8:30 am Newscast

Crawfish prices have dropped another 50-cents and as Brooke Thorrington explains, these could be the lowest prices of the season.

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Several property insurance reform bills have received final legislative passage, including a measure Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple says House Bill 611 allows insurers to drop some policies after three years

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With 38 years under its belt Festival International is still going strong. And it’s happening in Lafayette this weekend. President of the Lafayette Convention and Visitors Commission, Ben Berthelot says the event attracts more than 300,000 visitors from 42 different states and 10 different countries to Acadiana.

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Twenty-one people from Shreveport and Bossier City face federal bank fraud charges for allegedly stealing nearly seven million dollars from U-S-A-A customers. U-S Attorney Brandon Brown says several employees at the Teleperformance Call Center in Shreveport obtained account information and shared it with others..

Cut 9 (11) “…gain.”