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5-26-21

Gov. John Bel Edwards is scrapping nearly every remaining coronavirus restriction in Louisiana and lifting the statewide requirement that students must wear a mask in the classroom and at school events. The Democratic governor announced Tuesday that he’ll keep the statewide public health emergency declaration in place, but Louisiana will have almost none of the rules governing businesses and behavior over the last 15 months of the pandemic. The Edwards administration cited the wide availability of the coronavirus vaccine in Louisiana. Masks still will be required on public transit, in health care facilities and in prisons.

 

LOUISIANA HAD SEVEN HUNDRED NINETY-ONE NEW CONFIRMED CASES OF COVID-NINETEEN IN YESTERDAY’S REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.  THAT MOVES THE OVERALL TOTAL PAST THRE HUNDRED NINETY-SEVEN THOUSAND.  THERE ARE EIGHT MORE DEATHS STATEWIDE.  COVID-NINETEEN HOSPITALIZATIONS HAVE DECREASED BY TWO.  THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS IS DOWN BY ONE.

 

ACADIANA HAD ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-SIX NEW CONFIRMED COVID-NINETEEN CASES.  LAFAYETTE PARISH LED THE WAY WITH SIXTY-THREE MORE.  SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ADDED FORTY-THREE NEW CASES, INCLUDING TWENTY-SIX IN CALCASIEU PARISH.  SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAS HAD NO NEW DEATHS FOR FIVE STRAIGHT DAYS.  ACADIANA HAD ONE MORE DEATH WHICH WAS IN SAINT LANDRY PARISH.

 

A LAFAYETTE MAN PLED GUILTY MONDAY TO SECOND DEGREE MURDER FOR THE BEATING DEATH OF HIS GIRLFRIEND’S THREE-YEAR-OLD SON IN NOVEMBER OF TWENTY-TWELVE.  TWENTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD LANDON BROUSSARD CLAIMED AT THE TIME THAT HE FOUND THE CHILD, JULIAN MADERA, UNRESPONSIVE IN THE BATHTUB.  HE ALSO HAD CLAIMED THAT A DOOR HAD FALLEN ON MADERA THE DAY BEFORE.  THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE SAYS BROUSSARD WAS SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE, PROBATION OR SUSPENSION.

 

SEVERAL PEOPLE WERE INJURED WHILE TRYING TO CAP AN ABANDONED NATURAL GAS WELL IN SAINT MARY PARISH, WHEN A SPARK IGNITED NATURAL GAS.  TEXAS PETROLEUM INVESTMENT COMPANY, WHICH OWNED THE WELL, SAYS GAS FLOW AT THE WELL HAS STOPPED AND THE FIRE IS OUT.  STATE POLICE SAY THERE IS NO REMAINING RISK TO THE PUBLIC.  SOME OF THE INJURED WORKERS WERE TRANSPORTED BY AIR MED TO OUR LADY OF LOURDES HOSPITAL IN LAFAYETTE.

 

A JENNINGS MAN WAS ARRESTED MONDAY FOR STEALING ELECTRICTY FROM HIS NEIGHBOR.  JEFF DAVIS PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES INVESTIGATED THE COMPLAINT.  THEY FOUND THAT THIRTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD TERRY LANDRY, WHO LIVED ON GRAND MARAIS ROAD, HAD CONNECTED AN ELECTRICAL CORD TO HIS NEIGHBOR’S HOME TO OBTAIN ELECTRICITY FOR HIS OWN USE.  HE WAS BOOKED INTO THE PARISH JAIL ON A CHARGE OF THEFT.

 

A CARENCRO MAN IS IN CUSTODY FACING MULTIPLE COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED MURDER.  SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.

 

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THERE WAS A SHOOTING LATE LAST NIGHT IN RAYNE.  ONE PERSON WAS SHOT, BUT POLICE CHIEF CARROLL STELLY IS NOT RELEASING THE VICTIM’S IDENTIFICATION OR CONDITION.  THE SHOOTING HAPPENED NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF NORTH ARENAS STREET AND EAST JEFF DAVIS AVENUE.  STELLY SAYS HE WILL RELEASE MORE DETAILS SOMETIME TODAY.