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LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A HOMOCIDE THAT HAPPENED LATE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.  POLICE RESPONDING TO A CALL OF MULTIPLE SHOTS FIRED IN THE TWO HUNDRED BLOCK OF SOPHIE STREET FOUND A MAN LYING IN THE ROADWAY.  HE WAS SUFFERING FROM A GUNSHOT WOUND AND WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE DIED.  THE VICTIM HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS TWENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD KENTREVON GALLIEN.

AN ELDERLY WOMAN, WHO WAS BEATEN BY HER GRANDAUGHTER LAST WEEK, HAS DIED, ACCORDING TO THE EVANGELINE PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE.  THEY SAY THE AUTHORITIES ARE CONSIDERING UPGRADING THE CHARGES AGAINST CECILIA ANN LEE.  SHE WAS VISITING HER EIGHT-FIVE-YEAR-OLD GRANDMA IN VILLE PLATTE TUESDAY EVENING WHEN THEY GOT INTO AN ALTERCATION.  LEE IS ACCUSED OF USING A PICTURE FRAME AND WOODEN BACK SCRATCHER TO BEAT HER GRANDMOTHER AND VANDALIZE THE RESIDENCE AND THE GRANDMOTHER’S PHONE, BEFORE FALLING ASLEEP ON A COUCH.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards kicked off the legislative session with his final State of the State address, which focused on proposed legislation that would raise teacher pay, abolish the death penalty, increase the minimum wage and seek solutions to the ongoing insurance crisis. Lawmakers returned to the state Capitol Monday to convene the 2023 regular legislative session.  Gov. John Bel Edwards is proposing a $45 billion budget that would use $2.2 billion of extra revenue forecast for one-time transportation projects, teacher pay raises and paying off disaster-related debt.

LAKE CHARLES POLICE MADE TWO ARRESTS LAST THURSDAY IN CONNECTION WITH A DRIVE BY SHOOTING EARLIER THAT DAY IN THE FIFTEEN HUNDRED BLOCK OF CLOVER DRIVE.  A HOME WAS HIT BY GUNFIRE.  POLICE WERE ABLE TO DETERMINE THE SUSPECT VEHICLE THROUGH VIDEO SURVEILLANCE AND INTERVIEWS WITH WITNESSES AND FOUND AND PULLED OVER THE VEHICLE LATER THAT EVENING.  THE TWO OCCUPANTS WERE ARRESTED, NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD KATELYN RENEE PRESCOTT OF LAKE CHARLES AND A FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD MALE JUVENILE.

THE OWNERS OF A COMPANY THAT WAS DENIED IN ITS EFFORTS TO BUILD A CONVENIENCE STORE AT THE FOUR CORNER’S AREA IN LAFAYETTE HAS FILED SUIT AGAINST THE LAFAYETTE CITY COUNCIL AND THE CITY PLANNING COMMISSION.  GLOMAX HAD BOUGHT THE FORMER CHASE BANK BUILDING AND ADJOINING LOTS WITH THE PLAN TO REDEVELOP IT.  THE SUIT SAYS THEY HAD PREDEVELOPMENT MEETINGS WITH CONSOLIDATED STAFF TO DISCUSS THE PLANS AND HAD A REASONABLE EXPECTATION THAT A GAS STATION COULD OPERATE THERE.  THE COMMISSION VOTED TO DENY THE REQEST IN DECEMBER AFTER NEARBY RESIDENTS VOICED THEIR DISAPPROVAL.

THREE MARINES, TWO OF WHICH ARE FROM ACADIANA, WERE AWARDED FOR STOPPING A FIGHT AT A RESTAURANT IN VIRGINIA IN WHICH ONE OF THE INSTIGATORS PULLED A KNIFE.  CORPORAL JOHN DARBY OF BREAUX BRIDGE AND LANCE CORPORAL NICHOLAS DURAL OF LAFAYETTE EACH RECEIVED THE NAVY AND MARINE CORPS ACHIEVEMENT MEDAL AT AN AWARD CEREMONY APRIL SIXTH.  DURAL TOOK THE TEEN WITH THE KNIFE DOWN AND DARBY TOOK THE KNIFE AND HE AND THE OTHER MARINE KEPT ANY OTHERS FROM INTERVENING.  DURAL SAYS HE GOT INVOLVED BECAUSE THERE WERE WOMEN AND CHILDREN PRESENT AND HE COULDN’T LET ANYONE GET HURT.

Richard Ieyoub, a three-term Louisiana attorney general who lost bids to become governor and U.S. senator, died Monday in Baton Rouge at age 78. Ieyoub had served for the last seven years as Louisiana’s conservation commissioner, its top oil and gas industry regulator. He was appointed by Gov. Jon Bel Edwards, a fellow Democrat. Ieyoub served in his hometown of Lake Charles as Calcasieu Parish District Attorney from 1984 to 1992, winning election as attorney general in 1992 for the first of three terms through 2004.

A MORGAN CITY MAN WAS ARRESTED ON OBSCENITY CHARGES INVOLVING MINORS BECAUSE OF AN ONLINE OPERATION BY MORGAN CITY POLICE.  THEY WERE MONITORING SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS REGARDING A PRIOR INVESTIGATION WHEN THEY NOTICED A POST FROM TWENTY-YEAR-OLD JAKHYRI CARBIN.  THEY OBTAINED SEARCH WARRANTS AND DISCOVERED HE WAS HAVING INAPPROPRIATE CONVERSATIONS WITH JUVENILES AND SENDING MULTIPLE OBSCENE PHOTOS TO DIFFERENT ADULT WOMEN.  CARBIN HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN ARRESTED FOR CYBERSTALKING AND OBSCENITY AND ONE OF THE TERMS OF HIS BOND WAS HE WAS PROHIBITED FROM ACCESSING INTERNET AND SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS.

STATE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING AN OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTING THAT TOOK PLACE IN LAFAYETTE SUNDAY NIGHT.  DANIELLE JOHNSON REPORTS.

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A FIRE DESTROYED A RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE IN FRANKLIN ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON.  THE FIRE AT JOE’S LOUNGE IS BELIEVED TO HAVE STARTED NEAR AN ICEMAKER, ACCORDING TO MAYOR EUGENE FOULCARD.  HIS FAMILY OWNS JOE’S LOUNGE, WHICH HAS BEEN IN BUSINESS FOR MORE THAN SEVENTY YEARS.  FOULCARD TELLS KLFY TV THAT IT IS A HISTORIC LANDMARK FOR MANY PEOPLE IN FRANKLIN AND THEY ARE HEARTBROKEN.

