7-14-20
LOUISIANA HAS SET A RECORD FOR THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE TESTED POSITIVE IN ONE WEEK. LOUISIANA LOGGED MORE THEN THIRTEEN THOUSAND POSITIVE CASES OVER THE PAST WEEK, BREAKING THE PREVIOUS RECORD BY MORE THAN TWO THOUSAND, WHICH WAS SET IN THE FIRST WEEK OF APRIL. YESTERDAY THERE WERE MORE THAN SEVENTEEN HUNDRED, PUSHING THE OVERALL TOTAL TO NEARLY EIGHTY THOUSAND. HOSPITALIZATIONS FOR COVID-NINETEEN CONTINUE TO RISE IN LOUISIANA WITH ANOTHER SIXTY-FIVE REPORTED YESTERDAY, MOVING THE TOTAL OVER THIRTEEN-HUNDRED. THERE ARE EIGHT MORE PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS. THERE WERE SEVEN MORE DEATHS FROM COVID-NINETEEN IN THE STATE.
ACADIANA SAW ALMOST FOUR HUNDRED MORE CASES OF CORONAVIRUS AND NOW THE REGION HAS HAD TEN THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED TWENTY TOTAL CASES. LAFAYETTE ADDED ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-FOUR CASES. THERE IS ONE DEATH IN ACADIANA FROM COVID NINETEEN. IT WAS IN ST. LANDRY PARISH. THE TOTAL FOR THE REGION IS TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY-FOUR.
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD ZERO DEATHS. THE TOTAL COVID-NINETEEN DEATHS REMAINS AT ONE HUNDRED FIVE. THE REGION HAD ONE HUNDRED FORTY-TWO MORE CASES INCLUDING ONE HUNDRED NINE IN CALCASIEU PARISH. THE TOTAL IS FOUR THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED SEVEN.
Louisiana’s top school board is deciding whether to issue a face covering requirement for teachers and most students as schools reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic. Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley is proposing that all adults and students in grades 3 through 12 must wear some sort of mask while at school “to the greatest extent possible.” The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education will determine today whether to adopt that proposal in its coronavirus regulations. Attorney General Jeff Landry says masks at school could be encouraged, but shouldn’t be required.
A LAFAYETTE POLICE OFFICER WAS NOT INJURED AFTER THE UNIT HE WAS SITTING IN WAS SHOT JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT SUNDAY IN THE ELEVEN HUNDRED BLOCK OF MUDD AVENUE. CAROLINE MARCELLO REPORTS.
VOICER J :27
THE ST. MARTIN PARISH CORONER’S OFFICE AND THE U-S MARSHAL’S OFFICE ARE CONDUCTING AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE DEATH OF AN INMATE AT THE ST. MARTIN PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER. MAJOR GINNY HIGGINS OF THE ST. MARTIN PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS FOUND THE INMATE UNRESPONSIVE IN HIS BUNK AT ABOUT SIX P-M AND ATTEMPTED TO RENDER AID. HE WAS LATER PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE HOSPITAL. AN OFFICIAL CAUSE OF DEATH WILL BE DETERMINED AFTER THE RESULTS OF AN AUTOPSY.
THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE HAS POSTED ON THEIR FACEBOOK PAGE A PHOTO OF A MAN WHO ROBBED A LAKE CHARLES CONVENIENCE STORE YESTERDAY. PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER KAYLA VINCENT SAYS THE MAN POINTED A GUN AT A CLERK AND DEMANDED MONEY. HE TOOK AN UNDISCLOSED AMOUNT OF CASH AND FLED IN A GOLD OR TAN CHEVY SILVERADO THAT SOMEONE ELSE WAS DRIVING. IF YOU HAVE INFORMATION REGARDING THE ROBBERY OR CAN IDENTIFY THE HOLDUP MAN OR THE PERSON DRIVING THE TRUCK, YOU’RE ASKED TO CALL CRIME STOPPERS AT 439-2222.
OFFICIALS IN ESTHERWOOD ARE HOPING TO GET A GRANT TO CLEAN GRAFFITI FROM AN ABANDONED WATER TOWER. AN EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD WAS ARRESTED FOR SPRAY PAINTING “TRUMP TWENTY-TWENTY” ON THE TOWER AND HANGING A CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAG. POLICE CHIEF WAYNE WELSH SAYS THAT WHEN WORKERS REMOVE THE GRAFITTI, THEY WILL ALSO CUT OFF THE BOTTOM OF THE LADDER SO NO ONE ELSE CAN CLIMB UP THE TOWER. THERE IS NO TIMETABLE YET FOR REMOVING THE GRAFITTI.
