4-13-21
THE TWENTY-TWENTY-ONE LEGISLATIVE SESSION ENTERS DAY TWO LATER TODAY.
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TWO MEN STOLE A CAR AND LED POLICE ON A CHASE ALONG INTERSTATE TEN EAST BEFORE CRASHING THE VEHICLE IN JENNINGS. THEY HIT ANOTHER VEHICLE AT THE INTERSECTION OF L-A ONE-OH-TWO AND ZIGLER MEMORIAL DRIVE, INJURING A PERSON IN THE OTHER VEHICLE WHO WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL. THE TWO THEN FLED ON FOOT AND WERE ARRESTED IN A WOODED AREA EAST OF THE JENNINGS WALMART. TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD KENDALL JAMAL PETE OF VILLE PLATTE AND MARKENTAE DECORIYAN WILLIAMS OF MAMOU BOTH HAD ARREST WARRANTS FROM OTHER PARISHES.
A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY FROM CROWLEY, WHO WAS REPORTED MISSING YESTERDAY, IS REPORTEDLY BACK HOME AND SAFE. LANDON THIBODEAUX DISAPPEARED AFTER TAKING OUT THE TRASH MONDAY EVENING. POLICE CHIEF JIMMY BROUSSARD SAYS LANDON HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN A SCUFFLE AT SCHOOL EARLIER THAT DAY AND HE MAY HAVE BEEN AFRAID OF BEING PUNISHED WHEN HE CAME HOME. HIS PARENTS PUT OUT A POST ON FACEBOOK ANNOUNCING THAT THEIR SON WAS BACK HOME.
THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH IS OFFERING FREE COVID-NINETEEN VACCINES TO STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF AT U-L LAFAYETTE. DOCTOR TINA STEFANSKI, THE REGION FOUR DIRECTOR OF HEALTH, SAYS THE GOAL IS TO VACCINATE AS MANY STUDENTS AS POSSIBLE. U-L LAFAYETTE OFFICIALS ARE NOT ENFORCING MANDATED VACCINES LIKE SOME UNIVERSITIES ACROSS THE STATE, BUT THEY ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGING STUDENTS TO GET THE VACCINE. THERE WILL BE ONE MORE VACCINATION EVENT AT U-L WHICH IS SCHEDULED FOR NEXT TUESDAY.
COVID-NINETEEN HOSPITALIZATIONS ARE UP ABOVE THREE HUNDRED AGAIN IN YESTERDAY’S REPORT FROM THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, WHICH COVERS A THREE DAY PERIOD. THERE ARE ELEVEN MORE PATIENTS, MOVING THE TOTAL TO THREE HUNDRED SEVEN. THERE WAS ONE MORE PATIENT ON A VENTILATOR. LOUISIANA HAD THIRTEEN MORE CONFIRMED COVID-NINETEEN DEATHS. THE STATE REPORTED SEVEN HUNDRED TWENTY-TWO NEW CASES. THAT PUTS THE TOTAL OVER THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY-THREE THOUSAND.
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD SEVEN MORE COVID-NINETEEN DEATHS, INCLUDING FIVE IN CALCASIEU PARISH AND TWO IN JEFF DAVIS PARISH. ACADIANA HAD NO NEW DEATHS. THERE WERE ONE HUNDRED FORTY-SIX NEW CASES IN ACADIANA INCLUDING SIXTY-FIVE IN LAFAYETTE PARISH. MEANWHILE SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ADDED EIGHTY-EIGHT NEW CASES. CALCASIEU PARISH LED THE WAY WITH FIFTY-ONE.
NEW IBERIA CITY MARSHAL TONY MIGUES HAS RESIGNED FROM HIS POST. A REASON FOR HIS RESIGNATION WASN’T GIVEN, BUT IN FEBRUARY MIGUES WAS ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY FORGING SIGNATURES ON SUBPOENAS. HE REPORTEDLY ATTEMPTED TO GIVE HIS RESIGNATION TO CITY OFFICIALS, WHO WOULD NOT ACCEPT IT, SO HE SENT IT TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE’S OFFICE. THEY CONFIRMED RECEIVING IT MONDAY AFTERNOON, WHICH MAKES THE RESIGNATION OFFICIAL AND EFFECTIVE AS OF YESTERDAY.
A PRAYER VIGIL WAS HELD LAST NIGHT AT THE HOME OF KORI GAUTHIER IN OPELOUSAS. GAUTHIER IS AN L-S-U FRESHMEN WHO HAS BEEN MISSING SINCE LAST TUESDAY WHEN HER CAR WAS FOUND EMPTY ABOVE THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER WITH HER PHONE AND WALLET INSIDE. HUNDREDS GATHERED AT HER OPELOUSAS HOME LAST NIGHT. HER FAMILY SAID THEY WERE MOVED BY THE AMOUNT OF SUPPORT THEY’VE RECEIVED FROM OPELOUSAS, BATON ROUGE AND BEYOND.
