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11-17-20

LANDRY PARISH OFFICIALS HELD A PRESS CONFERENCE YESTERDAY TO WARN RESIDENTS ABOUT THE INCREASE IN COVID-NINETEEN CASES, HOSPITALIZATIONS AND DEATHS. SUPERINTENDENT PATRICK JENKINS SAYS THE NUMBERS ARE UP SIGNIFICANTLY AND IMPACTING THE SCHOOLS AND HOW STUDENTS ARE EDUCATED. OPELOUSAS MAYOR JULIUS ALSANDOR SAYS THAT BECAUSE OF THE SPIKE, THEY HAVE TO CONTINUE MITIGATION FOR FAMILIES AND THE PEOPLE THEY SERVE.  OFFICIALS HAVE STRESSED THE IMPORTANCE OF MAINTAINING AND PRACTICING C-D-C GUIDELINES THROUGH THE HOLIDAY SEASON.

 

STATE SENATOR GERALD BOUDREAUX OF LAFAYETTE IS WORKING WITH STATE OFFICIALS TO MAKE SURE THE GOVERNOR’S COVID-NINETEEN ORDERS ARE BEING FOLLOWED.  OVER THE LAST TWO MONTHS, THE STATE FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE HAS RECEIVED SEVENTY-EIGHT COMPLAINTS OF WHICH THIRTEEN WERE FOR OVERCROWDING AND FOR PEOPLE NOT SOCIAL DISTANCING.  PEOPLE FROM THE OFFICE OF ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO CONTROL, THE STATE FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE AND THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ARE MONITORING LOCAL BUSINESSES TO MAKE SURE  THEY ARE COMPLIANT WITH THE GOVERNOR’S GUIDELINES.  BOUDREAUX TELLS KATC TV IF PEOPLE DON’T FOLLOW THE GUIDELINES THE COVID-NINETEEN NUMBERS WILL RISE TO THE POINT THAT DRASTIC ACTION WILL HAVE TO BE TAKEN AND NOBODY WANTS THAT.

 

COVID-NINETEEN CASES TOOK ANOTHER MAJOR JUMP TODAY WITH MORE THAN TWO THOUSAND NEW CASES IN LOUISIANA.  THAT MOVES THE TOTAL OVER ONE HUNDRED NINETY-NINE THOUSAND.  THERE ARE FOURTEEN MORE DEATHS IN THE STATE, ACCORDING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.  HOSPITALIZATIONS GREW BY FIFTY-SIX TODAY.  THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS IS UP BY NINE.

 

SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD NO NEW DEATHS FOR THE SECOND DAY IN  A ROW.  ACADIANA SAW THREE MORE DEATHS.  THEY WERE IN ACADIA, LAFAYETTE AND ST. LANDRY PARISHES.  ACADIANA REPORTED FIVE HUNDRED THIRTEEN NEW CASES, INCLUDING ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-NINE IN LAFAYETTE PARISH.  THE TOTAL IS OVER THIRTY THOUSAND FOR THE FIRST TIME, TO THIRTY THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-THREE.  THE TOTAL CASES IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ROSE BY NINETY-EIGHT TO FOURTEEN THOUSAND.  CALCASIEU PARISH HAD THE MOST WITH SIXTY-EIGHT.

 

AN INDEPENDENT AUTOPSY OF THE DEATH OF QUWAN CHARLES DOESN’T CONTRADICT THE AUTOPSY OF THE IBERIA PARISH CORONER.  SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.

 

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NEW IBERIA POLICE FOUND DRUGS WHILE CONDUCTING A SEARCH WARRANT YESTERDAY.  POLICE EXECUTED THE SEARCH WARRANT AT A RESIDENCE LOCATED IN THE SIX HUNDRED BLOCK OF MYRA STREET.  TWO PEOPLE WERE TAKEN TO THE IBERIA PARISH JAIL AND NO BOND HAS BEEN SET.  BUDDY BOUDREAUX HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH SIMPLE BURGLARY, OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE AND POSSESSION OF SCHEDULE ONE AND SCHEDULE TWO NARCOTICS AND DRUG PARAPHERNALIA, WHILE MELISSA DRAKE FACES A CHARGE OF POSSESSION OF SCHEDULE ONE.

 

A STATE SALES TAX HOLIDAY WILL HAPPEN THIS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.  IT WAS APPROVED BY THE STATE LEGISLATURE AS A WAY TO HELP GIVE RELIEF FOR PEOPLE RECOVERING FROM HURRICANES AND THE COVID-NINETEEN PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY.  THE FOUR-POINT-FOUR-FIVE PERCENT STATE SALES TAX WILL BE EXEMPTED FROM THE FIRST TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS OF MOST CONSUMER PURCHASES ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.  THE STATE SALES TAX HOLIDAY DOES NOT APPLY TO SOME PURCHASES SUCH AS FOR VEHICLES, PERSONAL PROPERTY AND PREPARED MEALS.

 

CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES FORCED THEIR WAY INTO A HOME AFTER RECEIVING A CALL ABOUT A SHOOTING.  IT TURNED OUT BE A FALSE REPORT BY SOMEONE WHO HACKED INTO A FAMILY’S DOORBELL SYSEM TO MAKE DEPUTIES THINK SOMEONE HAD BEEN SHOT.  SHERIFF TONY MANCUSO SAYS THANKFULLY THE HOMEOWNER DIDN’T SHOOT BACK AT THE DEPUTIES AND NO ONE WAS HURT.  THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE AND THE F-B-I IS INVESTIGATING TO DETERMINE WHO HACKED THS SYSTEM AND THE RING DOORBELL APP COMPANY HAS BEEN CONTACTED FOR TIPS ON IMPROVING THE SYSTEM SECURITY.