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Parish beginning second pass of debris pickup
Information from Calcasieu Parish Police Jury LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) – As of Nov. 23, Calcasieu Parish’s debris contractor, Crowder Gulf, is 74 days into debris pickup efforts. The company has about 220 trucks out daily, removing debris from the 1,200 miles of parish roads. Since Hurricane Laura, trucks have picked up approximately 4.8 million…
Calcasieu Parish School Board sending in-person students back to five days a week
By Lindsey Thompson | November 11, 2020, at 9:49 AM CST – Updated November 11 at 9:49 AM LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) – The Calcasieu Parish School Board voted to send all in-person students back to five days a week. That’s a change to the previous alternating schedule for 7th through 12th-grade students put in…
CORONAVIRUS: News Update for Sept. 22nd
Today’s news on the global pandemic. The U.S. has surpassed 200,000 deaths. (Johns Hopkins) The NFL has fined three coaches $100,000 each for not wearing masks on the sideline during Sunday’s games. (ESPN) The CDC updated its guidelines regarding Halloween and recommends avoiding traditional trick-or-treating, indoor costume parties and haunted houses. (USA Today) There are now…
CARDI B:Sued by MAGA Supporters
Cardi B and her sister are getting hit with a lawsuit after calling a group of beachgoers “racist MAGA supporters.” Two men and a woman who got into it with Cardi’s sister, Hennessy Carolina, and her girlfriend don’t appreciate being called racist, whether or not one of them was proudly rocking a red MAGA hat. Hennessy says that…
TROPICS: Sally Threatens the Gulf Coast
UPDATE (12:25 p.m. ET): Sally, threatening the Gulf Coast, has been upgraded to a hurricane. (National Hurricane Center) UPDATE (11:15 a.m. ET): There are five named tropical systems in the Atlantic basin, a new record. Newly named Tropical Storm Vicky is expected to be short-lived in the open Atlantic. Hurricane warnings and watches have been…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: America’s Oldest WWII Veteran Turns 111
America’s oldest living World War Two veteran celebrated his 111th birthday over the weekend. Lawrence Brooks, who served in the predominantly-Black 91st Engineer Battalion during the war, was honored with a socially- distanced celebration at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans, where Brooks lives. There was treated to a military flyover and a performance of…