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One question has changed the life of Deyshia Hargrave, a Rene Rost Middle School teacher.
At a Vermilion Parish School Board meeting a few months ago, Hargrave asked Superintendent Jerome Puyau why he thought it was right for him to get a pay raise when teachers have not gotten one in years. A few minutes later, Hargrave was being escorted out of the meeting by Reggie Hiltz, who works for the Abbeville Marshal’s office. Hiltz handcuffed Hargrave, placed her in a police car and drove her to the Abbeville Police Station.

MAURICE — There will be some changes to the bar scene in the Village of Maurice.
The Maurice Board of Aldermen voted Wednesday during its monthly meeting to prohibit anyone under the age of 21 from entering an establishment that has the primary purpose of selling alcohol. The Board also passed an amendment to the open container ordinance, one that will allow officers to issue citations in bar parking lots.
The Board held a public hearing for both items prior to passing both unanimously.

Abbeville Police are looking for suspects involved in a shooting that left a Kaplan man dead.
Just after 2 a.m. on April 17, the Abbeville Police Department responded to a complaint of shots fired in the area of Graceland Avenue and Hawthorne Street.
Upon the officers’ arrival, they were unable to locate any incident.
The officers continued to search the area and located a subject laying in the street on the 200 block of East Vermilion Street. The victim, later identified as Douglas Bourque, 38, of Kaplan, suffered from several gunshot wounds.