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6-4-21

AN OPELOUSAS MAN WAS ONE OF TWO MEN KILLED WHILE CHANGING A FLAT TIRE ON THE SHOULDER OF I-TEN IN SAINT JAMES PARISH YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.  STATE POLICE SAY THIRTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD DANIEL THOMAS OF OPELOUSAS AND FIFTY-YEAR-OLD JAMES BREAUX OF DONALDSONVILLE PULLED OFF THE INTERSTATE SHORTLY AFTER THREE.  THEY WERE STRUCK AND KILLED BY A PENSKE TRUCK DRIVEN BY THIRTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD JERMAINE IRVINE OF SAINT FRANCISVILLE.  THE CRASH REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION BUT STATE POLICE DO NOT BELIEVE IRVINE WAS IMPAIRED.

 

FIREFIGHTERS IN LAFAYETTE PARISH ARE RALLYING AROUND ONE OF THEIR OWN WHO WAS RECENTLY DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER.  CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS MORE.

 

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Louisiana’s governor says the state is adding free entry to state parks and historic sites as a perk for getting vaccinated against COVID-19. Gov. John Bel Edwards says the offer runs through July for anyone who can prove full vaccination. The governor started by introducing a Baton Rouge nurse who has vaccinated nearly a thousand people. Carla Brown said she brought COVID-19 home, her husband died of it, and she vowed that his death would not be in vain.

 

Louisiana State Police say a Vinton police officer shot and wounded a Texas woman who had pulled a gun on him. A news release says 54-year-old Annette Odegar of Orange, Texas, was taken to a hospital for treatment after the shooting early Wednesday in Vinton. The officer had been sent to investigate a disturbance between two motorists parked on the shoulder of the Interstate 10 westbound entrance ramp from Louisiana Highway 108. State police said Odegar got out of her car and pointed a gun at the officer.

 

CROWLEY POLICE HAD TO SEPARATE TWO ALDERMEN FOLLOWING A MEETING OF THE REVENUE AND FINANCE COMMITTEE WEDNESDAY NIGHT.  THE COMMITTEE WAS VOTING ON WHETHER TO ENGAGE THE SERVICES OF KOLDER, SLAVEN AND COMPANY TO DO AUDITING SERVICES.  ALDERMEN BRAD CORE AND JEFF CAVELL GOT INTO AN ARGUMENT WITH CORE WAVING A FINGER IN CAVELL’S FACE AND CAVELL PUSHING HIS HAND AWAY.  THAT’S WHEN POLICE STEPPED IN AND SEPERATED THEM.

 

 

THE LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT IS URGING RESIDENTS TO DROP OFF USED TIRES AT THEIR STORAGE YARD IN YOUNGSVILLE.  WASTE MANAGEMENT DOES NOT PICK UP TIRES BUT LEAVING THEM IN THE YARD CREATES A BREEDING GROUND FOR MOSQUITOES AND IS A HIDING PLACE FOR SPIDERS AND SNAKES.  RESIDENTS CAN DROP OFF UP TO FIVE TIRES A DAY AT THE YOUNGSVILLE STORAGE YARD.  THE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT IS WORKING WITH THE COLT SCRAP TIRE CENTER IN SCOTT TO PROCESS THE USED TIRES TO BE PLACED IN LANDFILLS, ROADWAYS AND PLAYGROUNDS.

 

LOUISIANA ADDED TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY-ONE CONFIRMED COVID-NINETEEN CASES, ACCORDING TO TODAY’S REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.  THAT’S MOVES THE TOTAL CLOSE TO FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND.  HOSPITALIZATIONS EDGED UP BY ONE, THE NINTH STRAIGHT DAY OF INCREASES.  THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS INCREASED BY SIX TO THIRTY TOTAL.  LOUISIANA HAD EIGHT MORE DEATHS.

 

THREE OF THE DEATHS WERE IN ACADIANA.  THERE WAS ONE EACH IN LAFAYETTE, ST. LANDRY AND ST. MARTIN PARISHES.  THERE WERE TWO IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA, BOTH IN CALCASIEU PARISH.  ACADIANA ADDED FORTY-SEVEN NEW CASES, PUTTING THE TOTAL OVER FIFTY-NINE THOUSAND, THREE HUNDRED.  SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA’S TOTAL INCREASED BY SEVENTEEN.