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4-29-21

Authorities in Louisiana say a fifth teenager has been captured after breaking out of a juvenile detention center near New Orleans, leaving one on the loose. They say six youths aged 16 to 18 broke out of the Bridge City Center for Youth around midnight Wednesday, injuring a staff member. The state Office of Juvenile Justice says four were caught about 9 a.m. in Lafayette Parish. Authorities are still searching for a 17-year-old.

 

SEARCH EFFORTS FOR THE MISSING SECOR POWER CREW MEMBERS CONTINUED IN IBERIA PARISH WITH SURVEYS IN AND AROUND VERMILLION BAY.  SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.

 

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A Louisiana state senator has shelved his proposal to add new restrictions on transgender youth access to medical care and counseling after facing significant opposition. Republican Sen. Mike Fesi (FAY zee) pulled his bill from consideration Wednesday before the Senate Health and Welfare Committee after nearly two hours of testimony from opponents and pushback from several senators. Fesi’s action ends debate on his legislation for the session, but lawmakers are proposing other bills to ban transgender girls from competing on girls sports teams in schools and to restrict transgender youths’ access to health care used in transitioning. Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards opposes the measures as discriminatory.

 

I-TEN IN LAKE CHARLES WAS CLOSED FOR ABOUT FOUR HOURS YESTERDAY MORNING AFTER IT WAS LEARNED SOMEONE IN A MOTEL WAS FIRING SHOTS AT THE INTERSTATE.  THE MOTEL WAS LOCATED IN THE ONE THOUSAND BLOCK OF NORTH LAKE SHORE DRIVE.  THE SUSPECT WAS BARRICADED IN A ROOM.  LIEUTENANT JEFF KEENUM SAYS DEPARTMENT NEGOTIATERS WERE UNABLE TO CONTACT THE PERSON SO THE SWAT TEAM MADE THEIR WAY INTO THE ROOM AND FOUND A DECEASED PERSON.

 

BROUSSARD POLICE CHIEF BRANNON DECOU HAS GONE ON VOLUNTARY PAID LEAVE AS THE CITY CONDUCTS AN INVESTIGATION INTO ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL HARRASMENT.  DECOU MADE THE DECISION ON THE ADVICE OF CITY ATTORNEYS BECAUSE IT WOULD PROTECT THE INTEGRITY OF THE INVESTIGATION.  A CITY SPOKESPERSON SAYS THERE WILL BE NO FURTHER COMMENTS ON THE INVESTIGATION UNTIL IT IS COMPLETED.  IN A STORY IN THE ADVOCATE NEWSPAPER, THREE FORMER OFFICERS DESCRIBED A WORK ATMOSPHERE WHERE OFFICERS WERE PROMOTED BASED ON APPEARANCE, UNWANTED SEXUAL ADVANCES WERE THE NORM AND THOSE WHO VOICED CONCERNS FACED RETALIATION.

 

LOUISIANA’S LAST KNOWN SURVIVOR OF PEARL HARBOR IS LEAVING FROM ROD’S THRIFTY MART IN CHURCH POINT THIS MORNING AT EIGHT TO GO TO THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF PACIFIC WAR IN FREDERICKSBURG, TEXAS.  NINETY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD JOE RICHARD OF SUNSET WILL GET A MOTORCADE THAT INCLUDES LOUISIANA STATE POLICE, THE TEXAS HIGHWAY PATROL, PATRIOT GUARD MOTORCYCLES AND LEGION RIDERS, THOUGH ORGANIZER TED STOUT SAYS MORE MAY JOIN AS THEY PROGRESS.  STOUT CAME UP WITH THE IDEA WHEN HE TOLD RICHARD ABOUT THE MUSEUM AND RICHARD EXPRESSED A DESIRE TO GO.  RICHARD HELPED RESCUE THIRTY-THREE SURVIVORS FROM THE U-S-S ARIZONA AND THREE SURVIVORS FROM THE U-S-S OKLAHOMA, AFTER THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR.

 

LOUISIANA HAD TEN MORE DEATHS ATTRIBUTED TO COVID-NINETEEN, ACCORDING TO YESTERDAY’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.