3:30 PM Newscast Feb 25

The regular legislative session is less than two months away, and the soaring cost of insurance is expected to be one of the big issues. Andrew Greenstein reports.

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Though Pope Francis, hospitalized with respiratory issues is improving and his condition has been upgraded from critical to serious, Teresa Tomeo (TOM-ee-oh), host of a daily EWTN talk show, says, he is not out of the woods yet and Catholics everywhere are praying for the Pope’s recovery.

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McNeese men’s basketball is regular season champs of the Southland Conference for a second straight season. This is only the second time the Cowboys have won back-to-back regular season championships. The first time they did it was the early 2000s. Coach Will Wade says it takes consistency to go back-to-back…

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It’s a beautiful warm Louisiana day. The cold weather appears to be behind us and Louisiana’s strawberry crop seems to have survived the historic snowfall and freezing weather. Darryl Poche, co-owner of Landry-Poche Strawberry Farm, says as the spring weather rolls in it will be a few short weeks before strawberries are ready to be picked.

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