16:30 LRN Newscast August 31st

State lawmakers say FEMA is moving too slow when it comes to setting up manufactured homes for flood victims. The government agency says only one unit has been installed and Gonzales Representative Clay Schexnayder says that’s not getting the job done…
cut 9 (08) “…satisfactory at all’
FEMA regional director Gerard Stoler says the mobile homes are not easy to install and couldn’t say when more will be in place.

A cook at an assistant living center in Mandeville has been charged with one count of rape and his alleged victim is a 78-year-old resident at Beau Provence Memory care. Mandeville Police Officer Becky White says the incident occurred last week in the victim’s room and 58-year-old Jerry Kan resigned two days later…
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Kan was hired by Beau Provence earlier this year.

State Treasurer John Kennedy is urging lawmakers to consider suspending the one cent sales tax increase for flood victims, when they purchase items to rebuild their homes. Kennedy says the state should not reap a financial windfall from people’s tragedy…:
CUT 10 (09) “the extra penny”
Lawmakers added an extra penny to the state sales tax earlier this year. New Orleans Senator JP Morrell says Kennedy’s proposal would be very difficult to implement.

The Baton Rouge Area Foundation announces they’ve distributed one-point-six million dollars in flood relief grants. A third of the money handed has gone towards helping schools and students who lost classroom supplies. BRAF spokesperson Mukul Verma says they are raising about 20-thousand dollars a day in online donations…
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