Starting next January, SNAP recipients will no longer be able to use their state issued EBT card to purchase soda, energy drinks and candy. Louisiana Health Secretary Bruce Greenstein (Green-steen) says the state’s SNAP program costs the federal government one-point-nine billion dollars and SNAP recipients use their benefits to purchase about 350-million dollars in soda every year…

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SNAP recipients can still purchase soda candy, but they’ll have to use their own money.

Louisiana Tech, LSU and Southern are sharing a grant from NASA that will allow the universities to create smarter ways to construct and fix large space structures without relying on bolts, screws or glue. La Tech chemical engineering professor, Doctor Andrew Peters, says Louisiana is the perfect place for this research, because of its strong plastics industry…

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With the new school year about to begin, Andrew Greenstein has some tips for kids to get to and from school safely.

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State Fire Marshal deputies have arrested a Ville Platte man for setting fire to a unit at an elderly and disabled senior living apartment complex in Ville Platte. Fifty-six-year-old William McBride has been charged with aggravated arson. Smoke alarms alerted residents, so everyone evacuated safely and no injuries were reported. A motive on why McBridge allegedly started the fire has not been released.