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7-7-20

THE NUMBER OF COVID-NINETEEN PATIENTS WHO HAVE BEEN HOSPITALIZED IN LOUISIANA HAS RISEN ABOVE ONE THOUSAND.  TODAY’S REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH INCLUDES SIXTY-ONE ADDITIONAL PATIENTS HOSPITALIZED.  THERE ARE NEARLY TWO THOUSAND MORE CORONAVIRUS CASES PUSHING THE TOTAL PAST SIXTY-EIGHT THOUSAND.  THE NUMBER OF ADDITIONAL DEATHS FROM COVID-NINETEEN IS TWENTY-THREE, BRINGING THE TOTAL TO THREE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED ELEVEN.

 

ACADIANA HAD FOUR MORE DEATHS.  THERE ARE TWO MORE IN IBERIA PARISH AND ONE EACH IN ACADIA AND ST. MARY PARISHES.  THE TOTAL IS TWO HUNDRED SIXTY-EIGHT.  THERE ARE AN ADDITIONAL TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY-ONE CORONAVIRUS CASES.  THAT PUTS THE TOTAL ABOVE EIGHT THOUSAND FOR ACADIANA.  LAFAYETTE PARISH HAS REACHED THREE THOUSAND.

 

FOR FIVE DAYS IN A ROW, SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAS HAD NO DEATHS FROM COVID-NINETEEN.  THE TOTAL REMAINS AT EIGHTY-EIGHT.  THERE ARE ALMOST TWO HUNDRED NEW CORONAVIRUS CASES, INCLUDING ONE HUNDRED NINETEEN IN CALCASIEU PARISH.  THE TOTAL IS NOW THREE THOUSAND, SIX HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN.

 

THE NEW SHERIFF FOR EVANGELINE PARISH SAYS HE PLANS ON MAKING CHANGES TO IMPROVE SAFETY, BUT MONEY IS A PROBLEM.  SHERIFF CHARLES GUILLORY TELLS KLFY TV THAT THEIR BUDGET WAS SET IN NINETEEN SEVENTY-SEVEN.  THERE ARE MAJOR CHANGES HE’D LIKE TO MAKE SUCH AS HAVING SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS, A NARCOTICS AGENT OR UNIT AND JUVENILE OFFICERS.  GUILLORY SAYS BY HAVING A SAFER COMMUNITY, IT WILL ATTRACT MORE BUSINESSES, BOOSTING THE LOCAL ECONOMY.

 

Louisiana’s largest auto insurer is slashing its rates again, as fewer drivers are on the road because of the coronavirus outbreak. Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon announced Monday that State Farm will cut its auto insurance rates in the state by 9.6%. The company covers nearly one-third of the private passenger auto insurance market in Louisiana. The insurance department says it’s the fourth rate cut that State Farm has made in the last two years.

 

THERE WAS A SHOOTING OVERNIGHT IN DUSON.  SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.

 

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ONE PERSON WAS SHOT AND KILLED IN WELSH YESTERDAY.  WELSH POLICE SAY A DISTURBANCE LED TO THE SHOOTING WHICH CLAIMED THE LIFE OF MYKEL GUILLORY.  A SUSPECT, EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD REGINALD D. JACKSON JUNIOR, HAS BEEN TAKEN INTO CUSTODY.  THE HOMOCIDE HAPPENED IN THE TWELVE HUNDRED BLOCK OF WEST RAILROAD AVENUE.

 

 

CROWLEY POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING THAT TOOK PLACE FRIDAY AT THE WESTWOOD APARTMENTS.  OFFICERS GOT THE CALL ABOUT THE SHOOTING AT AROUND SEVEN-THIRTY IN THE EVENING AND WHEN THEY ARRIVED, THEY FOUND A MAN WITH A GUNSHOT WOUND TO HIS LEG.  HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WITH A MODERATE INJURY.  ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ABOUT THE SHOOTING IS URGED TO CALL CRIME STOPPERS OF ACADIA PARISH AT SEVEN-EIGHT-NINE-TIPS.