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Delta Fuel expanding in-state footprint, planning to leave Louisiana

Associated Press — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:43:38 +0000

NATCHEZ — Two long-time Miss-Lou oil distributors have recently been bought out, but one of the buyers is expanding its market share in Mississippi and making plans to move out of Louisiana. Delta Fuel Co. Inc. recently bought the wholesale side of Independent Oil and Coal Co., and has leased the bulk plant of Cloutier [...]

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Victory acquires stores, accounts from Cloutier Oil

Associated Press — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:49:54 +0000

NATCHEZ and RIDGELAND — Ridgeland-based Victory Properties has bought 11 convenience stores and nine dealer accounts of Cloutier Oil in Natchez. Lawrie Cloutier, owner of Cloutier Oil, tells the Natchez Democrat the sale was completed March 19. Terms were not disclosed. Cloutier Oil was started Oct. 1, 1958, and originally served commercial businesses that had [...]

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Congressional candidate fined for failing to test store’s fuel tanks

Associated Press — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:39:44 +0000

EUPORA — Republican congressional candidate Henry Ross is paying a $1,000 fine for failing to test fuel tanks at his north Mississippi convenience store. Ross told The Associated Press he mailed the check yesterday to the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, which found that he failed to test one or more of the gas tanks [...]

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Councilmen repeal convenience store security ordinance

Associated Press — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:49:49 +0000

JACKSON — The Jackson City Council has reversed course on a law that a majority now agrees is too burdensome on the 24-hour convenience stores it sought to protect. By a 4-0 vote, council members voted yesterday to repeal the law, which required the stores to have a security guard on duty from midnight to [...]

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Council could appeal controversial security guard ordinance

Associated Press — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:58:01 +0000

JACKSON — The Jackson City Council could repeal a controversial law requiring convenience stores to hire security guards as soon as next month. The law hasn’t been enforced since the council passed it 4-2 in September, because it doesn’t list any penalties for violating it. Under the law, 24-hour convenience stores have to keep a [...]

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Officials second-guess store security law

Associated Press — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:35:05 +0000

JACKSON — Some Jackson officials are questioning whether a new city law on convenience store security is enforceable, and some store owners say the law will unreasonably increase their costs of doing business. The city council voted last month to require each 24-hour convenience store to have a security guard on duty from midnight to [...]

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Jackson councilman wants insurance mandate on certain convenience stores

Ted Carter — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 06:00:25 +0000

The liability insurance Jackson City Councilman Kenneth Stokes wants to require of convenience stores in the city that sell alcoholic beverages may make the premises safer from mishaps such as slip-and-falls. But don’t look for it to lessen the likelihood of violent incidents – or to even cover customers injured by violence, insurance professionals say. [...]

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