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7-13-21

OCHSNER LAFAYETTE GENERAL RELEASED A STATEMENT AFTER A NURSE IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM DIED OVER THE WEEKEND.  THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF OLIVIA GUIDRY SAY IN SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS THAT SHE DIED SATURDAY FROM NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATIONS AFTER RECENTLY TESTING POSITIVE FOR COVID-NINETEEN.  THE HOSPITAL’S C-E-O, AL PATIN, SAYS THE CAUSE OF DEATH IS UNCLEAR AND WILL BE DETERMINED BY AN AUTOPSY.  PATIN SAYS THEY ARE FOCUSED ON PROVIDING SUPPORT AND COUNSELING TO THEIR TEAM MEMBERS WHO WORKED ALONGSIDE GUIDRY AND WHO ARE MOURNING THE LOSS OF THEIR FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE.

 

Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards has died. A family spokesman says the four-term governor, who served Louisiana through boom times and financial woes, died Monday morning of respiratory problems. He was 93. The Democrat dominated Louisiana politics for three decades, his tenure overshadowed by an eight-year stretch in federal prison for a riverboat licensing scheme.

 

FORMER GOVERNOR EDWIN EDWARDS LAUNCHED HIS LAW AND POLITICAL CAREER IN CROWLEY.  HE MOVED TO CROWLEY WHEN HE WAS TWENTY-ONE, AND ALTHOUGH THERE ARE NO EDWARDS WORKING AT THE EDWARDS, STEFANSKI, AND ZAUNBRECHER LAW FIRM, IT STILL BEARS HIS NAME.  STATE REPRESENTATIVE JOHN STEFANSKI, WHO WORKS AT THE FIRM, TELL KLFY TV THAT, BEING FROM CROWLEY, THERE ARE TWO THINGS HE TALKS ABOUT WHEN TRAVELING THE STATE…RICE AND EDWIN EDWARDS.  EDWARD’S FIRST PUBLIC SEAT WAS ON THE CROWLEY CITY COUNCIL, WHICH HE WAS ELECTED TO ABOUT FIVE YEARS AFTER HE STARTED HIS LAW FIRM.

 

The Capitol One Tower, a 22-story building that has stood tall over Lake Charles for nearly 40 years, is still empty nearly a year after Hurricane Laura’s 150-mph winds knocked out windows up and down the building. The American Press reported that the building’s owner, Los Angeles-based real estate firm Hertz Investment Group, has been working with its insurance company since Laura made landfall last August. The 358,000-square foot tower had 73 tenants before the hurricane but now it is not able to be occupied. Many of the windows are boarded up.

 

 

THE LAFAYETTE PARISH CORONER’S OFFICE HAS RELEASED THE NAME OF THE TEENAGE GIRL WHO WAS SHOT AND KILLED EARLY SUNDAY MORNING.  SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD JA’NYA HEBERT WAS SHOT WHILE SITTING IN A VEHICLE.  WHEN POLICE ARRIVED ON THE SCENE AT AROUND ONE IN THE MORNING, HEBERT WAS LYING IN THE STREET, WITH A GUNSHOT WOUND TO THE BACK AND SHE LATER DIED AT THE HOSPITAL.  LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE ASKING ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON THE HOMOCIDE TO CALL CRIME STOPPERS AT TWO-THREE-TWO-TIPS.

 

THE CHIEF OF POLICE IN OPELOUSAS SAYS A CITYWIDE CURFEW IS SOMETHING HE’S LOOKING INTO AND THE CITY MARSHAL SAYS HE SUPPORTS IT.  CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS MORE.

 

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A JEFF DAVIS PARISH MAN WAS ROBBED SATURDAY WHEN HE ATTEMPTED TO BUY A FIREARM ADVERTISED ON SNAPCHAT.  CHIEF DEPUTY CHRIS IVEY OF THE JEFF DAVIS PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS THE VICTIM ARRANGED TO MEET AT A LOCATION ON EARL DUHON ROAD, WHERE HE WAS ROBBED BY TWO MEN.  ONE OF THE SUSPECTS WAS ARRESTED, EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD KOLBY REECE ARDOIN OF ROANOKE, WHO WAS BOOKED INTO THE JEFF DAVIS PARISH JAIL ON A CHARGE OF SIMPLE ROBBERY.  THE OTHER MAN IS AT LARGE BUT IVEY SAYS THEY EXPECT TO ISSUE AN ARREST WARRANT FOR HIM.

 

I-TEN WESTBOUND NEAR HENDERSON IS CLOSED DUE TO AN ACCIDENT INVOLVING AN OVERTURNED EIGHTEEN WHEELER.  TRAFFIC IS BEING DIVERTED AT L-A THREE FORTY-SEVEN IN HENDERSON.  THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED AT AROUND THREE A-M AND STATE TROOPERS ARE WORKING TO OPEN ONE OF THE WESTBOUND LANES TO GET TRAFFIC FLOWING AGAIN.  TRAFFIC CONGESTION HAS REACHED UP TO ONE MILE IN LENGTH.