11-10-20
BREAUX BRIDGE POLICE ARRESTED A SUSPECT IN A DEADLY SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED MONDAY MORNING. CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS MORE.
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BOB GUILBEAU, THE OWNER OF PREJEANS, WHICH HAS BEEN IN BUSINESS SINCE NINTEEN-EIGHTY, IS IN NEGOTIATIONS TO SELL THE ICONIC RESTAURANT. TIM METCALF, THE OWNER OF DEAN-O’S, TOLD MOON GRIFFON ON HIS RADIO SHOW YESTERDAY THAT THEY ARE PURCHASING PREJEANS IN A DEAL THAT IS EXPECTED TO CLOSE ON NOVEMBER EIGHTEENTH. METCALF SAYS HIS PLAN IS TO CLOSE PREJEAN’S FOR ABOUT TWO MONTHS AND RENOVATE THE INTERIOR, REOPENING SOMETIME BEFORE LENT. PREJEAN’S HAS STRUGGLED DURING THE COVID-NINETEEN OUTBREAK, GOING FROM ONE HUNDRED FORTY EMPLOYEES AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR TO ABOUT FIFTY NOW.
LOUISIANA ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF LANDRY HAS JOINED NINE OTHER ATTORNEYS GENERAL IN ASKING THE SUPREME COURT TO HEAR A CHALLENGE TO THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN PENNSYLVANIA. THE STATE LEGISLATURE IN PENNSYLVANIA SAID ALL MAIL IN BALLOTS NOT IN BY ELECTION DAY COULD NOT BE COUNTED, BUT THE STATE SUPREME COURT OVERRULED AND SAID THE BALLOTS RECEIVED LATE BUT POSTMARKED BY NOVEMBER THIRD HAD TO BE ACCEPTED. LANDRY SAID AT A NEWS CONFERENCE THEY BELIEVE THE REFEREES CHANGED THE RULES OF THE GAME. LANDRY, WHO IS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE REPUBLICAN ATTORNEYS GENERAL ASSOCIATION, SAYS THEY WANT ALL BALLOTS RECEIVED AFTER EIGHT P-M ON ELECTION DAY TO BE CONSIDERED ILLEGAL.
THE JEFF DAVIS PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS LOOKING FOR A TRUSTEE, WHO WALKED OFF A WORK DETAIL SUNDAY EVENING. FIFTY-YEAR-OLD DUANE LEMAIRE OF JENNINGS WAS IN JAIL FOR A PROBATION VIOLATION AND WAS ASSIGNED AS A TRUSTEE. HE IS NOW WANTED FOR SIMPLE ESCAPE. ANYONE WHO KNOWS LEMAIRE’S WHEREABOUTS IS URGED TO CONTACT THE JEFF DAVIS PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE.
A STATE DISTRICT JUDGE DID NOT GIVE HOLDEN MATTHEWS ADDITIONAL PRISON TIME FOR BURNING THREE HISTORICALLY BLACK CHURCHES IN ST. LANDRY PARISH. JUDGE JAMES DOHERTY SENTENCED HOLDEN MATTHEWS TO TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN PRISON ON SEVERAL CHARGES INCLUDING HATE CRIMES, BUT THE SENTENCE WILL RUN CONCURRENTLY WITH A TWENTY-FIVE YEAR FEDERAL PRISON SENTENCE. DOHERTY EXPLAINED THAT HE COULDN’T HAND OUT A DIFFERENT SENTENCE THAN THE ONE MATTHEWS RECEIVED ONE WEEK AGO BECAUSE OF A PLEA DEAL WORKED OUT BETWEEN HOLDEN’S ATTORNEYS AND FEDERAL PROSECUTORS. THREE MEMBERS OF THE CHURCHES WHO SPOKE AT THE SENTENCING HEARING EXPRESSED DISAPPOINTMENT TO THE MEDIA THAT MATTHEWS DID NOT RECEIVE A STRONGER PENALTY.
A FORMER U-L RAGIN CAJUN FOOTBALL PLAYER DIED IN A SHOOTING OVER THE WEEKEND IN DALLAS, ACCORDING TO RADIO STATION K-P-E-L. AL RILES WAS A WIDE RECIEVER FOR U-L FROM TWENTY-SIXTEEN TO TWENTY-TWENTY, AND WAS FIRST TEAM ALL SUN BELT CONFERENCE IN HIS SENIOR YEAR. HIS FAMILY HAS SET UP A GOFUND ME ACCOUNT TO RAISE MONEY TO PAY FOR FUNERAL EXPENSES. SO FAR, MORE THAN TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS HAS BEEN RAISED.
LOUISIANA HAD A MAJOR JUMP IN NEW COVID NINETEEN CASES. THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH REPORTS ONE THOUSAND, THREE HUNDRED THIRTY NEW CASES, MOVING THE TOTAL OVER ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-NINE THOUSAND. THERE ARE TEN MORE DEATHS IN THE STATE. HOSPITALIZATIONS CONTINUE TO GROW WITH THIRTY-TWO NEW PATIENTS. HOWEVER, THERE ARE FIVE FEWER PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS.
ACADIANA HAS TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-TWO NEW CASES OF COVID-NINETEEN PUSHING THE TOTAL PAST TWENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND, THREE HUNDRED. LAFAYETTE PARISH HAD THE MOST IN THE REGION WITH SIXTY-SIX. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD SEVENTY-ONE NEW CASES, INCLUDING TWENTY THREE EACH IN CALCASIEU AND JEFF DAVIS PARISHES. THE TOTAL HAS SURPASSED THIRTEEN THOUSAND, FOUR HUNDRED. FOR THE SECOND DAY IN A ROW, SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA RECORDED NO MORE COVID-NINETEEN RELATED DEATHS. ACADIANA HAD TWO DEATHS, ONE EACH IN LAFAYETTE AND ST. LANDRY PARISHES.
