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RESIDENTS IN THE THREE-THREE-SEVEN AND FIVE-OH-FOUR AREA CODES WILL HAVE TO USE TEN DIGIT DIALING LATER THIS YEAR, EVEN FOR LOCAL CALLS. THAT’S BECAUSE OF AN ORDER BY THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION THAT ALLOWS PEOPLE TO CALL NINE-EIGHT-EIGHT TO REACH THE NATIONAL SUICIDE AND MENTAL HEALTH PREVENTION HOTLINE. EIGHTY-TWO AREA CODES IN THE U-S ARE AFFECTED BY THE NEW ORDER, INCLUDING THREE-THREE-SEVEN AND FIVE-OH-FOUR IN LOUISIANA. BEGINNING OCTOBER TWENTY-FOURTH, THE AREA CODE WILL HAVE TO BE INCLUDED ALONG WITH THE NUMBER TO MAKE LOCAL CALLS.
Churches won’t have capacity limits for worship services and restaurants can hold more customers starting today. The “Phase 3” restrictions announced by Governor John Bel Edwards yesterday come as Louisiana’s new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations have continued to drop. Louisiana’s statewide mask mandate will remain. Restaurants, salons, movie theaters and other nonessential businesses can move to 75% capacity. The exception is for gyms, which will stay at 50% capacity.
THERE WERE FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY NEW CONFIRMED COVID-NINETEEN CASES IN YESTERDAY’S REPORT FROM THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. LOUISIANA HAD SIXTEEN MORE COVID-NINETEEN DEATHS. HOSPITALIZATIONS WERE UNCHANGED. THERE WERE TWO FEWER ON VENTILATORS PUTTING THE TOTAL BELOW NINETY.
ACADIANA HAD TWO MORE CONFIRMED COVID-NINETEEN DEATHS. THEY WERE IN ST. LANDRY AND ST. MARY PARISHES. THERE WAS ONE MORE IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. THAT DEATH WAS IN CALCASIEU PARISH. ACADIANA HAD THIRTY-EIGHT NEW CASES. ST. MARTIN PARISH HAD THE MOST IN THE REGION WITH TEN. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD FIFTY-FIVE NEW CASES INCLUDING THIRTY-SIX IN CALCASIEU PARISH.
CROWLEY POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING TWO INCIDENTS ON FRIDAY THAT THEY BELIEVE ARE RELATED. THEY WERE CALLED TO A HOME ON WEST HUTCHINSON AVENUE WHERE A MAN WAS HAVING SEIZURES AND HAD A CUT ON HIS HAND. A WOMAN IN THE HOME SAID IT HAPPENED AFTER ANOTHER MAN CAME INTO THEIR HOME AND BEAT UP HER SON. POLICE THEN RESPONDED TO A CALL IN THE TWELVE HUNDRED BLOCK OF MOCKINGBIRD LANE WHERE A MAN, WHO WAS DRUNK, HAD BEEN STABBED MULTIPLE TIMES. POLICE BELIEVE THE VICTIM WAS THE SAME PERSON WHO BROKE INTO THE WEST HUTCHINSON AVENUE HOME.
LAFAYETTE CITY MARSHAL REGGIE THOMAS SAYS HIS OFFICE WILL NOT MOVE FORWARD WITH A PLAN TO HAVE DEPUTIES PATROL CITY HALL. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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THE HENDERSON POLICE DEPARTMENT IS SEARCHING FOR FOUR PEOPLE INVOLVED IN BURGLARIES AND THEFT AT THE CAMP PALMS CAMPGROUND. IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF SEPTEMBER 30TH, A WHITE TWO THOUSAND EIGHT TOYOTA TUNDRA PICKUP TRUCK WAS STOLEN. ON THAT SAME DAY, FIVE VEHICLES WERE BURGLARIZED. A VIDEO OF THE SUSPECTS CAN BE SEEN AT THE SAINT MARTIN CRIME STOPPERS FACEBOOK PAGE. IF YOU RECOGNIZE ANY, YOU ARE URGED TO CALL FOUR-FOUR-ONE –THIRTY-THIRTY.
THE LAKE CHARLES POLICE DEPARTMENT LAID TO REST ONE OF THEIR K-NINES YESTERDAY. K-NINE BOBBY SERVED IN THE LAKE CHARLES POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR FIVE YEARS WITH HIS HANDLER, CORPORAL JACOB PIERSON, BEFORE RETIRING LAST JUNE. BOBBY LIVED WITH PIERSON AND HIS FAMILY AFTER THE RETIREMENT. BOBBY IS CREDITED WITH MORE THAN SEVENTY CRIMINAL APPREHENSIONS.
