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5-10-21

ONE PERSON IS DEAD AFTER AN APARTMENT FIRE IN LAFAYETTE PARISH.  SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.

 

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A Breaux Bridge man has been charged with murder in the death of an infant whose body was found in an abandoned car on a bridge. The St. Mary’s Parish Sheriff’s Office says Ervin Melancon was arrested Sunday by Broussard police on the second-degree murder charge. His arrest came one day after the baby’s body was discovered on the Intracoastal Bridge near Franklin by detectives responding to a suspicious vehicle report. A cause of death is still being determined.

 

Bad weather has put Louisiana soybean farmers behind schedule, but a Louisiana State University soybean specialist says rising prices are likely to spur more planting than last year. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that Louisiana farmers have planted about 24% of the acres they plan for soybeans, compared to a 5-year average of 47% by this time. The LSU AgCenter’s David Moseley says February storms and steady rains since then have kept fields too wet to work, but he says prices are up from above $8 a bushel last year to about $15 now. He says farmers are talking about planting land they haven’t used for soybeans in years.

 

A LAKE CHARLES MAN WAS KILLED IN A MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT THAT HAPPENED FRIDAY NIGHT IN WESTLAKE.  POLICE CHIEF CHRIS WILRYE SAYS THAT THE MOTORCYCLE HAD BEEN IN AN ACCIDENT WITH A BLUE TRUCK PULLING A TRAILER.  SIXTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD RONALD H. MYERS WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE.  WILRYE ASKS ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON THE ACCIDENT TO CONTACT THE WESTLAKE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

 

THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM HAS ANNOUNCED THAT SOUTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOL IS RETURNING TO A HYBRID LEARNING SCHEDULE DUE TO AN UPTICK IN COVID-NINETEEN CASES.  THAT MEANS THEY WILL RETURN TO THE SCHEDULE THAT THEY HAD EARLIER IN THE YEAR WITH STUDENTS ATTENDING SCHOOL ON ALTERNATE DAYS.  THE HYBRID SCHEDULE GOES INTO EFFECT TODAY.  MORE INFORMATION WILL BE PROVIDED TO STUDENTS BY THE SCHOOL’S ADMINISTRATION.

A Louisiana State University scientist is testing whether tea plants in south Louisiana do better in full sun or partial shade. Horticulturist Yan Chen of the LSU AgCenter says two New Iberia farmers and one in Amite are trying their hands at tea farming. She says an organic farm in the Alexandria area and a tourist plantation near New Orleans have plans to do so. Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina all have tea farms.

 

LOUISIANA HAD JUST TWO DEATHS FROM COVID-NINETEEN IN TODAY’S REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, WHICH COVERS A THREE DAY PERIOD.  THERE WERE SEVEN HUNDRED THIRTY NEW CASES STATEWIDE, MOVING THE TOTAL PAST THREE HUNDRED NINETY-TWO THOUSAND TOTAL.  THE NUMBER OF COVID-NINETEEN PATIENTS IN HOSPITALS DROPPED BY SEVEN.  THERE ARE TWO FEWER PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS.

 

ACADIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA REPORTED NO NEW DEATHS OVER THE PAST THREE DAYS.  ACADIANA HAD ONE HUNDRED SEVEN NEW CONFIRMED COVID-NINETEEN CASES, INCLUDING SIXTY-FOUR IN LAFAYETTE PARISH.  SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ADDED FIFTY-FIVE NEW CASES.  CALCASIEU PARISH HAD FORTY-THREE CASES, WHICH PUTS THE TOTAL OVER SIXTEEN THOUSAND TOTAL FOR THE FIRST TIME.  CAMERON PARISH HAS JUST ECLIPSE FIVE HUNDRED TOTAL CASES.