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A CHURCH POINT POLICE OFFICER WAS RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL LAST NIGHT AFTER FLIPPING HIS VEHICLE DURING A CHASE. POLICE CHIEF DALE THIBODEAUX SAYS THE OFFICER ATTEMPTED TO PULL OVER A VEHICLE BECAUSE THE DRIVER AND PASSENGERS HAD FELONY WARRANTS FOR SOME PREVIOUS SHOOTINGS, WHICH LED TO THE CHASE. THE POLICE UNIT WAS STRUCK BY THE OTHER VEHICLE DURING THE CHASE, CAUSING IT TO GO INTO A DITCH AND FLIP ON ITS SIDE. THE OFFICER WAS TAKEN TO A LAFAYETTE HOSPITAL WITH NON-LIFE THREATENING INJURIES. MEANWHILE THE DRIVER OF THE PURSUED VEHICLE WAS ARRESTED AND BOOKED ON SEVERAL FELONY CHARGES.
LAST NIGHT AT AROUND NINE THE LAFAYETTE FIRE DEPARTMENT WAS CALLED OUT TO A FIRE LOCATED IN THE ONE HUNDRED BLOCK OF LANA DRIVE. WHEN THEY ARRIVED THEY FOUND A SHED BEHIND A VACANT HOME ON FIRE. THEY PUT IT OUT AND THERE WERE NO INJURIES.
A proposal to make kindergarten mandatory in Louisiana is renewing divisions about an idea that has previously failed to win legislative passage. The requirement will be up for debate in the legislative session that starts in mid-April. The Advocate reports that backers of the measure say it would dovetail with state efforts to expand early childhood education and could help the state improve its public school achievement. Critics contend any such mandate would be an intrusion on an issue best left to families.
Hurricane Laura ravaged southwest Louisiana six months ago, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency still is trying to set up temporary mobile homes for several thousand families. The agency estimates the work won’t be complete until more than a year after the August 2020 storm. John Long, the FEMA official coordinating recovery work in Louisiana,said about 1,250 families are in the temporary housing units. That’s fewer than half the 3,300 families mainly in Calcasieu Parish the federal agency expects to eventually house.
POLICE IN EUNICE ARE INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING THAT LEFT ONE PERSON INJURED. CAROLINE MARCELLO REPORTS.
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A GROUP OF AFRICAN AMERICAN PASTORS ARE TEAMING UP WITH THE LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT TO ENCOURAGE MEMBERS OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY TO GET VACCINATED. THE GROUP OF PASTORS GOT VACCINATED FRIDAY AT THE CLIFTON CHENIERE CENTER PUBLIC HEALTH BUILDING. THE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT’S CHIEF OF MINORITY AFFAIRS, CARLOS HARVIN, SAYS THE GROUP IS TRYING TO SET AN EXAMPLE SO THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY WILL NOT BE AFRAID OF THE VACCINE. REGIONAL HEALTH DIRECTOR DOCTOR TINA STEFANSKI SAYS THE VACCINATION RATE FOR BLACKS IS LOWER THAN WHITES BECAUSE OF ACCESS AND LESS TRUST OF THE VACCINE.
LOUISIANA HAD TWENTY-SIX MORE CONFIRMED COVID-NINETEEN DEATHS IN YESTERDAY’S REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, WHICH COVERED A TWO DAY PERIOD. THERE ARE FIVE HUNDRED NINETEEN NEW CASES, WHICH MOVES THE TOTAL OVER THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY-TWO THOUSAND. HOSPTILATIONS WERE DOWN BY SIX WHILE THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS DECREASED BY TWO.
ACADIANA REPORTED TWO MORE CONFIRMED COVID-NINETEEN DEATHS. THEY WERE IN ACADIA AND IBERIA PARISHES. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD TWO MORE DEATHS AS WELL. BOTH WERE IN CALCASIEU PARISH. THERE WERE SEVENTY-ONE NEW CASES IN ACADIANA, INCLUDING TWENTY-EIGHT IN LAFAYETTE PARISH. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD FIFTY-FOUR NEW CASES, NEARLY ALL OF WHICH WERE IN CALCASIEU PARISH.
