9-7-22
A KAPLAN MAN WAS SHOT TO DEATH LATE TUESDAY NIGHT IN RAYNE. DANIELLE JOHNSON REPORTS.
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THE LAFAYETTE CITY COUNCIL UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED A RESOLUTION TO INESTIGATE MAYOR PRESIDENT JOSH GUILLORY’S ADMINISTRATION. COUNCIL MEMBER NANETTE COOK, WHO CO-AUTHORED THE RESOLUTION, SAYS SHE WANTS ANSWERS TO EIGHTEEN QUESTIONS ABOUT DRAINAGE PROJECTS THAT HAVE RESULTED IN THE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT BEING TAKEN TO COURT. THE COUNCIL ALSO APPROVED AN INTRODUCTORY RESOLUTION ALLOWING UP TO ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS TO BE SPENT ON THE INVESTIGATION, WHICH WILL BE VOTED ON IN TWO WEEKS. GUILLORY SAYS HE WELCOMES THE INVESTIGATION.
A JENNINGS MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY STABBED HIS NEIGHBOR IN THE ABDOMEN TWICE. ACCORDING TO POLICE, THE VICTIM HAD BEEN AT THE HOUSE OF SEVENTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD JIMMIE JOHNSON FOR SEVERAL HOURS SUNDAY NIGHT WHEN THE STABBING OCCURRED. THE AMERICAN LEGION HOSPITAL NOTIFIED JENNINGS POLICE WHEN THE STABBING VICTIM ARRIVED FOR TREATMENT. JOHNSON WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY WITHOUT INCIDENT. NO MOTIVE WAS GIVEN FOR THE STABBING.
OPELOUSAS POLICE WERE CALLED TO THE SCENE OF A VEHICLE CRASH BUT LEARNED LATER THAT IT WAS A DRIVE BY SHOOTING. MULTIPLE SHOTS WERE FIRED INTO A VEHICLE DRIVING ON UNION STREET BETWEEN VINE AND LANDRY STREETS. POLICE CHIEF MARTIN MCLENDON SAYS THE VICTIM EXITED THE VEHICLE AND WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL IN ANOTHER PRIVATE VEHICLE. POLICE ARE LOOKING AT SURVEILLANCE VIDEO FROM THE AREA TO DETERMINE THE OTHER VEHICLE INVOLVED AND ANY SUSPECTS.
MANY L-U-S FIBER CUSTOMERS LOST INTERNET SERVICE MONDAY, SOME FOR HOURS. L-U-S FIBER DIRECTOR RYAN MECHE TELLS THE ADVOCATE THE PROBLEM WAS A DRAIN AT A LARGE AT&T DATA CENTER THAT SMALLER PROVIDERS GO THROUGH. HE SAYS NINETY-FIVE PERCENT OF THE CUSTOMERS WERE BACK UP QUICKLY. MECHE WAS NOT ABLE TO SAY EXACTLY HOW MANY LOST SERVICE AND WHAT HAPPENED AT THE AT&T CENTER.
The Environmental Protection Agency has denied a request by Cheniere Energy, a leading U.S. producer of liquefied natural gas, to exempt two Gulf Coast plants from a federal air pollution rule. An EPA spokesman says the agency on Tuesday denied Cheniere’s request to waive a rule that limits emissions of cancer-causing formaldehyde released by gas-fired turbines. Dozens of turbine operators faced a Monday deadline to comply with the formaldehyde rule, which is being reinstated after an 18-year stay. Cheniere had warned that new requirements on LNG plants in Louisiana and Texas could disrupt gas supplies to Europe, which has struggled with surging energy prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
THE STATE FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE BELIEVES UNSAFE SMOKING PRACTICES LED TO A HOUSE FIRE ON THE CATAHOULA HIGHWAY IN SAINT MARTINVILLE SUNDAY THAT LEFT ONE WOMAN DEAD. THE VICTIM IS BELIEVED TO BE THE THIRTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD RESIDENT OF THE HOME, WHOSE BODY WAS FOUND BY FIRE FIGHTERS NEAR THE FRONT DOOR. THE WOMAN WAS KNOWN TO SMOKE CIGARETTES AND USED A WHEELCHAIR AND AN OXYGEN TANK. THE STATE FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE SAYS MEDICAL OXYGEN CAN CAUSE MATERIALS TO IGNITE MORE EASILY AND MAKE FIRES BURN AT A FASTER PACE.
A PEDESTRIAN, WHO WAS STRUCK BY A VEHICLE IN A HIT-AND-RUN IN CROWLEY LAST THURSDAY, HAS NOW DIED. THE DRIVER OF THE VEHICLE, EMBER WARE, WAS ARRESTED AT THE TIME FOR FELONY HIT-AND-RUN. POLICE CHIEF JIMMY BROUSSARD SAYS THE CHARGE REMAINS THE SAME DESPITE THE DEATH BECAUSE OF DOUBLE JEOPARDY LAWS. HOWEVER, THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY CAN DECIDE TO UPGRADE THE CHARGES.