IT WAS EASTER OF LAST YEAR THAT GERALD “DOC” LAFLEUR WAS SHOT AND KILLED AT JUICY’S LOUNGE IN LAKE CHARLES, AND POLICE ARE STILL TRYING TO DETERMINE WHO WAS THE SHOOTER.  DEPUTY CHIEF FRANKLIN FONDEL SAYS THEY KNOW, THROUGH THEIR INVESTIGATION, THERE WERE PEOPLE WHO WITNESSED THE SHOOTING AND, HE’S HOPING, THEY WILL FIND IT IN THEIR HEARTS TO COME FORWARD.  KPLC TV SAYS LAFLEUR’S MOTHER BORE WITNESS TO THE SIGHT OF HER SON AND DOZENS OF POTENTIAL WITNESSES WHO WERE STANDING AROUND.  SHE SAYS SHE CAN’T BELIEVE IT’S BEEN ONE YEAR AND NOBODY HAS SAID ANYTHING.

Louisiana lawmakers return to the state Capitol today to take up the state budget and bills governing abortion, the state insurance crisis, teacher pay and curbs on LGBTQ rights. Every other year, the state Constitution requires lawmakers to focus on fiscal and budgetary matters. This year is one of them. Gov. John Bel Edwards is proposing a $45 billion budget that would use $2.2 billion of extra revenue forecast for one-time transportation projects, teacher pay raises and paying off disaster-related debt.

STATE REPRESENTATIVE WILFORD CARTER OF LAKE CHARLES HAS PROPOSED A BILL THAT WOULD FORM THE NORTH LAKE CHARLES REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY.  IT WOULD WORK TO CLEAN-UP DEPRESSED AREAS, REVITALIZE VACANT PROPERTIES, AND HELP MAKE THE CITY GROW.  HE SAYS THE AUTHORITY WOULD HAVE THE POWER TO CONTRACT WITH ANYONE, INCLUDING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, TO ASSIST PEOPLE IN LOCATING TO NORTH LAKE CHARLES.  THE AUTHORITY WOULD CONSULT WITH THE LAKE CHARLES CITY COUNCIL, BUT FINAL DECISIONS WOULD BE UP TO THE BOARD.

HEAVY RAINS CAUSED FLOODING IN CARENCRO ON FRIDAY.  FIREFIGHTERS HAD TO RESCUE THREE PEOPLE STRANDED IN DEEP WATER.  ALL THREE ATTEMPTED TO DRIVE THROUGH FLOOD WATERS.

A VILLE PLATTE MAN WAS SENTENCED LAST WEEK TO SIX-AND-A-HALF YEARS IN PRISON FOR POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY.  FIFTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD CHARLES DIRK LAFLEUR PLED GUILTY LAST OCTOBER TO THE CHARGE AND WAS SENTENCED BY FEDERAL JUDGE ROBERT SUMMERHAYS ON THURSDAY.  A TIP TO THE LOUISIANA BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION CYBER CRIMES UNIT IN TWENTY-EIGHTEEN LED TO THE INVESTIGATION OF LAFLEUR.  SUMMERHAY’S ALSO SENTENCED LAFLEUR TO THREE YEARS OF SUPERVISED RELEASE WHEN HIS PRISON SENTENCE IS COMPLETED.

JUDGE SUMMERHAYS ALSO HANDED DOWN A SENTENCE OF SIXTY-EIGHT MONTHS IN PRISON TO A YOUNGSVILLE MAN FOR ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF A FIREARM.  THIRTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD NATHON ZENON JUNIOR PLED GUILTY TO THE CHARGE IN NOVEMBER.  VERMILLION PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES ATTEMPTED TO SERVE ZENON WITH AN OUTSTANDING WARRANT ALMOST SIX YEARS AGO AT A YOUNGSVILLE RESIDENCE AND FOUND HIM IN POSSESSION OF DRUGS AND A FIREARM.  ZENON HAD DRUG CONVICTIONS DATING BACK TO TWO THOUSAND SIX AND KNEW HE WAS PROHIBITED FROM POSSESSING A FIREARM, WHICH LED TO HIS PLEADING GUILTY.

A FIRE AT A LAFAYETTE APARTMENT COMPLEX HAS FORCED AT LEAST TWO DOZEN STUDENTS TO FIND NEW RESIDENCES TEMPORARILY.  SYLVIA MASTERS HAS THE DETAILS.

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AN EIGHTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD WOMAN FROM VILLE PLATTE IS IN CRITICAL BUT STABLE CONDITION AFTER SHE WAS ALLEGEDLY BEATEN BY HER GRANDDAUGHTER.  CECILIA ANN LEE GOT INTO AN ALTERCATION WITH HER GRANDMOTHER THAT BECAME PHYSICAL DURING A TUESDAY EVENING VISIT.  DETECTIVES SAY LEE USED A WOODEN BACK SCRATCHER AND A PICTURE FRAME TO BEAT HER GRANDMOTHER AND THEN SHE VANDALIZED THE RESIDENCE AND DAMAGED THE GRANDMOTHER’S PHONE BEFORE FALLING ASLEEP ON THE COUCH.  LEE FACES MULTIPLE CHARGES INCLUDING ATTEMPTED FIRST-DEGREE MURDER AND HER BOND WAS SET AT OVER A MILLION DOLLARS.

THE OLD STANDARD MERCANTILE BUILDING IN THE CENTER OF DERIDDER, WHICH WAS BUILT IN NINETEEN-SEVENTEEN, IS BEING RENOVATED.  MAC COURVELLE AND HIS WIFE RECEIVED A LOUISIANA MAIN STREET REVITALIZATION GRANT AND CONSTRUCTION IS UNDERWAY.  THE COURVELLES HAVE OPERATED TREASURE CITY MARKET IN THE BUILDING FOR TWENTY YEARS.  MAC COURVELLE TELLS KPLC TV THAT THEY HAVE TO COMPLETE THE PROJECT BY JUNE THIRTIETH TO COMPLY WITH THE GRANT.

A former hospice service owner in Broussard has been convicted on conspiracy and fraud charges in a $1.5 million Medicare scheme. U.S. Attorney Brandon Brown in Lafayette says in a Thursday news release that the verdict was returned against 50-year-old Kristal Glover-Wing of Broussard. Prosecutors said that over about nine years, Glover-Wing’s Angel Care Hospice arranged for 24 people to get services who did not qualify for the business’s end-of-life care. The release says many of the patients are today still alive and thriving and had not been told they had been signed up for hospice care.

