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CROWLEY - “Fentanyl is the single deadliest drug threat our nation has ever encountered.”
Those are the words of Anne Milgram, administrator, U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.
And that’s the message Dr. Tina Stefanski, Region 4 Office of Public Health Medical Director, and her team are trying to get out to the general public.

BATON ROUGE – Avery Hebert, of Erath, is among the Tiger Twelve Senior Recognition Class of 2023.
Class members were recognized at a ceremony on Saturday, April 29 held in the Capstone Gallery at Patrick F. Taylor Hall on the LSU campus.
Hebert is an agribusiness major with a minor in political science. During her four years at LSU, Hebert was involved in numerous extracurricular activities on campus, including serving as an LSU Student Government executive staff member and College of Agriculture Les Voyager.

The Abbeville Police Department arrested and charged 19-year-old Tavian Young of Abbeville with attempted first-degree murder and illegal use of a firearm.
His total bail was set at $500,000.
According to Abbeville Police Chief Mike Hardy, the charges stem from the ZaZa’s Hookah Lounge shooting on 1600 block of Veterans Memorial Drive on Feb. 24.
Four people were injured in the shooting that night.
At least a couple hundred people were gathered outside for an after party at the lounge and the adjacent parking lot, he said.