8-19-21
POLICE IN NEW IBERIA ARE INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING THAT LEFT ONE PERsON DEAD LAST NIGHT. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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ONE PERSON WAS SHOT AND KILLED JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT TUESDAY IN THE NINETEEN HUNDRED BLOCK OF WINTERHALTER STREET IN LAKE CHARLES. THE VICTIM HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS THIRTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD BRODERICK JACKSON OF LAKE CHARLES. POLICE ARRESTED TWENTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD ANDRE PRINCE JUNIOR OF LAKE CHARLES TUESDAY ON A SECOND DEGREE MURDER CHARGE. BOND WAS SET AT SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS.
A TEAM OF MEDICAL WORKERS FROM THE U-S NAVY ARRIVED YESTERDAY AT OCHSNER LAFAYETTE GENERAL HOSPITAL TO HELP THE OVERWHELMED STAFF. THE TEAM, WHICH WAS GREETED WITH APPLAUSE BY THE STAFF, WILL SPEND TODAY SHADOWING THE HOSPITAL STAFF AND THEN BEGIN TREATING PATIENTS ON FRIDAY. AS OF YESTERDAY MORNING, OCHSNER LAFAYETTE GENERAL WAS TREATING NINETY-FIVE CORONAVIRUS PATIENTS WHILE OCHSNER’S HOSPITALS THROUGHOUT ACADIANA HAD ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-NINE PATIENTS. OCHSNER HAD SEVENTY-FOUR EMPLOYEES OUT ACROSS THE SYSTEM IN ACADIANA BECAUSE OF THE CORONAVIRUS, WHICH WAS DOWN FROM ONE HUNDRED NINETEEN ONE WEEK AGO.
Louisiana’s top school board abruptly ended a chaotic meeting without debating whether Gov. John Bel Edwards’ mask mandate for schools should be challenged after a raucous crowd of angry, unmasked parents packed the hearing room. The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education warned the hundreds of people assembled Wednesday they must wear masks to comply with Edwards’ order, but the crowd refused. In response, the board abruptly voted 8-2 to adjourn the hearing. The crowd erupted into shouting about recall efforts for board members.
THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH IS BEGINNING TO KEEP TRACK OF CORONAVIRUS CASES IN LOUISIANA PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND, AS OF THE WEEK ENDING AUGUST FIFTEENTH, THERE WERE MORE THAN TWENTY-FOUR HUNDRED CASES STATEWIDE. LAFAYETTE PARISH HAD THE MOST IN ACADIANA, WITH SIXTY-SEVEN STUDENTS CONTRACTING THE VIRUS AND THIRTY-SEVEN CASES AMONG FACULTY AND STAFF. EVANGELINE PARISH HAD THE SECOND HIGHEST NUMBER OF CASES IN THE REGION WITH FORTY-EIGHT CASES AMONG STUDENTS AND SIX FACULTY AND STAFF MEMBERS AFFECTED. ACADIA AND SAINT MARTIN PARISHES ALSO SAW STUDENT NUMBERS IN DOUBLE DIGITS WITH THIRTEEN EACH.
CROWLEY CITY COUNCILMAN VERNON “STEP” MARTIN SAYS HE’S LOOKING AT FILING A ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLAR LAWSUIT AGAINST THE LOCAL CROWLEY PAPER, SAYING THEY PORTRAYED HIM AS A MONSTER AFTER A RECENT CONFRONTATION WITH FELLOW COUNCILMAN LYLE FOGELMAN. AN ARGUMENT ABOUT DIGITAL BILLBOARDS IN CROWLEY LED TO THE CONFRONTATION, IN WHICH, ACCORDING TO MARTIN, FOGELMAN TOOK A SWING AT HIM AND THEN LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL, KICKING MARTIN IN THE PROCESS. MARTIN SAYS HE DOESN’T GO ANYWHERE NOW BECAUSE HE DOESN’T KNOW WHAT PEOPLE THINK OF HIM AFTER THE NEWSPAPER ARTICLE. MARTIN ADMITTED DURING THE ARGUMENT CALLING FOGELMAN A NAME OFFENSIVE TO THE LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY AND APOLOGIZED.
TWO OF LAFAYETTE’S MOST WANTED WERE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY WEDNESDAY. THE U-S MARSHAL’S OFFICE AND THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE ARRESTED KENDALL LEOPAUL, ALSO KNOWN AS PEANUT, WHO WAS NUMBER ONE ON LAFAYETTE’S MOST WANTED. LEOPAUL WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTOY ON AN OUTSTANDING MURDER WARRANT FROM CARENCRO AND HE’S A PERSON OF INTEREST IN TWO OTHER VIOLENT CRIMES. THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE ALSO ARRESTED JOSHUA THIBODEAUX JUNIOR, OR T-POP, WHO WAS WANTED FOR ATTEMPTED FIRST DEGREE MURDER AND NARCOTICS VIOLATIONS.
A federal appeals court in New Orleans has upheld a Texas law outlawing a commonly used second-trimester abortion procedure. A federal judge had blocked the ban on the procedure known as dilation and extraction. The 2017 law in question has never been enforced. It prohibits the use of forceps to remove the child from the womb — what supporters of the law call a “dismemberment abortion” — without first using an injected drug or a suction procedure to ensure the child is dead.
