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As dollar stores continue rural expansion, a Louisiana parish found a new way to push back
Dollar stores have become such common sights in the South that residents, like Randy Bush, can rattle them off like box scores. From the front porch of his house just outside Ponchatoula, Louisiana, he gestures toward the Family Dollar that’s west of Highway 22. There’s a Dollar General just off Interstate 55 and two more along Pumpkin Center Road. Altogether, across an eight-mile stretch that’s otherwise mostly made up of houses and subdivisions, Bush counts six dollar stores.
DA reports on more pleas
AMITE — District Attorney Scott M. Perrilloux reported that the following individuals appeared in 21st Judicial District Court before Judge Charlotte Foster on May 20-21 and entered the following pleas:. Roshaunda Reed, 25, of Hammond, pleaded no contest to malfeasance in office. Reed was sentenced to three years probation...
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