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ONE PERSON WAS ARRESTED LAST NIGHT AFTER A HIGH SPEED CHASE THAT ENDED IN SCOTT. LOUISIANA STATE TROOPER BROOKS DAVID SAYS A TROOPER TRIED TO PULL OVER A DRIVER ON I-TEN NEAR SCOTT , BUT THE DRIVER KEPT GOING. DAVID SAYS CONTRABAND AND A WEAPON WERE THROWN OUT OF THE VEHICLE DURING THE CHASE. THE SUSPECT EVENTUALLY STOPPED IN SCOTT AND DAVID SAYS THEY FOUND MORE CONTRABAND IN THE VEHICLE.
AN IOWA MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR SHOOTING AND KILLING HIS ROOMATE. 64-YEAR-OLD RANDALL AUSTIN TOLD DEPUTIES THAT HE AND THE ROOMATE, 40-YEAR-OLD SIDNEY MOORE JUNIOR, GOT INTO AN ARGUMENT LATE SUNDAY MORNING AND AUSTIN WENT TO GET A SHOTGUN. AUSTIN TOLD THE DEPUTIES THEY THEN EACH STRUGGLED FOR THE WEAPON WHICH DISCHARGED, KILLING MOORE. AUSTIN HAS BEEN BOOKED INTO THE CALCASIEU CORRECTIONAL CENTER AND HIS BAIL HAS BEEN SET AT 250 THOUSAND DOLLARS.
A BOSSIER CITY MAN GOES TO TRIAL TODAY FOR THE 1984 MURDER OF CROWLEY BUSINESSMAN, GARY KERGAN. RONALD DALTON DUNNAGAN FACES A CHARGE OF SECOND DEGREE MURDER AND, IF CONVICTED, WOULD FACE LIFE IN PRISON. THE STAR WITNESS IN THE TRIAL IS DUNNAGAN’S ALLEGED ACCOMPLICE, LEILA MULLA, WHO PLEADED GUILTY LAST YEAR TO MANSLAUGHTER AND WAS SENTENCED TO THIRTY YEARS IN PRISON. THE TRIAL TAKES PLACE IN BATON ROUGE, WHERE THE ALLEGED MURDER HAPPENED.
The major candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and other statewide offices have been campaigning for months. But they can’t appear on the Oct. 24 ballot unless they submit their sign-up paperwork. Tuesday is the start of the election qualifying period, where candidates officially add their names to the ballot. The sign-up period runs for three days, through Thursday.
THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL BOARD ATTORNEY WANTS FOUR PEOPLE STRICKEN FROM THE WITNESS LIST FOR FORMER SUPERINTENDENT PAT COOPER FOR HIS UPCOMING WRONGFUL TERMINATION TRIAL. COOPER’S ATTORNEY, WANTS STATE SUPERINTENDENT JOHN WHITE, STATE SENATOR ELBERT GUILLORY AND STATE REPRESENTATIVE STEVE CARTER TO EXPLAIN THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF SUPERINTENDENTS AND SCHOOL BOARDS, ACCORDING TO THE ACT ONE STATE LAW. THE BOARD’S ATTORNEY, SHELTON BLUNT, SAYS THOSE WITNESSES SHOULD NOT TELL THE JUDGE HOW TO INTERPRET THE LAW. BLUNT ALSO WANTS THE JUDGE TO PREVENT THE TESTIMONY OF FORMER SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER SHELTON COBB, ONE OF COOPER’S BIGGEST SUPPORTERS.
A KINDER MAN WAS KILLED IN A SINGLE VEHICLE ACCIDENT AROUND FIVE A-M YESTERDAY MORNING. SERGEANT JAMES ANDERSON OF STATE POLICE TROOP D SAYS 71-YEAR-OLD DENNIS CLOUD WAS TRAVELING ON L-A 383 WEST OF KINDER WHEN HE WENT OFF THE ROAD. ANDERSON SAYS CLOUD OVERCORRECTED, CAUSING HIS VEHICLE TO FLIP AND EJECTING CLOUD, WHO WASN’T WEARING A SEATBELT. CLOUD WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE.
TWO ORGANIZATIONS IN LAFAYETTE ARE PLANNING WORKSHOPS THIS WEEK TO GIVE PEOPLE THE TOOLS TO HELP PREVENT SUICIDES. SUICIDE IS THE TENTH LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH IN AMERICA, WITH PEOPLE OLDER THAN 65 MAKING UP THE LARGEST PERCENTAGE. THE FIRST WORKSHOP, PUT ON BY THE CROUCH FOUNDATION AND VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA, TAKES PLACE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AT ONE AT THE OPELOUSAS POLICE DEPARTMENT COMMUNITY ROOM. THE SECOND WORKSHOP IS THURSDAY EVENING AT SIX AT THE MAIN PUBLIC LIBRARY.
FERAL HOGS HAVE CAUSED MORE THAN 74 MILLION DOLLARS IN DAMAGE TO STATE CROPS. JULIE DARCE HAS MORE.
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