10-19-20
MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-EIGHT THOUSAND PEOPLE CAST BALLOTS IN THE FIRST TWO DAYS OF EARLY VOTING IN LOUISIANA. THAT COMPARES TO FIVE HUNDRED THREE THOUSAND, SIX HUNDRED TWENTY THAT VOTED IN THE ENTIRE WEEK OF EARLY VOTING FOR THE NOVEMBER TWENTY-NINETEEN ELECTION. ALMOST FORTY-SIX THOUSAND VOTED ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY IN THE ACADIANA PARISHES PLUS CALCASIEU AND JEFF DAVIS PARISHES. THOSE SAME PARISHES HAD NEARLY EIGHTY-THREE THOUSAND VOTERS PARTICIPATE IN THE ENTIRE WEEK OF EARLY VOTING FOR THE NOVEMBER TWENTY-NINETEEN ELECTION.
AUTHORITIES IN NORTH LOUISIANA HAVE ARRESTED A MAN FROM VILLE PLATTE FOR ALLEGEDLY SHOOTING A POLICE OFFICER. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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The Trump Administration on Saturday approved a major disaster declaration for Louisiana, making federal assistance available to supplement state and local recovery efforts after Hurricane Delta. President Donald Trump’s action makes federal funding available to affected individuals in Acadia, Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis and Vermilion parishes. The Federal Emergency Management Agency says assistance can include grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses, and other programs to help individuals and business owners recover from the storm which ravaged the state from Oct. 6 through Oct. 10.
THERE ARE SOME AREAS IN CAMERON PARISH THAT ARE STILL UNDER A MANDATORY EVACUATION FOLLOWING HURRICANE DELTA, WHICH CAME ASHORE ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER NINTH. THE COMMUNITIES IN THAT ORDER ARE CAMERON, CREOLE AND GRAND CHENIER. THEY ALSO HAVE A CURFEW THAT BEGINS EACH NIGHT AT SEVEN AND LASTS UNTIL SIX IN THE MORNING. POINTS OF DISTRIBUTION ARE STILL OPERATING IN GRAND LAKE HIGH SCHOOL, HACKETT’S CORNER AND THE JOHNSON BAYOU FIRE DEPARTMENT.
A MOBILE HOME IN SCOTT CAUGHT FIRE YESTERDAY BUT NO ONE WAS INJURED. THE HOME ON DASSAS STREET SUSTAINED MAJOR FIRE AND SMOKE DAMAGE. ONLY ONE OF THE FIVE OCCUPANTS WAS HOME AT THE TIME OF THE FIRE AND HE MANAGED TO ESCAPE SAFELY. AN AIR CONDITIONER WINDOW UNIT IS BELIEVED TO HAVE STARTED THE FIRE.
A CHURCH POINT WOMAN IS FACING A CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER AFTER SHE ALLEGEDLY SHOT HER BOYFRIEND IN THE STOMACH LAST FRIDAY. THE SHOOTING HAPPENED AFTER AN ARGUMENT OVER THE PHONE. TWENTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD STEPHANIE DORE THEN WENT OVER TO HER BOYFRIENDS’S HOME WITH A GUN. THE BOYFRIEND MANAGED TO DISARM DORE BUT SHE THEN WENT AND GRABBED A GUN IN THE LAUNDRY AND SHOT THE BOYFRIEND IN THE STOMACH AREA.
THERE WERE TWENTY-THREE COVID-NINETEEN DEATHS IN LOUISIANA IN YESTERDAY’S REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, WHICH COVERED A TWO DAY PERIOD SINCE A REPORT IS NOT ISSUED ON SATURDAYS. HOSPITALIZATIONS WERE DOWN BY SEVEN, PUTTING THE TOTAL AT FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY. THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS DECREASED BY ONE TO SIXTY. THERE WERE ONE THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED FORTY-THREE NEW CASES, PUSHING THE OVERALL TOTAL PAST ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND.
THERE WERE SIX DEATHS IN ACADIANA. EACH ACADIANA PARISH HAD ONE EXCEPT FOR IBERIA AND ST. LANDRY PARISHES. NINETY-SIX NEW CASES FOR ACADIANA WERE REPORTED AS THE TOTAL NOW EXCEEDS TWENTY-SIX THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD TWO DEATHS, IN ALLEN AND JEFF DAVIS PARISHES. THERE WERE EIGHTY-NINE NEW CASES, INCLUDING FORTY-SEVEN IN CALCASIEU PARISH.
