5-13-21
STATE POLICE HAVE ISSUED A MISSING ENDANGERED CHILD ADVISORY FOR A THREE-YEAR-OLD CHILD FROM BASILE LAST SEEN ON MOTHER’S DAY. GERALD GRUENIG HAS MORE.
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GAS STATION OWNERS IN LAFAYETTE HAVE TOLD KLFY TV THAT THEY ARE SELLING TWICE AS MUCH AS GAS AS NORMAL. SHYAM KUMAR, WHO OWNS THE WELCOME GAS STATION, SAYS HE BELIEVES PEOPLE ARE PANIC BUYING. SOME GAS STATIONS HAVE RUN OUT OF GAS TEMPORARILY, BUT MOST SAY THEY HAVE A GOOD SUPPLY. A PIPELINE SHUT DOWN BY COMPUTER HACKERS CAUSED GAS SUPPLY PROBLEMS IN SOME SOUTHEAST STATES. GAS INDUSTRY LEADERS ARE URGING PEOPLE NOT TO PANIC BUY BECAUSE THAT MAKES THE PROBLEM WORSE.
GAS SUPPLIERS IN THE LAKE CHARLES AREA SAY THEY HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH SUPPLY. ONE SUPPLIER, HARLEEN KAUR, SAYS THEY’VE HAD A LOT MORE CUSTOMERS THAN USUAL OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF DAYS. BUT HE SAYS THEY HAVE A FULL SUPPLY OF GAS SO THERE’S NO NEED TO PANIC. COLONIAL PIPELINE ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY EVENING THEY RESTARTED OPERATIONS AND THEY ARE MOVING AS MUCH GAS, DIESEL AND JET FUEL AS POSSIBLE UNTIL MARKET CONDITIONS RETURN TO NORMAL.
Louisiana’s health department says children as young as 12 can expect to start receiving Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine today, and it said parents can begin making appointments for them. Federal advisors endorsed the vaccine Wednesday for that age group. The health department expects to issue its formal notice today, and any clinic or other outlet that has the Pfizer vaccine can start dispensing it to kids immediately after that. Ochsner Health System and Louisiana State University Health say they’re ready to start as soon as they get official authorization.
A CEREMONY WAS HELD YESTERDAY IN NEW IBERIA TO UNVEIL A HISTORICAL MARKER TO REMEMBER LOUISIANA’S FIRST WOMAN GOVERNOR. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR BILLY NUNGESSER, ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF LANDRY AND OTHER STATE AND CITY LEADERS WERE ON HAND TO PAY TRIBUTE TO KATHLEEN BLANCO IN HER HOMETOWN. THE MARKER FOR THE LATE GOVERNOR IS ON MAIN STREET NEXT TO ANOTHER MARKER REMEMBERING DOCTOR EMMA WAKEFIELD-PAILLET (peye YET), LOUISIANA’S FIRST WOMAN DOCTOR. IT WAS ANNOUNCED THAT A MEMORIAL INCLUDING A LIFE SIZE STATUE AND HOLOGRAM WILL BE ON DISPLAY AT THE BAYOU TECHE MUSEUM SOMETIME IN THE NEXT YEAR.
THE ATTORNEY FOR THE FAMILY OF TRAYFORD PELLERIN SAY THEY WILL CONTACT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO UN PAUSE THE FAMILY’S FEDERAL LAWSUIT. ON TUESDAY, A GRAND JURY IN LAFAYETTE DECLINED TO INDICT POLICE OFFICERS IN THE SHOOTING DEATH LAST AUGUST OF PELLERIN. AT A PRESS CONFERENCE YESTERDAY, COMMUNITY ACTIVIST DEVON NORMAN SAYS HE REQUESTED THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO INVESTIGATE THE SHOOTING. NORMAN SAYS THE GRAND JURY’S DECISION WAS EXPECTED BUT THEY ARE STILL IN A STATE OF SHOCK.
LOUISIANA HAD ELEVEN MORE DEATHS THAT WERE CONFIRMED TO HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY COVID-NINETEEN, ACCORDING TO YESTERDAY’S REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. THE NUMBER OF NEW CASES ROSE BY TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY-NINE TO OVER THREE HUNDRED NINETY-THREE THOUSAND. HOSPITALIZATIONS FOR COVID-NINETEEN ROSE BY EIGHT YESTERDAY. THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS DECREASED BY THREE TO TWENTY-EIGHT TOTAL.
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD NO NEW DEATHS DUE TO COVID-NINETEEN YESTERDAY. ACADIANA HAD ONE DEATH, WHICH WAS IN SAINT LANDRY PARISH. THERE WERE THIRTY-NINE NEW CONFIRMED COVID-NINETEEN CASES IN ACADIANA, INCLUDING SEVENTEEN IN LAFAYETTE PARISH. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ADDED NINE NEW CASES.
