Tomorrow is the deadline to enroll for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act. Healthcare-dot-gov CEO Kevin Counihan says over 200,000 Louisianians have already signed up for coverage through the federal insurance marketplace. He says the penalty for choosing not to have health insurance has gone up this year…

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Counihan says there is still plenty of time to get coverage before Sunday night’s midnight deadline.

On the final day of the LHSAA convention, high school principals voted for select and non-select playoffs in basketball, baseball and softball, just like what’s already in place for football. The vote was 182-120 for the expanded split. Beekman Charter principal Roy McCoy says nothing good comes out of further dividing the LHSAA…

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The split playoffs for basketball, baseball and softball will go into effect for the 2016-17 school year.

The Drive Sober or Get Pulled over campaign is in effect this Mardi Gras parade season. Executive director of the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission, Lt. Col John Leblanc, says law enforcement is publicizing this increase in officers and patrols in hopes that it will deter people from driving drunk…

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The campaign runs through Fat Tuesday.

The LSU board of supervisors is taking steps that would pave the way for a statue of Pete Maravich to be erected on campus. An athletics policy currently blocks a statue of Pistol Pete, because he didn’t graduate. Former star LSU basketball player Collis Temple, who integrated the team, says the legacy of Maravich must be preserved…:

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The policy would say instead of a degree, 100 credit hours would be required and Maravich would meet that.