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LOUISIANA STATE POLICE SAID 63 YEAR OLD MICHAEL RANSOM OF VILLA RICA, GEORGIA WAS THE DRIVER OF AN 18 WHEELER, WHO DIED IN THE I-10 WRECK NEAR CROWLEY YESTERDAY MORNING. RANSOM WAS TRAVELING WEST ON I-10, WHEN HE RAN OFF THE ROAD ON THE RIGHT SIDE AND STRUCK A TREE, CAUSING THE TRUCK TO BURST INTO FLAMES. RANSOM WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. ACCORDING TO POLICE, THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED SHORTLY AFTER 10AM, CAUSING THEM TO CLOSE 1-10 WESTBOUND FOR SEVERAL HOURS , BACKING UP TRAFFIC FOR MORE THAN 7 MILES AT ONE POINT. AUTHORITIES DON’T BELIEVE RANSOM WAS IMPAIRED AND THE INVESTIGATION CONTINUES.
THE HIGHEST RANKED COMMUNITY COLLEGE IN THE STATE IS IN LAKE CHARLES, WHILE ONE OF THE LOWEST RANKED IS IN LAFAYETTE. JEFF HORCHAK HAS MORE.
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OPELOUSAS POLICE SPOKESMAN COREY LEGER CONFIRMED THAT SERGEANT BAXTER IFORD, OF THE OPELOUSAS POLICE DEPARTMENT, HAS BEEN CLEARED OF THE CHARGES OF IMPROPER BEHAVIOR WITH A JUVENILE. IFORD WAS PUT ON LEAVE DURING THE INVESTIGATION THAT LASTED TWO WEEKS. THE ST. LANDRY PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT HAS CLOSED THE INVESTIGATION WITH NO INAPPROPRIATE ACTION FOUND ALLOWING IFORD TO RETURN TO WORK IMMEDIATELY.
(AP) A restrained Catholic Mass in Grand Coteau and an exuberant Baptist home going in Sunset honored a woman stabbed to death trying to protect other women, and the Sunset police officer shot when he answered their call. Mounted and motorcycle police escorted some mourners from Officer Henry Andrus Nelson’s funeral in Sunset to that of Shameka Johnson, The Daily World reported. They died Aug. 26 and were buried Saturday. Harrison Lee Riley, 35, of Arnaudville, has been booked with first-degree murder in Johnson’s death and first-degree murder of a police officer — a separate crime that also can carry the death penalty — in Nelson’s. Nelson’s service had been scheduled at Zion Travelers Baptist Church but was moved next door, to the gymnasium at Sunset Middle School, where mourners filled the bleachers and folding chairs.
ST.MARTIN PARISH AUTHORITIES STOP AN ARMED ROBBERY BEFORE IT HAPPENS. JEFF HORCHAK HAS THE DETAILS.
