INSTEAD WOULD COMBINE FOUR SALES TAXES INTO TWO. THE PROPOSAL IS ON THE BALLOT IN LAKE CHARLES IN NOVEMBER.
TWO VERMILLION PARISH MEN WERE CITED FOR ILLEGALLY KILLING A TEN POINT DEER AT FORKED ISLAND. EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD DAVIN A. MILLER OF ABBEVILLE ALLEGEDLY KILLED THE DEER WITH A RIFLE ON AUGUST TWENTY-THIRD EVEN THOUGH RIFLE SEASON FOR THE AREA DOES NOT OPEN UNTIL OCTOBER TWENTY-FIRST. TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD RONALD J. MENARD OF KAPLAN WAS CITED FOR RETREIVING AND TRANSPORTING THE DEER TO MILLER’S HOUSE, WHERE IT WAS CLEANED, ACCORDING TO AUTHORITIES. AGENTS WITH THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES SEIZED THE HEAD.
AN EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD LAFAYETTE WOMAN HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH FIRST DEGREE MURDER FOR THE DEATH OF A TODDLER THAT WAS IN HER CARE. THE EIGHTEEN-MONTH-OLD BOY WAS TAKEN TO A LAFAYETTE HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT OF INJURIES AND LATER DIED. POLICE WERE CALLED TO THE HOSPITAL BECAUSE THE INJURIES WERE DETERMINED TO BE SUSTAINED UNDER SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES. ALAYJAH KENNEDY HAS BEEN BOOKED ON A CHARGE OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER AND HER BOND WAS SET AT ONE MILLION DOLLARS.
A STATEWIDE BURN BAN REMAINS IN EFFECT ACROSS LOUISIANA AND WILDFIRES ARE TAKING A MENTAL AND PHYSICAL TOLL ON FIRE FIGHTERS. DANIELLE DUNCAN REPORTS.
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A FRANKLIN WOMAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR STEALING ONE HUNDRED PIECES OF MAIL. DEPUTIES WITH THE SAINT MARY PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE BEGAN INVESTIGATING AFTER MULTIPLE THEFTS OF MAIL WERE REPORTED IN THE CENTERVILLE AND VERDUNVILLE AREAS. THEY OBTAINED A VIDEO SHOWING THE DRIVER OF AN OLDER MODEL CAR PULLING UP TO MAILBOXES AND DRIVING OFF. THEY DETERMINED THE VEHICLE BELONGED TO FORTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD MAVIS PONTIFF AND THEY FOUND THE ONE HUNDRED PIECES OF MAIL AT HER CAMPER ALONG WITH DRUGS AND DRUG PARAPHERNALIA.
