Another cold start to the morning, but we’ll begin to warm up today. COVID hospitalizations have quadrupled over the last month to 1,106 and COVID deaths since the pandemic started have surpassed 15-thousand. LSU football plays in the Texas Bowl tonight against Kansas State.

And on LSU’s campus tonight, the basketball court inside the PMAC will be named after former head coach Dale Brown. Kevin Gallagher has more…
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A new and healthier type of white rice has been developed in Louisiana. It’s called Parish Rice and it has 53% more protein and a glycemic index of 41 out of 100, the lowest of any white rice on the market. Parish Rice owner Michael Fruge of Eunice says many people avoid rice for health reasons, but he wants to educate the public on how much rice has changed…
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Parish Rice can also be found in select stores in southwest Louisiana and at parish-rice-dot-com.

Film crews are in Minden as H-G-T-V is featuring the Webster Parish town in a new series called Home Town Kickstart. The TV show will help revitalize Minden. Community activists Rachel Miller and Sarah McDaniel applied for H-G-T-V to feature Minden in this new show…
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The series will air late in the spring.