9:30 A.M. Louisiana Network Newscast.

[UPI]

9:30 A.M. Louisiana Network Newscast.

April 6, 1998 item number is N19332 by AMY WHITTINGTON.

The Coast Guard continues to search Lake Pontchartrain for three missing
people after their plane went down late last week. One survivor was
found in the water hanging onto debris. Divers will extend their search
past the five mile area they've been looking in and begin using sonar
equipment.
The mother of a Lafayette man killed last year has filed a lawsuit
against the killer and three alleged accomplices. Twenty-one-year-old
Stephen Cornay was stabbed more than 20 times. One of the three men
accused of helping dispose of Cornay's body says they dug a makeshift
grave and pounded the victims' body to make it fit inside.

A fourth life sentence has been doled out to convicted serial
killer...33-year-old John Peter Malveaux of Lafayette. He pleaded guilty
last week in the murder of 38-year-old Tammy Smith. Malveaux has already
pleaded guilty to killing three women.

Voters in the Grant Parish town of Boyce have once again shot down a
proposal to allow liquor sales in the community. Advertisements in favor
of the measure said that selling alcohol would mean more tax money for
the area.

Former governor Edwin Edwards' son Stephen is being sued for allegedly
defrauding an oil company. The trustee of W-R-T Energy Corporation
claims Stephen Edwards arranged for W-R-T to buy oil leases at inflated
prices. A lawyer for Stephen Edwards calls the accusations false.

Last week Louisiana's Labor Secretary Garey Forster traveled to Monroe
to talk about employment in the state. Forster says there are lots of
jobs in Louisiana...but a well-trained and excited workforce is needed to
fill many of these positions and stay in these jobs.

cut 16...35 ``training programs''

Several mayoral races took place over the weekend. New Iberia elected
Ruth Fontenot the city's mayor....making her the first women to serve in
that position in the city. Pineville Mayor Fred Baden faces his first
runoff since being elected for the first time back in 1970. Sam Caruso
was elected for a fifth time as Slidell's mayor. DeRidder mayor Gerald
Johnson was reelected and one vote kept Bunkie Mayor John Guillory out of
a runoff.
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