6-29-20
THE U-S SUPREME COURT HAS STRUCK DOWN A LOUISIANA LAW THAT WOULD HAVE REQUIRED ABORTION CLINICS TO HAVE ADMITTING PRIVILEGES AT A NEARBY HOSPITAL. CHIEF JUSTIC JOHN ROBERTS SIDED WITH THE COURT’S FOUR LIBERAL JUSTICES IN RULING THAT THE LAW WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. THE LOUISIANA FAMILY FORUM, IN A FACEBOOK POST, CALLED THE RULING “HORRIFIC”. THEY SAID THE LAW, WHICH HAD BIPARTISAN SUPPORT, WOULD HAVE HELD ABORION CLINICS TO THE SAME STANDARDS AS EVERY OTHER CLINIC.
WITH LAFAYETTE SEEING A MAJOR RISE IN CORONAVIRUS CASES, SOME RESTRICTIONS ARE BEING PUT BACK IN PLACE. CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS THE DETAILS.
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THERE WERE FIVE DEATHS STATEWIDE FROM COVID-NINETEEN, ACCORDING TO TODAY’S REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. HOWEVER, THE NUMBER OF CASES CONTINUES TO RISE STEEPLY, WITH EIGHT HUNDRED FORTY-FIVE, LIFTING THE TOTAL ABOVE FIFTY-SEVEN THOUSAND. THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS HOSPITALIZED CONTINUES TO RISE WITH AN ADDITIONAL TWENTY-TWO. THERE ARE THREE ADDITIONAL PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS.
ACADIANA HAD JUST ONE ADDITIONAL DEATH BRINGING THE TOTAL TO TWO HUNDRED FIFTY. THE NEW DEATH WAS IN ACADIA PARISH. THERE ARE TWO HUNDRED TWENTY SIX MORE PATIENTS IN THE REGION, INCLUDING EIGHTY SIX IN LAFAYETTE PARISH. THE TOTAL IS FIVE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY-SEVEN.
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAS HAD NO DEATHS FOR THREE STRAIGHT DAYS. THE TOTAL IS EIGHTY. THERE ARE SIXTY-EIGHT MORE CORONAVIRUS CASES, FIFTY-TWO OF WHICH ARE IN CALCASIEU PARISH. THE TOTAL IS TWO THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED-SIXTEEN.
HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE MARCHED IN ST. MARTINVILLE CALLING FOR AN END TO VIOLENCE IN THE CITY AND AROUND THE WORLD. LAFAYETTE N-DOUBLE-A-C-P PRESIDENT MARJA BROUSSARD SPOKE TO THE PARTICIPANTS AT CITY HALL IN ST. MARTINVILLE. SHE CALLED ON PROTESTERS TO CONTINUE THE WORK FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE. BROUSSARD SAYS RALLIES ARE NICE BUT THE WORK STARTS WHEN YOU GO HOME AND WHEN YOU START ATTENDING CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS.
ONE PERSON IS IN CUSTODY AFTER TRYING TO FLEE FROM POLICE THROUGH LAKE CHARLES. THE CHASE BEGAN WHEN POLICE ATTEMPTED TO PULL OVER A CAR THAT WAS BEING DRIVEN ERRATICALLY AND RUNNING A RED LIGHT. THE CHASE BEGAN AT ENTERPRISE AND SEVENTH STREET, INTO DOWNTOWN LAFAYETTE AND THEN SOUTH ON RYAN STREET AND ENDING ON WEAVER ROAD. AUTHORITIES SAY THEY WILL HAVE MORE INFORMATION LATER.
A VILLE PLATTE POLICE OFFICER HAS BEEN FIRED AFTER HIS ARREST IN EUNICE LAST MONTH. TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD CONNOR ATCHISON WAS PULLED OVER BY A EUNICE POLICE OFFICER FOR NOT WEARING HIS SEAT BELT AND HAVING AN ILLEGALLY DARK WINDOW TINT. THE OFFICER SMELLED MARIJUANA AND WHEN ASKED ABOUT IT, ATCHISON ALLEGEDLY TOLD THE OFFICER HE HAD SMOKED SOME TO RELAX. ATCHISON FACES SEVERAL CHARGES INCLUDING POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA, POSSESSION OF A PRESCRIPTION WITH AN OBLITERATED LABEL AND POSSESSION OF A PRESCRIPTION THAT WAS NOT PRESCRIBED TO HIM.
