Firefighters are synonymous with the color of their trucks...red.
Members of the Abbeville Fire Department can be recognized at the moment by a different color. Each is wearing a pink T-shirt in honor of October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
A familiar face, and voice, will be featured in Abbeville this weekend.
Koryn Hawthorne has been selected as the 2015, 67th Annual Louisiana Cattle Festival Grand Parade Marshal and will ride in the Grand Parade on Saturday, Oct. 10 at 1 p.m.
The Vermilion Parish School Board has a unique health insurance policy that may run them broke if they don’t stop the bleeding.
The school system is self insured up to $175,000 per claim when it comes to providing health care insurance for its employees.
What that means is that after an employee reaches his or her deductible, the school system will pay the rest of the medical bill, up to $175,000. The school system has its own health insurance plan that pays all claims that are larger than $175,000.
School Board member Anthony Fontana, who is the chairman of the insurance committee, did not sugar coat it, nor did he paint a pretty picture when he talked about the future of health insurance pr
According to Sheriff Mike Couvillon and Chief of Police Tony Hardy, the Vermilion Parish Municipal Narcotics Task Force made the following arrests for narcotics related offenses within the parish.<