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8-11-20

THE THREE FINALISTS FOR VERMILLION PARISH SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT WERE EACH GIVEN AN HOUR TO CONVINCE THE SCHOOL BOARD THAT THEY ARE THE MAN FOR THE JOB.  THE THREE CANDIDATES ARE ALL FROM THE VERMILLION PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM.  THEY INCLUDE NORTH VERMILLION HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL TOMMY BYLER, THE INTERIM SUPERINTENDENT BRAD PRUDHOMME, AND ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT PAUL HEBERT.  THE SCHOOL BOARD IS EXPECTED TO MAKE THEIR FINAL DECISION TONIGHT.

 

Louisiana reports that a fourth child or young person has died from a rare condition linked to the novel coronavirus. Louisiana’s Department of Health says that as of Monday, 44 people between the age of 1 month and 19 years have been diagnosed with the condition known as multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that as of Thursday, health departments had reported 10 deaths and 570 confirmed cases of the condition in 40 states and Washington, D.C.

 

THE COUNT OF NEW CASES OF COVID-NINETEEN IN LOUISIANA IS UP BY ONE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED SIXYT-FOUR CASES, MOVING THE TOTAL TO ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-THREE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE, ACCORDING TO THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH .  HOSPITALIZATIONS ARE DOWN BY FORTY-SEVEN AND THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS DROPPED BY ONE.  THERE ARE TWENTY-SIX MORE DEATHS FROM COVID-NINETEEN.  THAT RAISES THE OVERALL TOTAL TO FOUR THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED NINETY-FIVE.

 

THERE ARE THREE NEW DEATHS IN THE ACADIANA REGION.  ONE FROM EACH OF IBERIA, ST. LANDRY AND VERMILLION PARISHES.  THE TOTAL IS NOW AT FOUR HUNDRED EIGHTY DEATHS.  THERE ARE TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-EIGHT NEW CASES OF COVID-NINETEEN IN ACADIANA.  THE TOTAL IS TWENTY-ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED EIGHTY NEW CASES.

 

SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA REPORTED SIXETY-ONE NEW CASES OF COVID-NINETEEN, INCLUDING FORTY-SEVEN CASES IN CALCASIEU PARISH. THE TOTAL IS NOW AT TEN THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-SIX NEW CASES. THE REGION HAD JUST ONE DEATH, WHICH WAS IN BEAUEGARD PARISH. THE TOTAL IS NOW AT TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-THREE DEATHS.

 

RAYNE POLICE ARRESTED A MAN YESTERDAY WHO GOT INVOLVED IN A FAMILY FIGHT AND FIRED SHOTS AT THE HOME, WOUNDING A NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD PERSON.  THE FIGHT ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON STEMMED FROM A CARD GAME IN WHICH THIRTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD TELISHA SIMON CALLED HER BOYFRIEND, THIRTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD RAYWARD CLAYTON GIBSON.  HE CAME AND ATTACKED HER NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD BROTHER AND A FORTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD WOMAN BEFORE FIRING TWO SHOTS THROUGH THE FRONT DOOR.  GIBSON FACES SEVERAL COUNTS INCLUDING ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER AND HOME INVASION, AND THE GIRLFRIEND WAS ALSO CHARGED WITH ACCESSORY AFTER THE FACT FOR ALLEGEDLY LYING TO PROTECT GIBSON.

 

SALES TAX COLLECTIONS FOR LAFAYETTE IN JULY REBOUNDED FROM DOUBLE DIGIT LOSSES IN PREVIOUS MONTHS.  SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.

 

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A LAKE CHARLES WOMAN IS ACCUSED OF SHOOTING TO DEATH A MAN LATE SUNDAY NIGHT.  THE BODY OF THIRTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD MARC FRAZIER WAS FOUND IN A RESIDENCE ON EAST GAUTHIER ROAD AT AROUND TEN-THIRTY P-M.  ANOTHER MAN WAS IN THE HOUSE BUT ESCAPED TO A NEIGHBOR’S HOUSE TO CALL POLICE.  THIRTY-YEAR-OLD BRITNEY E. POUSSON WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH SECOND DEGREE MURDER, ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER AND HOME INVASION.