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3-5-20

CONCERNS OF THE CORONAVIRUS HAVE THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF LAFAYETTE MAKING A FEW CHANGES TO MASS.  CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS THE DETAILS.

 

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LAKE CHARLES CITY ADMINISTRATOR JOHN CARDONE AND DICK GREMILLION OF THE CALCASEIU  PARISH OFFICE OF EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND HOMELAND EMERGENCY SAY THEY ARE TAKING THE THREAT OF THE CORONAVIRUS SERIOUSLY.  SO FAR THERE ARE NO CONFIRMED CASES IN LOUISIANA.  GREMILLION SAYS THEY GET DAILY REPORTS FROM LOUISIANA’S COVID-NINETEEN TASK FORCE, WHICH WAS CREATED BY THE GOVERNER. CARDONE SAYS THEY ARE WORKING TO HAVE A PLAN IN PLACE SHOULD THE SPREAD OF THE VIRUS REACH LAKE CHARLES.

 

THE FORMER MAYOR OF JEANERETTE, APRIL FOULCARD, WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY ON MULTIPLE COUNTS OF MALFEASANCE IN OFFICE AND RELEASED ON A TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLAR BOND.  THE CITY OF JEANERETTE IS STILL IN NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE I-R-S OVER ONE-HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS IN PENALTIES THAT AROSE FROM ISSUES UNDER FOULCARD’S ADMINISTRATION.  ONE OF THE MALFEASANCE CHARGES COMES FROM FAILING TO DO MANDATORY AUDITS OVER A THREE YEAR PERIOD.  THE OTHER CHARGES HAVE TO DO WITH FAILING TO PAY OR FILE FEDERAL AND STATE TAXES, NOT PAYING LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS WHO SERVE IN COURT A WITNESS FEE, AND MISAPPROPRIATING, MISUSING AND WRONGFULLY TAKING PUBLIC FUNDS.

 

Louisiana’s social services agency says as many as 31,000 of the state’s food stamp recipients could lose their benefits under a new Trump administration rule starting April 1. The rule enacts stricter work requirements. The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services will be contacting the affected people who receive food aid through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program with information about how they can continue getting assistance. Nearly 4% of the state’s 810,000 food stamp recipients are estimated to fall under the new restrictions that affect childless adults ages 18 to 49.

 

A BREAUX BRIDGE MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR FIRING SHOTS IN A BANQUET HALL ON ST. ANTOINE STREET.  IT HAPPENED ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY TWENTY-FIFTH AT AROUND ONE-THIRTY A-M.  NO ONE WAS SHOT BUT SIX PEOPLE WERE WOUNDED BY FRAGMENTS.  TWENTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD CODY WILLIAMS WAS ARRESTED IN NEW IBERIA BY LAFAYETTE POLICE AND THE U-S MARCHAL’S SERVICE VIOLENT OFFENDER TASK FORCE, AND HE WAS BOOKED INTO THE LAFAYETTE PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER ON SIX COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED FIRST DEGREE MURDER.

 

A LAKE CHARLES MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR THREATENING TO GO TO LAGRANGE HIGH SCHOOL WITH A GUN.  A SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE THREAT ON TUESDAY AND TWENTY-YEAR-OLD CHRISTOPHER D. THOMAS WAS FOUND LATER THAT DAY BY POLICE OFFICERS AND ARRESTED.  DETECTIVES LEARNED THAT THE THREAT WAS MADE TO A STUDENT.  THOMAS WAS CHARGED WITH TERRORIZING AND SIMPLE ASSAULT.

 

LARGE QUANTITIES OF COUNTERFEIT ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR BILLS WERE SEEN BEING THROWN FROM A SILVER SEDAN AT SEVERAL INTERSECTIONS IN RAYNE.  ACCORDING TO RAYNE POLICE, THE BILLS HAD “FOR MOTION PICTURE PURPOSES” WRITTEN ON THE BILLS.  THEY ARE ASKING ANYONE WITH INFORMATION TO CONTACT THE RAYNE POLICE DEPARTMENT.  THEY ARE ALSO WARNING BUSINESS OWNERS TO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR FAKE ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR BILLS.

 

A seemingly divided Supreme Court struggled with its first major abortion case of the Trump era, leaving Chief Justice John Roberts as the likely deciding vote.   Roberts did not say enough to tip his hand in an hour of spirited arguments at the high court yesterday.   A decision should come by late June. The outcome could have huge consequences at a time when several states have passed laws, being challenged in the courts, that would ban abortions as early as six weeks.