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2-21-22

A CHILD DIED FOLLOWING A HOUSE FIRE IN IBERIA PARISH.  CAROLINE MARCELLO REPORTS.

 

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A MAN IS IN STABLE CONDITION AFTER BEING SHOT JUST BEFORE ONE-THIRTY SUNDAY MORNING.  ACCORDING TO LAFAYETTE POLICE, SEVERAL MEN GOT INTO AN ALTERCATION IN THE FOUR HUNDRED BLOCK OF SOUTH BUCHANON STREET, WHEN ONE OF THE MEN PULLED A GUN, SHOT ANOTHER MAN ONCE, AND FLED FROM THE AREA.  ANYONE WHO HAS INFORMATION ON THE SHOOTING IS ASKED TO CALL LAFAYETTE CRIME STOPPERS AT TWO-THREE-TWO-TIPS.  THIS WAS THE THIRD INCIDENT OF THE WEEKEND IN LAFAYETTE IN WHICH A GUN WAS PULLED AND SOMEONE WAS SHOT DURING AN ALTERCATION.

 

A special session of the Louisiana Legislature has ended in Baton Rouge with new boundary lines drawn for Congress and the state House and Senate and other governmental bodies. The congressional districts passed by the Republican-dominated Legislature on Friday don’t include a second majority-Black district sought by voting rights activists. Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards has said he favors creating a new majority-Black district but has not committed to vetoing the new plan. A court challenge is also expected from advocates who say the plans violate the federal Voting Rights Act in a state where about a third of the population is Black.

 

The Lake Charles city council has approved $3.1 million in improvements to the city’s drainage system that came under heavy pressure in recent years during repeated heavy rains, including two hurricanes. The American Press reports that the city council approved the spending on Wednesday. Some of the money will go to things like using video to inspect the drainage lines and facilitate cleaning them out. Mayor Nic Hunter says while areas that have flooded in the last year and a half will be focused on first, the drainage effort is really city-wide.

 

A MAN JUMPED TO HIS DEATH FROM THE L-A ONE-EIGHTY-TWO BRIDGE IN MORGAN CITY.  POLICE RECEIVED A CALL ABOUT THAT BRIDGE JUMPING AT AROUND FOUR-FORTY YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.  WHEN POLICE ARRIVED, THEY FOUND THE MAN’S BODY IN THE AREA NEAR BRASHEAR AVENUE.  POLICE SAY THE MAN WAS WHITE BUT DID NOT RELEASE HIS NAME.

 

 

TWO PEDESTRIANS SUFFERED SERIOUS INJURIES AFTER BEING STRUCK BY A CAR ALONG THE RIO PARADE ROUTE IN LAFAYETTE.  POLICE SAY AT AROUND SIX SATURDAY NIGHT, THE DRIVER OF A SMALL SEDAN WAS TRAVELING WEST ON CONGRESS STREET WHEN SHE LEFT THE TRAVEL LANES AT THE MADISON STREET INTERSECTION, HITTING BARRICADES AND TWO PEDESTRIANS.  THEY WERE TAKEN TO AREA HOSPITALS WITH NON-LIFE-THREATENING INJURIES.  THE DRIVER, THIRTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD JESSICA RICHARD, WAS ARRESTED ON A CHARGE OF OPERATING WHILE INTOXICATED SECOND OFFENSE AND TWO COUNTS OF VEHICULAR NEGLIGENT INJURY.

 

The head of Louisiana’s new task force to fight a persistent litter problem says he saw a mattress, rolls of shrink-wrap and cans along the highway as he drove to the group’s first meeting. The Daily Advertiser reports that Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser told the Governor’s Task Force on Statewide Litter Abatement he was disgusted. The task force met Tuesday in Baton Rouge. Gov. John Bel Edwards told the group that the state’s litter problem may be the worst it’s been in his life.

 

SOME RESIDENTS IN OPELOUSAS ARE UNDER A BOIL WATER ADVISORY AFTER THE WATER HAD TO BE SHUT OFF TO REPAIR A WATER MAIN LEAK AT GROLEE AND BULLARD STREETS.  THE BOIL WATER ADVISORY WILL LAST UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.  FURTHER REPAIRS ARE PLANNED FOR THAT AREA WHICH WILL RESULT IN WATER BEING TURNED OFF.  CITY ADMINISTRATORS SAY WATER CUSTOMERS ALONG GROLEE STREET WILL BE INFORMED WHEN THOSE REPAIRS BEGIN.