10/7/24
A MAN WAS SHOT AND KILLED ON HILL STREET IN EUNICE AT AROUND THREE SUNDAY MORNING. EUNICE POLICE, RESPONDING TO REPORTS OF THE SHOOTING, FOUND THE VICTIM LYING ON THE GROUND NEAR A VEHICLE. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD. POLICE HAVE NO SUSPECTS AT THIS TIME AND HAVE NOT RELEASED THE VICTIM’S IDENTITY.
TODAY, L-C-G’S OFFICE OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING IS PARTNERING WITH THE EVANGELINE THRUWAY REDEVELOPMENT TEAM TO HOST COMMUNITY NIGHT ON THE CORRIDOR TWO. GEORGE FAUST HAS THE DETAILS.
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THE FIRST BLACK BEAR HUNTING SEASON IN FORTY YEARS IN LOUISIANA WILL HAPPEN IN DECEMBER. THIRTY-YEARS AGO, THE BLACK BEAR POPULATION IN LOUISIANA WAS AT AROUND FOUR HUNDRED BUT IT HAS SINCE CLIMBED TO OVER FIFTEEN HUNDRED. BLACK BEARS CAN BE FOUND IN ALL SIXTY-FOUR PARISHES IN THE STATE, BUT NEARLY ALL OF THE POPULATION IS IN THE ATCHAFALAYA BASIN AND IN THE MISSISSIPPI ALLUVIAL VALLEY. TEN HUNTING TAGS WILL BE GIVEN AWAY TO PRIVATE LANDOWNERS IN A LOTTERY AND IT WILL HAPPEN IN IN SEVERAL NORTHEASTERN PARISHES, WHERE THE BIGGEST AND OLDEST BEAR POPULATION IS LOCATED.
JENNINGS POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED AT A MOTORCYCLE CLUB ON SOUTH MAIN STREET. TWO PEOPLE WERE SHOT BUT ARE IN STABLE CONDITION. IT HAPPENED AT AROUND TWO-THIRTY SATURDAY MORNING.
THE SAINT MARTIN PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE ANNOUNCED THE PASSING OF RESERVE CAPTAIN CARROLL KNOTT, A VOLUNTEER WHO SERVED TWENTY-FIVE YEARS WITH THEM. AFTER SERVING IN THE U-S ARMED FORCES, HE JOINED THE SAINT MARTIN PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE AS A RESERVE DEPUTY IN NINETEEN-NINETY-NINE AND ACHIEVED THE RANK OF CAPTAIN. THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS KNOTT SPENT COUNTLESS HOURS FIGHTING TO GET SERVICES AND BENEFITS FOR VETERANS ACROSS ACADIANA. IN TWENTY-NINETEEN, KNOTT RECEIVED THE HELPING HANDS AWARD FOR HIS WORK HELPING VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.
ALL ANIMALS AT THE LAFAYETTE ANIMAL SHELTER AND CARE CENTER ARE AVAILABLE TO BE ADOPTED FOR A ZERO DOLLAR FEE. THEY ARE ONE OF NEARLY FOUR HUNDRED SHELTERS IN THE NATION TAKING PART IN THE BISSELL PET FOUNDATION’S EMPTY THE SHELTERS REDUCED-FEE ADOPTION EVENT. THE ZERO DOLLAR FEE IS IN EFFECT UNTIL OCTOBER FIFTEENTH. THE DOGS AND CATS AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION HAVE BEEN FULLY VACCINATED, MICROCHIPPED AND SPAYED OR NEUTERED.
TIME IS RUNNING OUT TO REGISTER FOR THIS ELECTION. GOERGE FAUST HAS MORE.
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THERE WAS A VEHICLE FIRE ON I-TEN YESTERDAY CAUSING TRAFFIC DELAYS. IT WAS LOCATED AT MILE MARKER EIGHTY-SEVEN NEAR THE RAYNE EASTBOUND EXIT. THE VEHICLE WAS REMOVED LAST NIGHT AND ALL LANES CLEARED.
A NEW IBERIA MAN, WHO LED IBERIA PARISH DEPUTIES ON A HIGH SPEED CHASE ON SEPTEMBER FOURTH, HAS DIED. THIRTY-YEAR-OLD TAYLOR ALEXANDER SUFFERED SERIOUS INJURIES WHEN HE LOST CONTROL OF HIS VEHICLE AND CRASHED ON HIGHWAY THIRTY-ONE-NINETY-FIVE. STATE POLICE TOOK A TOXICOLOGY SAMPLE FROM ALEXANDER REVEALING HIS BLODD ALCOHOL LEVEL WAS ABOVE THE LEGAL LIMIT. STATE POLICE LEARNED FRIDAY THAT ALEXANDER HAD DIED ON WEDNESDAY.
