Former Avoyelles Correctional Center warden Nate Cain has entered a guilty plea on wire fraud charges. The plea comes during his federal corruption trial in Alexandria and right before his ex-wife was set to testify against him. With the plea, Cain admits to purchasing gun parts with state money. The 51-year old will be sentenced June 17th and is facing time in Federal prison and pay restitution.
There’s concern that processors who sell pre-peeled crawfish meat won’t have enough foreign H-2B visa workers to peel all of the crawfish on the market. Only 33,000 visas are made available every six months, and Farm Bureau public policy coordinator Brian Breaux says around 100,000 applicants generally pursue the economically vital manual laborers.
An AgCenter report indicates Louisianans eat about 10 and a half pounds of crawfish every year.
The app Sick Weather has issued an alert for allergy sufferers. Kevin Barnhart has the story.
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Spring has finally arrived, and with it the possibility for spring showers that could dump enough water to flood your home, and National Flood Insurance Chief Executive David Maurstad says it’s time to get covered. He says 30 percent of all flood claims are from moderate to low risk areas, something southeast Louisiana learned the hard way in 2016…