It’s the five year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, which sent millions of barrels of oil into the gulf. Scott Carwile reports one LSU researcher says the Gulf has had a remarkable recovery…

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Military officials say a North Carolina based Army paratrooper was killed during a training exercise at Fort Polk. An Army spokesperson says 19-year-old Pvt. Joshua Phillips of Las Vegas, Nevada died while parachuting during an exercise. The cause of Phillips’s death is currently under investigation and no further information is being released. Phillips was a member of the 82nd Airborne and joined the Army in 2014.

Pierre Part Representative Karen St. Germain, chairwoman of the Louisiana House Transportation Committee, proposes a one cent sales tax that could generate $7 billion dollars over the next decade to help fund roads and bridges. She says there are many important issues being discussed this legislative session and this should be one of them…

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St. Germain also has a bill that would increase the state tax on gasoline based on the price at the pump to help offset depletion of revenues that are supposed to be dedicated to improving highway capacity and infrastructure.

According to the USDA, honey production in the United States was up 19 percent last year and continues to climb. Head of the USDA’s Baton Rouge Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics and Physiology Research, Thomas Rinderer, says this is good news since most of what we eat is dependent upon pollination by inspects, primarily bees…

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He says there was a long period of time where honeybee colonies were on the decline.