3-24-21
SOME RESIDENTS IN WASHINGTON BELIEVE A TORNADO HIT THE AREA CAUSING DAMAGE. KLFY REPORTS THAT MANY HOMES HAD THEIR ROOFS RIPPED OFF AND MULTIPLE UTILITY POLES WERE TOPPLED AT THE CORNER OF ANDERSON AND SAINT MITCHELL STREETS. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS NOT YET CONFIRMED A TORNADO HIT WASHINGTON. ANY WASHINGTON RESIDENTS NEEDING TARP FOR THEIR ROOFS CAN CALL THE MAYOR’S OFFICE.
LAKE CHARLES SET A WEATHER RECORD YESTERDAY WITH FOUR-POINT-NINE-NINE INCHES OF RAIN, THE HIGHEST FOR THAT DAY ON RECORD. LAFAYETTE AND NEW IBERIA HAD ONE POINT-EIGHT-TWO INCHES OF RAIN, WHICH WAS A RECORD FOR THAT DAY IN NEW IBERIA. IT CAUSED FLASH FLOODING IN LAKE CHARLES AND NEW IBERIA SAW SOME STREET FLOODING AS WELL. NEW IBERIA RECORDED ITS STRONGEST WINDS EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING AS IT GOT UP TO FIFTY-THREE MILES AN HOUR.
THE LAFAYETTE CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE ARE COMING TOGETHER TO BRING COMMUNITY POLICING AND SAFETY TO THE HUB CITY. CAROLINE MARCELLO REPORTS.
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GOVERNOR JOHN BEL EDWARDS WILL HOLD ANOTHER NEWS CONFERENCE ON LOUISIANA’S COVID-NINETEEN RESPONSE LATER TODAY. CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS MORE.
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Allen Parish authorities say a teenager has been jailed in connection with fights that broke out at a high school prom after-party. The American Press reports that 19-year-old Collin Blake Kershaw has been charged with aggravated second-degree battery. A judge set his bail at $80,000 on Monday. The Allen Parish sheriff says the fights erupted and shots were fired by several suspects amongst a crowd at a private residence near Kinder early Sunday.
A Lafayette man has pleaded not guilty to federal hate crime charges alleging he tried to kill and dismember a gay man. Monday’s plea by 19-year-old Chance Seneca follows his indictment last week. He had already pleaded not guilty to earlier state charges arising from what prosecutors said was an attempt to kill an 18-year-old last June. Federal authorities say that victim was one of three men Seneca is accused of abducting after contacting them through social media and dating apps.
LOUISIANA HAD JUST SIX CONFIRMED COVID-NINETEEN DEATHS IN YESTERDAY’S REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. THE NUMBER OF NEW CASES INCREASED BY THREE HUNDRED NINETY-THREE TO A TOTAL OF JUST OVER THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND. THE NUMBER OF COVID-NINETEEN PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS ROSE BY THREE WHILE THE TOTAL NUMBER OF HOSPITALIZED PATIENTS INCREASED BY ONE.
ACADIANA HAD NO COVID-NINETEEN DEATHS IN YESTERDAY’S REPORT. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD ONE WHICH WAS IN CALCASIEU PARISH. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA REPORTED EIGHTY NEW CONFIRMED CASES, INCLUDING FORTY-NINE IN CALCASIEU PARISH. ACADIANA ADDED TWENTY-SIX NEW CASES. SAINT MARTIN PARISH HAD THE MOST WITH FIFTEEN.
