8-24-21
THERE WAS A DEADLY SHOOTING IN SAINT MARTINVILLE MONDAY MORNING. CAROLINE MARCELLO REPORTS.
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THE LAFAYETTE LITTLE LEAGUE TEAM WAS ELIMINATED LAST NIGHT FROM THE LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES. THEY FACED THE OHIO STATE CHAMPIONS LAST NIGHT. LAFAYETTE LOST BY A SCORE OF EIGHT-TO-TWO.
SOWELA’S LAKE CHARLES CAMPUS IS COMING BACK TO NORMAL AFTER A LONG CONSTRUCTION PROCESS FROM LAST YEAR’S HURRICANES, ACCORDING TO CHANCELLOR DOCTOR NEIL ASPENWALL. SIX BUILDINGS THAT HAD MINOR DAMAGE ARE COMPLETELY REPAIRED, FOUR, WITH MAJOR DAMAGE, HAVE BEEN PARTIALLY REPAIRED AND ARE BEING USED FOR CLASSES, AND TWO BUILDINGS HAD TO BE TORN DOWN, INCLUDING THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES BUILDING. DESPITE THE DAMAGE, ENROLLMENT AT SOWELA IS WAY UP, INCLUDING IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES PROGRAM, WHICH HAS INCREASED BY ONE HUNDRED TWENTY PERCENT. DOCTOR ASPINWALL SAYS CONSTRUCTION ON THE TWELVE ORIGINAL BUILDINGS IS EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED WITHIN FOUR MONTHS.
NEARLY ELEVEN THOUSAND NEW CORONAVIRUS CASES WERE REPORTED ACROSS THE STATE YESTERDAY. CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS THE OTHER COVID-NINETEEN NUMBERS.
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The announcement that Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine received full federal approval triggers new vaccine and testing mandates in Louisiana. Louisiana’s universities will soon start requiring tens of thousands of students to get the shots. Gov. John Bel Edwards intends to mandate regular COVID-19 testing for thousands of state workers who aren’t immunized, but just how many people the vaccine and testing mandates will cover and when they’ll take effect remains uncertain. University inoculation requirements may not be enforced for months on campuses, and students will be able to seek exemptions.
THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA SYSTEM WILL REQUIRE STUDENTS ENROLLED AT ITS NINE MEMBER INSTITUTIONS TO BE VACCINATED. THAT INCLUDES U-L LAFAYETTE. PRESIDENT JOSEPH SAVOIE SAYS STUDENTS WILL BE REQUIRED TO HAVE PROOF OF COVID-NINETEEN VACCINATION, HAVE A NOTE FROM A DOCTOR THAT THE VACCINE COULD HARM THE STUDENT OR A WRITTEN DISSENT. SAVOIE SAYS THE UNIVERSITY WILL RELEASE MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE STEPS IN THE COMING DAYS.
LOUISIANA HAS THE NATION’S HIGHEST COVID-NINETEEN CASE RATE AND HOSPITALIZATIONS IN THE COUNTRY. TIM MARKS, THE CHIEF POPULATION OFFICER AT OPELOUSAS GENERAL HEALTH SYSTEM, SAYS THEIR STAFF HAS BEEN WORKING OVERTIME BECAUSE THEY ARE AT CAPACITY. HE SAYS THE HOSPITAL HAS BEEN AVERAGING FORTY PATIENTS A DAY, THOUGH IT WAS AT THIRTY-FOUR MONDAY MORNING. MARKS SAYS THIRTEEN OF THE THIRTY-FOUR ARE IN I-C-U, EIGHT ARE ON VENTILATORS, AND ONLY THREE OF THEM HAD BEEN VACCINATED.
NEW IBERIA POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING IN WHICH ONE PERSON WAS INJURED. SERGEANT DAESHA HUGHES SAYS POLICE RESPONDED TO REPORTS OF SHOTS FIRED AT AROUND SEVEN THIRTY LAST NIGHT AT THE CORNER OF CENTER STREET AND WEST ADMIRAL DOYLE. THE PERSON WHO WAS SHOT HAD WOUNDS THAT WERE NOT LIFE THREATENING. NO ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE. A TRUCK AND S-U-V AT THE SCENE HAD BULLET HOLES.
