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A company that makes personal protective equipment will open two factories near Lafayette, hiring more than 1,200 people. SafeSource Direct made the announcement Monday, saying it would invest $150 million in the venture. Construction has begun and the Lafayette Parish plant is scheduled to open in the summer. All jobs are supposed to be filled by the end of 2023.
THE SEARCH CONTINUES TODAY FOR THE SEVEN MISSING SEACOR CREW MEMBERS. CAROLINE MARCELO HAS MORE.
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The Louisiana House has backed a proposal to let patients in the state’s medical marijuana program smoke raw cannabis, rather than rely on the more processed forms of marijuana currently available. A 73-26 vote Monday sent the bill to the Senate for debate. The expansion proposal is sponsored by Rep. Tanner Magee, the House’s second-ranking Republican. Louisiana’s dispensaries sell medical marijuana in liquids, topical applications, inhalers and edible gummies, but they are barred from offering raw marijuana in smokable form.
A TEENAGER FROM KINDER HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH VEHICULAR HOMOCIDE FOR A SINGLE VEHICLE CRASH YESTERDAY AFTERNOON THAT LEFT ONE PASSENGER DEAD AND ANOTHER IN A LAKE CHARLES HOSPITAL WITH LIFE THREATENING INJURIES. A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION DETERMINED EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD HUNTER JOSEPH PELICAN OF KINDER WAS TRAVELING AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED ON L-A THREE EIGHTY-THREE WHEN HE LOST CONTROL, FLIPPED HIS PICKUP AND ALL THREE OCCUPANTS WERE EJECTED. EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD ALIJAH J. DRODDY OF KINDER WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. PELICAN, WHO SUSTAINED MODERATE INJURIES, WAS ALSO CHARGED WITH FIRST DEGREE VEHICULAR NEGLIGENT INJURING, RECKLESS OPERATION AND NO SEAT BELT.
A MAN CRASHED HIS PICKUP INTO THE FRONT OF THE WALMART STORE ON PINHOOK IN LAFAYETTE. POLICE SPOKESPERSON CORPORAL BRIDGETTE DUGAS SAYS HE HAD A MEDICAL EMERGENCY CAUSING HIM TO LOSE CONTROL OF THE VEHICLE. HE WAS TREATED AT THE SCENE FOR NON LIFE THREATENING INJURIES. THERE WERE NO OTHER REPORTED INJURIES IN THE ACCIDENT, WHICH HAPPENED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AROUND THREE.
THE ACADIA PARISH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IS HOSTING AN EVENT THURSDAY EVENING FROM FIVE TO SEVEN CALLED BUSINESS UNDER THE OAKS, WHICH WILL TAKE PLACE ON THE GROUNDS OF THE ACADIA PARISH COURTHOUSE. IT’S A NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY FOR LOCAL BUSINESSES. CHAMBER PRESIDENT AND C-E-O AMY THIBODEAUX SAYS ACADIA PARISH DID NOT LOSE LOCAL BUSINESSES DURING THE PANDEMIC AND THIS EVENT WILL HELP KEEP THE MOMENTUM AS THE PARISH REBOUNDS. SHE SAYS COMMUNITY MEMBERS CAN ALSO COME AND GET TO MEET WITH LOCAL BUSINESS LEADERS AS WELL AS ELECTED OFFICIALS.
LOUISIANA’S COVID-NINETEEN HOSPITALIZATIONS ARE DOWN BY EIGHTEEN IN TODAY’S REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS DECREASED AS WELL, BY SEVEN TO A TOTAL OF THIRTY-EIGHT. THE STATE HAS FIVE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE NEW CASES IN THE REPORT, WHICH COVERS A THREE DAY PERIOD. THAT PUTS THE TOTAL OVER THREE HUNDRED NINETY- THOUSAND. LOUISIANA ADDED FIVE MORE DEATHS DUE TO COVID-NINETEEN.
THERE WERE NO ADDITIONAL COVID-NINETEEN DEATHS IN ACADIANA OR SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. ACADIANA HAD NINETY MORE CONFIRMED COVID-NINETEEN CASES. LAFAYETTE PARISH LED WITH FIFTY-SIX. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ADDED TWENTY-THREE CASES, INCLUDING ELEVEN IN CALCASIEU PARISH.
