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BEGINNING TOMORROW NIGHT, CONCRETE PAVING OPERATIONS WILL LEAD TO RESTRICTED TRAFFIC ON KALISTE SALOOM IN LAFAYETTE BETWEEN AMBASSADOR CAFFERY AND E BROUSSARD ROAD. TRAFFIC WILL BE REDUCED TO ONE LANE BETWEEN SEVEN P-M AND SIX A-M. THE LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT SAYS THE LANE CLOSURES WILL BE CONTROLLED BY FLAGGERS. THE PAVING OPERATIONS AND LANE CLOSURES WILL BE CONDUCTED ONE TO TWO NIGHTS PER WEEK OVER THE NEXT FOUR WEEKS.
THE JEANERETTE FIRE CHIEF GOT TO DELIVER A BABY AFTER FIRE FIGHTERS RESPONDED TO AN EMERGENCY CALL LAST THURSDAY ABOUT A WOMAN IN LABOR WHO COULDN’T MAKE IT TO THE HOSPITAL. CHIEF SHERRY ANN LANDRY SAYS IT HAPPENED SO FAST AND, AFTER SHE CAUGHT THE BABY, SHE BEGAN DRYING IT OFF AND THE BABY STARTED CRYING, WHICH, LANDRY SAYS, WAS THE BEST SOUND EVER. LANDRY SAYS THE MEDICS ARRIVED AT THAT POINT, CUT THE CORD, AND SHE WAS ABLE TO CUDDLE THE BABY WHILE THE MOM WAS BEING TENDED TO. LANDRY GOT TO VISIT THE FAMILY OVER THE WEEKEND WHO REQUESTED THAT SHE BE THE BABY’S GODMOTHER, WHICH SHE CALLED THE HONOR OF A LIFETIME, AND SHE ACCEPTED.
A PEDESTRIAN WHO WAS KILLED EARLY SATURDAY MORNING IN WEST BATON ROUGE HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS A NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD MAN FROM LAKE CHARLES. STATE POLICE SAY GUNNER THORNTON WAS WALKING NORTH ON
L-A FOUR-FIFTEEN. HE WAS KILLED AFTER BEING HIT BY MULTIPLE CARS. IT HAPPENED SOMETIME BETWEEN TWO-TWENTY AND THREE THIRTY A-M SATURDAY MORNING.
SYLVIA MASTERS JOINS US NOW WITH THE LATEST COVID NINETEEN NUMBERS FOR LOUISIANA.
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THE NEIGHBORS PHARMACY ON JOHNSTON STREET IN LAFAYETTE BEGAN YESTERDAY VACCINATING CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF ELEVEN FOR COVID-NINETEEN. SEVERAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES APPROVED THE PFIZER COVID-NINETEEN VACCINE FOR CHILDREN FIVE AND OLDER. THE CO-OWNER OF NEIGHBORS PHARMACY, GRETCHEN BODIN, SAYS THEY ARE MAKING THE VACCINE AVAILABLE TO CHILDREN OUT OF CARE AND CONVENIENCE BUT LEAVING IT UP TO THE PATIENT AND THE PHYSICIANS TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE CHILD SHOULD RECIEVE THE VACCINE. OTHER LOCAL PHARMACIES ARE STILL WORKING OUT THE DETAILS ON THEIR PLANS TO VACCINATE CHILDREN, ACCORDING TO KATC TV.
ONE MAN IS IN SERIOUS CONDITION AND ANOTHER IS BEHIND BARS FOLLOWING A SHOOTING OUTSIDE A CONVENIENCE STORE IN GRAND COTEAU. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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A GRAND JURY HAS INDICTED A FRANKLIN MAN WHO IS ACCUSED OF SETTING FIRE TO HIS GIRLFRIEND AND HIS FIVE-YEAR-OLD NEPHEW IN JULY. THE GIRLFRIEND TOLD FIRST RESPONDERS THAT, DURING AN ARGUMENT, FORTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD DERWIN HAMILTON POURED LIQUID ON HER AND HIS GREAT-NEPHEW AND SET THEM ON FIRE IN THEIR MOBILE HOME. THE NEPHEW DIED IMMEDIATELY AND SHE DIED AFTER SEVEN DAYS IN THE HOSPITAL. ON FRIDAY, THE GRAND JURY INDICTED HAMILTON ON TWO COUNTS OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER.
A researcher at a private university in New Orleans is getting nearly $50,000 to study how pollution spread by Hurricane Ida’s floods has affected south Louisiana groundwater and water systems. Tulane University associate professor Samendra Sherchan says the National Science Foundation grant will let his team sample water from about 150 sites. The category 4 hurricane’s downpours and storm surge caused catastrophic floods. Sherchan said in a news release Monday that those could have contaminated groundwater with microbes from sewage, chemicals and heavy metals.
