6:30 LRN Newscast October 4

Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality Secretary Chuck Brown says he’s trying to do something about the problem of tires getting illegally dumped…
cut 11 (11) “…arrested people”
Brown appeared as a guest on Talk Louisiana with Jim Engster and says fees have been raised this month for the state’s waste tire fee program as a way to beef up enforcement.

Louisiana Congressman Ralph Abraham is asking the U-S-D-A to provide solutions for soybean farmers who are having a hard time finding places to store their harvested soybeans. Abraham says the trade war with China has kept a higher than normal amount of soybeans here and storage facilities are filling up…
cut 5 (08) “….offload them all”

50-year-old Meshell Hale of Slaughter has been indicted on first-degree murder as she’s accused of poisoning an East Baton Rouge man she claimed she was married to, 41-year-old Damian Skipper….
cut 3 (30) “….I’m Matt Doyle”