12-21-20
AN EARLY SUNDAY MORNING HOUSE FIRE IN LAFAYETTE HAS BEEN RULED AN ACCIDENT. CAROLINE MARCELLO REPORTS.
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OPELOUSAS POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING DEATH THAT HAPPENED SATURDAY NIGHT. POLICE RESPONDED TO REPORTS OF SHOTS FIRED IN THE SIX HUNDRED BLOCK OF PATSY STREET SHORTLY AFTER EIGHT. WHEN THEY ARRIVED THEY FOUND THE BODY OF A MAN WHO HAD BEEN SHOT. POLICE CHIEF MARTIN MCLENDON HAS NOT RELEASED ANY INFORMATION ABOUT POTENTIAL SUSPECTS.
A Louisiana legislative committee has approved a plan to seek private operators to build and maintain a new bridge over the Calcasieu River in Lake Charles in exchange for toll revenues. The new Interstate 10 bridge is estimated to cost $600 million to $800 million. It would replace a 68-year-old structure built before the interstate highway system. A site decision is expected in 2022 and a contract could be awarded in early 2023.
LOUISIANA HAD SIXTY-FOUR MORE DEATHS FROM COVID-NINETEEN, ACCORDING TO TODAY’S REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. HOSPITALIZATIONS ARE UP BY FIFTY-SIX STATEWIDE, WHILE THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS INCREASED BY FIVE. THERE ARE MORE THAN ONE THOUSAND NEW CONFIRMED CASES, MOVING THE TOTAL PAST TWO HUNDRED SIXTY-FOUR THOUSAND.
ACADIANA HAD SIX MORE COVID-NINETEEN DEATHS. LAFAYETTE PARISH HAD TWO. THE OTHER FOUR WERE IN ACADIA, EVANGELINE, ST. MARTIN AND VERMILLION PARISHES. THERE WERE FOUR MORE IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA, INCLUDING TWO EACH IN CALCASIEU AND JEFF DAVIS PARISHES. ACADIANA RECORDED ONE HUNDRED FIVE NEW CASES, INCLUDING FIFTY-THREE IN LAFAYETTE PARISH. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD FIFTY-THREE NEW CASES.
Five thousand Louisiana workers, who lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic, are on track to be retrained by April for other skilled positions.
That’s according to leaders with the Louisiana Community and Technical College System. The effort is called “Reboot Your Career.” The training is being offered at all 12 of the state’s community and technical colleges, Southern University in Shreveport and LSU-Eunice.
The Louisiana Public Service Commission has ended an inquiry into whether Lafayette’s publicly owned internet system illegally benefitted from payments from other parts of the city-owned utility system. But the commission isn’t saying whether or not the payments were legal. Spokesperson Colby Cook told local news outlets the Public Service Commission on Wednesday was told the case is closed. State law bars Lafayette Utilities System’s electric, water and wastewater divisions from subsidizing LUS Fiber, but Robideaux and current Mayor-President Josh Guillory have alleged LUS was improperly charged millions of dollars by the fiber division.
FUNERAL SERVICES ARE PLANNED FOR THIS AFTERNOON FOR A MEMBER OF THE LOUISIANA RODEO COWBOYS ASSOCIATION HALL OF FAME. ELMEN JIMMY BERGERON OF THE BERGERON RODEO COMPANY PASSED AWAY THURSDAY AT THE AGE OF SEVENTY-TWO. HE WAS CONSIDERED AN ICON OF THE LOUISIANA RODEO CIRCUIT WHO HELPED MANY COWBOYS AND COWGIRLS GET THEIR START. A MASS OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL IS PLANNED FOR TWO THIS AFTERNOON AT ST. LAWRENCE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN MOWATA.