A STUDENT WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY FOR MAKING A THREAT THAT LED TO A LOCKDOWN AT CROWLEY HIGH SCHOOL.  A NOTE WAS LEFT ON A STAFF MEMBER’S DESK YESTERDAY MORNING WITH A THREAT TO SHOOT UP THE SCHOOL.  DURING AN INVESTIGATION, A PERSON OF INTEREST WAS IDENTIFIED, ACCORDING TO A NEWS RELEASE FROM THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE.  A JUVENILE WAS CHARGED WITH TERRORIZING.

THE SAINT MARTIN PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE HAS MADE THREE ARRESTS IN CONNECTION WITH THREE SEPARATE SCHOOL BOMB THREATS LAST MONTH.  THE BOMB THREATS WERE DIRECTED AT BREAUX BRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL AND TWICE AT CECILIA HIGH SCHOOL.  THEY ARRESTED TWO JUVENILE MALES AND ONE JUVENILE FEMALE, ALL SEVENTEEN-YEARS-OLD.  TWO OF THE ARRESTS WERE MADE THIS WEEK.  EACH OF THE THREE WERE BOOKED AND THEN RELEASED TO THE CUSTODY OF THEIR PARENTS.

A LAFAYETTE MAN, WANTED FOR MULTIPLE BURGLARIES AT CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS, HAS BEEN FOUND AND ARRESTED.  SIXTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD PHILLIP WILSON WAS BOOKED INTO THE LAFAYETTE PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER ON TEN COUNTS OF SIMPLE BURGLARY.  THE BURGLARIES ALL HAPPENED IN THE LAFAYETTE AREA OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS.

SAINT LANDRY PARISH PRESIDENT JESSIE BELLARD SAYS THE PARISH COUNCIL HAS VIOLATED THE CHARTER WITH A RESOLUTION THEY PUBLISHED AND HE’S READY TO TAKE THE MATTER TO COURT IF NECESSARY.  THE RESOLUTION WOULD ALLOW THE COUNCIL TO HIRE INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATORS TO DETERMINE IF RECENT EMPLOYEE TERMINATIONS WERE JUSTIFIED.  IN MARCH, BELLARD WAS ACCUSED OF THE WRONGFUL TERMINATIONS OF MULTIPLE GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, WHICH, HE SAYS, IS FALSE.  BELLARD SAYS THE COUNCIL DID NOT GIVE THE SPECIFICS OF WHAT THE INVESTIGATION WOULD BE ABOUT IN THE RESOLUTION THEY PUBLISHED, WHICH IS REQUIRED BY THE CHARTER.

A SUSPECT WANTED IN CONNECTION TO A SHOOTING AT THE FAMILY DOLLAR STORE AND ZAZA’S HOOKAH LOUNGE IN ABBEVILLE WAS KILLED IN A CAR CRASH DURING A POLICE CHASE IN HOUSTON.  SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.

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THE BAYOU VERMILLION DISTRICT WAS SCAMMED OUT OF ONE HUNDRED FORTY-NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS INTENDED FOR INSURANCE PAYMENTS.  DISTRICT BOARD PRESIDENT KAREN HAIL SAID IN A STATEMENT THAT, EARLY IN MARCH, THE SCAMMERS USED A CUSTOMIZED LOOK-ALIKE DOMAIN AND FALSIFIED DOCUMENTS TO CHANGE THE DISTRICT’S METHOD OF PAYING ITS INSURANCE PREMIUMS.  SHE SAYS THE SCAMMERS MADE A SECOND ATTEMPT ON MARCH TWENTY-NINTH LEADING THEM TO CALL LAW ENFORCEMENT AND BOTH AND INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL INVESTIGATIONS ARE UNDERWAY.  THE BAYOU VERMILLION DISTRICT, WHICH CLEANS THE VERMILLION RIVER AND OPERATES VERMILLIONVILLE, IS FUNDED THROUGH A LAFAYETTE PARISH PROPERTY TAX.

CONGRESSMAN CLAY HIGGINS IS SEEKING TO HELP THE LOUISIANA SHRIMPING INDUSTRY BY REQUESTING AN INCREASE IN PRICE AND STRICTER INSPECTIONS OF IMPORTED SHRIMP.  SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.

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LAW ENFORCEMENT IN CALCASIEU PARISH JOINED WITH LOCAL BUSINESSES TO PUT ON THE SECOND ANNUAL SENIOR CITIZEN LUNCH.  OVER FIVE HUNDRED MEALS WERE PREPARED AND DELIVERED TO SENIOR CITIZENS IN THE WARD THREE AREA.  WARD THREE MARSHAL NATHAN KELLER TELLS KPLC TV THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE THEM A CARD IN A NON-THREATENING MANNER SO THAT, WHEN THEY HAVE A NEED, THEY CAN CALL FOR HELP.  AT NEXT YEAR’S SENIOR CITIZEN LUNCH, THEY ARE HOPING TO PROVIDE SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY MEALS.

ACADIA PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES ARRESTED A MAN WHO IMPERSONATED A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER TO GAIN ACCESS TO A HOME IN BRANCH.  SHERIFF K-P GIBSON SAYS THIRTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD ADAM CREEL OF SULPHUR HAD LAW ENFORCEMENT ITEMS, INCLUDING A JACKET AND BADGE, THAT WERE REPORTED STOLEN AS PART OF A BURGLARY INVESTIGATION. GIBSON SAYS CREEL HANDCUFFED THE HOMEOWNER AND RUMMAGED THROUGH THE HOUSE BEFORE TAKING SEVERAL ITEMS AND FLEEING.  CREEL SURRENDERED HIMSELF TO DEPUTIES AFTER HE WAS FOUND RUNNING IN A FIELD THAT THEY THEN SURROUNDED.

LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE ASKING FOR THE PUBLIC’S HELP IN FINDING A BURGLARY SUSPECT.  SIXTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD PHILLIP WILSON IS WANTED FOR MULTIPLE BURGLARIES AT CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS.  ANYONE WHO KNOWS WHERE WILSON IS SHOULD CALL CRIMESTOPPERS AT TWO-THREE-TWO-TIPS.  ALL CALLERS WILL REMAIN ANONYMOUS.

A BILL BEING PROPOSED FOR THE UPCOMING REGULAR LEGISLATIVE SESSION WOULD PROHIBIT ANYONE UNDER THE AGE OF TWENTY-ONE FROM ENTERING A BAR IN LOUISIANA.  THE BILL HOPES TO PREVENT UNDERAGE DRINKING AND COMES IN THE WAKE OF THE TRAGIC DEATH OF L-S-U STUDENT MADISON BROOKS.  THE PROPOSED BILL WILL HIT THE FLOOR OF THE STATE SENATE IN APRIL.

