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3-8-16

FEDERAL OFFICIALS SAY THE OWNERS OF THREE POPULAR ACADIANA STORES ROUTINELY FAILED TO PAY OVERTIME PAY TO THEIR EMPLOYEES OVER A RECENT TWO YEAR PERIOD.  BILLY FREY AND HIS WIFE PATSY WERE ORDERED TO PAY MORE THAN 112 THOUSAND DOLLARS IN OVERTIME TO THEIR EMPLOYEES.  THE FREY’S OWN BILLY’S BOUDIN AND CRACKLIN IN SCOTT, RAY’S IN OPELOUSAS AND BILLY’S MINI MART AND DINER IN KROTZ SPRINGS.  THEY ALSO AGREED TO PAY MORE THAN 25 THOUSAND DOLLARS IN PENALTIES.

 

A VEHICLE HIT A POWER POLE KNOCKING OUT ELECTRICITY IN A PORTION OF LAKE CHARLES.  IT HAPPENED IN THE 300 BLOCK OF GELPI STREET.  ABOUT SEVENTY HOMES AND BUSINESSES IN THE AREA ARE WITHOUT POWER UNTIL LATER THIS MORNING, ACCORDING TO ENTERGY.  LAKE CHARLES POLICE ARE ADVISING MOTORISTS TO STAY CLEAR OF THAT AREA.

 

STATE POLICE BELIEVE IMPAIRMENT WAS A FACTOR IN A FATAL CRASH IN EVANGELINE PARISH SUNDAY AFTERNOON.  19-YEAR-OLD DEMETRIUS BERGERON OF VILLE PLATTE DROVE HIS TRUCK OFF THE ROAD ON L-A 104 NEAR L-A 103 AND IT OVERTURNED.  BERGERON, WHO WASN’T WEARING A SEATBELT,  WAS EJECTED AND LATER DIED AT OPELOUSAS GENERAL HOSPITAL.  TWO PASSENGERS, WHO ALSO WEREN’T WEARING SEATBELTS, SUFFERED MINOR INJURIES.

 

With a Wednesday deadline fast approaching, the House and Senate are trying to strike a deal to keep from cratering this year’s budget and forcing widespread cuts on health care and colleges.  But House Republicans have rejected several tax measures the Senate, House Democrats and Gov. John Bel Edwards had hoped could be used to drum up new money for the treasury.  The House late Sunday rejected bills that would lessen business tax breaks, including a proposal to lower an exemption for businesses from paying sales taxes on utilities. Lawmakers are about $150 million to $200 million short of rebalancing this year’s budget and even further away on next year’s budget.

 

AS LEGISLATORS TAKE ANOTHER HACK AT THE NEARLY ONE BILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT IN THE STATE’S BUDGET, THE HOUSE VOTED TO INCREASE THE TAX ON ALCOHOL.  JULIE DARCE REPORTS.

 

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DEMOGRAPHER MIKE HEFNER WILL GIVE THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL BOARD AN UPDATE TOMORROW NIGHT ON MAJOR CHANGES TO THE SCHOOL ATTENDANCE ZONES.  ORIGINALLY IT WAS EXPECTED THAT THE FINAL PLAN WOULD BE PRESENTED TO THE BOARD IN THE SPRING, BUT HEFNER SAYS HE’S WORKING THROUGH SEVERAL ISSUES THAT WILL PUSH THAT BACK TO DECEMBER.  THE TIMELINE NOW CALLS FOR THE BOARD TO ADOPT THE PLAN IN EARLY 2017.  BUS ROUTES WOULD BE ADJUSTED AND THE NEW ATTENDANCE ZONES WOULD GO INTO EFFECT IN AUGUST OF 2017.

 

SASOL ANNOUNCED THAT THEY WILL DELAY OPENING SOME UNITS AT THEIR EIGHT BILLION DOLLAR ETHANE CRACKER FACILITY.  IT’S CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION NEAR WESTLAKE, AND WILL INCLUDE SIX CHEMICAL UNITS.  THE UNITS BEING DELAYED UNTIL 2019 CONVERT ETHANE INTO PLASTICS AND OTHER PRODUCTS.  THE COMPANY DECIDED TO DELAY THE OPENINGS OF THOSE UNITS BECAUSE OF LOW OIL PRICES.

 

A PATTERSON MAN WAS KILLED IN A ONE VEHICLE CRASH IN ST. MARY PARISH LATE SUNDAY NIGHT.  52-YEAR-OLD JIMMY BARRAS WAS TRAVELING WESTBOUND ON L-A 182 NORTH OF HIGHWAY 90 WHEN HE WENT OFF THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD, WHERE HE STRUCK A TREE.  BARRAS, WHO WAS WEARING A SEATBELT, WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE.  BLOOD SAMPLES WERE TAKEN FROM BARRAS TO DETERMINE IF HE WAS IMPAIRED.