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6-1-20

THERE WERE SIX DEATHS RECORDED YESTERDAY IN LOUISIANA FROM COVID-NINETEEN, ONE OF THE LOWEST TOTALS IN SOME TIME.  THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH REPORTS THREE-HUNDRED THIRTY-NINE MORE CASES OF CORONAVIRUS AS THE TOTAL NEARS FORTY-THOUSAND.  THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS HOSPITALIZED WITH COVID-NINETEEN INCREASED BY FOUR AFTER TRENDING DOWNWARD.  THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS REMAINED AT EIGHTY-FOUR.

 

THERE WAS ONLY ONE DEATH IN ACADIANA FROM COVID-NINETEEN REPORTED YESTERDAY, WHICH WAS IN IBERIA PARISH.  THERE IS NOW A TOTAL OF THIRTY-EIGHT DEATHS IN IBERIA PARISH, AND ONE HUNDRED NINETY-EIGHT IN ACADIANA.  THERE ARE TWENTY MORE CASES OF CORONAVIRUS IN ACADIANA FOR A TOTAL OF TWO THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED NINETY-NINE.  ACADIA PARISH, WITH SIX, HAD THE MOST NEW CASES AND HAS THE SECOND HIGHEST TOTAL OF ANY ACADIANA PARISH WITH FOUR HUNDRED EIGHTEEN.

 

SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ADDED ONLY FOUR MORE CASES OF CORONAVIRUS FOR A TOTAL OF NINE-HUNDRED THIRTY-ONE.  THREE OF THEM WERE IN CALCASIEU PARISH AND THE OTHER IN CAMERON.  THERE ARE NO NEW DEATHS IN THE REGION.  THE TOTAL IS SEVENTY.

 

Louisiana lawmakers worked through a final stack of bills as they near the end of the regular session. The House on Sunday evening gave final passage to a broad expansion of Louisiana’s medical marijuana program and to a proposal closing a current year budget gap created by the pandemic. Final votes sent bills to Gov. John Bel Edwards that would loosen Louisiana’s restrictions on guns in church and to create regulations for fantasy sports betting. But the crafting of the annual state budget won’t be done by tonight when the session wraps up. Lawmakers instead will finish that in a special session starting immediately after the current one adjourns.

 

A BREAUX BRIDGE POLICE OFFICER IS FACING DISCIPLINARY ACTION AFTER HE MADE A SOCIAL MEDIA POST ABOUT PROTESTERS RALLYING ACROSS THE COUNTRY.  CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS MORE.

 

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HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE ATTENDED A PROTEST AT U-L LAFAYETTE YESTERDAY ORGANIZED BY THE U-L STUDENT ACTION AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ALONG WITH THE LOCAL CHAPTER OF THE N-DOUBLE-A-C-P AND MOVE THE MINDSET.  ORGANIZERS SAID THEY WANTED TO STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF MINNEAPOLIS AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY AND RACIAL PROFILING, FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD.  AFTER HEARING A SERIES OF SPEAKERS, PROTESTERS LINED UNIVERSITY AVENUE HOLDING SIGNS AND CHANTING SLOGANS AND THE RALLY REMAINED PEACEFUL. LAFAYETTE MAYOR PRESIDENT JOSH GUILLORY AND INTERIM POLICE CHIEF SCOTT MORGAN WERE ALSO AT THE PROTEST.

 

A PEACEFUL RALLY WAS ALSO HELD IN LAKE CHARLES YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.  ABOUT THREE HUNDRED ATTENDED THE PROTEST HELD AT THE CORNER OF BROAD STREET AND ENTERPRISE BOULEVARD.  THE ORGANIZER OF THE EVEN WAS THE BLACK HERATIGE FESTIVAL OF LOUISIANA.  THEY SAID IT WAS ABOUT BRINGING A VOICE TO THE UNHEARD AND STANDING UNITED AGAINST JUSTICE.

 

A MORGAN CITY MAN, ACCUSED OF ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER, WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY FOR VIOLATING A PROTECTIVE ORDER.  FIFTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD TROY D. WATSON WAS CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY SHOT A WOMAN ON MAY TWENTY-SECOND.  LATER, MORGAN CITY POLICE LEARNED THAT WATSON CONTACTED A PERSON WHO HAD AN ACTIVE PROTECTIVE ORDER AGAINST HIM.  WATSON WAS LOCATED IN AMELIA AND TAKEN INTO CUSTODY WITH THE HELP OF THE ST. MARY PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE.