After watching gas prices fall for several weeks, they are starting to move back up as refineries perform maintenance to get ready for the busy summer season. Jeff Palermo has the story…:
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Lawmakers remain in a holding pattern with a week left to go in the special session as the House and Senate work to negotiate a compromise on ways to plug Louisiana’s massive current financial year budget deficit. The Upper chamber approved a bill Tuesday that would increase the state’s four-cent sales tax by another penny. The State House convenes at 2pm, but it remains to be seen if they will once again put off votes on tax bills the way they have the past two days.

The deadly weather system that blew through south Louisiana last Tuesday was a wake up call for many Louisiana residents. State Farm is out with a study that finds Louisiana comes in at number 11 for states in paid wind claims. Spokesperson Roszell Gadson says in 2015, State Farm paid 33-hundred wind and tornado claims on structures around the state. He says last week’s tornado outbreak illustrates we are in a very active part of the country when it comes to severe weather…:
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governor John Bel Edwards has declared this week Severe Weather week encouraging families to make sure they have a plan in place for their family in the event of another devastating storm, including have the appropriate insurance in place.

A mother is in the East Baton Rouge Parish prison following the death of her newborn, according to a warrant. Detectives say 36-year-old Jerasha Bowman allegedly used cocaine while she was pregnant, and the baby also tested positive after birth. Bowman is charged with negligent homicide.