Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple approves Farm Bureau’s request for a nearly 12-percent auto insurance rate decrease. He says Farm Bureau is the first company that told him its rate decrease request is a direct result of the insurance reform package that the legislature passed this year. He says Louisiana is becoming a more attractive state for insurance companies to do business.
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Congressman Cleo Fields is denying allegations of insider trading. The news website NOTUS reports the Democrat is being investigated after he bought a large amount of Oracle stock days before President Trump signed an executive order that gave the company a leading role in TikTok’s pending U.S. spinoff from a Chinese company. Fields says he’s been trading stocks for a long time.
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It’s a light schedule of college football games this Saturday., but there are still games of interest. Jeff Palermo has a preview…
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And if you’re planning on spending time outdoors this weekend, temperatures will be warmer than normal throughout the state for this time of year. A disturbance near the Bahamas will bring rain to Southeast Louisiana that will last a few days. North of the I-12 corridor, however, will see little to no rain whatsoever.