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The following are the radio dispatch logs from the Morgan City Police Department. To report unlawful or suspicious activity, call the Police Department at 985-380-4605.
Wednesday, Jan. 17
6:45 a.m. 800 block of Youngs Road; Alarm.
7:53 a.m. 600 block of Bowman Street; Domestic.
9:12 a.m. Bush/Aucoin streets; Suspicious subject.
10:21 a.m. 2300 block of La. 70; Assistance.
10:33 a.m. 100 block of Wren Street; Welfare check.
11:21 a.m. 1200 block of Prescott Drive; Theft.
12:21 p.m. 1000 block of Railroad Avenue; Disturbance.
1:56 p.m. La. 70/U.S. 90 Junction; Suspicious subject.
2:07 p.m. 1400 block of Mayon Street; Assistance.
2:40 p.m. 3100 block of Tammy Drive; 911 hang up.
2:54 p.m. 1200 block of Victor II Boulevard; Medical.
3:28 p.m. Union/Third streets; Vehicle accident.
3:34 p.m. 1300 block of Walnut Drive; Assistance.
3:52 p.m. 1500 block of North First Street; Complaint.
4:25 p.m. 6700 block of La. 182; Complaint.
5:38 p.m. 1800 block of Filmore Street; Frequent patrols.
6:07 p.m. 1200 block of David Drive; Alarm.
6:31 p.m. 400 block of Halsey Street; Complaint.
6:50 p.m. 1000 block of Clothilde Street; Alarm.
7:12 p.m. 600 block of Arenz Street; Medical.
9:16 p.m. 100 block of Oak Street; Medical.
9:25 p.m. 1400 block of Federal Avenue; Medical.
10:13 p.m. Area of La. 70; Complaint.
10:20 p.m. 6000 block of Railroad Avenue; 911 hang up.
10:40 p.m. 2000 block of Allison Street; Medical.
1:01 a.m. Area of Sixth/Belanger streets; Complaint.
1:51 a.m. 500 block of Bowman Street; Loud music.
3:51 a.m. 1000 block of Marguerite Street; Alarm.
3:56 a.m. 6000 block of Railroad Avenue; 911 hang up.
4:34 a.m. 2400 block of Cypress Street; Loud music.
5:02 a.m. 1000 block of Marguerite Street; Alarm.
Thursday, Jan. 18
7:05 a.m. 700 block of Myrtle Street; Arrest.
8:22 a.m. 2400 block of Cypress Street; Complaint.
8:39 a.m. 300 block of South Railroad Avenue; Animal complaint.
9:10 a.m. 7200 block of La. 182; Arrest.
9:17 a.m. 1200 block of Spruce Street; Alarm.
9:43 a.m. 1100 block of Ditch Avenue; Animal complaint.
11:50 a.m. 500 block of Roderick Street; Welfare check.
11:58 a.m. 600 block of Freret Street; Medical.
3:06 p.m. 700 block of Everett Street; Remove subject.
3:13 p.m. 700 block of Myrtle Street; Theft.
5:18 p.m. 700 block of David Drive; Assistance.
5:35 p.m. 900 block of Short Street; Welfare check.
5:38 p.m. 7300 block of La. 182; Reckless driving.
6:48 p.m. 1400 block of Federal Avenue; Medical.
10:59 p.m. 1600 block of Second Street; Loud music.
11:50 p.m. 700 block of Belanger Street; Medical.
5:48 a.m. 1200 block of David Drive; Alarm.
Friday, Jan. 19
7:27 a.m. 1200 block of Youngs Road; Alarm.
7:39 a.m. Justa Street; Complaint.
8:21 a.m. U.S. 90 West; Stalled vehicle.
8:31 a.m. 500 block of Sixth Street; Medical.
9:42 a.m. 100 block of Wren Street; Welfare concern.
10:10 a.m. 1100 block of Seventh Street; 911 hang up.
10:11 a.m. 700 block of Everett Street; Patrol.
10:22 a.m. 1400 block of Filmore Street; Juvenile complaint.
10:26 a.m. 700 block of Myrtle Street; Arrest.
11:01 a.m. Fifth/Maine streets; Arrest.
11:16 a.m. 600 block of Fifth Street; Complaint.
11:58 a.m. 400 block of Myrtle Street; Complaint.
12:27 p.m. 1000 block of Eighth Street; Telephone harassment.
