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Members of the Abbeville Police Department are continuing an effort to reunite a runaway with his family.
Abbeville Chief of Police William Spearman said Logan Byron, 17, ran away from home on Sept. 16, 2020, after an argument with his family. Byron has been listed as a runaway in the National Crime Information Center (NCIC).
Spearman said on Tuesday afternoon that the department has no reason to believe that Byron has been harmed.
“Logan is just staying on the run,” Spearman said.

Louisiana will move back into a modified form of Phase 2 coronavirus restrictions, mostly lower capacity limits for businesses and gatherings, in an effort to slow the state's surging numbers of new COVID cases and hospitalizations, Gov. John Bel Edwards said at a Tuesday press conference.
The mitigation measures will continue to include the statewide mask mandate. Also:
-- All Louisianans are encouraged to avoid gatherings of individuals not part of their households.

Kathryn Shea Duncan, daughter of Kathy Duncan of Crowley and the late Shea Duncan, was recently featured in a story in The New York Times.
Duncan, a former Miss Crowley and International Rice Festival Queen, currently works as the media/public relations manager at Visit Lake Charles, the destination marketing and management organization for Calcasieu Parish.