COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A parole board decided unanimously Wednesday that Susan Smith should remain in prison, despite her plea that God has forgiven her for infamously killing her two young sons 30 years ago by rolling her car into a South Carolina lake while they were strapped in their car seats.

• The U.N. Environment Programme estimates that close to 36% of all plastics produced in the world are single-use food and beverage containers. While most of these can be recycled, very few actually are. One way to help is to buy fresh fruits and vegetables unpackaged, unbagged and unwrapped. Avoid pre-washed salad mixes, precut fruit and cling-wrapped fresh produce. And opt for eggs in cardboard over plastic containers; paper cartons are most likely made from recycled paper.

On Monday the Oklahoma Broadband Office (OBO) and Dobson Fiber launched eight projects aimed at “high-speed internet expansion in rural Oklahoma.” The cost of the projects will total $17.3 million with $11.6 million of the funding coming from “federal grants administered by the OBO”; and should “connect 1,829 homes and businesses with broadband internet using fiber optic technology.” In addition to Custer County, the projects will target the counties of Atoka, Beckham, Garvin, Grady, Greer, Muskogee, and Washita.