11-30-20
THE ACTIVIST GROUP, VILLAGE THREE-THREE-SEVEN, HAS ANNOUNCED THEY ARE LAUNCHING A RECALL PETITION OF THE GOVERNOR. THE GROUP HAS BEEN PROTESTING THE SHOOTING OF TRAYFORD PELLERIN BY LAFAYETTE POLICE THIS SUMMER AND THE HANDLING OF THE INVESTIGATION OF THE DEATH OF FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD QUAWAN CHARLES BY BALDWIN POLICE. VILLAGE THREE-THREE-SEVEN PRESIDENT DEVON NORMAN HAS INDICATED THEY ARE UPSET WITH GOVERNOR JOHN BEL EDWARDS BECAUSE HE HASN’T ADDRESSED WHAT IS HAPPENING. HE SAYS IT’S TIME FOR A CHANGE AND A NEW MOVEMENT.
TWO EMPLOYEES AT A LAFAYETTE HOTEL ARE RECOVERING AFTER BEING STABBED FRIDAY NIGHT. LAFAYETTE POLICE SAY THIRTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD TROY LEDOUX ATTACKED THE HOTEL DESK CLERK AFTER THE CLERK REFUSED TO RENT HIM A ROOM BECAUSE OF BAD BEHAVIOR. A SECOND EMPLOYEE WHO TRIED TO INTERVENE WAS ALSO INJURED. LEDOUX WAS TREATED FOR INJURIES AND THEN BOOKED INTO THE LAFAYETTE PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER ON SEVERAL CHARGES INCLUDING ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER.
THE STATE NOW HAS MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED TWENTY THOUSAND CONFIRMED CASES OF COVID-NINETEEN. IN YESTERDAY’S REPORT BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, WHICH COVERS TWO DAYS, THERE WERE AN ADDITIONAL ONE THOUSAND, SIX HUNDRED FORTY-ONE NEW CASES. THERE WERE SIXTEEN MORE DEATHS FROM COVID-NINETEEN. HOSPITALIZATIONS ARE UP TO ALMOST TWELVE HUNDRED. THERE ARE ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS.
OCHSNER LAFAYETTE GENERAL IS CONDUCTING COVID-NINETEEN TESTING IN ACADIA PARISH TODAY AND TOMORROW. THEY ARE DOING THE TESTING FROM EIGHT TO FOUR TODAY AT VETERAN’S MEMORIAL PAVILION IN IOTA. TOMORROW THEY WILL BE CONDUCTING COVID-TESTING FROM EIGHT A-M TO FOUR P-M AT THE WELLS FARGO BUILDING IN CROWLEY. THE LOUISIANA ARMY NATIONAL GUARD WILL HAVE FREE COVID-NINETEEN TESTING ON WEDNESDAY FROM EIGHT TO THREE AT THE ACADIA RICE ARENA IN CROWLEY.
STUDENTS AT ABBEVILLE HIGH SCHOOL WILL NOT REPORT TO CLASS TODAY OR TOMORROW. SYLVIA MASTERS EXPLAINS.
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OPELOUSAS HIGH SCHOOL IS MOVING TO ALL VIRTUAL LEARNING THIS WEEK. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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Louisiana’s education leaders are working on plans aimed at improving reading skills for the state’s youngest students. The Advocate reports that students from kindergarten through second grade have long been absent from Louisiana’s accountability system and State Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley wants to give kindergarten through second grade students more attention. Thousands of the state’s youngest students are unable to read on grade level. A recent report earlier this year said only 43% of kindergarten students were reading on grade level and 54% of first graders.
LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE STILL SEARCHING FOR A SUSPECT WHO SHOT A PERSON FRIDAY MORNING ON ST. CHARLES STREET. OFFICERS RESPONDING TO THE CALL FOUND THE VICTIM AND THE SHOOTER HAD BOTH LEFT THE SCENE, BUT THEY LATER FOUND THE VICTIM BEING TREATED AT A HOSPITAL. THEY LEARNED THAT THE TWO HAD BEEN IN A VERBAL ALTERCATION AND THE SUSPECT SHOT THE OTHER PERSON WHO MANAGED TO DRIVE AWAY. THE VICTIM SUFFERED A WOUND TO THE LOWER TORSO, WHICH WAS NOT LIFE THREATENING.
