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3-11-21

INVESTIGATORS WITH THE ST. MARY PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE BELIEVE THIRTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD CASEY MARIE COLLINS OF LAFAYETTE DIED FROM BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA.  HER REMAINS WERE FOUND BY HUNTERS IN JANUARY IN A WOODED AREA NEAR FRANKLIN.  IT WAS BELIEVED SHE HAD BEEN DEAD FOR SIX MONTHS TO A YEAR WHEN SHE WAS FOUND.  SHERIFF BLAISE SMITH SAYS ALL THEY FOUND WAS A SKULL AND A FEW CLOTHING ITEMS.

 

THE JEANERETTE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS THE BUDGET FOR SIX PATROLMEN BUT THERE ARE ONLY THREE OFFICERS CURRENTLY SERVING.  MAYOR CAROL BOURGEOIS HAS THE FINAL SAY ON THE HIRING OF OFFICERS AND IN THE LAST YEAR, HE’S HIRED SEVEN OF THE FIFTEEN THAT WERE RECOMMENDED BY THE POLICE CHIEF.  ALDERMAN CLARENCE CLARK SAYS THE CITY CHARTER GIVES TOO MUCH POWER TO ONE PERSON AND HE’D LIKE TO SEE THE COUNCIL MANAGE HIRING PATROLMENT AS WELL.  BOURGEOIS DISAGREES SAYING THE ONE HUNDRED THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD PROCESS HAS WORKED WELL AND THERE ARE MORE IMPORTANT AREAS THAT REQUIRE THE GOVERNMENT’S FOCUS.

 

Louisiana’s top school board is sending state lawmakers a nearly $4 billion public school financing proposal that would double the spending increase sought by Gov. John Bel Edwards. The K-12 school funding formula that received final passage Wednesday from the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education would boost spending more than $80 million next school year. The proposal would give $40 million more to school districts for discretionary use. The other $40 million would cover raises of $400 for teachers and $200 for support staff.

 

A DAYCARE WORKER IN SULPHUR WAS ARRESTED THIS WEEK AFTER SHE ALLEGEDLY SCRATCHED A CHILD’S FACE ON MARCH THIRD.  FORTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD ANNETTE SCOTT HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH CRUELTY TO A JUVENILE.  SCOTT TOLD DETECTIVES THAT SHE WAS TRYING TO MAKE A CHILD STAY STILL FOR A NAP AND, WHEN SHE REALIZED SHE’D SCRATCHED THE CHILD’S CHEEK, SHE LEFT THE DAYCARE.  SCOTT HAD BEEN FIRED BY THE TIME THE MOTHER CAME TO PICK UP THE CHILD.

 

THE LAFAYETTE POLICE DEPARTMENT WILL BE CONDUCTING A ROAD CLOSURE AT AMBASSADOR CAFFERY AND GUILBEAU ROAD.  THEY WILL BE SURVEYING THE SCENE OF A FATAL CRASH THAT HAPPENED LAST FRIDAY.  THE ROAD CLOSURE WILL BEGIN AT NINE A-M AND LAST UNTIL AROUND TEN-THIRTY.  THE NORTHBOUND TRAFFIC LANES WILL BE CLOSED INTERMITTENTLY WHILE THE SOUTHBOUND LANES OF AMBASSADOR CAFFFERY WILL BE CLOSED PREVENTING LEFT TURNS ONTO GUILBEAU.

 

 

A MISSING ACADIA PARISH WOMAN HAS BEEN FOUND.  GERALD GRUENIG HAS MORE.

 

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LOUISIANA HAD THIRTY-FOUR MORE COVID-NINETEEN CONFIRMED DEATHS IN YESTERDAY’S REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.  THERE WERE THREE HUNDRED NINETY-SEVEN NEW CASES STATEWIDE.  HOSPITALIZATIONS FOR COVID-NINETEEN WERE DOWN BY THIRTEEN.  MEANWHILE THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS DECREASED BY SIX TO UNDR SEVENTY TOTAL.

 

SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ADDED SEVEN MORE DEATHS DUE TO COVID-NINETEEN.  CALCASIEU PARISH HAD THE MOST WITH THREE, BEAUREGARD PARISTH RECORDED TWO MORE AND THERE WAS ONE MORE EACH FOR ALLEN AND JEFF DAVIS PARISHES.  ACADIANA HAD ONE MORE DEATH WHICH WAS IN ST. LANDRY PARISH.  THERE WERE SEVENTY-ONE NEW CASES IN ACADIANA, INCLUDING TWENTY-NINE IN LAFAYETTE PARISH.  SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA REPORTS FORTY NEW COVID NINETEEN CONFIRMED CASES.  CALCASIEU PARISH HAD THE MOST FOR THE REGION WITH TWENTY-SIX.