3-29-21
LAFAYETTE ATTORNEY BOB WRIGHT OF DOMENGEAUX, WRIGHT, ROY AND EDWARDS HAS DIED. AFTER GRADUATING LAW SCHOOL, WRIGHT CAME TO LAFAYETTE IN NINETEEN FIFTY-SEVEN AND PRACTICED LAW WITH FORMER CONGRESSMAN JIMMY DOMENGEAUX. HIS PARTNER JIM ROY RELEASED A STATEMENT ANNOUNCING HIS DEATH. HE SAID WRIGHT WAS LISTED IN WOODWARD WHITE’S THE BEST LAWYERS IN AMERICA AND SERVED AS CHAIRMAN OF THE LOUISIANA JUDICIARY COMMISSION AND PRESIDENT OF THE LOUISIANA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION.
ONE MAN IS DEAD AFTER A HIT AND RUN CRASH IN SAINT LANDRY PARISH. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says there’s a bit of good news from February’s big freeze — it killed lake-choking invasive floating weeds. A news release says the freeze didn’t eradicate giant salvinia or water hyacinth, but it did cut back giant salvinia by about 95%. The department says it’s harder to tell about water hyacinth, because their bulbs usually survive even if the plant looks dead after freezing weather.
THE SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA CENTER FOR HEALTH SERVICES HAS LAUNCHED ANOTHER COMMUNITY GARDEN ON PRATER STREET WITH A RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY ON SATURDAY. THEY STARTED ANOTHER COMMUNITY GARDEN LAST JUNE NINETEENTH, BUT IT WAS CLOSED DOWN BECAUSE OF THE HURRICANES. DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS, DIANNA ROSS, SAYS THEY ARE HOPING THE GARDEN WILL HELP ESTABLISH BETTER EATING HABITS IN THE NORTH LAKE CHARLES COMMUNITY. THE HARVEST FROM THE GARDEN WILL GO THE CENTER’S NUTRITIONAL PROGRAM.
A LAFAYETTE FAMILY IS OFFERING A FIVE THOUSAND DOLLAR REWARD FOR THE RETURN OF THEIR PET DOG. THE DOG IS A YORKIE NAMED ZOLA AND WENT MISSING RECENTLY FROM THE SUMMER WOOD MOBILE HOME COMMUNITY ON KALISTE SALOOM ROAD. POLICE SAY THE DOG HAD A COLLAR WITH CONTACT INFORMATION FOR THE OWNER. IF YOU HAVE INFORMATION OR CAN OFFER ASSISTANCE, YOU ARE URGED TO CALL CRIME STOPPERS OF LAFAYETTE AT TWO-THREE-TWO-TIPS.
AN EGAN WOMAN WAS KILLED IN A TWO VEHICLE CRASH THAT HAPPENED SATURDAY EVENING ON L-A ONE HUNDRED NEAR SENSAT COVE ROAD. STATE POLICE SAY FIFTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD STACEY LEONA MONCEAUX WAS TRAVELING WEST WHEN, FOR AN UNKNOWN REASON, SHE CROSSED THE CENTER LINE AND HIT AN EASTBOUND TRUCK HEAD-ON. MONCEAUX, WHO WASN’T WEARING A SEATBELT, WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE WHILE THE DRIVER OF THE TRUCK, WHO WAS WEARING A SEATBELT, SUFFERED INJURIES, BUT THEY ARE NOT LIFE THREATENING. STATE POLICE TROOP I HAS INVESTIGATED FOURTEEN FATAL CRASHES THIS YEAR RESULTING IN SIXTEEN DEATHS.
THERE ARE TWENTY-ONE NEW DEATHS IN LOUISIANA DUE TO COVID-NINETEEN, ACCORDING TO TODAY’S REPORT FROM THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, WHICH COVERS A THREE DAY PERIOD. THE NUMBER OF COVID-NINETEEN PATIENTS IN THE HOSPITAL HAS DECREASED BY SIXTEEN, WHILE THE PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS STAYED THE SAME. LOUSIANA HAD FIVE HUNDRED NINETY-THREE NEW CASES OVER THE WEEKEND, WHICH MOVES THE TOTAL OVER THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY-NINE THOUSAND.
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD FOUR CONFIRMED COVID-NINETEEN DEATHS OVER THE WEEKEND AND THEY WERE ALL IN CALCASIEU PARISH. ACADIANA REPORTED TWO DEATHS, ONE EACH IN ACADIA AND ST. LANDRY PARISHES. THERE WERE ONE HUNDRED TWELVE NEW CASES IN ACADIANA INCLUDING FIFTY-SIX IN LAFAYETTE. PARISH. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD SEVENTY-FIVE. CALCASIEU PARISH HAD THE MOST WITH FIFTY-EIGHT.
