11-19-20
LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT AT THE NORTHGATE MALL. POLICE SAY ONE PERSON WAS SHOT IN THE PARKING LOT NEAR PLANET FITNESS. THAT PERSON WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WITH NON-LIFE THREATENING INJURIES. SEVERAL EYEWITNESSES TOLD KLFY TV THERE WAS A FIGHT IN THE PARKING LOT BEFORE THE SHOTS WERE FIRED.
Police in Baldwin are defending their handling of the disappearance of a Black teenager who was found dead earlier this month. Baldwin Assistant Police Chief Samuel Wise says the search for 15-year-old Quawan “Bobby” Charles began soon after his mother reported him missing on Oct. 30. Wise said the case did not appear to warrant issuing an Amber Alert for a missing child. Charles’ body was found in some water in Iberia Parish woods on Nov. 3.
Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards has been hospitalized with pneumonia, only days after he was released from a prior stay for breathing problems. Trina Edwards, the four-term Democratic former governor’s wife, says Edwin Edwards became “very ill” Tuesday evening and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. She says her husband has pneumonia in both lungs and was expected to be hospitalized for several days. The 93-year-old Edwin Edwards spent the prior weekend in a Baton Rouge hospital for respiratory problems.
LAKE ARTHUR RESIDENTS ARE UNDER A BOIL ADVISORY. THE WATER WAS TURNED OFF AT AROUND TWO YESTERDAY AFTERNOON FOR EMERGENCY REPAIRS TO THE WATER SYSTEM. IT WAS TURNED BACK ON AT AROUND FIVE YESTERDAY EVENING. IT IS EXPECTED TO TAKE TWO TO THREE DAYS BEFORE THE WATER IS CONSIDERED SAFE AND THE BOIL ADVISORY IS LIFTED.
THE RISE IN CORONAVIRUS CASES IS FORCING NEW VISITOR RESTRICTIONS AT OCHSNER LAFAYETTE GENERAL. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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THAT’S TV-TEN’S SYLVIA MASTERS. THE RESTRICTIONS INCLUDE NO MORE THAN ONE VISITOR PER PATIENT AND A MASKING PROTOCOL.
LOUISIANA HAS TWO HUNDRED AND TWO THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED FORTY-THREE TOTAL CONFIRMED CASES OF COVID-NINETEEN. TODAY’S REPORT FROM THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SHOWS ONE THOUSAND, SEVEN HUNDRED SIXTY-ONE NEW CASES. THERE ARE TWELVE MORE DEATHS. HOSPITALIZATIONS JUMPED BY FORTY-THREE AND THERE ARE FIVE FEWER PATIENT ON A VENTILATOR.
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAS ONE NEW DEATH IN BEAUREGARD PARISH. ACADIANA SAW TWO MORE DEATHS, ONE IN EVANGELIN PARISH AND THE OTHER IN LAFAYETTE PARISH. ACADIANA NOW HAS THREE HUNDRED FORTY-SEVEN NEW CONFIRMED CASES OF COVID-NINETEEN, LED BY LAFAYETTE PARISH WITH ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-NINE. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAS ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-SEVEN NEW CASES LED BY CALCASIEU PARISH WITH SIXTY-FOUR NEW CASES.
A MAN INVOLVED IN A TWO HOUR STANDOFF WITH ACADIA PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES TUESDAY NIGHT IN BRANCH HAS HAD SOME OF THE CHARGES AGAINST HIM DROPPED. THE ACADIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE ASKED THE JUDGE TO DROP SIX CHARGES OF ATTEMPTED FIRST DEGREE MURDER OF A PEACE OFFICER AGAINST THIRTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD JIVESTON HEBERT. SHERIFF K-P GIBSON SAYS THEY DETERMINED IN THEIR INVESTIGATION THAT HEBERT DID NOT FIRE ANY SHOTS AT THE DEPUTIES. GIBSON SAYS THE OTHER CHARGES AGAINST HEBERT WILL REMAIN.
