7-10-20
LOUISIANA SAW A MAJOR INCREASE IN CORONAVIRUS CASES TODAY WITH AN ADDITIONAL TWO THOUSAND, SIX HUNDRED FORTY-TWO. THE TOTAL HAS SURPASSED SEVENTY-FOUR THOUSAND. HOSPITALIZATIONS WENT UP BY SEVENTY-FIVE AND THERE ARE TWELVE MORE PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS. THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SAYS THERE WERE TWENTY-FIVE MORE REPORTS OF DEATH FROM COVID-NINETEEN. THE TOTAL IS NOW THREE THOUSAND, TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY-TWO.
ACADIANA ALSO HAD A LARGE INCREASE WITH FOUR HUNDRED EIGHTY-THREE NEW CASES, INCLUDING TWO HUNDRED IN LAFAYETTE PARISH. THE TOTAL IS NINE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED NINETY-FIVE. ST. LANDRY PARISH HAS MOVED PAST THE ONE THOUSAND MARK. THERE ARE TWO ADDITIONAL DEATHS, ONE EACH IN IBERIA AND LAFAYETTE PARISHES. THE TOTAL IS NOW TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY-SIX.
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD NO NEW DEATHS IN TODAY’S REPORT. THE TOTAL REMAINS AT NINETY-FIVE. THERE TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-SEVEN MORE CORONAVIRUS CASES, INCLUDING ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-EIGHT IN CALCASIEU PARISH. THE TOTAL IS FOUR THOUSAND, THREE HUNDRED NINETY-SEVEN.
Gov. John Bel Edwards and a majority of state House members oppose a state senator’s call for the cancellation of public school athletics this fall despite Louisiana’s surging coronavirus outbreak. Edwards says Senate Education Chairman Cleo Fields’ push to suspend K-12 athletic events as a safety precaution was well-meaning. But the Democratic governor says it’s “just a little too early” to make such a sweeping determination. A group of 56 Republican state representatives and seven state senators penned a letter to Louisiana’s education leaders, urging a normal extracurricular sports schedule as schools reopen.
YESTERDAY LAFAYETTE MAYOR PRESIDENT JOSH GUILLORY URGED RESIDENTS TO VOLUNTARILY WEAR MASKS IN PUBLIC BUT HE STOPPED SHORT OF IMPOSING A MANDATE. GUILLORY SAYS SUCH MANDATES ARE UNENFORCABLE AND POTENTIALLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL. DOCTOR TINA STEFANSKI, THE TOP PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIAL FOR ACADIANA, SAID SHE WOULD LIKE TO SEE GUILLORY IMPOSE THE MANDATE, THOUGH SHE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO ENFORCE. SHE SAID THAT THE POINT HAS BEEN REACHED WHERE IT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO REQUIRE MASKS BE WORN.
A VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTER IN JEANERETTE HAS BEEN DISMISSED FROM THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AFTER ALLEGEDLY SETTING A FIRE AT AN ABANDONED HOUSE. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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EARLIER THIS WEEK, A LAKE CHARLES MAN WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH KIDNAPPING AND ATTEMPTED ROBBERY. FORTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD TYRONE D. BARTIE IS ACCUSED OF ATTEMPTING TO ROB A MAN AT AN IOWA HOME ON JULY FIRST AT AROUND ONE A-M. BARTIE IS ACCUSED OF THREATENING THE LIFE OF THE MAN AND ALLEGEDLY FORCING THE MAN INTO A CAR TO DRIVE TO ANOTHER HOUSE TO PICK UP ANOTHER PERSON. BARTIE AND THAT OTHER PERSON FLED THE SCENE WHEN SOMEBODY AT THE HOUSE THE VICTIM WAS STAYING AT CALLED POLICE.
CROWLEY POLICE HAVE ARRESTED A SUSPECT IN THE SHOOTING DEATH OF MALIK BROUSSARD ON TUESDAY NIGHT. TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD JARVIS VONKEITH HARMON JUNIOR HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH SECOND DEGREE MURDER. OFFICERS, RESPONDING TO REPORTS OF SHOTS FIRED IN THE FIVE HUNDRED BLOCK OF WEST EIGHTH STREET AT AROUND ELEVEN-TEN P-M TUESDAY NIGHT, FOUND THE BODY OF BROUSSARD, WHO HAD BEEN SHOT TWICE IN THE CHEST. BROUSSARD IS THE SECOND HOMOCIDE VICTIM THIS YEAR IN CROWLEY.