LUS FIBER WILL BE EXPANDING ITS FIBER NETWORK TO NEIGHBORING PARISHES THANKS TO THREE FEDERAL GRANTS.  THE FIBER NETWORK WILL BE EXTENDED TO ACADIA, EVANGELINE, IBERIA, JEFF DAVIS, AND VERMILLION PARISHES.  THE GRANTS TOTALED MORE THAN TWENTY-EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS AND THE PARISHES WILL BE PROVIDING SOME OF THE FUNDING AS WELL.  LUS FIBER DIRECTOR RYAN MECHE SAYS THEY WILL SEE A TWENTY-FIVE TO FIFTY PERCENT INCREASE IN REVENUE WITHIN EIGHTEEN TO TWENTY-FOUR MONTHS BY PROVIDING SERVICES TO THESE NEW COMMUNITIES.

LAST NIGHT THE ABBEVILLE CITY COUNCIL APPROVED A STRICTER CURFEW FOR MINORS THAT TAKES EFFECT IN THIRTY DAYS.  THE CURFEW NOW APPLIES TO MINORS UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN INSTEAD OF UNDER THE AGE OF SEVENTEEN.  THE CURFEW FOR MINORS WILL BEGIN AT EIGHT-THIRTY ON SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHTS AND AT TEN O’CLOCK ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHTS.  IF A MINOR IS CAUGHT DURING THE CURFEW WITHOUT A LEGAL GUARDIAN’S SUPERVISION, THE PARENT WILL BE FINED FIFTY DOLLARS FOR A FIRST OFFENSE AND INCREASING AMOUNTS FOR SUBSEQUENT VIOLATIONS.

SYLVIA MASTERS HAS AN UPDATE TO A DEATH INVESTIGATION IN LAFAYETTE PARISH THAT BEGAN ON MONDAY.

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A NEW ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER HAS OPENED IN JENNINGS.  EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR TESHA ONELLION TELLS KLFY TV SHE’S SEEN AN INCREASE IN PEOPLE IN JEFF DAVIS PARISH THAT ARE INTERESTED IN ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY.  SHE SAYS THE JEFF DAVIS PARISH ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER IS COLLABORATING WITH THE ZIGLAR ARTS MUSEUM TO GET THE COMMUNITY INVOLVED IN ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY WITH A VIEW TOWARD SEEING THE COMMUNITY GROW.  ONELLION SAYS THE CENTER WILL OFFER SPACE FOR ANYONE LOOKING TO CREATE ART THAT MAY NOT HAVE THE RESOURCES TO DO IT.

Three years after becoming the leader of Louisiana’s Department of Health, Secretary Dr. Courtney N. Phillips is resigning. Gov. John Bel Edwards said in a news release Monday that Phillips’ resignation is effective Thursday. The governor says veteran attorney Stephen Russo, who has served as executive counsel since 2008, will replace her. Phillips’ resignation is the latest by an official in Edwards’ administration as the end of his term in the governor’s mansion nears.

IBERIA PARISH SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER RAYMOND “SHOE-DO” LEWIS SAYS HE WAS TIRED OF THE LACK OF PROGRESS IN HIS SON’S MURDER CASE SO HE DECIDED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.  SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD GARON LEWIS OF NEW IBERIA WAS SHOT AND KILLED IN TWENTY-NINETEEN AT THE CORNER OF AUDREY AND RENE STREETS.  LEWIS SAYS THEY SOUGHT AND WERE ABLE TO GET A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR FROM THE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE AND NOW ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE IN THE CASE.  LEWIS TELLS KLFY TV THAT ANY PARENT LOOKING FOR JUSTICE HAS AN OBLIGATION TO PUSH LAW ENFORCEMENT LIKE HE’S BEEN PUSHING.

SUPER ONE FOODS WILL BE TAKING OVER THE OLD SHOPPERS VALUE LOCATION IN THE MARKETPLACE PLAZA STRIP MALL AT THE CORNER OF AMBASSADOR CAFFERY AND DULLES DRIVE.  IT WILL BE THE FIFTY-FIRST SUPER ONE FOODS STORE.  A NEWS RELEASE FROM BROOKSHIRE GROCERY, WHICH OWNS SUPER ONE FOODS, SAYS THE NEW STORE WILL RESULT IN THE CREATION OF APPROXIMATELY ONE HUNDRED FIFTY JOBS.  CHAIRMAN AND C-E-O BRAD BROOKSHIRE SAYS THEY HAVE SERVED LAFAYETTE SINCE NINETEEN-NINETY-SIX AND LOOK FORWARD TO A GREAT FUTURE WITH AN EXPANDED TEAM IN THE COMMUNITY.

JEFF DAVIS PARISH DEPUTIES ARRESTED A MAN AFTER RECEIVING REPORTS OF PARENTS FIGHTING IN FRONT OF THEIR CHILDREN.  WHEN DEPUTIES ARRIVED, BOTH PARTIES WERE INJURED AND BLEEDING.  THREE MINOR CHILDREN WERE IN THE RESIDENCE WHEN THE FIGHT HAPPENED.  THIRTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD STACE DELEON WAS BOOKED INTO THE PARISH JAIL ON A CHARGE OF DOMESTIC ABUSE BATTERY WITH CHILD ENDANGERMENT.

CROWLEY POLICE DETECTIVES ARE INVESTIGATING A JEWELRY THEFT THAT OCCURRED AT A RESIDENCE IN THE ONE HUNDRED BLOCK OF FOREST DRIVE.  THE VALUE OF THE THEFT, WHICH HAPPENED IN DECEMBER, IS FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS.  ONE PIECE STOLEN IS DESCRIBED AS A SAPPHIRE RING WITH TWO ONE-CARAT DIAMONDS ON EACH SIDE.  ANYONE WITH INFORMATION CAN CALL SEVEN-EIGHT-NINE-TIPS AND IF IT LEADS TO AN ARREST, A CASH REWARD OF UP TO ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS WILL BE OFFERRED.

LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES WERE CONDUCTING A DEATH INVESTIGATION YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.  KATC TV SAYS VIEWERS TOLD THEM THERE WAS A HEAVY PRESENCE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AND CRIME SCENE TAPE AT A HOME IN THE FOUR HUNDRED BLOCK OF BRETON DRIVE.  THAT’S SOUTH OF VINCENT ROAD AND WEST OF VEROT SCHOOL DRIVE.  A SPOKESPERSON FOR THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAID THEY ARE VERY EARLY IN THE INVESTIGATION AND THERE ARE NO DETAILS TO SHARE.

