Local

(Courtesy of the Advocate Newspaper)

On Friday, during a match between the Abbeville Wildcats and the Erath Bobcats, a 5-foot tall freshman defensive back named Joseph Davis made the biggest play of his young life.
He took the ball from an Erath receiver’s hands deep in the endzone with 11 minutes to play, preventing Erath from scoring and possibly tying the game. This gave Abbeville the football and a ton of momentum on offense. As a result, Abbeville drove 80 yards in five minutes and scored, securing a huge district 20-12 win. Abbeville’s overall record improves to 6-2, while Erath’s falls to 1-7.

A man was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly hitting a school resource officer (SRO) with his vehicle and then threatening to fight him after dropping off his child at North Vermilion High School.
Keith Dain Sellers Jr., 37, was charged with aggravated battery, threatening a public official, and failure to obey police officers and traffic signals.
The Vermilion Parish Special Response Team arrested him at his house without any incident.
The SRO was directing traffic in the student drop-off area when the incident occurred.