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Earlier this week, the Louisiana Department of Education released the 2020 Simulated School Performance Scores. Vermilion Parish School Superintendent Tommy Byler was not too worried about how the parish scored because of what the school system went through the last year.

BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) is reporting 13 additional probable cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19.
The probable cases involve 9 individuals in Region 1 (Greater New Orleans area), 2 individuals in Region 2 (Baton Rouge area), and 2 individuals in Region 7 (Northwest).
This brings the total number of Omicron cases in our state to 17 – 16 probable and 1 confirmed. The first confirmed Omicron case in Louisiana was identified on Dec. 3.

An Abbeville man faces multiple charges in connection to burglary that resulted in nearly six figures worth of items being stolen.
​On Oct. 29, 2021, the detective division of the Abbeville Police Department began investigating a burglary in which the victim advised he had nearly $100,000 worth of items stolen.
Items that were stolen included several firearms, 20 guitars with cases, various other musical items, tools, jewelry and approximately 60 pairs of rare Nike shoes.