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Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries enforcement agents cited two men for alleged deer hunting violations in Vermilion Parish on Sept. 1.
Agents cited Davin A. Miller, 18, of Abbeville, for hunting deer during a closed season, failing to tag deer, failing to validate deer, failing to comply with harvest card regulations, and hunting without basic hunting and deer hunting licenses. Agents also cited Ronald J. Menard, 25, of Kaplan, for possession of an illegally taken deer and an untagged deer.

On Wednesday, ‘Lil Bucks N Does’ Adventure and Learning Center went into lockdown just after 2 p.m. because a shooting occurred less than a half mile from the learning center.
The learning center is located on La. 92, west of Maurice.
By 2:20 p.m., La. 92 was blocked off by law enforcement, starting at La. 343.
At 3 p.m., parents could still not go to the learning center to pick up their children because the road was blocked.
No shooting details were available when the Meridional went to press at 4 p.m.

On what could be the hottest day of the year in Vermilion Parish, some residents and businesses lost electricity on the west end of Kaplan.
By 3 p.m., the temperature climbed to 100 degrees on Monday.
Kaplan Mayor Mike Kloesel and the town were aware of the problem that morning, and by 10 a.m., crews from Abbeville, SLEMCO and Lafayette were in town trying to find the problem.
He addressed the heat and no electricity on the Mayor's Facebook Page.