7-23-21
NEW IBERIA POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A DOUBLE HOMOCIDE. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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A CONSTRUCTION CREW HIT A GAS LINE ON JOHNSTON STREET IN LAFAYETTE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, CAUSING A GAS LEAK, THAT HAS BEEN REPAIRED. THE CREW WAS DIGGING BEHIND THE OLLIE’S BARGAIN OUTLET AND THE PARTY CITY STRIP MALL WHEN THEY HIT A TWO INCH GAS LINE. ELECTRICAL SERVICES TO THE STRIP MALL WERE SHUT DOWN TO PREVENT AN IGNITION. THE HAZMAT RESPONSE TEAM FROM THE LAFAYETTE FIRE DEPARTMENT SECURED THE AREA UNTIL SERVICE TECHNICIANS FROM CENTERPOINT GAS ARRIVED TO FIX THE LEAK.
As COVID-19 cases surge in Louisiana, prominent people getting vaccinated recently include House Minority Whip Steve Scalise and musician Little Freddie King. Louisiana reported 2,843 new COVID-19 cases Thursday. Hospitalizations are up steeply in the past month — from 242 on June 19 to 913 in the latest report. Fifteen new deaths were reported Thursday.
ELLIOTT CASSIDY HAS BEEN APPOINTED THE INTERIM DISTRICT ATTORNEY FOR JEFF DAVIS PARISH. HE REPLACES KEVIN MILLICAN, WHO DIED ON WEDNESDAY FROM A HEART ATTACK. CASSIDY IS THE SON OF THE FORMER LONG-TIME DISTRICT ATTORNEY MICHAEL CASSIDY. ELLIOTT HAD BEEN SERVING AS THE ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY FOR JEFF DAVIS PARISH SINCE JANUARY AFTER HAVING SERVED FIVE YEARS AS AN ASSISTANT D-A IN CALCASIEU PARISH.
THE SAINT LANDRY PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE HAS RULED THE DEATH OF A TEEN ON TUESDAY NIGHT TO BE AN ACCIDENT. FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD JACOREY LEVIER WAS RIDING A HORSE IN A POND BEHIND BEAU CHENE HIGH SCHOOL WHEN THE HORSE BUCKED HIM OFF. SHERIFF BOBBY GUIDROZ SAYS A DONKEY FOLLOWING BEHIND THE HORSE GOT STUCK IN THE POND, WHICH SPOOKED THE HORSE. LEVIER’S BODY WAS FOUND HOURS LATER ABOUT TWENTY FEET DEEP IN THE POND.
FIVE ROADS IN LAFAYETTE PARISH WILL BE GETTING A SKID RESISTANT SURFACE TREATMENT IN THEIR CURVES. THE THREE HUNDRED SIXTEEN THOUSAND DOLLAR PROJECT, WHICH IS FUNDED BY THE FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION, WILL BEGIN IN OCTOBER AND TAKE A YEAR TO COMPLETE. THE HIGH FRICTION SURFACE TREATMENT HAS BEEN SHOWN TO REDUCE WET CRASHES BY EIGHTY-THREE PERCENT AND TOTAL CRASHES BY FIFTY-SEVEN PERCENT. THE ROADS TO RECEIVE THE TREATMENT INCLUDE CONGRESS STREET AT LAGNEAUX ROAD, WHICH HAS TWO CURVES, DENAIS ROAD, MARTIN LUTHER KING DRIVE, VINCENT ROAD AND BONIN ROAD.
LOUISIANA’S SECOND PANDEMIC CONTINUES TO GROW INTO A BIGGER PROBLEM AS PEOPLE GRAPPLE WITH ANOTHER COVID SURGE. SYLVIA MASTERS EXPLAINS.
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CROWLEY POLICE ARRESTED A CROWLEY MAN WEDNESDAY EVENING ON FIVE COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER. CHRISTOPHER MOORE JUNIOR IS ACCUSED OF FIRING SHOTS AT A VEHICLE ON WEST TWELFTH STREET ON JUNE 26TH, WHICH HAD FIVE PEOPLE IN IT, INCLUDING TWO SMALL CHILDREN. THE VEHICLE WAS HIT MULTIPLE TIMES BY A FORTY CALIBER FIREARM, AND A BULLET NARROWLY MISSED A TODDLER IN THE BACKSEAT. POLICE CHIEF JIMMY BROUSSARD SAYS THE VEHICLE INCLUDED MOORE’S GIRLFRIEND WHO HAD ALLEGEDLY SHOT AT MOORE THE PREVIOUS DAY.
