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LUSFiber Reveals Market Share + Offers Gigabit Connection Speed – Lafayette Live

Posted on May 24, 2013 | Leave a comment

By Sam Stokes May 23, 2013 9:43 AM

Last week, LUS Director of Utilities Terry Huval revealed for the first time some of the financial information for LUSFiber. The revealed information showed positive trends for Lafayette’s still relatively new fiber initiative.

Today, Lafayette City-Parish President Joey Durel stopped by “Mornings with Ken and Bernie” for his weekly “Lafayette Live” segment to talk a little more about LUSFiber as well as share some exciting details about what Lafayette citizens can expect in the future.

Durel expanded on last week’s positives signs of growth by discussing the market share numbers LUSFiber has gained since entering the market in 2009.

Now that we’re showing it’s cash positive for the second year in a row it’s time to announce that we have a third of the market. – Joey Durel

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Boustany in the spotlight for high-profile IRS probe

Posted on May 19, 2013 | Leave a comment

By Bruce Alpert, NOLA.com

WASHINGTON — In March 2012, when Rep.Charles Boustany R-Lafayette asked then IRSCommissioner Douglas Shulman about reports the agency had been targeting Tea Party groups, few paid much attention.

But this week, a videotape of the hearing in which Boustany asked his question, and Schulman’s offered his assurance that “there is absolutely no targeting,” has been played repeatedly on network and cable newscasts.

A report this week by a federal inspector general that the IRS had been improperly targeting Tea Party and other conservative groups for extra scrutiny on applications for tax-exempt status has put Boustany, the chair of the House Ways and Means Oversight subcommittee, into the forefront. It’s quite a jump for the physician-turned lawmaker, who only last year was fighting for his political life in a race he eventually won against Tea Party favorite Jeff Landry of New Iberia.

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Remembering Mickey

Posted on May 19, 2013 | Leave a comment

One year after disappearance, Shunick still touches hearts in the community

Volunteers released balloons at a benefit concert in May 2012 to raise funds to help search for Mickey Shunick. / Leslie Westbrook, The Advertiser

The photos of Mickey Shunick still sit in the offices of Lafayette Police Chief Jim Craft and Det. Stephen Bajat.

The details of the case — the daily routine of the Shunick task force, the way they learned of Shunick’s disappearance exactly one year ago today — are still fresh in their minds.

Bajat still gets a chill when he talks about arresting Brandon Scott Lavergne, the man who later confessed to Shunick’s disappearance and murder.

“We just kept saying, ‘It’s our job to bring her home,’” said Bajat, who led the special Shunick task force that investigated her disappearance and death. “We knew there was some foul play early on. We had our hopes that maybe she was kept alive, but we’re kind of realists. We were hoping for the best but we thought the worst had happened. Regardless, we still came in and trucked forward.

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Teen Drowns At Moore Park | #Lafayette #Louisiana

Posted on May 15, 2013 | Leave a comment

Posted: May 15, 2013 12:38 AM by Steven Albritton
Updated: May 15, 2013 12:40 AM

Tuesday was supposed to be a day of family fun at Moore Park, but it turned into a nightmare for one family.
Police say two teens were swimming in the pond at the back of the park during a family barbecue. 17-year-old Christlyn Sylvester was one of those teens and started shouting for help. He went under the water and never came up.

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Cleveland case gives hope to family, friends of missing Lafayette Parish girl | #Louisiana #Lafayette #KeioshaFelix #Red

Posted on May 9, 2013 | 1 Comment

Keiosha Felix | Gannett Louisiana

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Chris Ramirez

Gannett Louisiana

LAFAYETTE – The happy ending for three missing women in Cleveland provides inspiration for at least one local family.

Keiosha Felix’s family has been waiting for little more than a year for similar results.

Images of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight returning alive to their families after nearly a decade fuels the hope Felix may also be reunited with her loved ones.

“You can’t help but be inspired by it,” said volunteer organizer Tammy Charles, who has pushed efforts to find Felix. “It makes people realize that … the search for her is no less significant now than it was a year ago.”

Known as “Red” to her family, Felix was last seen leaving her paternal aunt’s mobile home in Duson on April 30, 2012. Her 16th birthday was last month, April 8.

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First-graders given detention after student passes out pills

Posted on May 3, 2013 | Leave a comment

Some parents at Prairie Elementary in Lafayette are outraged because their children are being disciplined after another child gave them pills at school.

According to parents, a first grade student handed out green and blue capsules to at least eight other classmates.

Some students ate them, thinking they were candy. Others just dumped out the medication inside the capsule. One student alerted a teacher to what was going on.

All were given after-school detention.

Some of the parents refused the detention, saying their children were victims. Those parents say their children are now being threatened with suspensions.

One parent, Ariel Fields, decided to let her child serve the detention to learn a lesson.

“I don’t think that it should be swept under the rug,” Fields said. “This is a big deal, it’s drugs at school.”

Fields is upset, however, that her first-grade daughter got after-school detention for accepting what she thought was candy from another student

“My child didn’t bring the medicine to school, she was given the medicine as if it was candy,” Fields said.

