10-23-20
BISHOP J. DOUGLAS DESHOTEL OF THE DIOCESE OF LAFAYETTE HAS ISSUED A STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO A COMMENT MADE BY POPE FRANCIS IN A DOCUMENTARY, WHERE HE APPEARS TO ENDORSE HOMOSEXUAL CIVIL UNIONS. DESHOTEL SAYS THE COMMENTS IN A MOVIE ARE NOT CONSIDERED “ OFFICIAL MAGISTERIAL TEACHING.” HE SAYS THE COMMENTS BY POPE FRANCIS “DOES NOT CHANGE ANY DOCTRINES OF THE CHURCH WHICH ARE DRAWN FROM SACRED SCRIPTURE AND SACRED TRADITION.” DESHOTEL SAYS ANY SEXUAL ACTIVITY OUTSIDE THE MARRIAGE OF ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN IS “GRAVELY IMMORAL.”
FIVE PEOPLE IN A VEHICLE LEAVING CROWLEY ON I-TEN LAST NIGHT WERE SHOT AND TWO ARE LISTED IN CRITICAL CONDITION. ACADIA PARISH SHERIFF K-P GIBSON SAYS THE VEHICLE HAD SIX PEOPLE IN IT, TWO ADULTS AND FOUR JUVENILES, AND WHEN THEY GOT TO AROUND MILE MARKER 84, SHOTS WERE FIRED FROM ANOTHER VEHICLE. THE VICTIM’S VEHICLE THEN ENTERED THE MEDIAN AND ENTERED THE WESTBOUND LANES OF I-TEN, BUT WAS NOT HIT BY ANY ONCOMING VEHICLES. GIBSON SAYS INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE THE SHOOTING WAS DELIBERATE AND NOT A ROAD RAGE OR RANDOM ACT.
SOME HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL STADIUMS THIS WEEK MAY WELCOME MORE FANS. SYLVIA MASTERS EXPLAINS.
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THE JEFF DAVIS PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS TRYING TO FIND A MAN WHO ROBBED A TRUCK STOP IN ROANOKE LATE TUESDAY NIGHT. CHIEF DEPUTY CHRIS IVEY SAYS THE SUSPECT, WHO COMMITTED AN ARMED ROBBERY WITH A FIREARM, IS A BLACK MAN WHO WAS DRIVING A TOYOTA CORROLA. A PHOTO OF THE SUSPECT CAN BE SEEN ON THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE FACEBOOK PAGE. IF ANYONE RECOGNIZES THE MAN OR HAS INFORMATION ABOUT THE ROBBERY, THEY ARE ASKED TO CONTACT THE JEFF DAVIS PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE.
A LONG-TIME ACADIANA REAL ESTATE AGENT AND FORMER ATTORNEY, R. HAMILTON “HAMMY” DAVIS, DIED YESTERDAY AFTER A BATTLE WITH BRAIN CANCER. DAVIS PRACTICED AS AN ATTORNEY FOR YEARS BEFORE FOUNDING SCOUT REAL ESTATE IN LAFAYETTE. HE WAS ALSO VERY INVOLVED IN ESTABLISHING THE ACADIANA FOOD HUB, ACCORDING TO DIRECTOR ZACK MCMATH. FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS ARE PENDING.
NEW IBERIA POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR TWO SUSPECTS WHO STOLE TWO CENTRAL AIR CONDITIONER UNITS FROM AN APARTMENT COMPLEX. IT HAPPENED ONE WEEK AGO AT THE APARTMENT COMPLEX ON SOUTH CORRINE STREET. THE THIEVES ALSO GUTTED TWO OTHER UNITS. NEW IBERIA POLICE HAVE POSTED PHOTOS OF THE TWO SUSPECTS ON THEIR FACEBOOK PAGE. ANYONE WHO CAN IDENTIFY THEM IS ASKED TO CALL IBERIA CRIME STOPPERS AT THREE-SIX-FOUR-TIPS.
THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH REPORTS TWENTY-ONE MORE DEATHS FROM COVID-NINETEEN IN THE STATE TODAY. THAT MOVES THE OVERALL TOTAL PAST FIVE THOUSAND, SIX HUNDRED. HOSPITALIZATIONS ARE UP BY TWENTY-TWO PATIENTS, BRINGING THE TOTAL UP TO SIX HUNDRED TWENTY. THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS INCREASED BY ONE. LOUISIANA HAD SIX HUNDRED NINETY-NINE NEW CASES.
THERE WERE FOUR MORE COVID-NINETEEN DEATHS IN ACADIANA TODAY, INCLUDING TWO IN IBERIA PARISH AND ONE EACH IN LAFAYETTE AND ST. MARY PARISHES. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA REPORTED ONE MORE DEATH, WHICH WAS IN ALLEN PARISH. ACADIANA HAD FORTY-ONE NEW CASES. THAT INCLUDES NINETEEN IN ST. LANDRY PARISH. THERE ARE THIRTY-THREE NEW CASES IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA, INCLUDING EIGHTEEN IN CALCASIEU PARISH.
