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3-31-21

Gov. John Bel Edwards intends to keep Louisiana’s face covering requirement firmly in place even as several states have shed their mask mandates. But the Democratic governor announced Tuesday that he is ending many other coronavirus restrictions for businesses. Customer limits on bars, restaurants, salons, gyms, malls, casinos and other nonessential businesses will be removed, though they’ll be required to use social distancing. Direct table service still will be required at bars, but an 11 p.m. alcohol curfew will end.

 

LOUISIANA RECORDED NINE MORE DEATHS DUE TO COVID-NINETEEN IN YESTERDAY’S REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.  THE NUMBER OF CONFIRMED COVID-NINETEEN CASES ROSE BY THREE HUNDRED EIGHTEEN.  HOSPITALIZATIONS FOR COVID-NINETEEN EDGED UP BY ONE.  MEANWHILE THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS DECREASED BY ONE.

 

ACADIANA HAD TWO CONFIRMED COVID-NINETEEN DEATHS…ONE EACH IN ACADIA AND ST. MARY PARISHES.  MEANWHILE THERE WAS ONE MORE DEATH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA WHICH CAME FROM JEFF DAVIS PARISH.  ACADIANA REPORTED FIFTY-NINE MORE CONFIRMED CASES INCLUDING ELEVEN IN ST. LANDRY PARISH.  SOUTWEST LOUISIANA ADDED TWENTY-SIX MORE CASES.  JEFF DAVIS PARISH LED THE WAY WITH TEN.

 

A RAPIDES PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTY HAS BEEN FIRED AND ARRESTED FOR HIS PART IN THE ALLEGED BEATING OF A LAFAYETTE MAN IN JAIL.  THIRTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD RYAN C. LEWIS IS BEING CHARGED WITH ONE COUNT OF SIMPLE BATTERY.  THE ATTORNEY FOR MALCOLM XAVIER WILLIAMS OF LAFAYETTE, RON HALEY, SAYS IT’S A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION BUT HE WANTS THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE TO RELEASE THE VIDEO OF THE INCIDENT.  HALEY SAYS HE ALSO THINKS LEWIS SHOULD BE CHARGED WITH SECOND DEGREE BATTERY BECAUSE OF THE EXTENT OF THE INJURIES.

 

ABBEVILLE POLICE INVESTIGATED REPORTS OF SOMEONE FIRING SHOTS AT PASSING VEHICLES NEAR FIRST GUARANTY BANK NOT FAR FROM HIGHWAY FOURTEEN.  POLICE ASKED RESIDENTS WEST OF PARK AVENUE TO STAY IN THEIR HOMES WHILE THEY SEARCHED FOR THE ALLEGED GUNMAN.  A LITTLE WHILE LATER THEY GAVE THE ALL CLEAR.  POLICE SAID THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE HAD FLED THE AREA.

 

LAKE CHARLES POLICE HAVE RELEASED THE IDENTITY OF THE BODY FOUND NEAR THE LAKE CHARLES CIVIC CENTER ON MONDAY.  HE’S BEEN IDENTIFIED AS THIRTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD ZEALON DRAY SOLOMON OF BREAUX BRIDGE.  THE BODY WAS FOUND FLOATING IN WATER NEAR THE CIVIC CENTER SEA WALL.  POLICE SPOKESMAN CAPTAIN KEVEN KIRKUM SAYS THEY ARE INVESTIGATING THE DEATH AS A DROWNING.

 

TWO ACADIANA NONPROFITS ARE OFFERING RENTAL ASSISTANCE TO RESIDENTS WHO QUALIFY.  SYLVIA MASTERS HAS THE DETAILS.

 

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THE CROWLEY POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS ARRESTED  FOUR PEOPLE IN CONNECTION WITH THE MURDER OF FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD VONTRE PHILLIPS LAST AUGUST.  EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD KEYSHON WILLIAMS, WHO WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, FACES A CHARGE OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER.  CROWLEY POLICE ALSO ARRESTED EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD WESLEY YOKUM JUNIOR YESTERDAY AND HE JOINS NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD DAVONE JOSEPH AND NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD DEONDRE FELIX IN BEING CHARGED WITH PRINCIPAL TO FIRST DEGREE MURDER.  JUST OVER TWO WEEKS AGO A GRAND JURY INDICTED THE FOUR AND SEVEN OTHERS AND POLICE CHIEF JIMMY BROUSSARD SAYS ALL THOSE INDICTED HAVE BEEN ARRESTED.