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The Louisiana Department of Education released graduation rates for the 2015-16 school year and Vermilion Parish continues to rank among the best.
The school district had a 90.6 graduation rate, good for ninth in the state. Lincoln Parish, which ranked one spot ahead of Vermilion, had a 90.7 graduation rate.
The state average is 77 percent.
Vermilion did drop 2.9 percentage points from its 2014-15 rate.

An Abbeville man now sits behind bars after being arrested by the Abbeville Police Department for allegedly firing a gun inside of a car that had two people in it.
Neither of the two people in the car were struck by the bullets. It occurred at the corner of Martin Luther King Street and Schlesinger Street.
Arrested was Charles Lee, 25, of Abbeville. The Abbeville police charged Lee with six different crimes, including two attempted murder charges.

The City of Abbeville recently had smoke testing conducted in the Mount Carmel Heights neighborhood, with the goal of locating breaks in some of the area’s pipes that are allowing rain water to enter the city’s water system.
“We have been having an infiltration problem and some problems with the sewer there,” Abbeville Public Works Director Clay Menard said. “We decided to smoke test the whole entire area that goes into the lift station that is at the corner of Gauraud (Street) and West St. Paul Street.”