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BATON ROUGE–State officials are trying to figure out how to remedy a decline in TOPS scholarship participation throughout the state.
The Taylor Opportunity Program for Students, known as TOPS, is a merit-based scholarship funded by the state. The program offers scholarships to Louisiana residents attending public colleges, universities or vocational schools in the state.
Kim Hunter Reed, Louisiana’s commissioner on higher education, spoke to the House Committee on Appropriations Thursday about the declining participation numbers.

Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries enforcement agents cited two men for alleged gross littering violations in Vermilion Parish on April 5.
Agents cited Adam M. Ory, 20, and Austin R. Barbier, 23, both of Lafayette, for gross littering. Ory was also cited for selling or buying fish without a retail seafood license, violating interstate commerce regulations, and failing to maintain records.

The Vermilion Municipal and Sheriff’s Narcotics Task Force along with the Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office K-9 and Criminal Interdiction Unit made significant drug busts last week.
On March 28, after a month long investigation, Jacobi “Villain” Landry, 37, was taken into custody on outstanding narcotics Distribution warrants inside the city limits of Abbeville.