12-8-20

STATE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING AN OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTING IN THE WALGREEN’S PARKING LOT IN CROWLEY AT AROUND FIVE-FIFTEEN YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.  STATE POLICE CONFIRM IT BEGAN WITH A 9-1-1 CALL FROM THE WALMART AND ENDED WITH A SUSPECT RAMMING VEHICLES IN THE WALGREEN’S PARKING LOT.  THE MAN WHO WAS SHOT ALLEGEDLY RAMMED FIVE VEHICLES IN THE PARKING LOT, THE FIFTH BEING A CROWLEY POLICE UNIT.  POLICE CHIEF JIMMY BROUSSARD TELLS KLFY TV THAT THE OFFICER IN THE POLICE UNIT FIRED A SHOT THROUGH THE WINDSHIELD, GRAZING THE SUSPECT’S SHOULDER.

 

AN 89-YEAR-OLD HOMEOWNER IN ST. MARTINVILLE AND HER 70-YEAR-OLD SON DIED IN A HOUSE FIRE YESTERDAY.  FIREFIGHTERS RESPONDED TO THE FIRE AT SIX-THIRTY YESTERDAY MORNING LOCATED IN THE ONE THOUSAND BLOCK OF A SAM ROAD.  THE VICTIMS WERE FOUND IN THE BEDROOM AND THE LIVING ROOM.  THE FIRE ORIGINATED IN THE BEDROOM AND IT MAY HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY A SPACE HEATER.

 

SATURDAY’S CITY MARSHAL RACE IN LAFAYETTE WAS HISTORIC.  CAROLINE MARCELLO EXPLAINS WHY.

 

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TWO LAKE CHARLES FIRE FIGHTERS WERE INJURED YESTERDAY WHEN AN OXYGEN TANK EXPLODED.  THEY WERE PART OF A CREW RESPONDING TO A MOBILE HOME FIRE YESTERDAY MORNING.  WHEN THEY WENT INTO THE HOME TO FIND A PERSON, WHO WAS REPORTEDLY TRAPPED INSIDE, THE TANK BURST, AND THE FIRE FIGHTERS RECEIVED MINOR INJURIES.  THE PERSON TRAPPED INSIDE MANAGED TO ESCAPE.

 

Louisiana’s health department has loosened its coronavirus quarantine guidance for schools and workplaces to match the latest recommendations from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The guidelines suggest people who’ve come in close contact with someone infected with the coronavirus can resume normal activity after 10 days if no symptoms have emerged, or seven days if they test negative. That’s down from 14 days. The state Department of Education is giving school systems the green light to follow the relaxed quarantine rules immediately.

 

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.

 

TODAY IS THE ANNUAL FOOD FOR FAMILIES DRIVE AT THE CROWLEY CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER AS WELL AS IN MOST OTHER AREAS OF ACADIANA.   HERE IN CROWLEY THE CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER WILL BE RECEIVING NON

PERISALE FOOD ITEMS FROM  8AM TO 6PM. ITEMS THAT ARE ON THE MOST

NEEDED LIST INCLUDE RICE, SUGAR, CORNBREAD MIX, MAC & CHEESE, FLOUR, PASTA, RAMEN NOODLES, PEANUT BUTTER, CANNED MEATS,  BOXED DINNERS, GRITS, OATMEAL, CEREAL, CANNED VEGETABLES TO NAME A FEW.  PLS BE GENEROUS AND HELP OUR FELLOW CIITZENS WHO ARE IN NEED.