12-11-20
FIRE CLAIMED THE LIFE OF ONE PERSON LAST NIGHT. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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FIRE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN ALTON TRAHAN SAYS THE VICTIM IS TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD BROCK JOHNSON.
ONE PERSON WAS SHOT AND KILLED AT THE CORNER OF FIRST AND LOVETTE STREETS IN JEANERETTE LAST NIGHT AT AROUND SEVEN-THIRTY. THE IDENTITY OF THE VICTIM HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED BUT IT WAS A MIDDLE AGED MAN. SOMEONE HEARD THE SHOTS AND CALLED 9-1-1. KIMMY DAUNTAIN HAS BEEN ARRESED IN CONNECTION WITH THE SHOOTING, ACCORDING TO THE CITY MARSHAL’S FACEBOOK PAGE.
Louisiana House Speaker Clay Schexnayder has set a special election to fill a vacant seat in the state House of Representatives. Republican Stephen Dwight of Lake Charles resigned from the 105-member chamber this month after winning a fall election to become Calcasieu Parish district attorney. The special election for the District 35 seat representing Beauregard and Calcasieu parishes will be held Feb. 6. A runoff will be held on March 20 if needed.
GOVERNOR JOHN BEL EDWARDS SAYS THE STATE’S HEALTH CARE WORKERS AND HOSPITAL STAFF COULD GET THE COVID-NINETEEN VACCINE BY PFIZER AS EARLY AS MONDAY. IF THE VACCINE GETS EMERGENCY APPROVAL BY THE
F-D-A AS EARLY AS TODAY, AROUND THIRTY-NINE THOUSAND DOSES COULD BE IN LOUISIANA THIS WEEKEND. HE SAYS ANOTHER WAVE OF VACCINES CREATED BY MODERNA COULD FOLLOW WITHIN A WEEK OF THE FIRST WAVE, AND IT WOULD GO TOWARD RESIDENTS AND STAFF AT NURSING HOMES AND ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES. A VACCINE FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC WILL PROBABLY NOT BE AVAILABLE UNTIL THE SPRING.
COVID-NINETEEN HOSPITALIZATIONS IN LOUISIANA ARE BACK UP. THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH REPORTS SIXTY ADDITIONAL HOSPITALIZATIONS, BUT THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS DECREASED BY THIRTEEN. THERE ARE THIRTY-NINE DEATHS IN THE STATE FROM COVID-NINETEEN. LOUISIANA HAD TWO THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED NINETY-ONE NEW CASES, PUTTING THE TOTAL OVER TWO HUNDRED FORTY-FIVE THOUSAND.
ACADIANA HAD SIX MORE COVID-NINETEEN DEATHS REPORTED TODAY…THREE IN ACADIA PARISH, TWO IN IBERIA PARISH AND ONE IN EVANGELINE PARISH. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ACTUALLY HAD ONE FEWER DEATH, AS CALCASIEU PARISH HAD THEIR TOTAL ADJUSTED DOWN BY ONE. THERE ARE THREE HUNDRED TWENTY-TWO NEW CASES IN ACADIANA, INCLUDING ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-THREE IN LAFAYETTE PARISH, WHICH IS NOW ABOVE THIRTEEN THOUSAND. THERE ARE OVER THIRTY-SEVEN THOUSAND FOR THE WHOLE REGION. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAS ONE HUNDRED FIFTEEN NEW CASES, INCLUDING NINETY-FIVE IN CALCASIEU PARISH.
LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOLS HAVE THE MOST CASES OF COVID-NINETEEN AMONG STUDENTS IN ACADIANA. THERE ARE FOUR HUNDRED TWO CASES TOTALTHIS YEAR. ST. LANDRY PARISH IS NEXT WITH ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-NINE CASES AND ACADIA PARISH IS THIRD WITH ONE HUNDRED TWELVE. LAFAYETTE PARISH IS ALSO HIGHEST IN CASES AMONG SCHOOL FACULTY, STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS WITH ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-SEVEN. ST. LANDY PARISH HAS SIXTY CASES AND ACADIA PARISH IS NEXT WITH FORTY-NINE.
THE MAYOR OF ESTHERWOOD DIED WEDNESDAY NIGHT. DON POPP HAD BEEN ELECTED MAYOR IN NOVEMBER OF TWENTY-EIGHTEEN. HIS DAUGHTER TELLS THE ADVOCATE POPP DIED FROM CANCER THAT HAD METASTIZED TO HIS LUNGS. POPP WAS ALSO THE PASTOR OF BELIEVER’S BAPTIST FELLOWSHIP CHURCH UNTIL HE HAD TO GIVE UP HIS DUTIES BECAUSE OF THE CANCER.
