2-11-26
A BREAUX BRIDGE MAN IS DEAD FOLLOWING A CRASH IN IBERVILLE PARISH. GEORGE FAUST REPORTS.
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THERE WAS A REPORTED SHOOTOUT IN LAFAYETTE LAST NIGHT. IT HAPPENED IN THE PARKING LOT OF LITTLE CEASAR’S PIZZA NEAR EVANGELINE THRUWAY AND MARTIN LUTHER KING DRIVE. WITNESSES SAY SEVERAL SHOTS WERE FIRED BUT THERE WERE NO REPORTS OF ANYONE BEING HIT IN THE EXCHANGE. LAFAYETTE POLICE HAVE NOT ANNOUNCED ANY ARRESTS.
HUNDREDS OF LOUISIANA RESTAURANTS WERE CITED AND FINED FOR FAILING TO DISCLOSE THAT THEY WERE SERVING IMPORTED SEAFOOD. LOUISIANA LAW REQUIRES RESTAURANTS TO CLEARLY INDICATE ON THEIR MENUS OR ON A SIGN AT THE ENTRANCE WHEN THEY ARE SERVING IMPORTED SEAFOOD. ACCORDING TO RECORDS FROM THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, NINE HUNDRED NINETEEN RESTAURANTS WERE CITED LAST YEAR AND THREE HUNDRED NINETEEN WERE FINED. FINES COLLECTED TOTALLED ABOUT ONE HUNDRED THIRTEEN THOUSAND, WHICH INCLUDED FINES IN JANUARY.
LAKE CHARLES POLICE HAVE RELEASED THE IDENTITY OF A MAN WHO FIRED SHOTS AT OFFICERS SUNDAY NIGHT DURING A STANDOFF. LANCE CHIASSON IS CHARGED WITH FOUR COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED FIRST-DEGREE MURDER. NO ONE WAS INJURED IN THE STANDOFF. SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS SHOWED POLICE EVACUATING A MOTHER AND HER SEVEN-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER TO SAFETY.
MANY RESIDENTS IN GRAND COTEAU MAY BE EXPERIENCING A GAS OUTAGE. THAT’S BECAUSE OF A GAS LINE LEAK. MAYOR PATRICK RICHARD ANNOUNCED THE LEAK AT LAST NIGHT’S TOWN HALL MEETING. HE SAYS A GRINDING MACHINE STRUCK THE GAS LINE ALONG PERSIAN HIGHWAY. CREWS ARE WORKING TO REPAIR THE LEAK.
LAFAYETTE COULD BE CELEBRATING THE OPENING OF A NEW NORTHEAST REGIONAL LIBRARY BRANCH BY TWENTY-TWENTY-EIGHT, ACCORDING TO THE ADVOCATE. RACHEL GODEAUX OF THE LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT TOLD THE PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD THEY ARE NEARING AN AGREEMENT ALLOWING THEM TO LEASE LAND ON LOUISIANA AVENUE FOR THE NEW LIBRARY. SHE SAYS THIS SPRING THEY WILL BEGIN DESIGN AND SITE PLANNING. THEN BIDS FOR CONSTRUCTION ARE EXPECTED TO GO OUT EARLY NEXT YEAR WITH CONSTRUCTION BEGINNING IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF NEXT YEAR.
GOVERNOR JEFF LANDRY HAS ANNOUNCED THAT JULIE EMERSON WILL SERVE AS HIS CHIEF OF STAFF REPLACING KYLE RUCKER. GEORGE FAUST HAS MORE.
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STATE AND FEDERAL WILDLIFE OFFFICIALS ARE STILL SEEKING TO FIND THE PERSON WHO SHOT A BALD EAGLE IN VERMILLION PARISH. IT HAPPENED ON DECEMBER FIFTH NEAR THE ROBERT AND WILMER ROADS INTERSECTION IN ERATH AND THE EAGLE DIED FROM THE GUNSHOT. AUTHORITIES HAVE UPPED THE REWARD FOR INFORMATION THAT LEADS TO A CONVICTION TO FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS. THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE COULD FACE FINES UP TO TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS AND AS MUCH AS TWO YEARS IN PRISON.
