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THE VICTIM IN A ROAD RAGE INCIDENT IN LAFAYETTE ON APRIL TWELFTH DIED OVER THE WEEKEND. FIFTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD KIRK BOURQUE OF BUTTE LAROSE, WHO WAS INITIALLY CHARGED WITH SECOND DEGREE BATTERY, WAS CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER YESTERDAY. BOURQUE AND SAMER TOBAH WERE IN AN ARGUMENT ON THE INTERSTATE AND PULLED OVER AT THE LOUISIANA AVENUE EXIT. ACCORDING TO KATC TV, TOBAH’S WIFE TOLD POLICE THAT HE WAS HIT BY BOURQUE AND TOBAH FELL TO THE GROUND UNCONSCIOUS.
THE FAMILY OF A SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD STUDENT AT WESTGATE HIGH SCHOOL, WHO WAS ATTACKED IN A BATHROOM BY AN EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD STUDENT, ARE UPSET WITH THE ADMINISTRATION’S RESPONSE. ANGELA LANDRY, THE VICTIM’S AUNT, SAYS AN ADMINISTRATOR DROPPED THE STUDENT OFF AT HOME, EVEN THOUGH HE WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED. THE FAMILY TOOK HIM TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS FOUND TO HAVE A BROKEN JAW AND NUMEROUS FRACTURES. THE EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD STUDENT WAS GIVEN A THREE DAY SUSPENSION. THE IBERIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS INVESTIGATING THE INCIDENT.
Louisiana state agencies and public colleges would be unable to require coronavirus vaccines for entry into their facilities under a bill that has won overwhelming support from the Senate. Senators voted 28-9 Tuesday for the proposal by Republican Sen. Stewart Cathey of Monroe. The measure would prohibit a person from being denied access to any state-owned, state-financed or state-operated facility based on whether that person has been vaccinated against the COVID-19 illness. It heads next to the House for consideration.
FORMER CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE ROB ANDERSON, A DEMOCRAT FROM SULPHUR, IS BEING ACCUSED OF SENDING INAPPROPRIATE PHOTOS TO WOMEN. ANDERSON, WHO RAN TWICE AND WAS DEFEATED BY CONGRESSMAN CLAY HIGGINS EACH TIME, ALLEGEDLY SEXUALLY HARRASSED EIGHT WOMEN INCLUDING STAFFERS, ACCORDING TO A TEXAS WOMAN WHO HAS BEEN MAKING THE CLAIMS ON TWITTER. THE WOMAN, WHO WON’T REVEAL HER IDENTITY, HAS TOLD K-A-T-C T-V THAT SHE WENT PUBLIC AFTER SEVERAL WOMEN CONTACTED HER WITH THEIR ALLEGATIONS. ANDERSON HAS NOT RESPONDED TO THE WOMAN’S CLAIMS AND HAS TAKEN DOWN HIS TWITTER ACCOUNT.
BECAUSE OF COVID-NINETEEN, CATHOLICS IN THE DIOCESE OF LAFAYETTE HAVE BEEN EXCUSED FROM ATTENDING WEEKLY MASS IN PERSON, BUT ON JUNE SIXTH, THAT WILL CHANGE. CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS MORE.
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THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH IS HOLDING A VACCINATION EVENT THURSDAY AFTERNOON FROM ONE TO SIX AT THE LOVE OF CHRIST BAPTIST CHURCH IN CROWLEY. THE TWO DOSE PFIZER VACCINE WILL BE ADMINSTERED AT THE CHURCH, WHICH IS LOCATED AT TWELVE HUNDRED WEST HUTCHISON. THE SECOND DOSE WILL BE GIVEN AT THE CHURCH ON MAY 27TH. ANYONE SIXTEEN OR OLDER ARE ELIGIBLE. APPOINTMENTS ARE PREFERRED BUT WALK-INS ARE WELCOME.
LOUISIANA ADDED SIX HUNDRED EIGHTY-THREE NEW CONFIRMED COVID-NINETEEN CASES YESTERDAY, ACCORDING TO THE DAILY REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. THERE WERE SEVEN MORE DEATHS STATEWIDE. THE NUMBER OF HOSPITALIZATIONS FOR COVID-NINETEEN ROSE BY FIFTEEN, BUT THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS STAYED STEADY AT THIRTY-EIGHT.
FOR THE FIFTH STRAIGHT DAY, THERE WERE NO MORE COVID-NINETEEN DEATHS IN ACADIANA. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD ONE IN CALCASIEU PARISH. ACADIANA HAD ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-EIGHT NEW CONFIRMED COVID-NINETEEN CASES, WITH LAFAYETTE PARISH LEADING THE WAY, ADDING SIXTY-ONE. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD THIRTY-FIVE NEW CASES, INCLUDING TWENTY-SEVEN IN CALCASIEU PARISH.
