4-8-21
ALL LANES OF I-TEN WEST AT MILE MARKER EIGHTY-SEVEN HAVE BEEN OPENED. IT HAD BEEN CLOSED EARLIER THIS MORNING BECAUSE OF A FOUR VEHICLE ACCIDENT OVERNIGHT. STATE POLICE SAY THE ACCIDENT WAS CAUSED BY SOMEONE DRIVING EAST ON THE WESTBOUND SIDE OF THE INTERSTATE. THREE PEOPLE ARE CONFIRMED DEAD INCLUDING TWO IN THE VEHICLE THAT WAS TRAVELING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION.
TWO MAJOR LAFAYETTE CITY SUMMER CAMPS HAVE BEEN CANCELLED FOR THIS YEAR PLUS THE SWIMMING POOL AT THE ROBICHEAUX CENTER IS UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS MORE.
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Louisiana is borrowing about $300 million to refill the account that pays for state-financed construction work. The Bond Commission oversees construction spending. It approved the general obligation bond sale without objection Wednesday. The money will pay for items in the state construction budget like building repairs, economic development projects, roadwork and lawmakers’ local projects.
A LAKE CHARLES MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR CONTRACTOR FRAUD. DETECTIVES WITH THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE RECEIVED A COMPLAINT ABOUT FORTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD RONALD J. DUGAS JUNIOR. THE ALLEGED VICTIM SAYS SHE HIRED DUGAS IN DECEMBER TO DO CONSTRUCTION WORK AT HER HOME AND PAID HALF THE COST UP FRONT SO HE COULD BUY MATERIALS, BUT SHE HAD ONLY SEEN HIM ONCE SINCE IN FEBRUARY, WHEN HE WORKED FOR A FEW HOURS. AFTER INVESTIGATING, DETECTIVES OBTAINED A WARRANT AND ARRESTED DUGAS ON TUESDAY FOR RESIDENTIAL CONTRACTOR FRAUD OF OVER FIFTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS AND EXPLOITATION OF THE INFIRMED, BECAUSE OF THE VICTIM’S AGE.
AN OPELOUSAS MAN WAS KILLED IN A SINGLE VEHICLE CRASH YESTERDAY AFTERNOON ON L-A ONE-OH-THREE. STATE POLICE HAVE DETERMINED THAT FORTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD AVERY HUDSON WAS TRAVELING AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED WHEN HE WENT OFF THE ROADWAY AND STRUCK SEVERAL TREES BEFORE ENTERING BAYOU TECHE, WHERE HIS VEHICLE SUBMERGED. THE SAINT LANDRY PARISH DIVE TEAM MANAGED TO FIND THE VEHICLE AND PULL IT OUT WITH A MAGNET. SHERIFF BOBBY GUIDROZ SAYS HUDSON IS SUSPECTED OF BEING INVOLVED IN TWO HIT AND RUNS INVOLVING INJURIES ON HIGHWAY ONE NINETY JUST PRIOR TO THE CRASH ON L-A ONE-OH-THREE.
AFTER BEING CLOSED FOR MORE THAN A YEAR, THE LAFAYETTE SCIENCE MUSEUM WILL REOPEN THIS WEEKEND. THE PLANETARIUM WILL ALSO BE OPENED THOUGH WITH LIMITED CAPACITY AND A NEWLY ARRIVED MAMMOTH SKELETON WILL BE ON DISPLAY. THE MUSEUM WILL BE OPEN FROM TEN TO SIX ON SATURDAY AND FROM ONE TO SIX ON SUNDAY. MASKS WILL BE REQUIRED TO WEAR AND MASKS WILL BE PROVIDED TO THOSE WITHOUT ONE.
TODAY THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH REPORTS THAT THERE ARE ELEVEN ADDITIONAL CONFIRMED COVID-NINETEEN DEATHS. THERE ARE ALSO THREE HUNDRED TEN NEW CASES, MOVING THE OVERALL TOTAL OVER THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY-TWO THOUSAND. HOSPITALIZATIONS HAVE HELD STABLE AT THREE HUNDRED ONE. THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS WHO ARE ON VENTILATORS HAS DECREASED BY TWO TO FORTY-SIX.
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA REPORTS FOUR MORE COVID-NINETEEN CONFIRMED DEATHS, ALL IN CALCASIEU PARISH. THERE ARE THREE MORE DEATHS IN ACADIANA, INCLUDING TWO IN VERMILLION PARISH AND ONE IN ACADIA PARISH. THE NEW CASE COUNT IN ACADIANA IS UP BY SIXTY-FOUR. VERMILLION PARISH HAD THE MOST IN THE REGION WITH TWENTY. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD THIRTY-SIX NEW CASES INCLUDING TWENTY-NINE IN CALCASIEU PARISH.
