It’s been happening for 38 years, and this weekend Lafayette’s Festival International is hitting a high note.   President of the Lafayette Convention and Visitors Commission, Ben Berthelot says Festival International was created when the oil and gas industry was suffering in 1986 and is a great way to celebrate the Louisiana’s French.

Cut 8 (13) “…support it.” 
Twenty-one people from Shreveport and Bossier City stand accused of stealing nearly seven million dollars from U-S-A-A customers. U-S Attorney Brandon Brown says many military service members and elderly residents who did banking with U-S-A-A and did not check their accounts regularly had money taken from their account in 2021 and 2022…

Cut 10 (08) “…bank account balances.” 

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If you’ve been dying to get your hands on some good old Louisiana mudbugs, this weekend might just be the perfect time as crawfish prices have dropped to new lows. Crawfish App co-founder Laney King says the average price for a pound of live mudbugs in the Bayou State is $2.99.

Cut 12 (10) “…couple of weeks.” The average price for boiled crawfish is $5.29 a pound.
In case you missed it the Saints moved up four spots in the second round of the NFL draft to take Alabama cornerback Kool-Aid McKinstry with the 41st overall pick. McKinstry was a first-team A-P All-American for the Crimson Tide. New Orleans gave up a fifth and sixth round pick with Green Bay to move up the four spots to take McKinstry.

In college baseball, The Ragin Cajuns edged Southern Miss three to two. Old Dominion defeated ULM two to one in 12 innings. Louisiana Tech blanked Sam Houston two to nothing. And the LSU baseball took game one of three, beating Auburn five to nothing.