9-29-20
DEPUTIES ARRESTED THE MOTHER OF A TODDLER AFTER THE TWO-YEAR-OLD WAS FOUND DEAD INSIDE OF A CAR ON SUNDAY IN LAFAYETTE PARISH. CAROLINE MARCELLO REPORTS.
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AN ABBEVILLE MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR FIRING SHOTS AT ANOTHER VEHICLE SATURDAY MORNING. ABBEVILLE POLICE SAY ROLAND BERNARD THE THIRD CROSSED PATHS WITH ANOTHER DRIVER AT AROUND TEN-FORTY-FIVE SATURDAY MORNING. THEY SAY BERNARD LEANED OUT THE WINDOW AND FIRED SEVERAL ROUNDS AT THE OTHER VEHICLE, HITTING IT NUMEROUS TIMES. BERNARD WAS BOOKED INTO THE VERMILLION PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER YESTERDAY ON SEVERAL CHARGES INCLUDING ATTEMPTED FIRST DEGREE MURDER AND HIS BOND WAS SET AT FOUR HUNDRED TWO THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS.
Louisiana legislators are back in Baton Rouge for a special session focused on the coronavirus outbreak. The gathering that convened Monday is happening amid deepening rifts between Gov. John Bel Edwards and Republican lawmakers over the appropriate response to the pandemic. The 30-day special session was called by Republican lawmakers without consultation from the Democratic governor, who had no sway over the 70-item agenda. Top of the agenda is a push by GOP legislators to try to scale back the governor’s emergency powers.
FOR THE SECOND DAY IN A ROW, HOSPITALIZATIONS FOR COVID-NINETEEN IN LOUISIANA WENT UP. THE TOTAL ROSE BY FIFTEEN TO FIVE HUNDRED SEVENTY-EIGHT. HOWEVER THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS CONTINUES TO TREK DOWNWARD WITH THREE FEWER TODAY. THERE ARE TEN ADDITIONAL DEATHS FROM COVID-NINETEEN IN THE STATE, PUSHING THE TOTAL OVER FIFTY-THREE HUNDRED. THERE ARE FIVE HUNDRED THIRTY-THREE NEW CASES.
FOR THE SECOND DAY IN A ROW, SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD NO NEW DEATHS FROM COVID-NINETEEN. ACADIANA HAD TWO DEATHS, BOTH IN ACADIA PARISH. ACADIANA HAD TWENTY-SEVEN NEW CASES, THE LOWEST TOTAL IN A WEEK. THE MOST WERE IN ST. MARY PARISH WITH TEN. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA RECORDED TWENTY-ONE MORE CASES, INCLUDING FIFTEEN IN CALCASIEU PARISH.
THE FRIENDS AND FAMILY OF DALVIN WASHINGTON HELD A CANDLELIGHT VIGIL AND BALOON RELEASE ON THE BOULEVARD IN RAYNE YESTERDAY. THE THIRTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD MAN WAS SHOT AND KILLED ON SEPTEMBER TWENTY-FIRST IN RAYNE. A SUSPECT IN THE SHOOTING, TWENTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD TREY PREJEAN, WAS ARRESTED LAST WEEK. HE WAS BOOKED ON A CHARGE OF SECOND DEGREE MURDER.
THE LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT ASSISTED LAFAYETTE GENERAL HEALTH IN APPRAISING THE HEYMANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS. CHIEF COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER JAMIE ANGELLE SAYS LAFAYETTE GENERAL ASKED FOR THE APPRAISAL BUT THERE WAS NO DISCUSSION OF A SALE. HE SAYS IF THE HOSPITAL EXPRESSED AN INTEREST, THE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT WOULD HAVE TO LOOK INTO AGREEMENTS MADE WHEN THE HEYMANN FAMILY DONATED IT TO THE CITY AND THE CITY COUNCIL WOULD HAVE TO APPROVE THE SALE. PATRICIA THOMPSON, THE MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR FOR LAFAYETTE GENERAL, SAYS THE APPRAISAL WAS PART OF AN EXPLORATORY PROCESS AS THEY ARE EXPECTING GROWTH OVER THE NEXT DECADE.
CREWS ARE WORKING SEVEN DAYS A WEEK IN CALCASIEU PARISH TO COLLECT DEBRIS. DEBRIS IS BEING PUT INTO TWO DIFFERENT PILES DEPENDING ON IF ITS CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION DEBRIS OR THE REMAINS OF TREES. LAKE CHARLES MAYOR NIC HUNTER SAYS THE CREWS ARE EXPECTED TO PICK UP FOUR MILLION CUBIC YARDS OF DEBRIS IN THE CITY ALONE. THAT WAS THE SAME AMOUNT PICKED UP IN ALL OF CALCASIEU PARISH AFTER HURRICANE RITA IN TWO THOUSAND FIVE.
