NEW YORK (AP) — This year showed how sheltered the U.S. economy is from geopolitical and health crises around the world. The global economy sputtered, but the U.S. powered ahead. Employers are finally hiring enough to lower unemployment. A plunge…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is back, and ready to drive global growth in 2015. After long struggling to claw its way out of the Great Recession, the world's biggest economy is on an extended win streak that…
NEW YORK (AP) — Can the U.S. hold everyone else above water? That is the question investors are asking as Wall Street heads into 2015. A strong U.S. economy helped propel the stock market higher in 2014, continuing a…
NEW YORK (AP) – Stocks delivered again in 2014. Even after a poor start in January and wobbles in October and December, the U.S. market has climbed 13 percent and is ending the year close to record levels. The…
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Smoking will be banned near state-owned office buildings, drunken driving statutes will be rewritten and payday lenders will have to offer no-fee installment plans as nearly two dozen laws take effect with the start of the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Few issues in a presidential campaign come close to being as meaningful as the economy. The latest Associated Press-GfK poll offers a look at how the public feels about this issue, which touches nearly every aspect of…
BATON ROUGE (AP) — The following is a list of Louisiana's top stories in 2014 as selected by AP reporters and editors in Louisiana: U.S. SENATE RACE Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy defeated Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu, denying…
BATON ROUGE (AP) — As the year comes to an end, LSU is rolling full steam ahead, as they have filled deanships at the main campus level, given out faculty pay raises that has somewhat restored morale, privatized its hospitals…
KROTZ SPRINGS, LA (AP) — With taxis few and no regularly scheduled public transportation in St. Landry Parish, club operators face a dilemma on Wednesday, one of their biggest nights of the year. No matter what on New Year's…
BAYOU BLUE, LA (AP) — The North Lafourche Levee District is proposing a new levee project in Bayou Blue and asking for state money to begin construction. Dwayne Bourgeois, the levee district's executive director, tells The Courier’s Meredith Burns…
BILOXI, MS (AP) — The Biloxi City Council has made it illegal for spectators to throw anything onto parade floats or at marchers. The Sun Herald’s Mary Perez reports Councilwoman Dixie Newman said Tuesday it seemed senseless to need…
NEW ORLEANS – Mayor Mitch Landrieu applauded the successes of the City’s economic development efforts during 2014. Throughout the year, the Mayor’s Office of Economic Development and the New Orleans Business Alliance continued to celebrate the attraction of nationally recognized…
PONCHATOULA, LA — Gov. Bobby Jindal and Elmer Chocolate CEO Robert Nelson announced on Tuesday the company will make a $40 million capital investment and construct a 70,000-square-foot addition at the company’s production facility in Ponchatoula. The company will retain…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — First NBC Bank Holding Co. says it's buying State-Investors Bank and expects to pay about $51 million to stockholders of State Investors Bancorp Inc. A news release says First NBC expects to pay about $49…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A state judge has halted plans to build a coal export terminal in Plaquemines Parish that has drawn opposition from residents and environmentalists concerned about pollution. State Judge Kevin D. Conner in Belle Chasse ruled…
NEW ORLEANS – Regional law firm Chaffe McCall congratulates 22 of its attorneys, from offices in New Orleans and Lake Charles, who have been selected for inclusion as 2015 Louisiana Super Lawyers. Only five percent of attorneys in each state…
HOUMA, LA (AP) — Greyhound is seeking to include Houma in a new route from Baton Rouge to New Orleans beginning in February. The Courier’s Aaren Gordon reports the route would go through Gonzales, Houma and LaPlace. There would…
HOUMA, LA (AP) — Officials say construction on downtown Houma's Ellender Parking Lot may be finished ahead of schedule. The public parking lot has been closed since Oct. 27 for repairs and replacement. The deadline for contract completion…
LAFAYETTE, LA (AP) — The renovation of the main branch of the Lafayette Public Library will continue into the new year with a new completion date in April. After breaking ground in May 2013, the original shell of the…
LAFAYETTE, LA (AP) — University of Louisiana at Lafayette students and faculty could find an easier commute into the heart of campus next semester with a $21 million, six-story parking tower set to open next month. The Advocate’s Seth…
LAFAYETTE, LA (AP) — A state audit finds South Louisiana Community College administration did not maintain sufficient controls over the Federal Pell Grant Program for the seventh consecutive year. The Louisiana Legislative Auditor report released Monday says SLCC failed…
LAKE CHARLES, LA (AP) — Tales of the fire that devastated Lake Charles in 1919, other historical information and ghost stories all are part of a free new smartphone app about the city's Charpentier Historic District. The app offers…
NEW ORLEANS — Mayor Mitch Landrieu noted the tremendous success of the cultural economy and tourism sectors in 2014 as the city hosted record-breaking, world-class events, received global tourism accolades, attracted major film projects and continued improvements to the permitting…
NEW ORLEANS – Mayor Mitch Landrieu recorded the 2014 progress in completing construction and breaking ground on new facility and capital improvement projects citywide. In 2014, the City completed twenty-three priority facilities with a total investment of over $88.8 million.…
HOUSTON (AP) — Oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. says the number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. plunged by 35 last week to 1,840. The Houston firm said Monday in its weekly report…
BATON ROUGE (AP) — A state audit finds the state Department of Transportation and Development failed to win federal approval for change orders on more than $1 million in projects, which could endanger future federal aid. Legislative Auditor Daryl…
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Federal regulators have decreased fines assessed against Williams Olefins over a June 2013 explosion at its plant in Ascension and Iberville parishes that killed two and injured more than 100 people. The…
GULFPORT, MS (AP) — Two Texas attorneys have asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by three Mississippi businessmen who argue they are owed $7.9 million for steering to the lawyers thousands of people seeking to resolve claims…
NEW ROADS, LA (AP) — Pointe Coupee Parish school district officials have high hopes for a proposal to transform Pointe Coupee Central High into a science, technology, engineering and math academy. Schools Superintendent Linda D'Amico last month sold the…
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Organizers of a new coastal restoration project hope to show how these kind of projects can be done swiftly and somewhat cheaply through private investment, rather than solely depending on government to lead the way. …
