Starting this month, the department of environmental quality is increasing the fee to recylce used tires. Matt Doyle tells us why.
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Gasoline prices appear to be on the rise as the state’s average price for a gallon of regular gasoline increased two-cents over night to $2.65. Triple-A says that’s about seven-cents more than a week ago and we are now paying 33-cents more than a year ago.

A 50-year-old Slaughter woman is headed to trial in Baton Rouge after she was indicted on a First Degree Murder charge in the death of her boyfriend Damian Skipper, who she allegedly poisoned to death with barium in 2015. Investigators say Meshell Hale received 10,000 dollars in life insurance as a result of Skipper’s death, who she claimed to be her husband. East Baton Rouge DA Hillar Moore says it’s not often you see cases of alleged poisoning.
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New Orleans Police are also investigating Hale for the death of her husband Arthur Noflin.

Louisiana soybean farmers are dealing with wet weather during harvest and there’s also no place to put their crop because of the trade dispute with China. US Representative Ralph Abraham says he’s asked the U-S-D-A to find places where farmers can store their harvested soybeans…
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China usually buys 60-percent of U-S soybeans, but heavy tariffs on the U-S soybean crop have kept the beans from going to Asia.