OPELOUSAS POLICE HAVE ARRESTED AN EMPLOYEE AT MAMA’S FRIED CHICKEN FOR ALLEGEDLY FIRING AT A VEHICLE LEAVING THE RESTAURANT SUNDAY THAT WAS DRIVEN BY JOSEPH DUGAS.  DUGAS FIRED SHOTS BACK, HITTING THE RESTAURANT SEVERAL TIMES.  THE SHOOTING HAPPENED AFTER A FEMALE EMPLOYEE AT MAMA’S GOT INTO A FIGHT WITH A FEMALE PASSENGER IN DUGAS’S CAR.  THE EMPLOYEE WHO WAS ARRESTED IS THIRTY-YEAR-OLD NICHOLAS SAM OF WASHINGTON, WHO HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH THREE COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED SECOND-DEGREE MURDER.  AN ARREST WARRANT HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR DUGAS.

THE FOUNDER OF THE LOUISIANA OIL AND GAS ASSOCIATION PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME IN LAFAYETTE YESTERDAY.  DON BRIGGS WAS EIGHTY-TWO-YEARS-OLD.  CURRENT PRESIDENT MIKE MONCLA CALLED BRIGGS A TITAN OF LOUISIANA’S OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY WHO STARTED LOGA FROM THE GROUND UP.  HE SAYS THEY ARE COMFORTED BY THAT FACT THAT BRIGGS IS STROLLING DOWN THE STREETS OF GOLD IN HEAVEN TODAY WITH JESUS.

A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD STUDENT AT SAM HOUSTON HIGH SCHOOL WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH TERRORIZING.  DEPUTIES WITH THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE WERE NOTIFIED LAST FRIDAY ABOUT A STUDENT MAKING THREATS.  IT WAS LEARNED DURING AN INVESTIGATION THAT THE FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD HAD SAID HE WAS GOING TO BLOW UP THE SCHOOL.  THE STUDENT WAS BOOKED INTO THE JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER.

A SECOND JUVENILE WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH SEXUAL BATTERY AFTER AN INCIDENT AT COMEAUX HIGH SCHOOL.  SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.

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THE EVANGELINE PARISH POLICE JURY IS CONSIDERING A BAN ON THE COMBINATION OF TANNERITE AND PROPANE.  TANNERITE IS AN EXPLODING POWDER MANY USE FOR TARGET PRACTICE.  POLICE JURY PRESIDENT BRYAN VIDRINE SAYS SOME HAVE ATTACHED THE TANNERITE TO PROPANE BOTTLES WHICH CAN CAUSE AN EXPLSION THAT RATTLES WINDOWS SIX MILES AWAY.  HE SAYS THEY KNOW WHERE THIS IS COMING FROM BUT THEY’VE NEVER HAD RULES ON THE BOOKS TO PREVENT IT.

THREE PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED LAST WEEK AFTER A MONTH-LONG INVESTIGATION INTO A DRUG-TRAFFICKING NETWORK IN VERMILLION PARISH.  DEPUTIES ARRESTED THIRTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD JACOBI LANDRY ON SEVENTEEN CHARGES INCLUDING NUMEROUS DRUG DISTRIBUTION CHARGES.  LANDRY RESISTED ARREST AFTER THE SEARCH OF A HOME WHERE A LARGE AMOUNT OF DRUGS WERE FOUND AND A HANDGUN WITH AN EXTENDED MAGAZINE.  ALSO ARRESTED BECAUSE OF THE INVESTIGATION WERE FIFTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD EARL JOSEPH THE THIRD AND THIRTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD KERRY JULIEN OF KAPLAN.

WE ARE JUST UNDER ONE WEEK BEFORE THE REGULAR LEGISLATIVE SESSION BEGINS.  SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.

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OPELOUSAS POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING INVOLVING CUSTOMERS AND EMPLOYEES AT MAMA’S FRIED CHICKEN.  SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.

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A PEDESTRIAN WAS HIT BY A VEHICLE SATURDAY AFTERNOON IN LAFAYETTE.  IT HAPPENED IN THE FIFTEEN HUNDRED BLOCK OF MOSS STREET WHERE THE PEDESTRIAN TRIED TO CROSS THE ROAD.  THE PEDESTRIAN WAS TAKEN TO AN AREA HOSPITAL AND IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION.  NO OTHER INFORMATION WAS MADE AVAILABLE.

STATE POLICE LEARNED FRIDAY THAT A MERRYVILLE MAN DIED FROM INJURIES SUSTAINED IN A CRASH ON MONDAY.  THIRTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD CHASE ALTON HICKMAN WAS INVOLVED IN A SINGLE VEHICLE CRASH WHILE TRAVELING NORTH ON L-A ONE-ELEVEN IN A TWENTY-SIXTEEN BUICK ENCLAVE.  STATE POLICE SAY HE WENT OFF THE ROADWAY INTO A DITCH AND THEN WENT AIRBORNE AND OVERTURNED AFTER HITTING A CULVERT.  HICKMAN WAS TAKEN TO A LAKE CHARLES-AREA HOSPITAL, WHERE HE LATER DIED.

WALLETHUB HAS RELEASED A LIST RANKING ONE HUNDRED METRO AREAS IN THE U-S BASED ON WHO HAS THE  MOST OVERWEIGHT AND OBESE POPULATION.  THREE LOUISIANA CITIES MADE THE TOP FIFTEEN.  SHREVEPORT IS EIGHTH, LAFAYETTE ELEVENTH AND BATON ROUGE TWELFTH.  IN INDIVIDUAL CATEGORIES, LAFAYETTE RANKED FIFTEENTH IN OBESITY AND OVERWEIGHT AND SIXTEENTH IN FOOD AND FITNESS.

THE CITY OF JEANERETTE IS UNDER A BOIL ADVISORY UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.  THAT’S BECAUSE OF A BREAK IN A WATER SERVICE LINE.  THE WATER WAS SHUT OFF FOR A SHORT WHILE SATURDAY AFTERNOON WHILE REPAIRS WERE MADE.  THE JEANERETTE WATER SYSTEM WILL RESCIND THE BOIL ADVISORY WHEN THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HOSPITALS HAS TESTED THE WATER AND IT IS FOUND TO BE SAFE.

