The Louisiana Public Service Commission will perform an audit of Delta Utilities’ billing and costs this summer. Many customers in the Baton Rouge and New Orleans areas are upset over their high gas bills. Rahsha Williams is the head of a community center in Baton Rouge, and she told the Public Service Commission that Delta Utilities natural gas bills are a real problem.

Cut 7 (10) “…their grocery budget.”

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.

Cut 9 (08)  “…their March bill.”

Porteus says customers who are unable to pay their bill can contact Delta Utilities to work out a payment plan.

The West Carroll Gazette will continue publishing a weekly paper. The 116-year-old publication has been saved because it has been bought by the West Carroll Chamber of Commerce. Local businessman Adam Holland is on the Chamber’s board of directors and says longtime readers of the West Carroll Gazette are thrilled with the news…

Cut 6 (07) “…thing’s been saved”

The cost to purchase the paper from the Louisiana State Newspapers was just one dollar.

An Alabama man has been arrested after he allegedly urged a teenager in Lafourche Parish to kill herself after the two met each other on the online gaming platform Roblox. LaFourche Parish Sheriff’s Captain Brennan Matherne says 24-year-old Landen Westfall also got the girl to send him nude photos of herself. Matherne says Westfall faces multiple charges and might not be a free man again if convicted…

Cut 15 (11) “…for 15 counts”