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Is Lafayette’s LUSFiber Doomed To Fail?

Posted on April 25, 2013 | 1 Comment

By Sam Stokes April 25, 2013 9:55 AM

In 2008 Lafayette Consolidated Government began construction on infrastructure that would bring state-of-the-art high speed internet to the city. The LUSFiber program promised to improve quality of life, attract business, and ensure the future of the city of Lafayette. Over five years later, Lafayette is beginning to reep the benefits of the major technological investment, but not all cities that have chosen to implement city-funded fiber have been able to successfully operate as a public internet service provider.

Global communication giant Google has announced the acquisition of Provo, Utah’s iProvo fiberoptic network. Google will reportedly pay $1 for the fiberoptic network with the promise to invest heavily in upgrades. Provo, Utah will be Google’s third Google Fiber city after already investing in Kansas City, Missouri and Austin, Texas. Google Fiber is a high speed internet service provider.

News of Google’s acquisition has Lafayette citizens wondering whether the same fate will fall upon Lafayette’s LUS Fiber initiative. Lafayette City-Parish President Joey Durel stopped by “Mornings with Ken and Bernie” for his weekly “Lafayette Live” segment to discuss Provo, Utah’s failed attempt at running a fiber network, and why Provo’s mistakes won’t happen in Lafayette.

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Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Department officers arrest man recording traffic stop

Posted on April 15, 2013 | Comments Off

Louisiana Cops Arrest Man for Video Recording Them in Public

By Carlos Miller

Police in Louisiana continued to reveal that gangster cop attitude that has become so visible in this country thanks to the advent of online videos.

It was only a few years ago that we were forced to take the word of police on the facts that lead up to an arrest.

Now we’re seeing a systemic thug-like attitude within the police ranks throughout almost every law enforcement agency in the country because more and more citizens are asserting their right to record in public.The latest case comes from Louisiana, as we can see in a Live Leak video that was posted 14 hours ago at this time although it is not clear when it was recorded nor when.

It shows that a man sitting in his own car at least 50 feet away from police officers during a traffic stop get arrested because he did nothing but video record.

The video is long but worth a watch because the citizen is very knowledgeable of his rights but he gets arrested anyway in a disturbing abuse of power.

There is a long lag until 8:15 after the initial encounter with police when police return to harass and eventually arrest him.

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Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Department officers arrest Alexander John Leger for recording a traffic stop on his phone

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Here is the law by which he was detained:

RS 14 §329.  Interfering with a law enforcement investigation
A.  Interfering with a law enforcement investigation is the intentional interference or obstruction of a law enforcement officer conducting investigative work at the scene of a crime or the scene of an accident by refusing to move or leave the immediate scene of the crime or the accident when ordered to do so by the law enforcement officer when the offender has reasonable grounds to believe the officer is acting in the performance of his official duties.
B.  For the purposes of this Section, “law enforcement officer” means any commissioned police officer, sheriff, deputy sheriff, marshal, deputy marshal, correctional officer, constable, wildlife enforcement agent, state park warden, livestock brand inspector, forestry officer, or probation and parole officer.
C.  Whoever violates the provisions of this Section shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.
Acts 2010, No. 349, §1.

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Naked man attacks St. Landry deputy, subdued with stun gun

Posted on April 12, 2013 | Comments Off

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April 11, 2013

LAFAYETTE — A state trooper, who saw a naked man struggling with a St. Landry Parish deputy in the deputy’s squad car on Interstate 49, fired his handgun and then stunned the alleged attacker with a stun gun, State Police Troop I said Thursday.

State Police said Byron Simon, 22, of Ville Platte, ran naked to the deputy’s squad car, jumped inside and began struggling with the deputy, who was responding to a report about a two-vehicle wreck at about 4:20 p.m. Wednesday.

State trooper Travis Gallow, who also was responding to the accident, drove up to the deputy, who was pulled over near mile marker 40, and saw Simon fighting with him inside the car, State Police said.

Gallow fired his handgun, then used his stun gun to subdue Simon, according to the State Police.

The deputy has not been identified, and no one was injured in the incident, according to the release.

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Latest Developments In The Case Of Missing Keiosha Felix

Posted on April 10, 2013 | Comments Off

By Brandon Comeaux April 10, 2013 11:00 AM

Keiosha Felix has been missing since April 30. On Wednesday, the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office held a media briefing, along with members of Keiosha’s family, to talk about the case.

Keiosha’s mother, Kiera Thibodeaux, as well as her aunt Keona Lewis and her grandfather all spoke. Her grandfather talked about how much he appreciated the efforts made by all departments involved to find Keiosha. These departments include the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office, Louisiana State Police, the Lafayette District Attorney’s Office, the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office and the FBI, which still has a $5,000 reward for locating the missing teen who recently turned sixteen on April 8. All of her family members expressed how much they miss her, and how much they want her returned home safely. Captain Kip Judice with the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office says their mission has been, since the beginning, to bring Keiosha home.

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