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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 a 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 ECLIPSED TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND CONFIRMED CASES OF COVID-NINETEEN.  THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH REPORT YESTERDAY SHOWS ONE THOUSAND, THREE HUNDRED TWENTY-THREE NEW CASES.  THERE ARE THIRTEEN MORE DEATHS.  HOSPITALIZATIONS ROSE BY TWELVE WHILE THERE IS ONE MORE PATIENT ON A VENTILATOR.

 

 

SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD NO NEW DEATHS FOR THE THIRD DAY IN  A ROW.  ACADIANA SAW TWO MORE DEATHS.  THEY WERE BOTH IN ST. LANDRY PARISH, WHICH NOW HAS ONE HUNDRED FORTY-THREE CONFIRMED COVID-NINETEEN DEATHS.  THAT’S THE MOST OF ANY PARISH IN ACADIANA.  ACADIANA HAS ONE HUNDRED NINETY-EIGHT NEW CASES, MOVING THE TOTAL OVER THIRTY-THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED.  LAFAYETTE PARISH HAS THE MOST WITH EIGHTY-FIVE.  SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD THIRTY-NINE 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.