6-10-20
I-TEN HAS BEEN CLOSED IN BOTH DIRECTIONS BETWEEN MILE MARKERS ONE FOURTEEN AND ONE FIFTEEN NEAR HENDERSON. A DOWNED POWER LINE LED TO THE CLOSURE. TRAFFIC IS BEING DIVERTED TO I-FORTY-NINE ONTO HIGHWAY ONE NINETY IN OPELOUSAS, FOR THOSE TRAVELING TO BATON ROUGE. THE DOWNED POWER LINE HAS CAUSED A POWER OUTAGE FOR RESIDENTS OF HENDERSON.
THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SAYS THE STATE SAW ELEVEN MORE DEATHS FROM COVID-NINETEEN IN TODAY’S REPORT. THE TOTAL HAS REACHED TWO THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE. THERE ARE FOUR HUNDRED EIGHTEEN MORE CORONAVIRUS CASES. THE TOTAL HAS ECLIPSED FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND FOR THE FIRST TIME. THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS WITH COVID NINETEEN IN HOSPITALS CONTINUES WITH A DECREASE OF NINETEEN TO FIVE HUNDRED FORTY-NINE. MEANWHILE THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS INCREASED BY FIVE.
ACADIANA HAD NO ADDITIONAL DEATHS IN TODAY’S REPORT. THE TOTAL REMAINS AT TWO HUNDRED SIXTEEN. THERE ARE FORTY MORE CASES OF CORONAVIRUS IN THE REGION, INCLUDING TWENTY-THREE IN LAFAYETTE PARISH. THE TOTAL IS TWO THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED EIGHTY-SIX.
THERE WAS ONE ADDITIONAL DEATH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA, BREAKING A FOUR DAY STREAK OF ZERO DEATHS. THAT DEATH WAS IN BEAUREGARD PARISH, BRINGING THE TOTAL FOR THE REGION TO SEVENTY-THREE. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD TWENTY NEW CASES OF CORONAVIRUS INCLUDING TWELVE IN CALCASIEU PARISH. THE TOTAL IS ONE THOUSAND NINETY.
SOME COVID-NINETEEN TESTING SITES HAVE BEEN SET UP IN LAFAYETTE. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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Businesses would receive millions in tax breaks under bills that have started moving in the Louisiana House. The measures advanced Tuesday are pitched by Republicans as a way to help retailers, restaurants and other companies struggling to recover from coronavirus closures. The proposals won overwhelming support in the House Ways and Means Committee. They are estimated to siphon $14 million or more from the state treasury in the budget year that begins July 1 and tens of millions more in later years.
AN OPELOUSAS POLICE OFFICER HAS BEEN ARRESTED ON FIVE COUNTS OF MALFEASANCE IN OFFICE. SERGEANT TYRON ANDREPONT IS ACCUSED OF USING EXCESSIVE FORCE AGAINST EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD JONAH COLEMAN WHILE HE WAS RECEIVING TREATMENT AT OPELOUSAS GENERAL HOSPITAL LAST OCTOBER. COLEMAN’S ATTORNEY, DARYL K. WASHINGTON, SAYS SURVEILLANCE VIDEO SHOWS ANDREPONT CHOKING COLEMAN WHILE HE WAS RESTRAINED. ST. LANDRY PARISH DISTRICT ATTORNEY CHARLES CRAVINS SAYS THE ARREST IS BASED ON DOING THE RIGHT THING FOR THE RIGHT REASON, NOT IN RESPONSE TO THE RECENT DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD, WHICH RESULTED IN NATIONWIDE PROTESTS AND RIOTING.
A JENNINGS MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR BEATING HIS GIRLFRIEND WHILE DRIVING ON I-TEN ON SUNDAY. THE GIRLFRIEND SAYS THIRTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD MATTHEW JAMES ALEXANDER HIT HER IN THE FACE DURING AN ARGUMENT WHILE DRIVING ON THE HIGHWAY AND SHE JUMPED OUT OF THE VEHICLE TO GET AWAY ABOUT FORTY MINUTES LATER WHEN HE WOULDN’T PULL OVER AND LET HER OUT. JEFF DAVIS PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES SAID THE WOMAN HAD BRUISES ON HER FACE AND BUSTED BLOOD VESSELS IN HER LEFT EYE. DEPUTIES OBTAINED A WARRANT AND ARRESTED ALEXANDER AT HIS HOME THE NEXT DAY ON CHARGES OF DOMESTIC ABUSE BATTERY AND FALSE IMPRISONMENT.
