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LAKE CHARLES -A Vermilion Parish child died from injuries because of a head-on collision that happened earlier this month in Lake Charles, police confirm.
Around 6:30 a.m. on Sept. 5, Dominique Hilliard was driving a 2016 Dodge Challenger near Southpark Drive when he crossed the center line and crashed into another vehicle, Lake Charles police said.
Hilliard was taken to the hospital, where he later died. Police said the other driver is stable and expected to survive, while a child, 5-year-old Clay Allen Hebert was airlifted to Baton Rouge with serious injuries.

Is it possible that the Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Detective Unit will relocate to the cultural and historical center in the old library in downtown Abbeville? Not if a group of concerned Vermilion Parish residents has anything to say about it.
For the past few years, tenants in the former Hibernia Bank building on Charity Street have housed the Sheriff’s detective unit, located on the second and third floors of the old bank building.

The Vermilion Parish School Board is anticipated to vote Thursday on the proposed increase in health insurance premiums.
On Monday, at an insurance committee meeting, insurance committee members, and school board members listened to HUB International’s Louanna Landry give an hour-long presentation about the future cost of health insurance.
The simple message she gave was that the school board needs to increase the premiums from insurance holders, along with the school board kicking in an extra $300,000 a year.