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5-7-21

A SIXTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD LAFAYETTE WOMAN WAS KILLED IN A HOUSE FIRE YESTERDAY EVENING.  GWENDOLYN SMITH WAS FOUND IN THE KITCHEN AND TAKEN OUTSIDE TO RECEIVE MEDICAL ATTENTION AND TO BE BROUGHT TO THE HOSPITAL, BUT SHE DID NOT SURVIVE.  THE FIRE CAUSED SEVERE DAMAGE TO THE INTERIOR OF THE HOME, WHICH IS LOCATED IN THE ELEVEN HUNDRED BLOCK OF ELEVENTH STREET.  IT IS BELIEVED A CIGARETTE, LEFT UNATTENDED ON A COUCH IN THE LIVING ROOM, WAS THE SOURCE OF THE FIRE.

 

A FOUR-YEAR-OLD AT A HOME ON COLEMAN STREET IN OPELOUSAS ACCIDENTALLY SHOT HIMSELF YESTERDAY.  POLICE SAY THE BOYFRIEND OF THE CHILD’S MOTHER, EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD JAQUARIOUS GUILLORY, LEFT A GUN IN THE BATHROOM.  THE BOY TOOK THE GUN AND ENDED UP SHOOTING HIMSELF IN THE HAND.  GUILLORY WAS ARRESTED FOR NEGLIGENT INJURING AND ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF A FIREARM PLUS HE WAS BOOKED ON SEVERAL BENCH WARRANTS OUT OF CITY COURT.

 

The Louisiana House has overwhelmingly backed a $36 billion operating budget for next year. The spending plan approved Thursday is packed with pay raises for teachers, college professors and corrections workers as the state faces few of the financial woes of prior years. Spending on health care and education programs would grow, and most other agencies would largely keep standstill funding. Louisiana’s TOPS college program would cover full tuition for eligible students.

 

PRESIDENT BIDEN VISITED LOUISIANA YESTERDAY MAKING STOPS IN LAKE CHARLES AND NEW ORLEANS TO TALK ABOUT REPAIRING AND IMPROVING AMERICA’S CRUMBLING INFRASTRUCTURE AND CREATING NEW JOBS.  CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS MORE.

 

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A CARENCRO MAN WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY FOR HIS PART IN A FATAL ACCIDENT THAT HAPPENED MARCH TWENTY-FIRST AT THE CORNER OF VETERAN’S DRIVE AND THE I-TEN SOUTHBOUND EXIT RAMP.  THIRTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD JARED CHAMBERLIN WAS DRIVING A PICKUP TRUCK AND HIT A CAR THAT FAILED TO YIELD.  THE DRIVER OF THE CAR, FORTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD KAYLA BALTHAZAR OF NEW IBERIA, AND A PASSENGER, FORTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD CHRISTOPHER MILLER OF BROUSSARD, WERE KILLED.  CHAMBERLIN NOW FACES TWO COUNTS OF VEHICULAR HOMOCIDE, ONE COUNT OF D-W-I THIRD OFFENCE AND A CHARGE OF DRIVING WITH A SUSPENDED LICENSE BECAUSE OF A PREVIOUS D-W-I.

 

EUNICE POLICE CHIEF RANDY FONTENOT SAYS THAT A SECOND PERSON, WHO WAS SHOT AND WOUNDED WEDNESDAY EVENING ON NIMITZ STREET, HAS DIED AT THE HOSPITAL.  FONTENOT SAYS THE SECOND PERSON WHO WAS KILLED WAS SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD MICHAEL WESTON.  THE PERSON WHO WAS SHOT AND DIED AT THE SCENE WAS FIFTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD CHRIS JONES.  FONTENOT SAYS THEY HAVE TWO PEOPLE OF INTEREST DETAINED FOR QUESTIONING AND OTHERS ARE BEING SOUGHT.

 

LOUISIANA ADDED THREE HUNDRED TWELVE NEW CONFIRMED COVID-NINETEEN CASES, ACCORDING TO THE DAILY REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.  THERE WERE THREE MORE DEATHS STATEWIDE.  THE NUMBER OF HOSPITALIZATIONS FOR COVID-NINETEEN ROSE BY TWO, AND THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS ROSE BY FOUR TO THIRTY-SEVEN TOTAL.

 

ACADIANA HAD NO NEW CONFIRMED COVID-NINETEEN DEATHS.  THERE WAS ONE MORE DEATH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA, WHICH WAS IN CALCASIEU PARISH.  ACADIANA HAD FORTY NEW CASES.  LAFAYETTE PARISH HAD THE MOST WITH TWENTY-ONE.  SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ADDED FIFTEEN CASES, INCLUDING TEN IN BEAUREGARD PARISH.