7-20-20
GOVERNOR JOHN BEL EDWARDS IS CALLING ON LOUISIANANS TO PRAY AND FAST DURING LUNCH TIME TODAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. HE SAYS THE IDEA CAME FROM A TELEPHONE CONFERENCE LAST WEEK WITH RELIGIOUS LEADERS ACROSS THE STATE. EDWARDS ASKED FOR PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE OF LOUISIANA, INCLUDING THE SICK, CARETAKERS AND THE FAMILIES OF THOSE WHO HAVE PASSED ON. HE SAYS, AS A CATHOLIC CHRISTIAN, HE BELIEVES THIS WILL BE A SPIRITUAL DIET AND EXERCISE THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT.
THERE ARE NOW NEARLY NINETY-TWO THOUSAND PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD THE CORONAVIRUS IN LOUISIANA. YESTERDAY’S REPORT FROM THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, WHICH COVERS TWO DAYS, SHOWS AN ADDITIONAL THREE THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED SIXTEEN MORE CASES. THERE ARE THIRTY-FOUR MORE DEATHS, MOVING THE TOTAL TO THREE THOUSAND, FOUR HUNDRED THIRTY-THREE. AN ADDITIONAL FIFTY-SIX PEOPLE HAVE BEEN HOSPITALIZED, WHILE SIXTEEN PATIENTS ARE ON VENTILATORS.
ACADIANA HAD NEARLY SIX HUNDRED MORE CASES OF CORONAVIRUS, MOVING THE TOTAL PAST THIRTEEN THOUSAND. THE REGION HAD SIX MORE DEATHS. THAT INCLUDES THREE IN ACADIA PARISH, TWO IN LAFAYETTE PARISH AND ONE IN ST. MARTIN PARISH. THE TOTAL IS NOW THREE HUNDRED SIX.
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD AN ADDITIONAL SEVEN DEATHS FROM COVID-NINETEEN. FIVE ARE IN CALCASIEU PARISH AND THE REMAINING TWO ARE FROM JEFF DAVIS PARISH. THERE WERE AN ADDITIONAL THREE HUNDRED TWENTY-FOUR MORE CASES OF COVID-NINETEEN. THAT MOVES THE TOTAL FOR THE REGION OVER SIX THOUSAND.
A PREDISCIPLINARY HEARING FOR OPELOUSAS POLICE SERGEANT TYRON ANDREPONT WILL BE HELD THIS AFTERNOON AT THREE. ANDREPONT WAS ARRESTED LAST MONTH ON FIVE COUNTS OF MALFEASANCE IN OFFICE. ACCORDING TO STATE POLICE, THERE IS VIDEO FOOTAGE THAT SHOWS ANDREPONT HITTING JONAH COLEMAN MULTIPLE TIMES WHILE HE WAS IN A HOSPITAL BED AND PUTTING HIM IN A CHOKE HOLD. ANDREPONT, WHO HAS BEEN ON PAID ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE SINCE NOVEMBER, TRIED TO RESIGN, BUT CITY ALDERMEN REJECTED THAT REQUEST.
LAST FRIDAY, LAFAYETTE MAYOR PRESIDENT JOSH GUILLORY ANNOUNCED THE CLOSURES OF FOUR RECREATION CENTERS ON THE NORTH SIDE OF LAFAYETTE. THEY ARE THE DOMINGUE RECREATION CENTER, HEYMANN PARK RECREATION CENTER, J. CARLTON JAMES ACTIVITY CENTER AND GEORGE BOWLES ACTIVITY CENTER. SOME LAFAYETTE RESIDENTS CONCERNED ABOUT THE CLOSURES RALLIED YESTERDAY AT THE HEYMANN PARK CENTER TO VOICE THEIR OPINIONS. GUILLORY SAYS THE DECISIONS WERE DIFFICULT AND ARE NOT INTENDED TO HARM ANY PARTICULAR GROUP OF PEOPLE.
The wife of a convicted sex offender, accused of killing two teenagers and kidnapping a third, has been arrested. Kayla Vincent with the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office says 41-year-old Tori L. Broussard of Lake Charles was arrested Wednesday on charges of accessory after the fact to first-degree rape and accessory after the fact to molestation of a juvenile. Broussard is chief investigator at the Calcasieu Public Defenders Office. Her attorney Todd Clemons says she was falsely accused.
CREWS ARE CURRENTLY WORKING ON MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS FOR CHURCH POINT. THEY ARE CREATING A NEW R-V PARK AND PUTTING IN ADDITIONS AT THE M-L-K PARK, INCLUDING PAVILIONS AND A NEW BASKETBALL COURT. MAYOR SPANKY MECHE SAYS HE BELIEVES THE NEW IMPROVEMENTS WILL BRING MORE PEOPLE TO CHURCH POINT. HE SAYS IMPROVING THE PARK SYSTEM WILL IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE AND ENTICE PEOPLE TO COME THERE OR MOVE THERE.
