NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana banking company sees the worst rash of bank failures in two decades as fertile ground to expand well beyond the state line. Two Florida banks recently acquired by Iberiabank Corp. may be only the start for the Lafayette-based ...
NEW ORLEANS - Louisiana's state-licensed casinos, continuing to wade through the economic downturn like their counterparts in other states, recorded a 6.9 percent drop in gambling revenue last month from the previous October, state police reported ...
NEW ORLEANS - Entergy Louisiana's 669,000 customers could face a bill of $208.9 million if state utility regulators agree with the company's plan to scuttle the Little Gypsy power plant conversion in southeastern Louisiana. ...
NEW ORLEANS - The head of steelmaker Nucor Corp. indicated Thursday that the possible cost of any carbon legislation that emerges from Congress is still a key concern as the company decides whether to build a pig iron plant in Louisiana or South America. ...
For October 2008 through September 2009, gamblers left behind $2.53 billion, down 8.8 percent from the $2.77 billion the casinos took in from October 2007 through September 2008, according to figures compiled from Mississippi State Tax Commission ...
BATON ROUGE, La. - Louisiana's state-licensed casinos came out of the year after the September 2008 financial meltdown not much worse for the wear - at least as far as taking in money from gamblers - and much better off than casinos in many other states. ...
BATON ROUGE, La. - After nearly a year of delay because of the national freeze in credit markets, Pinnacle Entertainment Inc.'s proposed riverboat casino in Baton Rouge has been put on a schedule that could see the games begin in late 2011. ...
The ship is made with steel from the World Trade Center. Published: 10/14/2009 2:26 AM Last Modified: 10/14/2009 2:26 AM A Navy assault ship built with tons of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center towers began its journey to New York on Tuesday, ...
AVONDALE, La. - A Navy assault ship built with tons of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center towers began its journey to New York on Tuesday, sailing down the Mississippi River in a pea-soup fog as watchers along the levee strained for a glimpse. ...
president of the Cigar Association of America, a Washington, D.C.-based trade group of distributors and manufacturers. "There are a lot of aficionados out there." NEW ORLEANS — With the world becoming ever less welcoming for tobacco smoke of all kinds, ...
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