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DELCAMBRE — At 8:22 p.m. Thursday nightm the Delcambre Police received a report of a shooting at the Wizard Car Wash located on La. Hwy. 14 in the town limits.
Upon arrival, officers located a white male victim who had been shot multiple times. This subject was treated at the scene by Delcambre Fire First Responders and Acadian Ambulance personnel, and then transported to Lafayette General Medical Center for further treatment.
This subject has been admitted into ICU with non-life threatening injuries and in stable condition according to Lafayette General staff.

KAPLAN — All employees of the City of Kaplan will see an increase in their paycheck beginning the first of May.
A special meeting was held recently to discuss the pay increase which had been tabled from the previous week’s regular city council meeting’s agenda.

Whose chicken is it anyway?
The City of Abbeville is trying to find the answer to that question for the many chickens that are free range in various parts of the city. The Council discussed the issue Tuesday during an ordinance committee meeting.
“We have a recurring problem,” City Attorney Ike Funderburk told the Council during the committee meeting. “No one wants to claim the chickens to be theirs. We don’t have video of them taking the eggs from the chickens, but we do have video of chickens running around neighborhoods.”