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5-17-21

Former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer has died at 77 after a long battle with diabetes. Roemer’s son Chas Roemer says his father died Monday morning at his home in Baton Rouge, surrounded by family. Roemer was a conservative Democratic congressman from north Louisiana when he entered the 1987 governor’s race and ousted Edwin Edwards. He lost a re-election battle in a divided field.

 

A TEENAGER WAS FOUND SHOT TO DEATH IN RAYNE.  CAROLINE MARCELLO REPORTS.

 

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AN EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WAS FOUND SHOT TO DEATH EARLY SATURDAY MORNING INSIDE A VEHICLE.  THE BODY OF JENNIFER HURST OF LAFYAETTE WAS FOUND AT AN APARTMENT COMPLEX IN THE THREE HUNDRED BLOCK OF MCDONALD STREET.  HER BOYFRIEND, NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD LUCAS WILLIAMS OF LAFAYETTE, IS A SUSPECT IN THE SHOOTING WHO TURNED HIMSELF OVER TO POLICE.  HE WAS BOOKED INTO THE LAFAYETTE PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER ON A CHARGE OF SECOND DEGREE MURDER AND HIS BOND WAS SET AT TWO HUNDRED FIFTY- THOUSAND DOLLARS.

 

THE MAYOR OF LAKE CHARLES SAYS THE U-S CONGRESS HAS YET TO PASS A RELIEF PACKAGE FOR THE AREA, WHICH WAS HIT BY TWO HURRICANES LAST YEAR.  NIC HUNTER SAYS A RELIEF PACKAGE WAS APPROVED TEN DAYS AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA AND THIRTY-FOUR DAYS AFTER HURRICANE ANDREW.  HUNTER SAYS HE’S REQUESTED THREE BILLION DOLLARS IN HURRICANE RELIEF.  HUNTER SAYS HE DID GET A CHANCE TO TALK TO PRESIDENT BIDEN ABOUT HURRICANE RELIEF WHEN HE WAS IN LAKE CHARLES RECENTLY.

 

A MEMORIAL SERVICE WAS HELD YESTERDAY FOR ONE OF THE MEN WHO WAS  UNACCOUNTED FOR FOLLOWING THE SEACOR LIFT BOAT DISASTER.  SIXTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD GREGORY WALCOTT OF ABBEVILLE IS ONE OF SEVEN MEN WHO ARE MISSING.  THE PRAYER AND MUSIC SERVICE WAS HELD AT THE ARK OF THE COVENANT DELIVERANCE MINISTRIES.  THERE WAS ALSO A MOMENT OF PRAYER FOR THE OTHERS WHO ARE MISSING.

 

FAMILY AND FRIENDS GATHERED SATURDAY TO REMEMBER A LAFAYETTE MAN WHO DIED IN A ROAD RAGE INCIDENT.  SAMER TOBEH’S (SAMMER TOBAY) OLDER BROTHER, YASER TOBEH, SAYS SAMER DIDN’T DESERVE TO BE ATTACKED AND HE POINTED OUT HE LEFT BEHIND A WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN.  SAMER ARGUED WITH FIFTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD KIRK BOURQUE OF BREAUX BRIDGE ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD AT WHICH TIME BOURQUE STRUCK SAMER CAUSING HIM TO FALL TO THE GROUND AND LOSE CONSCIOUSNESS.  AFTER SAMER DIED, BOURQUE WAS CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER.

 

COVID-NINETEEN HOSPITALIZATIONS DROPPED BY TEN PERCENT OVER THE WEEKEND, ACCORDING TO TODAY’S REPORT FROM THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, WHICH COVERED A THREE DAY PERIOD.  THERE WERE THIRTY-ONE FEWER HOSPITAL PATIENTS, MOVING THE TOTAL DOWN TO TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY.  THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS DECREASED BY TWO TO TWENTY-FIVE.  LOUISIANA HAD EIGHT HUNDRED SEVENTY-ONE NEW CASES, WHICH MOVES THE TOTAL OVER THREE HUNDRED NINETY-FOUR THOUSAND.  THERE WERE SEVEN MORE DEATHS STATEWIDE.

 

ACADIANA HAS NO NEW REPORTED COVID-NINETEEN DEATHS FOR FIVE STRAIGHT DAYS.  SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD ONE MORE DEATH OVER THE WEEKEND, WHICH WAS IN CALCASIEU PARISH.  ACADIANA ADDED ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-NINE NEW CASES.  LAFAYETTE PARISH HAD THE MOST IN THE REGION WITH SIXTY-NINE.  SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD FORTY-FOUR NEW CASES, HALF OF WHICH WERE IN CALCASIEU PARISH.