Many Delta Utilities customers in the Baton Rouge and New Orleans areas are upset over their high gas bills. Rahsha Williams who heads a Baton Rouge community center told the Public Service Commission that seniors on fixed incomes are trying to figure out how to pay their gas bills.
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Delta Utilities spokeswoman Sarah Porteus says gas bills are high because demand is higher in the winter months, and the cost of natural gas increased 150-percent from September to February.
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The Louisiana Public Service Commission will perform an audit of Delta’s billing and costs this summer.
In Caddo Parish a man was found guilty of vehicular homicide in the 2022 death of his wife. The jury deliberated only 45 minutes before finding 61-year-old Steven Rubey guilty. Reports show Steven Ruby’s blood alcohol was well over the legal limit at the time of the motorcycle crash that claimed the life of 52-year-old Tammy Lynn Rubey.
An Alabama man has been arrested for indecent conduct with a Lafourche Parish teenage girl online. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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Interim UL Lafayette President Ramesh Kolluru will lose his interim title as he is named President of ULL. The search committee will present Dr. Kolluru to the Board of Supervisors during a special meeting in Baton Rouge today, at which time the board is expected to make the appointment official. Kolluru was named as the sole finalist for the job earlier this week. System President Rick Gallot says the choice was obvious.