Texas restaurant owner shrugs off slight

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The owner of an Italian restaurant in San Antonio says he would welcome back the customers who recently scribbled on a receipt that they won’t return because he is Mexican.

Fernando Franco, who owns Di Frabo, says his manager showed him the receipt Friday, shortly after the couple had left.

The message noted that the food was “tasty” and the service “attentive,” but concluded: “The owner is ‘Mexican.’ We will not return. ‘America first.’”

Franco says he’s been inundated with messages of support. He says he’s not sure how the customers knew he was the owner or that he’s a native of Mexico.

He says he’ll frame the receipt as a reminder of how politicized the U.S. has become.

Louisiana men fined for unlawful egg-taking

GRAND CHENIER, La. (AP) — Two Louisiana men have been fined for illegally collecting alligator eggs.

The Times-Picayune (http://bit.ly/2kzGvyi) reports Paul Canik and Christopher Trahan of Grand Chenier were sentenced last month for their roles in stealing more than 500 eggs.

The report cites the state wildlife department as saying Canik, 48, collected the eggs from property not covered by his permit. Officials say Trahan, 25, helped transport the eggs.

Canik pleaded no contest to illegal possession of alligator eggs and criminal trespass. He was fined $643 and ordered to forfeit $1,740 from the sale of eggs and a boat. Trahan pleaded no contest to not abiding by rules and regulations. He was ordered to pay a $293 fine.

The state says its alligator industry is valued at more than $50 million annually.