10-9-23
SAINT MARTINVILLE POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR TWO SUSPECTS WHO ROBBED A DOLLAR STORE AT GUNPOINT. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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ONE PERSON WAS KILLED AND TWO OTHERS INJURED AFTER GUNSHOTS WERE FIRED AT A BLOCK PARTY ON HELLEN STREET IN LAFAYETTE. THE PERSON KILLED WAS DEVIN MCZEAL AND THE OTHER TWO, WHO WERE CRITICALLY WOUNDED, INCLUDED A JUVENILE. THE SHOOTING HAPPENED AT AROUND TEN-FORTY SATURDAY NIGHT. ANYONE WHO HAS INFORMATION ON THE SHOOTING IS ASKED TO CALL THE LAFAYETTE POLICE DEPARTMENT OR CRIMESTOPPERS AT TWO-THREE-TWO-TIPS.
THE STATE FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE HAS BEEN SELECTED FOR A GRANT THAT WILL PROVIDE THOUSANDS OF SMOKE ALARMS TO HOMES ACROSS LOUISIANA. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS THE DETAILS.
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Louisiana officials are proposing that boats fishing for menhaden must be at least 1 mile offshore after boats spilled an estimated 850,000 of the small fish on Cameron Parish beaches in September. KPLC-TV reports the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries proposed the rule Thursday. The new rule would impose a 3-mile distance off Rutherford Beach and Holly Beach in Cameron Parish. The rule comes after boats fishing for two menhaden processing companies suffered torn nets three times in mid-September, spilling fish on the beaches.
VILLE PLATTE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A HOMOCIDE. IT HAPPENED ON FRIDAY NIGHT AT MARTIN LUTHER KING AND COURT STREETS. VILLE PLATTE POLICE CHIEF AL THOMAS SAYS MORE INFORMATION WILL BE SHARED WHEN IT IS AVAILABLE.
LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED AT AROUND TWO-FIFTEEN SUNDAY MORNING. A TWENTY-YEAR-OLD MAN WAS SHOT BY AN UNKNOWN SUSPECT AND TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL IN CRITICAL CONDITION. THE REASON FOR THE SHOOTING HAS NOT BEEN GIVEN AND NO ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE. ANYONE WHO HAS INFORMATION ON THIS CRIME IS URGED TO CALL LAFAYETTE CRIME STOPPERS AT TWO-THREE-TWO-TIPS.
Voting rights advocates are locked in a court fight with Louisiana’s top Republicans over whether the state must follow Alabama’s court-ordered path in drawing a new, Black-majority congressional district. Louisiana is among multiple states still wrangling over congressional districts after the U.S. Supreme Court decided in June that Alabama had violated the Voting Rights Act when its Republican legislature failed to create a second Black-majority congressional district after the 2020 census. At issue Friday was a federal court injunction that found that a congressional map drawn up by Louisiana’s Republican-dominated Legislature likely violated the Voting Rights Act. Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin and Attorney General Jeff Landry are fighting the injunction.
A FRANKLIN MAN WAS KILLED IN A HEAD-ON COLLISION BETWEEN TWO PICKUP TRUCKS EARLY SATURDAY MORNING IN SAINT MARY PARISH. STATE POLICE SAY FIFTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD JOHN TARDY WAS DRIVING A DODGE RAM EAST ON HIGHWAY NINETY NEAR BIG FOUR CORNERS ROAD, WHEN, FOR UNKNOWN REASONS, HE CROSSED THE MEDIAN AND HIT A CHEVY SILVERADO HEADED WEST. TARDY WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE WHILE THE DRIVER OF THE SILVERADO SUFFERED MODERATE INJURIES. TOXICOLOGY SAMPLES WERE TAKEN FROM BOTH DRIVERS TO DETERMINE IF EITHER WERE IMPAIRED.
