A federal investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor at Flounder’s Chowder House found several pay practice and child labor violations, including the failure to pay sushi chefs overtime wages due and the employment of 15-year-old workers for more hours per week than the law allows.

The department’s Wage and Hour Division determined Fred Flounder Inc., operating as Flounder’s Chowder House, violated the Fair Labor Standards Act’s child labor, overtime and recordkeeping provisions by permitting seven, 15-year-olds to work beyond legally allowed hours, including working more than eight hours on a non-school day.

It’s not especially large; it’s tiny compared to its modern counterparts.

And it’s not fancy. Whatever beauty it might hold comes from its simplicity, a square room with hardwood floors and whitewashed walls, natural light streaming in from rows of simple rectangular windows.

Heavy rainfall and localized flash flooding, particularly of low lying and urban areas, is possible beginning late today, Tues., July 12, with the threat increasing through Sunday morning, according to the US National Weather Service in Mobile.

Two to four inches of rainfall are possible north of I-10 with those closer to the coast receiving four to six inches of rainfall. Storms could train over the area increasing the threat of flash flooding.