Oil prices have fallen to a three month low at just over $40 a barrel. Associate Director of the Tulane Energy Institute, Eric Smith, says he expects prices to continue to go up and come back down. He says there is too much supply to help oil prices rebound completely, and companies keep drilling more.

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Compensation for disabled veterans should go up next year because of a bill by Congressman Ralph Abraham that’s just been signed into law. Abraham says veterans have been failed by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the VA has got to get better.

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Abraham says the cost of living adjustment will affect compensation for disability, dependents, and clothing allowance.

A record number of students scored an 18 or higher on the ACT, which makes them eligible for college acceptance. State Superintendent John White says over 25-thousand students earned that score or higher last school year.

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White credits the rise to a 2012 initiative that allows students to take the exam at no cost.

The LHSAA has decided that Eddie Bonine will remain as executive director even after he called the organization a “proverbial dumpster fire.” Bonine says he will remain in this position until his contract is up in 2019. He says it will be tough to mend the fences with some of the executive members.

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Bonine did apologize for his dumpster fire comment.