11:30 am Newscast

Crawfish prices are down again this weekend in Louisiana. Experts say the average price for a pound of live mudbugs in Louisiana is now about $2.99. With prices down another 50-cents this week, Crawfish App co-founder Laney King says it’s all about supply and demand, so you don’t want to miss your change at what could be the lowest prices of the 2024 season.

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In addition to Louisiana, The Crawfish App also surveys the average prices in Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, and the Florida panhandle.

Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser is offering a cash reward to anyone with information with the vandalism of an historic French Quarter museum yesterday afternoon. Nungesser says surveillance cameras captured a woman spraying graffiti on a wall of the Presbytere around two yesterday afternoon. The presbytere is an example of colonial Spanish architecture and has been on the National Historic Registry since 1970.

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A package of Property insurance reform bills have received final legislative passage, including House Bill 611. One bill that’s heading to the governor’s desk removes an end date on the popular fortified roof program. Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple says this shows insurance companies that Louisiana is has a long-term commitment to resiliency…

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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 stolen bank information was used to issue counterfeit checks and others were recruited to deposit checks into their bank accounts in exchange for money…

Cut 11 (12) ” …individuals.”