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THERE WERE THREE SHOOTINGS OVER THE WEEKEND IN LAFAYETTE IN WHICH THREE DIFFERENT PEOPLE WERE WOUNDED. THE FIRST WAS SATURDAY NIGHT ON GLADYS STREET IN WHICH A MAN WAS WOUNDED AND POLICE ARE STILL TRYING TO IDENTIFY A SUSPECT. THE SECOND HAPPENED AT A BAR ON WEST CONGRESS STREET AT AROUND MIDNIGHT SATURDAY. ONE PERSON WAS SHOT AND ANOTHER PERSON, TWENTY-YEAR-OLD MACGEORGE JOHNSON JUNIOR, WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER. THE THIRD SHOOTING OCCURRED AT AROUND ELEVEN YESTERDAY MORNING ON HARMONY STREET. A FEMALE JUVENILE IS IN STABLE CONDITION AFTER BEING SHOT AND POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR A MALE JUVENILE WHO FLED THE SCENE BEFORE THEY ARRIVED.
MOST EVENTS IN ACADIANA HAVE BEEN CANCELED DUE TO THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC, BUT GUEYDAN HOSTED TWO EVENTS YESTERDAY. MAYOR JUDE REESE ORGANIZED A WINTER FESTIVAL. HE TOLD KATC TV THAT HE’S NOT GOING TO LET THE TOWN DIE OUT, BUT THEY ARE GOING TO KEEP DOING SOMETHING, KEEP BREATHING, AND KEEP MOVING FORWARD. ALSO DOWN THE STREET ON THE SAME DAY, A MARDI GRAS CREW HELD A CHICKEN RUN AND A PARADE.
A new report shows reading scores for Louisiana’s youngest students have plunged for three consecutive years. That is drawing attention to one of the state’s top challenges for improving classroom achievement. The Advocate reports more than half of students in kindergarten through third grades are performing below grade level, a potential harbinger of major learning problems. Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley told the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education that the results are alarming.
HUNDREDS GATHERED AT A WALMART STORE IN LAKE CHARLES FRIDAY NIGHT TO REMEMBER FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD MELANIE LYONS. SHE WAS THE VICTIM WHO WAS STABBED IN THE STORE WHEN FOUR GIRLS STOLE KNIVES AND ATTACKED HER. SHERIFF TONY MANCUSO SAYS THE WHOLE INCIDENT WAS RECORDED ON SOCIAL MEDIA WITH VIDEO’S, POSTS AND PICTURES, WHICH HE CALLED VERY DISTURBING. WALMART EMPLOYEES JOINED LYONS’ FRIENDS AND FAMILY IN LIGHTING CANDLES, SINGING AND RELEASING BALLOONS.
LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR A SUSPECT IN AN ARMED ROBBERY. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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PORT BARRE POLICE ARRESTED FOUR PEOPLE IN CONNECTION WITH ABOUT A DOZEN VEHICLE BURGLARIES AND SEVERAL HOME BURGLARIES. TWO WERE NINETEEN-YEAR-OLDS, JAIMAN MASON AND KEON COMMON, AND THE OTHER TWO WERE JUVENILES AGED FIFTEEN AND SIXTEEN. POLICE CHIEF DEON BOUDREAUX SAYS MOST OF THE FIREARMS STOLEN HAVE BEEN RECOVERED. HE CREDITED THE PARENTS OF THE JUVENILES FOR BRINGING THEM IN AND, INSTEAD OF DEFENDING THEIR KIDS, THEY WERE ON THE SIDE OF POLICE.
COVID-NINETEEN HOSPITALIZATIONS CONTINUE THEIR DOWNWARD TREK WITH THIRTEEN FEWER IN TODAY’S REPORT FROM THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND TWELVE LESS PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS. LOUISIANA HAD NINE HUNDRED TWENTY-SIX NEW CONFIRMED CASES, PUTTING THE TOTAL ABOVE THREE HUNDRED FIFTY-THOUSAND. THERE WERE FORTY-NINE MORE DEATHS IN THE STATE.
ACADIANA REPORTED THREE MORE DEATHS, WHICH WERE IN LAFAYETTE, ST. LANDRY AND VERMILLION PARISHES. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ALSO HAD THREE MORE DEATHS, ALL IN CALCASIEU PARISH. THERE WERE ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY SIX NEW CONFIRMED CASES IN ACADIANA, INCLUDING SIXTY-SEVEN IN LAFAYETTE PARISH. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ADDED THIRTY-ONE NEW CASES. CALCASIEU PARISH HAD THE MOST WITH TWENTY-ONE.
