4-23-21
THE WIFE OF ONE OF THE MEN, MISSING AFTER THE SEACOR LIFT BOAT CAPSIZED IN THE GULF, HAS FILED A LAWSUIT. HANNAH DASPIT, THE WIFE OF DYLAN DASPIT OF DELCAMBRE, FILED THE LAWSUIT IN HOUSTON WEDNESDAY. SHE IS SEEKING MORE THAN TWENTY-FIVE MILLION DOLLARS IN DAMAGES. THREE COMPANIES HAVE BEEN NAMED AS DEFENDANTS, SEACOR MARINE, SEACOR LIFTBOATS, AND TALOS ENERGY.
SEVERAL ACADIANA LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES WILL PARTICIPATE TOMORROW IN NATIONAL PRESCRIPTION DRUG TAKE BACK DAY, WHICH ALLOWS PEOPLE TO DISPOSE OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS THAT HAVE EXPIRED OR ARE NO LONGER NEEDED. THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE WILL ACCEPT PILLS OR PATCHES AT THEIR PUBLIC SAFETY COMPLEX ON WEST WILLOW STREET BETWEEN TEN AND TWO. THE SCOTT POLICE DEPARTMENT TAKES BACK CONTROLLED, NON-CONTROLLED AND OVER THE COUNTER SUBSTANCES AT BRIAN SCHLESINGER STATE FARM ON CAMERON STREET FROM NINE TO NOON. THE ST. MARTIN PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE WILL ACCEPT PILLS AND PATCHES AT THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMPLEX ON MAIN HIGHWAY IN SAINT MARTINVILLE WHILE THE CHURCH POINT POLICE DEPARTMENT WILL TAKE BACK PRESCRIPTION DRUGS AT THEIR OFFICE FROM NINE TO THREE.
ONE PERSON WAS WOUNDED IN A GUNFIGHT THAT HAPPENED AT THE CORNER OF SMITH AND WEST STREETS IN JENNINGS WEDNESDAY EVENING. POLICE CHIEF DANNY SEMMES SAYS MULTIPLE PEOPLE WERE INVOLVED AND MORE THAN TWENTY ROUNDS OF AMMUNITIONS WERE FIRED. HE SAYS THEY HAVE A POTENTIAL SUSPECT AND THE INVESTIGATION IS CONTINUING. SEMMES SAYS THE VICTIM’S HOME WAS SEARCHED AND MULTIPLE HANDGUNS AND A STOLEN A-R FIFTEEN WERE FOUND, AND TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD REGINALD SANDERS WAS ARRESTED FOR HAVING POSSESSION OF THE A-R FIFTEEN.
Louisiana officials hailed the opening of a federal mass vaccination site in Baton Rouge fewer than two weeks ago, but Gov. John Bel Edwards said Thursday that the location isn’t seeing enough traffic from people seeking the thousands of coronavirus vaccine doses available. The acknowledgment of problems at the Baton Rouge vaccination site was the latest sign that Louisiana residents’ interest in the vaccine is subsiding. Only one-quarter of the state is fully immunized from COVID-19. Louisiana didn’t seek shipment of some vaccine doses available from the federal government over the past week because of the waning demand.
LOUISIANA HAD FOUR HUNDRED SEVENTEEN NEW CONFIRMED COVID-NINETEEN CASES IN YESTERDAY’S REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. THERE WERE SIX MORE DEATHS STATEWIDE. HOSPITALIZATIONS ARE DOWN SLIGHTLY, BY TWO. THERE’S ONE FEWER PATIENT ON VENTILATOR.
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD NO NEW DEATHS. ACADIANA REPORTED ONE MORE DEATH, WHICH WAS IN VERMILLION PARISH. ACADIANA HAD ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-FOUR NEW CONFIRMED COVID NINETEEN CASES, INCLUDING TWENTY-NINE IN LAFAYETTE PARISH. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD TWENTY-TWO NEW CASES, HALF OF WHICH WERE IN CALCASIEU PARISH.
A FORTY-FIVE DAY OPERATION HAS BEEN UNDERWAY IN ACADIA PARISH AIMED AT STOPPING STREET VIOLENCE. CAROLINE MARCELLO REPORTS.
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LAFAYETTE MAYOR PRESIDENT JOSH GUILLORY HAS APPOINTED HARLON COWSAR TO SERVE AS THE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT’S DISABILITY AWARENESS COORDINATOR. COWSAR LOST HIS SIGHT AT EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE IN A CAR CRASH. HE SAYS HE IS PASSIONATE ABOUT INCREASING ACCESS AND OPPORTUNITY FOR THE DISABLED, ESPECIALLY IN THE AREAS OF TRANSPORTATION, EMPLOYMENT AND HOUSING. COWSAR SAYS HE WANTS PEOPLE WITH DISABLITIES TO HAVE THE SAME OPPORTUNITIES WITH WHICH HE’S BEEN BLESSED.