YOUNGSVILLE MAYOR KEN RITTER EXPLAINS WHAT’S NEXT AFTER THE CITY COUNCIL AUTHORIZED AN INVESTIGATION INTO POLICE CHIEF RICKY BOUDREAUX ON THURSDAY.    IN A NEWS RELEASE, RITTER SAYS THE CITY ATTORNEY WILL OBTAIN RATE SHEETS FROM THREE LAW FIRMS THAT SPECIALIZE IN HUMAN RESOURCES INVESTIGATIONS AND PRESENT THEM TO THE COUNCIL AT THE NEXT REGULAR MEETING.  HE SAYS THE COUNCIL WILL SELECT ONE OF THESE FIRMS TO CONDUCT THE INVESTIGATION.  RITTER POINTED OUT THAT THE CITY ATTORNEY WILL LOOK FOR FIRMS LOCATED OUTSIDE ACADIANA TO ENSURE A CONFIDENTIAL, UNBIASED AND FAIR INQUIRY OF THE POLICE CHIEF’S CONDUCT SINCE TAKING OFFICE.

A LAKE CHARLES MOTORCYCLIST WAS KILLED THURSDAY NIGHT IN A SINGLE VEHICLE CRASH.  STATE POLICE SAYS FIFTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD NORMAN TROY MALBROUGH WAS TAKING THE I-TWO-TEN RAMP FROM I-TEN WHEN THE LEFT FOOT PEG HIT THE CONCRETE RAIL SEVERAL TIMES.  MALBROUGH WAS EJECTED AND, DESPITE WEARING A D-O-T-APPROVED HELMET, WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE.  THE CRASH REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION.

THE SAINT MARTIN PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM HAS DECIDED TO IMPLEMENT A NEW BUS SAFETY PROGRAM CALLED ZONAR.  STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO SCAN THEMSELVES WHEN GETTING ON A BUS AND GETTING OFF.  ZONAR WAS FIRST PURCHASED BY THE BOARD DURING COVID IN CASE OF AN OUTBREAK BUT NOW WILL BE USED TO KEEP TRACK OF ALL BUS-RIDING STUDENTS.  SUPERINTENDENT AL BLANCHARD SAYS THIS IS ONE COMPONENT OF A NUMBER OF THINGS THEY ARE DOING TO ENSURE SAFETY AT SCHOOLS.

AT A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE YOUNGSVILLE CITY COUNCIL, POLICE CHIEF RICKEY BOUDREAUX REFUSED TO STEP DOWN FROM HIS POSITION.  DANIELLE JOHNSON EXPLAINS.

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THAT’S TV-TEN’S DANIELLE JOHNSON.  YOUNGSVILLE COUNCILWOMAN KAYLA REAUX ANNOUNCED HER RESIGNATION IN A LETTER, SAYING SHE MAY HAVE CAUSED PAIN AND DISAPPOINTMENT TO MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY.

A SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER AT OPELOUSAS HIGH SCHOOL IS ACCUSED OF TRYING TO MOLEST AN ELEVENTH GRADE MALE STUDENT IN A SCHOOL BATHROOM.  THE STUDENT TELLS KLFY TV THAT THE OFFICER GRABBED HIS ARM AND ASKED HIM IF HE LIKED HIM AND KEPT ASKING INAPPROPRIATE QUESTIONS BEFORE HE WAS ABLE TO GET AWAY.  THE FATHER OF THE STUDENT SAYS HE’S REACHED OUT TO THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE AND THE OPELOUSAS SCHOOL BOARD AND IS TRYING TO GET HELP FOR HIS SON.  POLICE CHIEF GRAIG LEBLANC SAYS THE OFFICER HAS BEEN PLACED ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE, WHICH IS PART OF THE PROCESS WHEN AN OFFICER IS UNDER INVESTIGATION.

LOUISIANA CONGRESSMAN STEVE SCALISE’S LOWER ENERGY COSTS ACT, DESIGNED TO INCREASE ENERGY PRODUCTION IN LOUISIANA AND OTHER STATES, PASSED IN THE U-S HOUSE YESTERDAY.  ONLY ONE REPUBLICAN VOTED AGAINST IT AND FOUR DEMOCRATS VOTED FOR IT.  SCALISE SAYS THE MEASURE, WHICH CONTAINED TWENTY BILLS, WOULD LOWER THE PRICE OF GASOLINE AND UNDERMINE INFLATION BY REDUCING RED TAPE THAT HAS SLOWED ENERGY PRODUCTION.  THE LEGISLATION NOW GOES TO THE SENATE, WHERE MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER SAYS IT IS DEAD ON ARRIVAL IN ITS CURRENT FORM.

A NEW ANIMAL CONTROL FACILITY FOR BEAUREGARD PARISH IS NEARING COMPLETION.  THE BISSELL PET FOUNDATION PROVIDED A LARGE GRANT TO ENABLE THE BUILDING OF THE NEW FACILITY, WHICH WILL BE LARGER WITH MORE CAGES AND INCLUDE AIR CONDITIONING.  SHERIFF’S DEPUTY KRISTA WEST SAYS THE NEW FACILITY SHOULD OPEN IN A MONTH.  SHE SAYS LAST YEAR THEY TOOK IN ALMOST SEVEN HUNDRED DOGS AND THEY WERE ALL STRAYS.

CARENCRO POLICE SAY TWO SUSPECTS FIRED SHOTS AT VEHICLES ON BROCKTON DRIVE.  MULTIPLE ROUNDS WERE FIRED BUT CARENCRO POLICE SAY NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED.  ONE CAR WAS HIT BY GUNFIRE.  POLICE HAVE TAKEN A PERSON OF INTEREST INTO CUSTODY.

A NEW PHOTO SPEED ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM THAT CITES ANYONE GOING TEN OR MORE MILES AN HOUR ABOVE THE SPEED LIMIT HAS BEEN IMPLEMENTED IN SAINT MARTINVILLE.  THE POLICE DEPARTMENT MOVED FORWARD WITH THE SYSTEM AFTER DOING A FIVE-DAY SPEED STUDY THAT FOUND AN EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF VEHICLES SPEEDING.  YESTERDAY WAS THE BEGINNING OF A THIRTY-DAY PERIOD WHEN VIOLATERS WILL RECEIVE A WARNING IN THE MAIL WITH NO FINE.  THE AUTOMATED SPEED ZONE WILL BE ENFORCED RANDOMLY THROUGHOUT THE CITY WITH OFFICER-MANNED CAMERAS.

THE THREE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL TOOK PART IN A FORUM IN BATON ROUGE YESTERDAY.  STATE REPRESENTATIVE JOHN STEFANSKI OF CROWLEY, PROSECUTOR MARTY MALEY AND LANDRY’S LIEUTENANT LIZ MURRILL ALL LAUDED THE RECORD OF CURRENT ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF LANDRY.  THE ADVOCATE REPORTS THEY PLEDGED TO FOLLOW IN HIS FOOTSTEPS IN FIGHTING A SURGE IN CRIME.  THE ONLY OTHER CANDIDATE SO FAR, PROSECUTOR JOHN BELTON, AN INDEPENDENT, DID NOT TAKE PART BECAUSE THE EVENT WAS FOR REPUBLICANS.