1:11 p.m. Front/Brownell streets; Stalled vehicle.
2:09 p.m. 700 block of Duke Street; Removal of subject.
2:37 p.m. U.S. 90 East; Traffic incident.
3:51 p.m. 3000 block of Leslie Drive; Medical.
3:52 p.m. U.S. 90 East; Stalled vehicle.
3:56 p.m. 400 block of Eighth Street; Disturbance.
4:56 p.m. 700 block of Aucoin Street; Complaint.
5:01 p.m. Arizona Street; Complaint.
5:30 p.m. 500 block of Orange Street; Hit and run.
5:32 p.m. 1300 block of Oil Tank Alley; Medical.
5:51 p.m. 1200 block of Spruce Street; Medical.
6 p.m. 700 block of Myrtle Street; Arrest.
6:57 p.m. Tupelo Street; Disturbance.
6:59 p.m. 1000 block of Eighth Street; Frequent patrols.
8:03 p.m. 3000 block of Helen Drive; Loud music.
8:28 p.m. 7300 block of La. 182; Telephone harassment.
10:20 p.m. 700 block of Myrtle Street; Arrest.
10:42 p.m. 1600 block of Second Street; Loud music.
11:37 p.m. 200 block of Aucoin Street; Loud music.
Saturday, Jan. 20
12:25 a.m. 900 block of Cherry Street; Disturbance.
12:31 a.m. 500 block of Front Street; Alarm.
3:09 a.m. 1100 block of Eighth Street; Alarm.
5:44 a.m. 3200 block of Susan Drive; Medical.
6:18 a.m. 1200 block of Victor II Boulevard; Complaint.
7:01 a.m. 1200 block of Fig Street; Alarm.
8:33 a.m. 7300 block of La. 182; Alarm.
9:30 a.m. 900 block of Cherry Street; Removal of subject.
9:37 a.m. 200 block of Chennault Street; Suspicious subject.
10:06 a.m. 800 block of Marshall Street; Lost and found.
10:23 a.m. 700 block of Everett Street; Removal of subject.
11:14 a.m. 800 block of Railroad Avenue; Medical.
11:32 a.m. 7100 block of La. 182; Telephone harassment.
2:56 p.m. 700 block of Myrtle Street; Complaint.
3:18 p.m. Egle Street; Arrest.
3:30 p.m. 500 block of Barrow Street; Trespassing.
3:31 p.m. 700 block of David Drive; Medical.
3:54 p.m. 700 block of Fourth Street; Complaint.
5:01 p.m. 500 block of Levee Road; Juvenile complaint.
6:55 p.m. 1000 block of La. 70; Theft.
7:51 p.m. 7700 block of La. 182; Disturbance.
7:53 p.m. 7700 block of La. 182; Reckless driver.
11:22 p.m. 2300 block of La. 70; Suspicious vehicle.
11:30 p.m. La. 70; Suspicious vehicle.
Sunday, Jan. 21
12:46 p.m. 300 block of Onstead Street; Medical.
2:14 a.m. General MacArthur Street; Utilities.
3:56 a.m. 1200 block of Victor II Boulevard; Suspicious vehicle.
4:22 a.m. 1000 block of La. 70; Vehicle accident.
5:25 a.m. 300 block of Greenwood Street; Alarm.
7:42 a.m. Federal Avenue/Bush Street; Crash.
8:16 a.m. 7100 block of Park Street; Burglary.
8:52 a.m. 700 block of Myrtle Street; Juvenile complaint.
9:57 a.m. 1100 block of Brashear Avenue; Theft.
10:41 a.m. 600 block of Arenz Street; Complaint.
2:24 p.m. 800 block of Sacred Heart Drive; Complaint.
2:56 p.m. Marguerite/Eighth streets; Reckless operation.
3:17 p.m. 3000 block of Keith Street; Loud music.
3:50 p.m. 500 block of Federal Avenue; Alarm.
4:05 p.m. 1100 block of Marguerite Street; Complaint.
6:38 p.m. U.S. 90 Business; Complaint.
7:08 p.m. La. 182; Complaint.
7:23 p.m. 1400 block of Filmore Street; Juvenile problems.
8:16 p.m. Brashear Avenue; Suspicious person.
8:58 p.m. 800 block of South Everett Street; Assistance.
9:43 p.m. 500 block of Barrow Street; Suspicious person.
11:04 p.m. 500 block of Willow Street; Complaint.
Monday, Jan. 22
12:27 a.m. 1000 block of Joseph Street; Assistance.

