The McNeese men’s basketball team is going dancing for a third straight year. Joe Gallinaro has the story…
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Louisiana’s Agriculture Commissioner is sounding the alarm over the lack of crawfish peelers. Andrew Greenstein has more…
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The McNeese Men’s basketball team is headed back to the NCAA Tournament for a third consecutive season after beating Stephen F Austin 76-59 in the Southland Tournament Championship game. Coach Bill Armstrong took over for Will Wade and keeps the streak of Big Dance invitations going, but Armstrong credits the players…
Armstrong becomes the first coach in Southland history to earn an NCAA Tournament bid in his first season as a Division One head coach.
Senior guard Javohn Garcia erupted for a career-high 31 points in the win. Garcia says the Cowboys were not going to let the Lumberjacks end their 27-game winning streak at home.
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McNeese is one of the few teams in college basketball to win three straight conference titles. Senior guard DJ Richards says earning their way into the big dance is an accomplishment no one can take away from them.
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Crude oil prices have surpassed 90-dollars a barrel and the statewide average price for a gallon of regular gasoline has reached $3.23, according to Triple-A. The International Energy Agency is releasing 400-million barrels of oil from strategic reserves, but LSU Center for Energy Studies director Greg Upton says that will not help with gas prices, instead it will ease short-term supply disruption…
Diesel now costs on average $4.55 a gallon, according to Triple-A. Upton says opening strategic reserves will have a small impact on the global oil price…
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As a result of the war with Iran, gas prices are up 70-cents over the last month. Upton expects to see high gas prices through the summer…
Cut 8 (08) “..down in the fall.”
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The commissioner of agriculture and forestry is sounding the alarm over the lack of crawfish peelers in the state. Mike Strain says this is because the Department of Homeland Security has stopped processing H-2B applications for skilled guest workers, preventing them from coming back.
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Strain says these guest workers are doing the work for upwards of 18 dollars an hour; and it’s work that Americans will not do, to the chagrin of crawfish farmers.
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Strain says of the 20 major crawfish processors, 15 of them have not received any guest workers, and the federal government’s inaction is on the verge of doing irreparable financial harm.
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The National Weather Service says as many as six tornadoes went through southeast last night impacting St. Helena, Tangipahoa, Washington and St. Tammany Parishes. There’s a lot of clean up in Tangipahoa Parish as a suspected tornado knocked down trees and power lines in areas around Roseland, Fluker and Kentwood. But Tangipahoa Parish president Robby Miller says no major property damage or deaths…
The severe weather has left thousands without power, but Miller says the situation is improving…