THE ACADIA PARISH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SAYS THERE’S BEEN AN INCREASE IN COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT SINCE THE PANDEMIC.  THE PRESIDENT AND CEO OF THE ACADIA PARISH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SAYS THAT’S A GOOD THING.  SHE TELL KATC TV THAT THERE IS A DIRECT CORRELATION BETWEEN A COMMUNITY IN THE KNOW AND INVOLVED AND THE SUCCESS OF THAT COMMUNITY.

PHASE TWO OF THE EMERGENCY REPAIRS TO THE I-TEN OVERPASS AT I-FORTY-NINE IN LAFAYETTE BEGAN LAST NIGHT.  THE OVERPASS WAS DAMAGED IN EARLY JANUARY WHEN A TRUCK OWNED BY BEBE THRASHER TRUCKING OF VILLE PLATTE CRASHED INTO IT.  THE REPAIRS WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT.  BECAUSE OF THE REPAIRS, I-FORTY-NINE NORTHBOUND AND I-TEN EASTBOUND AT THE INTERCHANGE WILL BE CLOSED FROM EIGHT TONIGHT UNTIL FIVE FRIDAY MORNING.

AN OPELOUSAS POLICE OFFICER HAS BEEN PLACED ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE PENDING THE OUTCOME OF AN INTERNAL INVESTIGATION.  DANIELLE JOHNSON HAS MORE.

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A BILL BY LOUISIANA CONGRESSMAN STEVE SCALISE TO DRAMATICALLY ESCALATE ENERGY PRODUCTION AND GRANT LOUISIANA A GREATER PORTION OF OFFSHORE ENERGY REVENUES WILL BE CONSIDERED BY THE FULL HOUSE TODAY.  THE WHITE HOUSE HAS WARNED THAT THE PRESIDENT WILL VETO THE “LOWER ENERGY COSTS ACT” IF IT CLEARS THE HOUSE AND SENATE AS PRESENTLY WRITTEN.  HOUSE SPEAKER KEVIN MCCARTHY TOLD BIDEN TUESDAY THAT HE WANTS SCALISE’S ENERGY PROPOSALS TO BE PART OF DEBT CEILING NEGOTIATIONS.  SCALISE IS OPTIMISTIC AS, HE SAYS, ALMOST EVERY REPUBLICAN IS COMMITTED AND HE’S GOTTEN SOME SUPPORT FROM DEMOCRAT REPRESENTATIVES.

CAMERON PARISH DISTRICT ATTORNEY TOM BARRETT SAYS THE HOSPITAL BOARD IS WORKING ON EFFORTS TO REBUILD SOUTH CAMERON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, WHICH WAS DESTROYED BY HURRICANE LAURA.  CURRENTLY, NO MEDICAL SERVICES ARE BEING OFFERED IN CAMERON.  THE BOARD PLANS TO ASK THE POLICE JURY FOR A TEMPORARY FACILITY TO OFFER MEDICAL SERVICES WITH ADDITIONAL PLANS TO OFFER EMERGENCY SERVICES UNTIL THE NEW HOSPITAL IS COMPLETED.  BARRET SAYS IF THE POLICE JURY APPROVES, IT WILL BE BETWEEN SIX AND EIGHT MONTHS TO REPAIR THE BUILDING AND BE ABLE TO OFFER MEDICAL SERVICES FOR SOUTH CAMERON.

THE YOUNGSVILLE CITY COUNCIL IS HOLDING A SPECIAL MEETING TONIGHT TO DISCUSS THE ACTIONS OF COUNCILWOMAN KAYLA REAUX AND TO CONSIDER AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION OF POLICE CHIEF RICKY BOUDREAUX.  A REPORT IN THE SUNDAY ADVOCATE SAYS REAUX MAY HAVE SOUGHT SPECIAL TREATMENT AFTER SHE CRASHED INTO A PARKED VEHICLE IN NOVEMBER.  SHE CALLED BOUDREAUX, WHO QUICKLY RESPONDED TO THE SCENE WHERE OFFICERS WERE TRYING TO GET INFORMATION FROM REAUX.  MAYOR KEN RITTER ISSUED A STATEMENT CONDEMNING REAUX FOR HER “UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT AND BEHAVIOR.”

POLICE OFFICERS IN KAPLAN WILL BE GETTING A FIVE THOUSAND DOLLAR INCREASE IN THEIR ANNUAL SALARIES.  POLICE CHIEF JOSHUA HARDY SAYS THERE WERE TWO POSITIONS THAT HAVEN’T BEEN FILLED, SO HE TOOK THE MONEY FOR THAT AND SPLIT THE MONEY AMONG HIS OFFICERS THAT STAY “FOR THE LONG RUN.”  HARDY TELLS KLFY TV THAT HE’S HAD TO DEAL WITH A CHALLENGE OF OFFICERS LEAVING HIS DEPARTMENT FOR MORE PAY.  HARDY PRAISED HIS OFFICERS FOR THEIR DEDICATION TO THE JOB AND PROTECTING AND SERVING THE PEOPLE OF KAPLAN.

LOUISIANA HAS JOINED TEXAS IN ASKING A FEDERAL APPEALS COURT TO THROW OUT A NEW ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY PLAN.  THE PLAN, FILED MARCH FIFTEENTH, IS AIMED AT REDUCING EMISSIONS IN TWENTY-THREE STATES WHERE THE EMISSIONS CROSS STATE LINES AND CONTRIBUTE TO SMOG.  ONE OF THE TARGETS IS WHERE EMISSIONS CROSS FROM LOUISIANA TO GALVESTON COUNTY IN TEXAS.  THE PLAN ALSO REJECTS AN IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY FILED BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY IN TWENTY-NINETEEN.

THE ACADIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS INVESTIGATING A BURGLARY THAT HAPPENED SOMETIME BETWEEN THE NIGHT OF MARCH NINETEENTH AND THE MORNING OF MARCH TWENTIETH.  AN UNKNOWN SUSPECT GAINED ACCESS TO A UTILITY TRAILER ON LESIM DRIVE NEAR EVANGELINE BY CUTTING THE LOCK. SEVERAL CONTRACTER TOOLS VALUED AT OVER A THOUSAND DOLLARS WERE STOLEN INCLUDING A TWENTY-INCH STIHL CHAINSAW, A MAKITA SKILL SAW AND A DREMEL TOOL WITH A WHIP ATTACHMENT.  ANYONE WITH INFORMATION LEADING TO AN ARREST CAN COLLECT A REWARD OF UP TO ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS BY CALLING SEVEN-EIGHT-NINE-TIPS.

