10-5-20
Former Louisiana Gov. Mike Foster, who pushed major changes in education policy and lawsuit rules through an increasingly conservative state Legislature in the 1990s, has died. He was 90. Marsanne Golsby, who was Foster’s press secretary when he was governor, said that Foster died Sunday at his home in Franklin, surrounded by relatives. The bald and burly millionaire businessman was a state senator from south Louisiana when he switched from the Democratic to the Republican Party in 1995 and launched what many considered a longshot bid to succeed four-term Gov. Edwin Edwards.
Louisiana officials say Hurricane Laura damaged nearly 1,900 graves, but they’ve received fewer than 25 requests for help with them. Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry says his office is taking the lead in finding and identifying displaced caskets, vaults, and remains, and returning them to their proper places. A spokesman says the office has found 1,880 damaged graves in 89 cemeteries, including about 50 caskets swept from their tombs. The Federal Emergency Management Agency says Oct. 27 is the deadline for applying for its federal disaster assistance, which can include help fixing graves and returning caskets.
THE ACADIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE NEEDS YOUR HELP IN IDENTIFYING A SUSPECT IN AN ATTEMPTED BURGLARY. CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS MORE.
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ENROLLMENT IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA LAFAYETTE’S GRADUATE PROGRAM IS UP, BUT NOT AS MUCH AS IN PREVIOUS YEARS. FALL ENROLLMENT IN GRADUATE PROGRAMS INCREASED BY ONE HUNDRED TO TWO THOUSAND, FOUR HUNDRED THIRTY. IN THE PREVIOUS FIVE YEARS, ENROLLMENT ROSE BY FORTY-SIX PERCENT. GRADUATE SCHOOL DEAN MARY FARMER-KAISER TELLS THE ADVOCATE NEW ENROLLMENT CAN BE ATTRIBUTED TO THE ONLINE MASTERS OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION PROGRAMS AND NEW PROGRAMS LIKE THE MASTERS IN ACCOUNTING.
LOUISIANA RECORDED THE LOWEST TOTAL OF NEW CASES IN MONTHS WITH TWO HUNDRED EIGHTEEN, ACCORDING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. THERE ARE NINE NEW DEATHS. HOWEVER HOSPITALIZATIONS ARE UP WITH TWENTY-NINE MORE COVID-NINETEEN PATIENTS. THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS INCREASED BY THREE.
ACADIANA HAD ONLY SIXTEEN NEW CASES OF COVID-NINETEEN. IBERIA PARISH HAD THE MOST WITH TEN. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD JUST TEN, INCLUDING SIX IN JEFF DAVIS PARISH. THERE WERE NO NEW DEATHS IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA, WHILE ACADIANA HAD ONE MORE DEATH, WHICH WAS IN LAFAYETTE PARISH, WHICH NOW HAS A TOTAL OF ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-FIVE. THE REGION HAS SIX HUNDRED NINETY.
A LAFAYETTE MAN IS FACING THREE COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED FIRST DEGREE MURDER AFTER A SHOOTING LAST NIGHT AT A HOTEL LOCATED IN THE TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED BLOCK OF THE NORTHE EAST EVANGELINE THRUWAY. THE VICTIM WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL AND IS IN STABLE CONDITION. IT WAS LATER LEARNED THAT THE PERSON WHO TRANSPORTED THE VICTIM WAS THE ALLEGED SHOOTER, COREY ETTIENE, WHO WAS BOOKED INTO THE LAFAYETTE PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER ON A SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR BOND. SERGEANT WAYNE GRIFFIN FROM THE LAFAYETTE POLICE DEPARTMENT SAYS A VERBAL ALTERCATION LED TO THE SHOOTING.
NEW IBERIA POLICE ARE TRYING TO FIND OUT WHO VANDALIZED THE SUGAR CANE FESTIVAL BUILDING. IT HAPPENED SOMETIME BETWEEN AUGUST TWENTY-SEVENTH AND SEPTEMBER FOURTEENTH. PARISH PRESIDENT LARRY RICHARD SAYS ONCE POLICE COMPLETE THEIR INVESTIGATION, THEY’LL BE ABLE TO GO IN AND ESTIMATE THE DAMAGE. HE TELLS KLFY TV THAT THIS IS A SETBACK TO THE CITY BECAUSE THEY HAD SOME RENTALS FOR THE BUILDING.
