10-1-20
CONGRESSMAN CLAY HIGGINS HAS CALLED THE LEADER OF AN ARMED MILITIA GROUP TO APOLOGIZE FOR A SOCIAL MEDIA POST MADE BY HIGGINS IN WHICH HE THREATENED THE GROUP. HIGGINS TOLD GRANDMASTER JOHN JAY FITZGERALD THAT THE POST WAS MADE IN IGNORANCE AND STATED HE WILL ATTEND THEIR FORMATION THIS SATURDAY IN DOWNTOWN LAFAYETTE. FITZGERALD TELLS KLFY TV THIS IF THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY A SITTING CONGRESSMAN HAD CALLED A MEMBER OF A BLACK MILITIA GROUP TO APOLOGIZE FOR THREATENING TO KILL THEM FOR EXERCISING THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. JOHNSON SAYS HIGGINS INVITED HIM TO HIS HOME, WHICH CAUGHT JOHNSON OFF GUARD.
CANKTON POLICE CHIEF BRENT BREAUX IS THE FOCUS OF AN INVESTIGATION AFTER A COMPLAINT WAS FILED ABOUT ALLEGED INTIMIDATION. CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS MORE.
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House Republican lawmakers have outlined their grievances about Louisiana’s handling of the COVID-19 outbreak. They criticized Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards’ regulations across two committee hearings Wednesday as too strict. GOP legislators complained about crowd limits on football games, mask requirements for cheerleaders and dance teams, restrictions on churches, closures of bars and constraints on nursing home visitation. The criticism came in a special session that GOP lawmakers convened in part to consider curbing the Louisiana governor’s sole authority to issue executive orders during disasters. Lawmakers have complained they’ve been sidelined in the decision-making.
AFTER A COUPLE OF DAYS IN A ROW OF GROWING HOSPITALIZATIONS FOR COVID-NINETEEN IN LOUISIANA, THE TOTAL WENT DOWN BY TWENTY-FIVE YESTERDAY TO FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY-THREE. ALSO THERE WAS ONE LESS PATIENT ON A VENTILATOR. THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH REPORTS FOUR HUNDRED NINE NEW CASES OF COVID-NINETEEN IN THE STATE, MOVING THE TOTAL PAST ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-SIX THOUSAND. THERE WERE THIRTEEN NEW DEATHS.
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA RECORDED ONE NEW COVID-NINETEEN DEATH, WHICH WAS IN BEAUREGARD PARISH. THERE WERE NO NEW DEATHS IN ACADIANA. FOR THE SECOND DAY IN A ROW, ACADIANA HAD TWENTY-SEVEN NEW CASES, WITH THE TOTAL NOW SURPASSING TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED. THERE WERE THIRTY-SEVEN MORE CASES IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA.
LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR AN ESCAPED INMATE. THEY CONFIRM AN INMATE ESCAPED FROM THE JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER ON SURREY STREET. THEY HAVE NOT RELEASED THE IDENTITY OF THE JUVENILE OR HOW THE ESCAPE HAPPENED. AS OF LATE LAST NIGHT THE JUVENILE WAS STILL ON THE LOOSE.
A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit by three people who say they were illegally arrested as they protested construction of a major oil pipeline in south Louisiana. The suit was filed last year by protesters who say they were illegally arrested in August 2018 while in a canoe and kayak on a navigable waterway near the pipeline site in St. Martin parish. Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC sought to have the suit dismissed. But U.S. District Judge Shelley Dick in Baton Rouge rejected the company’s argument that the lawsuit wasn’t specific enough about the company’s role in the allegedly illegal arrests.
A CURFEW FOR CALCASIEU PARISH IS CONTINUING FROM TEN P-M TO SIX A-M BECAUSE OF STREET DEBRIS, STREET SIGNS THAT ARE DOWN AND NONWORKING STREET LAMPS. THE PARISH DROP OFF POINT FOR PEOPLE WISHING TO RETURN TO THEIR HOMES IN CALCASIEU PARISH IS THE CHENNAULT INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. THOSE WHO RETURN ONLY TO FIND THEIR HOMES UNLIVEABLE ARE ASKED TO CALL 9-1-1. THE RED CROSS AND UNITED WAY ARE AT THE AIRPORT TO PROVIDE NECESSARY SERVICES AND SUPPLIES. THOSE WHO RETURN TO THEIR HOMES NEEDING FOOD, SUPPLIES AND RELATED NEEDS CAN CALL TWO-ONE-ONE.
