12-7-20
ON SATURDAY, RUNOFF ELECTIONS WERE HELD STATEWIDE INCLUDING SEVERAL JUDGE RACES. IN THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, VALERIE GOTCH GARRETT OF LAFAYETTE RECEIVED NEARLY SEVENTY PERCENT OF THE VOTE TO DEFEAT TRAVIS BROUSSARD OF BROUSSARD FOR DIVISION B. ROYAL COLBERT OF LAFAYETTE TOOK DIVISION D, DEFEATING AMANDA MARTIN. TOMMY FREDERICK OF MAURICE IS THE DIVISION C JUDGE DEFEATING RICKY LAFLEUR OF ABBEVILLE BY A TOTAL OF 41 VOTES.
IN THE SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, ROGER HAMILTON JUNIOR OF NEW IBERIA EASILY DEFEATED ALICIA BUTLER FOR THE DIVISION H SEAT, GARNERING 58 PERCENT OF THE VOTE. MEANWHILE TONY SALEME OF MORGAN CITY WILL BE THE JUDGE FOR DIVISION F. HE EASILY DEFEATED NATALIE BROUSSARD OF NEW IBERIA WITH NEARLY SIXTY PERCENT OF THE VOTE.
IN THE 33RD DISTRICT, JUDI ABRUSLY OF OAKDALE WILL BE JUDGE FOR DIVISION A. SHE GOT 58 PERCENT OF THE VOTE TO DEFEAT CHAD GUIDRY OF KINDER.
THERE WERE SEVERAL CITY MARSHAL RACES ON THE BALLOT IN ACADIANA. FORMER LAFAYETTE INTERIM POLICE CHIEF REGGIE THOMAS IS THE NEW CIY MARSHAL FOR LAFAYETTE. HE NARROWLY EDGED DUSON POLICE CHIEF KIP JUDICE WITH 50-POINT-7-6 PERCENT OF THE VOTE. IN RAYNE, THE LONGTIME CITY MARSHAL JOE LACROIX WAS DEFEATED BY CHALLENGER STACY ANCELET, WHO GOT 60 PERCENT OF THE VOTE. NEW IBERIA CITY MARSHAL TONY MIGUES MEANWHILE WON REELECTION. HE GOT 59 PERCENT OF THE VOTE TO DEFEAT CHALLENGER COREY PORTER. JIMMY DUPUIS HAS BEEN ELECTED CITY MARSHAL FOR BREAUX BRIDGE, WINNING 58 PERCENT OF THE VOTE.
THERE WERE TWO CITY MARSHAL RUNOFFS IN CALCASIEU PARISH SATURDAY. IN LAKE CHARLES, NATHAN KELLER WAS ELECTED CITY MARSHAL, WINNING 63 PERCENT OF THE VOTE TO DEFEAT JEROD ABSHIRE. HE IS REPLACING VIC SALVADOR, WHO DID NOT RUN FOR REELECTION. THE NEW CITY MARSHAL FOR SULPHUR IS BRANDON DEVER. HE DEFEATED GLENN BERRY WITH 53 PERCENT.
Republican Luke Letlow is Louisiana’s newest congressman. The chief of staff for exiting Republican U.S. Rep. Ralph Abraham will take over his boss’s House seat after winning Saturday’s runoff election. Letlow defeated Republican state Rep. Lance Harris to secure the seat representing northeast and central Louisiana.
POLICE NEED YOUR HELP TRACKING DOWN A MAN WHO STOLE A CELL PHONE, THEN DRAGGED THE STORE OWNER AS HE WAS DRIVING AWAY. CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS MORE.
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COVID-NINETEEN HOSPITALIZATIONS CONTINUE TO RISE IN LOUISIANA, GOING UP BY THIRTY-ONE TODAY TO OVER ONE THOUSAND, FOUR HUNDRED. HOWEVER, THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS DECREASED BY ONE. THE STATE SAW TWENTY-TWO MORE DEATHS FROM COVID-NINETEEN, ACCORDING TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. THE NUMBER OF NEW CASES WENT UP BY JUST OVER ONE THOUSAND TO A TOTAL NEARING TWO HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN THOUSAND.
THERE WERE NO NEW DEATHS TODAY IN ACADIANA OR SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. ACADIANA HAD ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE NEW CASES, INCLUDING FORTY-THREE IN LAFAYETTE PARISH. THERE ARE FORTY-EIGHT NEW CASES IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. CALCASIEU PARISH HAD THIRTY-ONE.
