WASHINGTON, DC – B. Jeffrey “Jeff” Brooks was elected Chair of the Adams and Reese Executive Committee and Partners Reber M. “Mitch” Boult and Leslie M. Henry were elected to serve on the firm’s Executive Committee. Brooks’ selection as Chair…
NEW ORLEANS - Gillis, Ellis & Baker is pleased to welcome a new addition to its Risk Management Department. Joe Eubanks joined the GEB team in January. In his role as Risk Management Specialist with GEB, Joe delivers onsite training…
NEW ORLEANS - President and CEO of Fidelity Bank, Chris Ferris recently announced Jamie Sablich has been promoted to Senior Vice President and Commercial Banking Manager. He will lead the commercial lenders and the Small Business Administrator department. Previously Sablich…
NEW ORLEANS - The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Louisiana (HCCL) is pleased to announce the election of new Officers for our Board of Directors. The newly elected Chair beginning January 2018 for a two-year term is Jacqueline Brettner, Partner…
COVINGTON - Pat Brister, St. Tammany Parish President, announced today that Rick Moore, Solid Waste, Litter Enforcement Office and Executive Director of Keep St. Tammany Beautiful, was recognized on the national level with the 2017 Environmental Officer Award at Keep…
METAIRIE - Patrick Thomas has been promoted to Senior Project Manager at Ryan Gootee General Contractors, LLC. Thomas, who has worked in general commercial construction for over 10 years will be responsible for planning, organizing, and directing all phases of…
METAIRIE - Ryan Gootee General Contractors, LLC, of Metairie, LA, has recently hired Karl Pfefferle as Assistant Project Manager. Karl is a graduate from the University of New Orleans with a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies and is currently…
BATON ROUGE - The Louisiana Motor Transport Association (LMTA) announced that Chance McNeely has been selected to lead the organization as its new Executive Director. The announcement concludes a diligent, months-long effort by the LMTA Board of Directors to fill…
NEW ORLEANS – The Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Louisiana SPCA) announces its newly elected board of directors and officers for 2018. President: Walker Saik -Ernst & Young Vice President: Machelle Hall, Public Law Center – Tulane University Secretary: Colette…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department's plan to provide only partial loan forgiveness to some students defrauded by for-profit colleges could reduce overall payments by about 60 percent, according to a preliminary analysis obtained by The Associated Press. The agency…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippians are getting closer to being able to buy alcohol at distilleries and carry alcohol through dry counties without fear of arrest. House members on Wednesday approved the measures, sending them to the Senate for more…
NEW JERSEY - (AP) - Instead of holding criminal defendants on cash bail, courts around the United States are increasingly using algorithmic risk-assessment tools to help judges decide if a defendant should be jailed or go free while awaiting trial.…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Investigators found evidence of prostitution, drug sales or what they described as lewd acts at several French Quarter strip clubs raided in the past two weeks, authorities said Monday. Prostitution was seen at most of the…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — People who have put out ladders, sofas or other property on public land in New Orleans as parade-route placeholders have probably already lost them, a city official said Tuesday. Parks and Parkways head Ann MacDonald said…
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A federal judge refused Tuesday to order a temporary halt to construction of a crude oil pipeline through a river swamp in south Louisiana, a setback for environmental groups challenging the project. U.S. District Judge…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Officials say marsh restoration is complete at Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge, and the refuge is now open to hunting outside the levee system. The restoration project used sediment pumped from Lake Pontchartrain to create brackish…
GEISMAR, La. — Today, Gov. John Bel Edwards and BASF Senior Vice President Tom Yura announced that BASF will invest in the development of its methylene diphenyl diisocyanate, or MDI, capacity at its Louisiana chemical complex in Geismar. BASF plans to…
NEW ORLEANS - The Young Leadership Council of New Orleans (YLC) has launched a new recycling program for Mardi Gras this year in hopes to counter the reported 940 tons of waste collected off the streets during the carnival season.…
AVONDALE - Following a public request for proposals process, the Jefferson Parish Economic Development Commission (JEDCO) has selected Perkins+Will to develop a master plan for the Churchill Technology & Business Park in the Fairfield area of Avondale. The award-winning global multi-disciplinary,…
NEW ORLEANS - The Domain Companies’ South Market District is a mixed-use, transit-oriented development at 1001 Julia Street combining luxury apartments with a mix of shops, great restaurants, and exciting entertainment venues in Downtown New Orleans. Corporate Realty is working with…
KENNER - The Jefferson Chamber Annual Meeting breakfast is one of the group's largest networking events of the year, and serves as an opportunity to celebrate the accomplishments of 2017 and honor those who have made significant contributions to the Jefferson…
NEW ORLEANS – Entergy New Orleans is moving forward with its commitment to include up to 100 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy resources in the company’s generation mix. Entergy New Orleans, LLC provides electricity to more than 198,000 customers and natural…
NEW ORLEANS - The Humana Foundation, an arm of major health insurance provider Humana Inc., announced that it will award “fewer, but larger” grants in 2018 focusing on social inequalities and for the first time identify partner organizations in communities.…
NEW ORLEANS - Edward Snowden, the highly-publicized whistleblower who leaked confidential government documents about a US surveillance system to journalists, spoke via teleconference at Tulane University on Jan. 29. Snowden spoke in real time from an undisclosed location in Moscow…
NEW YORK (AP) - The leaders of Amazon.com, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan announced the ambitious goal of improving health care coverage all of their employees. They say they are forming a new company that will be "free from profit-making incentives…
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's labor department is still plagued by a computer system put online in 2015 to manage the state's unemployment program just before Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration left office, according to an audit released Monday. The…
The U.S. stock market fell sharply Tuesday afternoon, on pace for its worst day since August and its first two-day losing streak in more than a month. Hefty losses in health care and technology stocks weighed on the market. Banks…
PITTSBURGH (AP) — When Donald Trump brought his presidential campaign to Pittsburgh in early 2016, he promised that as president he would restore the region's coal and steel industries. "There are few places that have been more devastated by our…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The man hired to run the long-troubled New Orleans jail in 2016 resigned Monday amid continued problems at the lockup, including inmate suicides, fights and drug overdoses. Those and other problems lingering at the jail during…
