12-27-19
LAFAYETTE PARISH IS BUCKING THE NATIONAL TREND OF OPIOID OVERDOSING. FATAL OVERDOSES INVOLVING OPIOIDS ROSE IN LAFAYETTE PARISH IN 2019 EVEN AS THE NATIONAL RATE APPEARED TO BE SLOWING. OPIOID INVOLVED DEATHS ALSO ROSE ACROSS THE PELICAN STATE AS WELL, BUT NOT AS QUICKLY AS IN LAFAYETTE PARISH. THERE WERE 19 FATAL OVERDOSES INVOLVING FENTANYL IN THE FIRST 10 MONTHS OF 2019, WHICH REPRESENTS A 46% INVTRSDR OVER THE ENTIRE PREVIOUS YEAR. ACCORDING TO THE LAFAYETTE PARISH CORONERS OFFICE HEROIN INVOLVED DEATHS NUMBERED 21 THRU OCTOBER, SURPASSING THE 2018 FIGURE OF 18.
THE BAGGAGE PROBLEM AT THE LOUIS ARMSTRONG NEW ORLEANS AIRPORT NEW TERMINAL HAS AGAIN RESULTED IN DELAYED FLIGHTS AND ANGERING PASSENGERS WHOSE BAG ARE LEFT BEHIND. THE FLIGHT TRACKING WEBSITE FLIGHTAWARE SAID THERE WERE 43 DELAYED FLIGHTS OUT OF THE AIRPORT AS OF 4PM THURSDAY. THE NEW AIRPORT WAS BUILT AT A COST OF $1BILLION DOLLARS HAS BEEN PLAGUED WITH BAGGAGE PROBLEMS SINCE THE RECENT OPENING.
WITH THE DEPARTURE OF LSU PRESIDENT F. KING ALEXANDER THE LSU BOARD OF SUPERVISORS SAY THEY WILL CONDUCT A SWEEPING NATIONWIDE SEARCH , THEN CHOOSE THE BEST AVAILABLE CANDIDATE. IN THE MEANTIME COMMISSIONER OF ADMINISTRATION JAY DARDENNE HAS CONFIRED HIS INTEREST IN THE POSITON. ACCORDING TO DARDENNE THIS IS THE ONLY OTHER JOB IN GOVERNMENT THAT HE WOULD BE INTERESTED IN.
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NOAA IS NOW GOING TO REQUIRE SHRIMPERS TO INSTALL METAL GATES TO ALLOW SEA TURTLES TO ESCAPE. THE NEW RULE IS GETTING MIXED REACTIONS FROM CONSERVATION GROUPS. ONE GROUP PRAISED THE NEW RULE ANOTHER SAID IT DID NOT GO FAR ENOUGH. THE RULE WAS DEVELOPED IN RESPONSE TO A 2015 LAWSUIT THAT ALLEDGED THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WAS VIOLIATING THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT BY FAILING TO MONITOR THE SHRIMPING INDUSTRY’S IMPACT ON SEA TURTLES. LOUISIANA SHRIMPERS HAVE LONG BEEN REQUIRED TO COMPLY WITH FEDERAL TED REGULATIONS. FIVE OF THE WORLD’S 7 SPECIES OF SEA TURTLES LIVE IN THE GULF.
AN ANGOLA INMATE HAS DIED OF WHAT OFFICIALS REPORT WERE SELF INDLICTED BURNS. 62 YR OLD JOEL BAKER WAS FOUND BEHIND THE MAIN PRISON CAMP IN CRITICAL CONDITION FROM SIGNIFICANT BURNS ABOUT 8AM ON SUNDAY. HE WAS TAKEN TO A BATON ROUGE HOSPITAL WHERE HE DIED ON CHRISTMAS EVE.
YOUNGSVILLE CITY POLICE ARE ON PATROL LOOKING FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE OBEYING THE TRAFFIC LAWS. THE CITY COPS ARE HANDING OUT GIFT CARDS TO DRIVERS WHO THEY OBSERVE OBEYING SPEED LIMITS, USING TURN SIGNALS, STOPPING AS STOP SIGNS. MOST MOTORISTS THINK THEY HAVE DONE SOMETHING WRONG WHEN STOPPED BY THE POLICE AND ARE SURPRISED WHEN INSTEAD OF A TRAFFIC TICKET ARE GIVEN A GIFT CARD.
ISRAEL PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU YESTERDAY SCORED A LANDSLIDE VICTORY IN A PRIMARY RACE FOR THE LEADERSHIP OF THE LIKUD PARTY, GIVING HIM AN IMPORTANT BOOST AHEAD OF THE COUNTRY’S THIRD ELECTION IN LESS THAN A YEAR.
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