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TOTAL VOTING FOR THE FIRST TWO DAYS OF EARLY VOTING IN LOUISIANA IS UP FIFTY-EIGHT PERCENT THIS YEAR COMPARED TO THE TWENTY-SIXTEEN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-EIGHT THOUSAND VOTES WERE CAST, WHICH ACCOUNTS FOR NEARLY NINE PERCENT OF THE STATE’S REGISTERED VOTERS, ACCORDING TO RECORDS IN THE SECRETARY OF STATE’S OFFICE. MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED TWO THOUSAND ABSENTEE BALLOTS HAVE BEEN CAST, WHICH IS NEARLY THREE TIMES THE AMOUNT OVER THE SAME TWO DAY PERIOD IN TWENTY-SIXTEEN. IN LAFAYETTE PARISH, NEARLY TWELVE THOUSAND VOTED IN THE FIRST TWO DAYS OF EARLY VOTING, WHICH MORE THAN DOUBLES THE AMOUNT OVER THE SAME PERIOD IN TWENTY-SIXTEEN.
A MAN IS DEAD FOLLOWING A SUNDAY NIGHT SHOOTING IN ST. MARTINVILLE. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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Louisiana lawmakers are working to rewrite the state’s student discipline laws after a Jefferson Parish fourth-grader was suspended because a teacher saw a BB gun in his bedroom during online classes. The Senate Education Committee backed the legislation without objection Monday. That action sent the bill by Republican Rep. Troy Romero to the full Senate for debate. The House already has unanimously supported the measure that was sparked by the suspension of Ka’Mauri Harrison.
A Louisiana company is planning a major underground storage project for carbon gas. The Times-Picayune|The New Orleans Advocate reports that the gas would be stored 10,000 feet deep in a permeable layer of rock beneath a cattle ranch owned by Gulf Coast Sequestration LLC between the Sabine River and Lake Charles. The company hails the project as an important element in the effort to reduce release of greenhouse gasses, which contribute to climate change. The company has begun work to get a permit from the Environmental Protection Agency to operate the underground injection facility.
A security guard who was working at a party where gunfire killed two people in Lafayette last week says the group was already breaking up when the gunfight erupted. The Thursday shooting at a park in Lafayette left an 18-year-old and a 19-year-old dead. No arrests have been reported. Police estimated about 300 people attended the gathering.
LAST NIGHT THE GROUP SHATTERED HOSTED THEIR SECOND ANNUAL TAKE BACK THE NIGHT MARCH AND VIGIL IN CROWLEY. THE GROUP IS HOPING TO RAISE AWARENESS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. THEY MARCHED FROM MOBLEY FIELD TO THE CROWLEY POLICE DEPARTMENT, WHERE A CANDLELIGHT VIGIL WAS HELD. SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE WERE ACKNOWLEDGED DURING THE EVENT AND THOSE IN ATTENDANCE LEARNED THE SIGNS OF AN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP.
THE AMOUNT OF NEW COVID-NINETEEN CASES INCREASED BY SIX HUNDRED AND NINETY-NINE IN TODAY’S REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, MOVING THE TOTAL TO ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-SIX THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-ONE. LOUISIANA HAS SIX MORE DEATHS. HOSPITALIZATIONS ARE UP BY THIRTY-THREE AND THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS DECREASED BY TWO TO A TOTAL OF SIXTY-TWO.
ACADIANA REPORTS ONE MORE DEATH, AND THAT’S IN ST. MARTIN PARISH. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAS NO NEW DEATHS FROM COVID-NINETEEN, KEEPING THE REGION TOTAL TO THREE HUNDRED SIXTY. ACADIANA NOW HAS SEVEN-HUNDRED EIGHTEEN OVERALL DEATHS. THERE ARE ONE HUNDRED TWELVE NEW CASES OF COVID-NINETEEN IN ACADIANA, INCLUDING TWENTY-TWO IN ST. LANDRY PARISH, TWENTY-ONE IN ST. MARTIN PARISH AND TWENTY IN ACADIA PARISH. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAS FORTY NEW CASES, INCLUDING SIXTTEEN IN JEFF DAIVS PARISH, ELEVEN IN CALCASIEU PARISH, EIGHT IN ALLEN PARISH AND FIVE IN CAMERON PARISH. BEAUREGARD PARISH HAS NO NEW CASES.