The Louisiana Legislature adjourned from its special session on Friday, passing new congressional districts as required by federal court order.

Lawmakers also sent to Gov. Jeff Landry's desk for a possible signature a bill that would close the state's open primary system.

Senate Bill 8, sponsored by Sen. Glen Womack, R-Madisonville, and preferred by Landry, would transform Republican U.S. Rep. Garret Graves’ 6th Congressional District into a second Black-majority district. The House favored it 86-16 and the Senate agreed to the lower chamber's changes 27-11.

Lawmakers also passed an appropriation bill for SB8 that would provide $1.4 million to the state secretary of state's office to implement the redistricting.

House Bill 17, sponsored by Rep. Julie Emerson, R-Carencro, would end the state's open primary system and replace it with a closed primary system that would require voters to cast ballots in only one primary.

The offices that would be contested in closed primaries include U.S. senators and representatives, state Supreme Court justices, seats on the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, and the Public Service Commission.

The Senate passed an amended version of the bill 29-9 and the House accepted the changes within that 67-36.

In a post on X, Landry praised Emerson on her work on the bill.

"We have started the process of necessary structural change to our election system," Landry said. "Great work!"

Landry ordered the special session after a court order required lawmakers to create a second majority-Black congressional district. State officials, led by Landry when he was serving as attorney general, tried to contest the decision at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld the lower court's ruling.

Lawmakers didn't pass bills that would have drawn new districts for the state Supreme Court, increased its justices from seven to nine and another that would have implemented ranked-choice voting.

The children’s Krewe of Nike will present its ball at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Morgan City Municipal Auditorium. All viewing is invitation only. Bidding adieu will be King and Queen Nike LI Parker Borroughs and Elizabeth Patterson. Krewe members parade behind the Krewe of Galatea procession at 2 p.m. Feb. 11 in Morgan City.

Mardi Gras and Carnival are the same celebrations.
Though Mardi Gras technically refers only to Fat Tuesday, the Mardi Gras season actually begins on Epiphany, a Christian holiday celebrated on Jan. 6 that is otherwise known as Three Kings Day or the Twelfth Day of Christmas.
In Brazil and many other countries, this period between Epiphany and Fat Tuesday is known as Carnival. Whichever name you prefer to use, the revelries of Mardi Gras last until midnight, when Ash Wednesday ushers in 40 days of Lent.
Mardi Gras may or may not have pagan roots.
A popular theory holds that Mardi Gras’ origins lie in ancient pagan celebrations of spring and fertility, such as Saturnalia and Lupercalia. Some experts contend, however, that Mardi Gras-type festivities popped up solely as a result of the Catholic Church’s discouragement of sex and meat during Lent.
Church reformers may have helped to propagate the pagan rumors, these experts say, in the hope of dissuading pre-Lenten hedonism.
Mardi Gras in New Orleans survived early efforts at suppression.
Mardi Gras got going in New Orleans soon after the city’s founding in 1718. The Spanish, who ruled the Big Easy from 1762 to 1800, apparently cracked down on certain Mardi Gras rituals (though documentation from that period is scarce).
U.S. authorities did much the same after taking control in 1803, banning both masked balls and public disguises. Nonetheless, they eventually accepted the festival’s existence. The first recorded Mardi Gras street parade in New Orleans took place in 1837, by which time the city had transformed from a small backwater into a major metropolis.
Twenty years later, six men organized a secret society called the Mistick Krewe of Comus. By holding a parade with the theme of “The Demon Actors in Milton’s Paradise Lost,” along with a lavish grand ball, Comus reversed the declining popularity of Mardi Gras and helped establish New Orleans as its clear epicenter in the United States.
Other secret societies quickly followed Comus’ lead.
In 1872 the Krewe of Rex and the Knights of Momus began paying for parades and balls of their own. They were followed a decade later by the Krewe of Proteus. Since these early societies were exclusively male and white, women and Black residents formed their own groups, such as Les Mysterieuses and the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club.
Mardi Gras occasionally gets canceled.
Since Comus ushered in the modern era of Mardi Gras in 1857, the New Orleans festivities have been canceled about a dozen times. Most of those cancellations came during the Civil War, World War I and World War II, though revelers also stayed home during an 1870s yellow fever outbreak. A scaled-down version even took place in 2006, just months after Hurricane Katrina flooded the Gulf Coast and killed over 1,800 people. Many in-person celebrations and parades in New Orleans in 2021 were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Available mostly during the Mardi Gras season, king cake is typically made with brioche dough. Braided and laced with cinnamon, the dough is then glazed with purple, green and gold sugar or covered in icing in those same Mardi Gras colors.
What really sets king cake apart from other desserts, however, is the small plastic baby hidden inside. Whoever finds the baby in his or her slice must buy the next cake or perhaps host the next party.