11-4-24
THE ACADIA PARISH POLICE JURY WILL HOLD A SPECIAL MEETING TODAY AFTER RECEIVING MULTIPLE COMPLAINTS ABOUT A SWINGER’S CLUB COMING TO BRANCH. GEORGE FAUST HAS MORE.
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A MOBILE HOME ON BRIDGID STREET IN LAFAYETTE CAUGHT FIRE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. THE FAMILY WAS IN THE PROCESS OF MOVING OUT AND WERE USING A GENERATOR TO POWER THE MOBILE HOME. ALTON TRAHAN OF THE LAFAYETTE FIRE DEPARTMENT SAYS THE GENERATOR CAUGHT FIRE AND IT SPREAD TO THE HOME. THERE WERE NO INJURIES.
A DISTURBANCE IN THE NORTHWEST CARIBBEAN IS EXPECTED TO TURN INTO TROPICAL STORM RAFAEL LATER TODAY. IT IS EXPECTED TO STRENGTHEN TO A HURRICANE AS IT HEADS TOWARD CUBA. AS IT ENTERS THE GULF, THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER HAS IT TRACKING TO LOUISIANA BUT AS A TROPICAL STORM. TV-TEN METEOROLIGIST TREVOR SONNIER NOTES THAT IT’S POSSIBLE A FRONT WILL BE ENTERING OUR AREA BY THE END OF THE WEEK, WHICH WOULD MOVE THE STORM TO THE EAST.
THE EX-HUSBAND OF HANNAH FAITH CORMIER OF JENNINGS EXPRESSED SHOCK THAT HER BOND HAD BEEN REDUCED AND SHE HAD BEEN RELEASED FROM JAIL. CORMIER WAS ARRESTED IN AUGUST WHEN HER CHILD DIED AFTER BEING LEFT IN A HOT CAR WHILE SHE WAS AT WORK. SHE WAS INITIALLY CHARGED WITH SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AND BOND SET AT ONE MILLION DOLLARS BUT A GRAND JURY REDUCED THE CHARGE TO NEGLIGENT HOMOCIDE AND HER BOND WAS LOWERED TO TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS. THE FATHER OF THE CHILD, NICK ASHWORTH, TELLS KLFY TV HE WISHED THEY WOULD INVESTIGATE IT MORE INSTEAD OF GIVING HER A SLAP ON THE WRIST.
NEW IBERIA POLICE ARE CONTINUING TO INVESTIGATE THE SHOOTING DEATH OF THIRTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD LAMARCUS DANIELS, WHO WAS FOUND IN THE FRONT YARD OF A HOME IN THE SIX HUNDRED BLOCK OF LAFAYETTE STREET. ABOUT FIFTY PEOPLE GATHERED SATURDAY FOR A BALLON RELEASE IN HIS HONOR. HIS MOTHER, TINA DANIELS, WAS IN THE HOME WHEN SHE HEARD THE SHOOTING. SHE TELLS KLFY TV SHE WANTS JUSTICE SO THAT SHE CAN HAVE ANSWERS.
A SPECIAL SESSION OF THE LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE BEGINS WEDNESDAY TO CONSIDER GOVERNOR JEFF LANDRY’S LOUISIANA FORWARD TAX PLAN. IT CALLS FOR STREAMLINING THE STATE’S TAX SYSTEM THROUGH A FLAT TAX ON CORPORATE AND PERSONAL INCOME. IT WOULD ALSO END HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN TAX INCENTIVES. LANDRY ARGUES THAT, COUPLED WITH OTHER REFORMS, IT WOULD MAKE LOUISIANA MORE COMPETITIVE, BRING JOBS TO THE STATE, AND BOOST THE ECONOMY.
THERE WAS A SHOOTING SATURDAY IN OPELOUSAS. POLICE HAVE CONFIRMED THAT THE SHOOTING HAPPENED AT A HOTEL. NO OTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RELEASED.
THE NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD HAS RELEASED A PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE OCTOBER CRASH OF AN ULTRALIGHT PLANE IN A FIELD OFF OF L-A NINETY-FIVE, A COUPLE MILES NORTH OF CHURCH POINT. THE PILOT, FORTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD NICK VAN HOUTEN OF SUNSET, WHO WAS KILLED IN THE PLANE CRASH, HAD PURCHASE THE PLANE, WHICH HADN’T BEEN FLOWN FOR ABOUT THREE YEARS. MAINTENANCE HAD BEEN PERFORMED ON THE PLANE FOR ABOUT TWO MONTHS IN PREPARATION FOR A TEST FLIGHT. A POSTACCIDENT EXAMINATION FOUND NO MECHANICAL MALFUNCTION OR FAILURE.
