Lafayette Police arrest two Vermilion Parish men for allegedly assaulting a man who was walking home from a festival last month. Tristan Frederick and Tynes Chaney, who are both 23, are charged with second-degree battery in the October 12th attack on Dustyn Cope. Sergeant Robin Green says important evidence led investigators to the two men.
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Cope, who is half Filipino, told KATC-TV that he believes the attack was racially motivated, but Green says they found no evidence of that.
The LSU Board of Supervisors has called for a special meeting tomorrow to discuss the lawsuit filed by Brian Kelly against LSU as the former Tigers football coach is seeking his entire 54-million-dollar buyout. Piper Hutchinson with the Louisiana Illuminator says most of the meeting will take place behind closed doors
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The next stop on President Trump’s immigration crackdown is New Orleans. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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Police in Abbeville are looking for several people who rode a horse into Walmart store on Saturday. Police Chief Mike Hardy believes the group of horse riders were participating in a nearby trail ride when they decided to trot their horses into the Walmart. Walmart is not happy and they want police to charge these individuals with a crime.