LSU puts a wrap on the 2025 season playing Houston in the Texas Bowl tonight. Jeff Palermo has a preview.
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If oysters will be on your game time or New Year’s day menu, be sure to cook them thoroughly as an ongoing wide-spread salmonella outbreak is linked to raw oysters. The CDC reports 64 people across 22 states have been sick with the same strain of salmonella. So far, there’s been no recall.
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Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple says 30 auto insurance carriers filed for premium decreases in 2025. And he says they’ll continue to decline as legislation passed this year kicks in. But while premiums are going in the right direction, Temple says they’re still higher than in neighboring states…and he says one key factor is needed to get to that level.
Low commodity prices have made 2025 a difficult year for farmers. LSU AgCenter economist Michael Deliberto says Louisiana saw more than a 60-percent increase in corn acreage because of the low price of soybeans. But he says corn prices fell below the cost of production this summer. Rice prices also dropped 25-percent this year, and …