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4-28-21

Gov. John Bel Edwards is partially lifting Louisiana’s statewide mask mandate enacted to combat the coronavirus outbreak. The Democratic governor announced Tuesday that he’s limiting the face covering requirement to schools, hospitals, clinics and other specific locations. Edwards’s decision to roll back the mask mandate he enacted in July is at odds with the recommendations of President Joe Biden’s administration, but it puts him more in line with other Southern state leaders. The new rules starting Wednesday will require people in Louisiana to wear masks on public transit and in health care facilities, daycare centers , K-12 schools, colleges and some state buildings, but local officials can enact their own mandates.

 

LOUISIANA HAD TEN MORE DEATHS ATTRIBUTED TO COVID-NINETEEN, ACCORDING TO TODAY’S REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.  THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS ROSE BY FOUR TO FIFTY TOTAL.  OVERALL HOSPITALIZATIONS FOR COVID-NINETEEN DECREASED BY ONE.  THERE WERE TWO HUNDRED NINETY-TWO NEW CASES IN THE STATE.

 

FOR THE THIRD DAY IN A ROW, THERE WERE NO ADDITIONAL COVID-NINETEEN CONFIRMED DEATHS IN ACADIANA.  THERE WAS ONE MORE IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA, WHICH WAS IN CALCASIEU PARISH.  ACADIANA REPORTED THIRTY NEW CASES, INCLUDING TWENTY-ONE IN LAFAYETTE PARISH.  SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD JUST SIX NEW CASES.

 

THE FAMILY OF TRAYFORD PELLERIN, WHO WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY LAFAYETTE POLICE LAST AUGUST, MET WITH DISTRICT ATTORNEY DON LANDRY THIS MORNING IN AN ATTEMPT TO BE ABLE TO SEE MORE VIDEO OF THE SHOOTING.  THE FAMILY WAS SHOWN ONE BODY CAM FOOTAGE IN SEPTEMBER, BUT THEY WANT TO SEE ALL THE CAMERA FOOTAGE AT THE SCENE.  THEY DISPUTE POLICE CLAIMS THAT TRAYFORD HAD A KNIFE.  PELLERIN’S FATHER, CEDRICK, TELLS KATC TV THE ONLY THING THAT WILL BRING THEM CLOSURE IS FOR THE OFFICERS INVOLVED TO BE INDICTED AND TRIED.

 

THE FAMILY OF SIXTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD GREGORY WALCOTT OF ABBEVILLE IS HOLDING OUT HOPE HE WILL BE FOUND AND COME HOME, BUT THAT HOPE IS WANING.  WALCOTT IS ONE OF SEVEN MEMBERS OF THE SEACOR POWER LIFT BOAT WHO HAS BEEN MISSING SINCE IT CAPSIZED.  HIS SISTER DAWN SADLER SAYS THEY KEEP PRAYING FOR A MIRACLE.  YESTERDAY THE FAMILY HELD A MEMORIAL FOR HIM AT PORT FOURCHON AND SIGNED AND PUT MESSAGES ON A LIFE RING IN HOPES HE’S STILL OUT THERE SOMEWHERE.

 

 

THE FAMILY OF ERNEST J. WILLIAMS OF LAFAYETTE HAVE FILED A WRONGFUL DEATH LAWSUIT IN SAINT MARY PARISH.  WILLIAMS IS ONE OF SIX PEOPLE WHOSE BODIES WERE RECOVERED FROM THE SEACOR POWER LIFT BOAT.  HIS DAUGHTER, BRANDY WILLIAM NORRIS, NAMES SEACOR MARINE, SEACOR LIFTBOATS AND TALOS ENERGY AS DEFENDANTS AND SEEKS A TRIAL BY JURY.  THE LAWSUIT ALLEGES A DISREGARD FOR THE SAFETY OF THE CREW WHEN THE BOAT EMBARKED FROM PORT FOURCHON IN DETERIORATING AND DANGEROUS CONDITIONS.

 

ONE PERSON IS BEING TREATED AT A HOSPITAL AFTER AN OVERNIGHT SHOOTING IN JENNINGS.  SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.

 

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THE PONTOON BRIDGE ON HIGHWAY NINETY-ONE NEAR ESTHERWOOD HAS REOPENED.  IT WAS CLOSED AFTER SUSTAINING DAMAGE FROM A LARGE TRUCK.

 

CHURCH POINT POLICE HAVE RELEASED MORE DETAILS ON THE INCIDENT MONDAY AFTERNOON WHERE A PICKUP TRUCK CRASHED INTO A SONIC RESTAURANT.  THEY SAY THE SEVENTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD DRIVER ACCIDENTALLY RAN HIS TRUCK INTO THE SONIC WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF THE PEDAL AND IT GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE ACCELERATOR AND BRAKE, CAUSING THE TRUCK TO JUMP THE CURB AND HIT THE FRONT RIGHT OF THE BUILDING.  THREE SONIC EMPLOYEES SUFFERED MODERATE TO MINOR INJURIES.