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Swamp pop musician Warren Storm died Tuesday at age 84, according to multiple sources, including KBON 101.1.
According to reports, Storm had been hospitalized since the middle of August
Storm is the second music icon from the parish to pass away within the past few days. Last week, Cedric Benoit, 62, a Kaplan native and a star in Branson, Missouri, suddenly passed away. Benoit performed at the Silver Dollar in Branson from 1988 to 2018.

BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana Department of Health has confirmed 9 total storm-related deaths due to Hurricane Ida.
The storm-related deaths include:
3 individuals died of carbon monoxide poisoning in Jefferson Parish. No additional information about the victims is available at this time.
A 65-year-old female that drowned in floodwaters in Jefferson Parish.

All public school students in Vermilion Parish will return to school on Wednesday, except for students at one high school.
North Vermilion High School students will be learning, but it will not be in a classroom. They will be at home, sitting in front of their brand new Chromebook computer. Each parish high school student and middle school student was loaned a $250 Chromebook laptop to be used whenever there is no school. In addition, the school district purchased 11,000 Chromebooks.