YOUNGSVVILLE COUNCIL MEMBER KAYLA REAUX HAS BLAMED A CONCUSSION SUFFERED IN A CRASH FOR HER BEHAVIOR WITH POLICE SHOWN IN BODY CAM FOOTAGE.  ACCORDING TO THE ADVOCATE, SHE WAS UNCOOPERATIVE AND RUDE WITH THE POLICE OFFICERS.  SHE CALLED POLICE CHIEF RICKY BOUDREAUX AT THE SCENE OF THE CRASH, WHO QUICKLY RESPONDED, THE ADVOCATE SAYS.  BOUDREAUX ISSUED A STATEMENT THAT SAYS THE VIDEO SHOWS HE DID NOT, AT ANY MOMENT, IMPLY TO HIS OFFICERS THAT REAUX SHOULD BE GIVEN PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT AND HE DOES NOT CONDONE REAUX’S BEHAVIOR TOWARD HIS OFFICERS.

THE CROWLEY CITY COUNCIL IS CONSIDERING INCREASING FINES FOR TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS.  FOR INSTANCE, IF APPROVED, THE FINE FOR GOING ONE TO TEN MILES OVER THE SPEED LIMIT WOULD GO FROM FIFTY DOLLARS TO ONE HUNDRED.  CROWLEY POLICE CHIEF TROY HEBERT SAYS FUNDS COLLECTED FROM TRAFFIC OFFENSES GO INTO THE CITY’S GENERAL FUNDS.  A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE PROPOSED INCREASES WILL BE HELD APRIL TWELFTH AT CITY COURT BEGINNING AT SIX P-M.

STATE HEALTH OFFICIALS ARE MAKING PLANS FOR AN EIGHTY-NINE MILLION DOLLAR CAMPAIGN TO ALERT STATE RESIDENTS ABOUT CHANGES TO MEDICAID ELIGIBILTY THAT COULD LEAD TO EIGHT PERCENT OF THE STATE’S POPULATION LOSING HEALTH CARE COVERAGE.  MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY WAS EXPANDED DURING THE PANDEMIC BUT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS ENDING THE EXPANSION IN THE COMING WEEKS.  IT’S ESTIMATED THAT AS MANY AS THREE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND STATE RESIDENTS WILL LOSE COVERAGE UNDER THE PROGRAM, ACCORDING TO STATE OFFICIALS.  STATE LAWMAKERS WILL HAVE TO APPROVE THE EIGHTY-NINE MILLION DOLLARS FOR THE CAMPAIGN TO ALERT RESIDENTS, WHICH THE GOVERNOR HAS REQUESTED.

THE LAKE CHARLES CITY COUNCIL UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED THE ANNUAL MUNICIPAL WATER POLLUTION PREVENTION DOCUMENTS, WHICH GRADES THE THREE LARGE WASTEWATER PLANTS.  UTILITIES MANAGER KEVIN HEISE SAYS PLANT D, WHICH SERVES THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE CITY, GRADED BEST, WITH A LITTLE OVER A NINETY PERCENTILE.  HE ASKS RESIDENTS NOT TO USE THEIR TOILETS AS TRASH CANS BUT ONLY BIODEGRADEABLE THINGS SHOULD BE FLUSHED.  HE SAYS WIPES MAY BE FLUSHABLE BUT THEY ARE NOT BIODEGRADEABLE, AND THEY HAVE TO BE MANUALLY REMOVED FROM EQUIPMENT BY A PERSON.

ACADIANA HIGH SCHOOL WAS PLACED ON LOCKDOWN FOR AN HOUR YESTERDAY MORNING AFTER RECEIVING A TIP ABOUT A HANDGUN ON CAMPUS.  THE FOCUS OF THE TIP WAS ON EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD JAKARI PETE, WHO, THE POLICE LEARNED, HAD LEFT THE CAMPUS IN HIS VEHICLE.  SCOTT POLICE LATER DETAINED HIM AND CONDUCTED A SEARCH WARRANT ON HIS VEHICLE, WHERE THEY FOUND A RIFLE AND NEARLY EIGHT GRAMS OF MARIJUANA.  SCOTT POLICE ISSUED A STATEMENT THAT, AT NO TIME, DID PETE WALK ANYWHERE ON THE CAMPUS OF ACADIANA HIGH WITH A FIREARM.

A VILLE PLATTE POLICE OFFICER WAS ARRESTED BY OPELOUSAS POLICE ON DOMESTIC CHARGES.  THIRTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD CHRISTOPHER REMI SIMIEN, WHO USED TO BE AN OPELOUSAS POLICE OFFICER, WAS ARRESTED BY OPELOUSAS POLICE.  HE WAS BOOKED INTO THE SAINT LANDRY PARISH JAIL ON THREE CHARGES OF BATTERY OF A DATING PARTNER, INCLUDING ONE THAT CITED STRANGULATION, AND ONE COUNT OF SIMPLE BATTERY.  VILLE PLATTE POLICE CHIEF PERRY THOMAS SAYS SIMIEN IS ON LEAVE WHILE AN INVESTIGATION IS BEING CONDUCTED.

LOUISIANA ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF LANDRY WILL TRAVEL TO WASHINGTON D-C, WHERE HE’LL TESTIFY BEFORE THE SELECT SUBCOMMITTEE ON WEAPONIZATION OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.  LANDRY WAS INVITED TO SPEAK BECAUSE OF A LAWSUIT HE HELPED FILE THAT ALLEGES THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION DIRECTED SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES TO CENSOR AND SUPPRESS AMERICAN’S FREE SPEECH.  THE SUBCOMMITTEE WAS FORMED IN JANUARY TO INVESTIGATE CLAIMS THAT FEDERAL AGENCIES AND SOME PRIVATE COMPANIES HAVE CONSPIRED TO SUPPRESS CONSERVATIVE POINTS OF VIEW.  THE LAWSUIT IS BEING HEARD BY CHIEF U-S DISTRICT JUDGE TERRY DOUGHTY OF THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA, WITH THE NEXT HEARING SET FOR MAY TWENTY-SIXTH.

ONE ACADIANA MAN, WHO FOSTERS KIDS, SAYS THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES CLOSED HIS HOME FROM EVER FOSTERING AGAIN.  DANIELLE JOHNSON HAS MORE.

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