Grim budget-rebalancing task awaits returning La. lawmakers

BATON ROUGE - Louisiana's lawmakers are trudging back to work for a special deficit-closing session that many of them didn't want to have.Gov. John Bel Edwards has called them back to the Capitol to close a $304 million deficit.The session opens at 6:30 p.m. Monday.It will have little of the festive air that normally marks lawmakers' return to Baton Rouge.Instead, they're gathering for an unlikeable chore, rebalancing the state's $27 billion operating budget and making spending cut decisions.Hou