3-30-21
THE RAPIDES PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS HOLDING BACK FROM RELEASING VIDEO OF AN ALLEGED BEATING OF A LAFAYETTE MAN BY CORRECTIONS OFFICERS. MALCOLM XAVIER WILLIAMS SAYS HE WAS BEATEN BY FIVE OFFICERS AND CHARGED WITH RESISTING ARREST BEFORE BEING RELEASED BY THE JAIL’S WARDEN ABOUT TEN HOURS LATER. HIS ATTORNEY RON HALEY SAYS THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE HAS YET TO RESPOND TO THEIR PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST. HE SAYS THE VIDEO WILL EITHER PUT GUILT ON THE OFFICERS OR EXONERATE THEM.
STATE SENATOR HEATHER CLOUD HAS PROPOSED A BILL THAT WOULD HELP RESTORE THE LIBERTY THEATRE IN EUNICE. THE LIBERTY THEATRE HAS BEEN OUT OF OPERATION SINCE OCTOBER OF TWENTY-NINETEEN. CLOUD TELLS KATC TV THAT THE THEATRE HAS THE VOLUNTEERS AND MANPOWER, BUT THEY NEED FUNDING. SHE SAYS MANY OF HER CONSTITUENTS WANTED HER TO SUBMIT THIS BILL THAT SHE IS HOPING WILL BE ADOPTED.
THE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA WILL BE BREAKING GROUND SOON ON A NEW LOCATION AT PORT WONDER. IT WILL OFFER AN INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE FOR BOTH THE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM AND WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES. THERE WILL BE BRAND NEW EXHIBITS AS WELL AS AN OUTDOOR PLAY AREA THAT LEADS TO A FISHING AREA. THE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM HAS BEEN TEMPORARILY CLOSED BUT THEY PLAN ON HOSTING PARK POPUPS INCLUDING ONE SCHEDULED FOR MONDAY AT PRIEN LAKE PARK.
Every adult in Louisiana 16 and older is now eligible to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. Gov. John Bel Edwards last week announced the expanded guidelines which went into effect yesterday. Louisiana joins a growing list of states that are allowing any adult interested in the shot to get it. The move came after vaccine supplies started to grow and some appointments to get the vaccine were going unused.
THERE ARE TWENTY-ONE NEW DEATHS IN LOUISIANA DUE TO COVID-NINETEEN, ACCORDING TO YESTERDAY’S REPORT FROM THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, WHICH COVERED A THREE DAY PERIOD. THE NUMBER OF COVID-NINETEEN PATIENTS IN THE HOSPITAL HAS DECREASED BY SIXTEEN, WHILE THE AMOUNT OF 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.
A PAIR OF GREAT HORNED OWLS HAVE BEEN RAISING SOME BABIES IN A NEST THAT WAS LOCATED IN A LIGHT FIXTURE AT TIGUE MOORE FIELD IN LAFAYETTE. THE TWO BABIES FELL OUT OF THE NEST AND WILDLIFE REHABILITATION EXPERT LETITIA LABBIE OF ACADIANA WILDLIFE EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION HAS TAKEN OVER THEIR CARE BECAUSE THE NEST IS IN A BAD LOCATION TO REUNITE THEM WITH THEIR PARENTS. SHE SAYS THEY ARE DOING FINE AND EATING GREAT. LABBIE HAS RECOMMENDED THAT THE NEST BE REMOVED TO PREVENT OTHER OWLS FROM MOVING INTO THE NEST, WHICH HAS PROVEN NOT TO BE STRONG ENOUGH.
TWO PEOPLE ARE IN JAIL IN CONNECTION WITH A SHOOTING THAT CLAIMED THE LIFE OF ONE PERSON AND INJURED ANOTHER. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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