| By Drew Broach | Deputy metro editor
MONEY TALKS: In record time and with little pushback, the Louisiana Legislature approved a $39 billion annual operating budget Thursday. It includes a $1,500 annual pay raise for K-12 public school teachers, a 3% raise for state higher education faculty, wage increases for starting prison guards and child welfare workers, money for new Interstate 10 bridges in Baton Rouge and Lake Charles and for finishing an interstate connection between Lafayette and New Orleans and $100 million for local projects pushed by individual legislators. FATAL TRIP: Morgan Tyrone, 20, drove from her hometown of Pascagoula, Mississippi, to Terrytown in April to buy a mobile phone she found advertised on Facebook Marketplace. Instead, the would-be seller shot and killed her. New details of the killing came out this week, after Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office detectives booked Daniel Tenner, 20, with first-degree murder and armed robbery. PAYBACK: Jay Dardenne, who oversees the Louisiana Division of Administration, on Thursday accused House Speaker Clay Schexnayder of cutting his agency’s budget by $3.3 million because the agency refused to pay Schexnayder’s stepsons for renovating the speaker’s two apartments at the state-owned Pentagon Barracks. Dardenne made his comments a day after The Advocate | The Times-Picayune reported that Schexnayder had blocked the contractor hired by the Division of Administration from finishing the renovation and then hired a small contractor owned by his two stepsons to complete the work.
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