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La. businessman indicted in alleged Ponzi schemeNEW ORLEANS (AP) - A Louisiana businessman was charged Friday with engaging in a Ponzi scheme to defraud about 160 investors - mostly elderly people - out of roughly $19.5 million and using some of the money to pay for cars, cruises, sports... In this article: Louisiana, Ponchatoula, New Orleans Saints, and BMW |
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Louisiana sees decline in initial jobless claims
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Health bill helps wavering Louisiana senator
...is trying to persuade that state's wavering Democratic senator to cast a pivotal vote for the overhaul legislation. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., is among a handful of senators who have not said what they will do when Reid holds a showdown vote...
In this article: Mary Landrieu, Harry Reid, Medicaid, Hurricane Katrina, Congressional Budget Office, and Barack Obama
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Banking woes seen by La. company as opportunity
Since then, 24 other U.S. banking companies have returned the money. With $273.5 million from two stock offerings over the last year, Iberiabank is watchful for other acquisitions, though company officials have refused to speculate on...
In this article: Florida, FDIC, Century Bank, and Louisiana and Arkansas
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AEP subsidiary to buy La. cooperative
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) - A subsidiary of power generator American Electric Power plans to buy a Louisiana electric cooperative for $94 million in a deal expected to save the cooperative's members 20 percent a year on their electricity bills.
In this article: American Electric Power, Shreveport, Texas, and Arkansas
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CenturyLink gets deal with Louisiana
MONROE, La. (AP) - Telecommunications provider CenturyLink has agreed to add 350 jobs in Louisiana while maintaining its headquarters in the state for at least the next decade. Gov. Bobby Jindal revealed the deal after meeting with...
In this article: Embarq Corp., Bobby Jindal, Monroe, Louisiana Tech University, CenturyTel Inc, and Overland Park
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La. casinos see 6.9 percent revenue dip
...$8.9 million in October 2008. - The lone riverboat near Morgan City took an October slide: from $5.3 million last year to $3.8 million last month. The figures do not include the three Indian reservation casinos in Louisiana, which are...
In this article: Revenue, New Orleans, Texas, Recession, Harrah's Entertainment Inc., and Morgan City
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The State of Louisiana (/luːˌiːziːˈænə/ or /ˌluːziːˈænə/, État de Louisiane, pronounced [lwizjan]) is a state located in the southern region (Deep South) of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state divided into parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties. The largest parish by population is Jefferson Parish, and the largest by land area is Cameron Parish.
Some Louisiana urban environments have a multicultural, multilingual heritage, being so strongly influenced by an admixture of 18th century French, Spanish and African cultures that they have been considered somewhat exceptional in the U.S. Before the American influx and statehood at the beginning of the 19th century, the territory of current Louisiana State had been a Spanish and French colony. In addition, the pattern of development included importing numerous Africans in the 18th century, with many from the same region of West Africa, thus concentrating their culture.
- Name:
- Louisiana
- Also Known As:
- Bayou State Child of the Mississippi, Creole State Pelican State (official) Sportsman's Paradise Sugar State
- Capital:
- Baton Rouge
- Motto:
- Union, Justice, and Confidence, Union, justice, et confiance (French), Lunyon, justis, et confyans (Louisiana Creole)
- Largest City:
- New Orleans
- Governor:
- Bobby Jindal (R)
- Lieutenant Governor:
- Mitch Landrieu (D)
- Total Area:
- 135,382
- Area of Land:
- 112,927
- Area of Inland Water:
- 8,283
- Latitude:
- 28° 56′ N to 33° 01′ N
- Longitude:
- 88° 49′ W to 94° 03′ W
- Elevation Lowest Point:
- -9
- Lowest Point:
- New Orleans
- Elevation highest point:
- 535
- Highest Point:
- Driskill Mountain
- Admittance Date:
- April 30, 1812
- Time Zone:
- Central: UTC-6/-5
- Demonym:
- Louisianian, Louisianais (French)
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