A teenage girl is dead in a crash in Lafayette. Andrew Greenstein reports the driver should never have been driving the vehicle in the first place.
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If you’re a hunter, the Louisiana Second Amendment Weekend Sales Tax Holiday is back again this Friday through Sunday. Sean Richardson has more.
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A teenage girl is dead in a crash in Lafayette. Police Sergeant Matthew Benoit (BEN-wah) says this happened early yesterday morning.
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Benoit notes that while investigators have established that the vehicle was stolen, it’s unclear whether that 14-year-old driver was the one who stole it.
The girl who died is identified as 17-year-old Terry Mitchell of Lafayette. She was riding in the back seat. Two others were taken to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries. The 14-year-old driver tried to escape but didn’t get very far.
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The boy is in juvenile detention and is facing four charges – one each of negligent homicide, reckless operation, unauthorized use of an automobile and driving without a license.
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If you’re a hunter, the Louisiana Second Amendment Weekend Sales Tax Holiday is back again this Friday through Sunday. Department of Revenue Spokesperson Bryon Henderson says consumer purchases of a wide range of hunting supplies are exempt from state and local sales tax…
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The exemption only applies to individual consumer purchases, not business or commercial purchases.
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For the second time in as many weeks, a raccoon knocked out power in Terrebonne Parish. The latest one was Sunday, in which six-thousand customers lost power after a raccoon ended up in the Eddison power substation in Houma. Parish President Jason Bergeron (BAA-zher-on) says power outages have been a long-standing issue
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Bergeron says he drove to the substation to check things out for himself.
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Bergeron says unfortunately, there’s little if anything that can be done about animals getting into the substation.
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Bergeron says this comes as the parish continues repairing powerlines damaged by Hurricane Ida.