One of the greatest athletes to ever play at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette has passed away. Jeff Palermo has more on the loss of Bo Lamar who has died at the age of 74….
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The Lenten Season has arrived and seafood is in demand. Joe Gallinaro on how the supply looks…
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Carnival is over for 2026. As you may know, Carnival is a predominantly Catholic festival, and it was the first for the new Archbishop of New Orleans, James Checchio (CHECK-ee-oh). Coming to New Orleans from New Jersey, Archbishop Checchio says he was welcomed with open arms.
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Archbishop Checchio says he was impressed with all the traditions of Carnival in New Orleans.
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So with the end of Carnival comes the start of Lent, which is a 40-day period of fasting and abstinence in the Catholic church. Checchio says fasting doesn’t always have to refer to refraining from eating food.
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A Rapides Parish woman is convicted in connection with a wildfire west of Glenmora nearly three years ago. Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain says Carrie Willis was negligent as she was burning household trash on her property.
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Strain says the guilty verdict will cost Willis almost ten-thousand dollars as part of her sentence.
Strain says the incident came at a time when wildfires were rampant in Louisiana and neighboring states due to a historic drought.
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The University of Louisiana at Lafayette athletics is mourning the death of former basketball standout Bo Lamar who died earlier this week in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio at the age of 74. Lamar starred for the Ragin Cajuns from 1969 to 1973 and was one of the best basketball players in the country. Kevin Foote covers U-L Lafayette athletics for the Advocate…
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Lamar averaged 31 points a game during his career and over his final three seasons, the Cajuns were 74-13 and only UCLA had a higher winning percentage. Foote says Lamar was the catalyst for then-Southwestern Louisiana’s rise from an NAIA program to one of the top programs in the country at the Division One level…
Lamar scored 3,493 points, which ranks third on the NCAA’s all-time scoring list. The former All-American guard played a few seasons in the ABA and also one season for the NBA Los Angeles Lakers. When his playing career ended, Lamar worked as a color analyst on Cajuns men’s basketball TV broadcasts and he was a high school coach in Lafayette before returning to Ohio.
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As Lent begins and Catholics abstain from meat on Fridays, Ash Wednesday, and Good Friday, demand for Louisiana fresh seafood increases. Harlon Pearce of Harlan’s LA Fish in Kenner says there’s a lot of great seafood to choose from…
Pearce says the wild catfish caught in Louisiana is amazing…
Pearce says crabs are expensive right now and there is shrimp available, but the supply of shrimp does not pick up until April and May. He says there is crawfish and prices will go down as we get closer to Easter…