By ROY PITCHFORD PLAQUEMINE - Fighting on Thursday and Friday among students at E.J. Gay Middle School led to the arrests of 22 boys and girls, most 13 or 14 years old, authorities said. Fights broke out for the second day Friday morning at the Iberville Parish public school in Plaquemine.

By ROY PITCHFORD; GARY PERILLOUX PLAQUEMINE - Shintech Louisiana, the company building a $1 billion chemical plant in Iberville Parish, said Wednesday it will spend another $900 million in a new phase starting in late 2008 or early 2009.

By ROY PITCHFORD PLAQUEMINE - The Iberville Parish School Board voted 14-1 Monday night to offer the position of superintendent of parish schools to Edward Cancienne Jr., superintendent of schools in St. James Parish.

PLAQUEMINE - The Iberville Parish School Board set a special meeting for 6 p.m. Monday to pick a new superintendent of schools. Finalists are Edward Cancienne Jr., superintendent of St. James Parish schools; Jerry Payne, superintendent of Bogalusa city schools; and Charles Michel, principal of J.S.

By ROY PITCHFORD PLAQUEMINE - The Iberville Parish School Board encountered two distinct personalities as it interviewed candidates for parish school superintendent on Wednesday night.