5-21-20
THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS HOSPITALIZED WITH COVID-NINETEEN IN LOUISIANA DROPPED BELOW ONE THOUSAND FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A WHILE. AT IT’S HEIGHT, THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS WAS ABOVE TWENTY-ONE HUNDRED. YESTERDAY, THERE WERE SEVENTY-THREE FEWER PATIENTS THAN THE DAY BEFORE. THE TOTAL IS NINE-HUNDRED-THIRTY-ONE. THERE ARE TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY EIGHT MORE PEOPLE DIAGNOSED WITH CORONAVIRUS FOR A TOTAL OF THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED SIXTEEN. TWENTY-SEVEN MORE PEOPLE DIED FROM THE ILLNESS. THE TOTAL IS NOW TWO THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED EIGHTY-FIVE.
THERE ARE ONLY SEVEN MORE CASES IN ACADIANA. THE TOTAL IS NOW AT TWO THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-THREE. ST. MARY PARISH ADDED THE MOST WITH FOUR. THERE WAS ONLY ONE DEATH IN ACADIANA, WHICH WAS IN ST. LANDRY PARISH. THE TOTAL IS ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-SEVEN.
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A WEEK, SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD A DEATH FROM COVID-NINETEEN. THERE WERE A TOTAL OF TWO DEATHS, BOTH IN CALCASIEU PARISH. THE TOTAL IS SIXTY-TWO. THERE WERE TWENTY-SIX MORE CASES IN THE REGION, ALL IN ALLEN PARISH. THE TOTAL CASES IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA IS EIGHT HUNDRED FOUR..
FOUR IBERIA PARISH COUNCILMAN HAVE VOLUNTARILY DECIDED TO GIVE A THIRD OF THEIR SALARY, OR TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS PER MONTH, BACK TO THE PARISH FOR THE NEXT SIX MONTHS. COUNCILMEN JAMES TRAHAN, WARREN GACHASSIN, SCOTT RANSONET AND BRIAN NAPIER ARE HOPING THAT THE EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLARS A MONTH WILL SAVE AT LEAST ONE JOB. TRAHAN TELLS KLFY TV THAT IT MAY NOT SEEM LIKE MUCH, BUT IT COULD MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE DOWN THE ROAD. HE SAYS HE’S ALSO HOPING OTHER GOVERNMENT BODIES WILL FOLLOW IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS AS A WAY TO HELP WITH WHAT EVERYBODY IS GOING THROUGH.
State lawmakers are poised to greatly expand Louisiana’s medical marijuana to make more conditions eligible for the treatment. The proposal from Republican Rep. Larry Bagley would authorize therapeutic cannabis for any condition that a doctor “considers debilitating to an individual patient and is qualified through his medical education and training to treat.” The Senate health committee backed the expansion measure in a 5-1 vote Wednesday, sending it to the full Senate for debate. The House already has voted 77-15 for the bill.
THE LESSPAY MOTEL IN LAFAYETTE IS BEING PREPARED FOR DEMOLITION. GERALD GREUNIG HAS MORE.
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SO FAR, THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE HAS ARRESTED FIVE OF THE SIX PEOPLE IDENTIFIED AS INVADING A HOME IN HAYES AND ROBBING THE HOMEOWNERS. THE HOME INVASION HAPPENED AT AROUND THREE A-M ON MAY ELEVENTH. THE FIVE HAVE BEEN BOOKED INTO THE CALCASIEU PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER ON CHARGES OF ARMED ROBBERY, ARMED ROBBERY WITH THE USE OF A FIREARM, AND HOME INVASION. DEPUTIES ARE STILL SEARCHING FOR TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD JOSEPH L. COLLINS OF LAKE CHARLES, WHO’S WANTED ON THE SAME CHARGES.
A CHURCH POINT WOMAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR SHOOTING A MAN AT HIS HOME EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING. CHURCH POINT POLICE SAY THE TWO HAD AN ALTERCATION THE PREVIOUS DAY AND THAT FORTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD DENISE LYONS WENT OVER TO THE VICTIM’S HOME AND SHOT HIM IN THE SHOULDER WITH A SHOTGUN AT ABOUT FIVE-FIFTEEN YESTERDAY MORNING. THE VICTIM IS AT A LOCAL HOSPITAL IN STABLE CONDITION. LYONS HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER.
