6-11-20
THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SAYS THE STATE SAW ELEVEN MORE DEATHS FROM COVID-NINETEEN IN YESTERDAY’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 YESTERDAY’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. GOVERNOR JOHN BEL EDWARDS SAID YESTERDAY THAT LAKE CHARLES IS ONE OF THREE AREAS IN THE STATE THAT ARE REGIONS OF CONCERN, THE OTHERS BEING ALEXANDRIA AND MONROE. THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH IS MONITORING DATA TO DETERMINE IF COMMUNITY SPREAD IS A FACTOR IN THE INCREASED CASES IN THOSE AREAS.
A FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD HAS BEEN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH A SHOOTING IN ABBEVILLE. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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The Louisiana House has agreed to a $34 billion operating budget for next year that includes hundreds of millions in federal coronavirus aid. They passed it unanimously Wednesday. The spending plan for the financial year that begins July 1 would keep most programs and services from cuts. It plugs gaps with temporary federal dollars that Louisiana is receiving to respond to the COVID-19 disease.
A lawsuit says a Louisiana woman was surprising her husband with breakfast when a plane hit her car, causing it to flip several times and catch fire. The Acadiana Advocate reports Kristie Danielle Britt is suing the owners, pilot and insurers of the plane that crashed in December near a post office in Lafayette on its way to Atlanta for the Peach Bowl. The lawsuit says her husband ran out of the post office where he was working and was videotaping the crash scene when he noticed his wife was injured. The plane crash killed five people including sports reporter Carley McCord, who was also the daughter-in-law of LSU offensive coordinator Steve Ensminger.
A JENNINGS MAN WAS KILLED IN A SINGLE VEHICLE CRASH JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT YESTERDAY. THIRTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD ROY MALLET WAS DRIVING A PICKUP TRUCK ON L-A THREE-NINETY-FIVE IN JEFF DAVIS PARISH WHEN, FOR AN UNKNOWN REASON, HE CROSSED THE CENTER LINE AND OFF THE ROAD INTO A DITCH, THEN WENT OFF THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAD, STRIKING AN EMBANKMENT. THAT CAUSED THE PICKUP TO ROLL OVER AND, MALLET, WHO WAS NOT WEARING A SEATBELT, WAS PARTIALLY EJECTED AND DIED AT THE SCENE. IT’S NOT KNOWN IF MALLET WAS IMPAIRED BUT A TOXICOLOGY SAMPLE WAS TAKEN FROM MALLET AND SUBMITTED FOR ANALYSIS.
A GROUP CALLED FRIENDS OF POUND PETS IN ACADIA PARISH SAY THAT THE CITY OF CROWLEY ANIMAL SHELTER WILL BEGIN EUTHANIZING ALL DOGS AT THE SHELTER. THEY SAID IN A FACEBOOK POST THAT THE CITY CLAIMS TOO MUCH MONEY IS BEING SPENT ON DOG FOOD CAUSING THEM TO GO OVER BUDGET, WHICH IS WHY THEY WILL BEGIN EUTHANIZING DOGS. MAYOR TIM MONCEAUX TELLS KATC TV THAT IT ISN’T TRUE, THEY HAVE ENOUGH FOOD TO LAST THROUGH AUGUST, AND THAT THEY ARE WORKING WITH SEVERAL ORGANIZATIONS TO GET THE DOGS ADOPTED. HE WAS ASKED IF THERE IS ANY TALK ABOUT MAKING THE ANIMAL SHELTER A NO KILL SHELTER AND MONCEAUX RESPONDED THAT HE’S SURE THERE WILL BE DISCUSSIONS IN THE UPCOMING FUTURE.
