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INTERSTATE TEN IN LAFAYETTE WAS CLOSED FOR AWHILE LAST NIGHT AFTER A POLICE CHASE ENDED WITH A CRASH NEAR LOUISIANA AVENUE. THE CHASE BEGAN WHEN IBERVILLE PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES SPOTTED A STOLEN VEHICLE FROM NEW ORLEANS. STATE POLICE HELPED END THE CHASE WHEN THEY SPIKED THE STOLEN VEHICLE, WHICH CRASHED INTO A ROAD MAINTENANCE VEHICLE, CAUSING BOTH TO GO UP IN FLAMES. THE TWO PEOPLE IN THE ROAD MAINTENANCE VEHICLE WERE TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WITH NON-LIFE THREATENING INJURIES. THERE’S NO WORD YET FROM POLICE ON THE CONDITION OF THOSE IN THE STOLEN VEHICLE.
A FATAL TWO VEHICLE CRASH YESTERDAY MORNING ON I-TEN IN RAYNE RESULTED IN MAJOR CONGESTION IN ACADIA PARISH THROUGHOUT THE DAY. THE DRIVER OF A PICKUP TRUCK WAS KILLED WHEN HE WENT THROUGH THE MEDIAN AND CRASHED INTO AN ONCOMING EIGHTEEN WHEELER. BOTH VEHICLES ENDED UP IN THE MEDIAN, WITH THE PICKUP CATCHING FIRE. BOTH LANES OF TRAFFIC EASTBOUND WERE OPENED AT AROUND SEVEN-THIRTY LAST NIGHT.
THERE’S A PROPANE SHORTAGE IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ATTRIBUTED TO HURRICANES LAURA AND DELTA COUPLED WITH THE GLOBAL PANDEMIC. BRIAN CROPPER, WHO WORKS AT STINE, TELLS KPLC TV THEY CONSTANTLY GET CALLS FROM PEOPLE ASKING WHEN THEY’LL HAVE A SUPPLY. RUSSELL SALAME, THE VICE PRESIDENT OF MARKETING FOR MARKET BASKET, SAYS ITS NOT JUST A PROBLEM IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA BUT NATIONWIDE. HE SAYS THERE’S PLENTY OF PROPANE BUT A SHORTAGE OF CONTAINERS BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE HOLDING ON TO MORE THAN ONE.
Louisiana bar owners have lost an appeal in their fight to end Gov. John Bel Edwards’ closure of their businesses. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld rulings from two lower court judges who had refused to block the closure order for groups of bars that filed suit in the Lafayette and New Orleans areas. Edwards said he was pleased with the decision. In a news release, his office said it was the ninth time a court has ruled in favor of his orders aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19.
COVID-NINETEEN HOSPITALIZATIONS ARE DOWN AGAIN IN LOUISIANA WITH FIFTY-FOUR FEWER THAN YESTERDAY, ACCORDING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS PUT ON VENTILATORS HAS GONE UP BY TEN. THERE ARE THREE THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-SIX NEW CASES, PUTTING THE STATE’S TOTAL OVER THREE HUNDRED TWENTY THOUSAND. LOUISIANA ALSO REPORTED FORTY-NINE MORE DEATHS ATTRIBUTED TO COVID-NINETEEN.
(IT MUST BE NOTED THAT THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH HAD A BACKLOG OF INFORMATION DATING BACK TO NOVEMBER INLCUDED IN TODAY’S REPORT.)
ACADIANA HAD TEN MORE DEATHS, FOUR IN LAFAYETTE PARISH, TWO IN ACADIA PARISH, AND ONE EACH IN IBERIA, ST. LANDRY, ST. MARTIN AND VERMILLION PARISHES. THERE WERE SEVEN NEW DEATHS IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. FOUR IN BEAUREGARD PARISH, TWO IN CALCASIEU PARISH, AND ONE IN ALLEN PARISH. THERE ARE SEVEN HUNDRED AND SEVEN NEW CASES IN ACADIANA. VERMILLION PARISH ADDED ONE HUNDRED FORTY-TWO NEW CASES AND LAFAYETTE PARISH ADDED ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-SIX. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FOUR NEW CASES, INCLUDING SEVENTY-EIGHT NEW CASES IN CALCASIEU PARISH AND TWENTY-FOUR IN ALLEN PARISH.
LAFAYETTE MAYOR PRESIDENT JOSH GUILLORY HAS PUT HIMSELF IN QUARANTINE AFTER HAVING CLOSE CONTACT WITH SOMEONE WHO TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID-NINETEEN. GUILLORY HAS HAD NO SYMPTOMS AND TESTED NEGATIVE TUESDAY, BUT HE’S FOLLOWING THE ADVICE OF THE REGIONAL MEDICAL DIRECTOR FOR ACADIANA, DR. TINA STEFANSKI, TO STAY IN QUARANTINE UNTIL AT LEAST SATURDAY. GUILLORY WILL WORK REMOTELY STAYING IN CONTACT WITH DEPARTMENT HEADS. COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR JAMIE ANGELLE SAYS GUILLORY WILL NOT RETURN TO CITY HALL UNTIL HE IS TESTED AGAIN.
A HOUSE FIRE IN OPELOUSAS CLAIMED THE LIVES OF A MAN AND HIS DOG. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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