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BATON ROUGE, La.-- A week after rejecting a bill that would have prohibited employers from paying unequal wages for the same job based on gender, the Louisiana Senate reworked the proposal Wednesday to apply only to state employees. Murray, D- New Orleans, said women in Louisiana routinely make less than men who perform the same jobs.
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LONDON, May 23- A group of U.S. accountancy professors is backing BP's fight to rein in compensation it has to pay for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, which is threatening to add billions of dollars to its growing bill for the disaster.
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*Delta eyes chances to ship jet fuel to Midwest markets. And it expect costs will fall further as Delta ramps up supplies of cheap crude to the refinery from the Bakken play in North Dakota.
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BATON ROUGE, La.-- Louisiana lawmakers have delayed the start date of Gov. With a 35-0 vote Wednesday, the state Senate gave final legislative passage to a one-year suspension of the law that had been slated to take effect in July. With the delay, it will apply to workers hired after July 1, 2014 _ if the law is upheld by the Supreme Court.
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BATON ROUGE, La.-- A proposal in Louisiana to ban employers and schools from demanding access to personal online accounts has been scrapped. Ted James, D- Baton Rouge, ran into concerns in the Senate that he said Wednesday can't be worked out before the session ends June 6.
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SEATTLE-- It's hard to miss the enormous 20- foot- wide American flag on the side of Richard Ormbrek's home. This is actually the second major art project that Ormbrek has put on the house he shares with brother-in-law Bruce Edenso.
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*Delta eyes chances to ship jet fuel to Midwest markets. And it expect costs will fall further as Delta ramps up supplies of cheap crude to the refinery from the Bakken play in North Dakota.
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BATON ROUGE, La.-- The Louisiana Public Service Commission will reconsider a decision to shelve a planned statewide energy efficiency program, after a lawsuit challenged the commission's previous handling of the issue.
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CNBC has been ranking all 50 states for competitiveness since 2007. This year's report comes as states continue to get back in fighting shape—fighting for jobs, that is.
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We score all the states on 55 measures of competitiveness and 10 categories, from the cost of doing business to technology and innovation.
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BATON ROUGE, La.-- Louisiana's utility regulatory agency will reconsider a decision to shelve a planned statewide energy efficiency program.
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NEW ORLEANS-- Louisiana's state-regulated casinos all won less money in April than in March. April winnings totaled $196.4 million, up $4.9 million from April 2012 _ before the L'Auberge of Baton Rouge opened. Harrah's New Orleans took in $25.8 million, 18.3 percent below March and 3.9 percent below April 2012.
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COVERT TOWNSHIP, Mich.-- Operators of the idled Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in southwestern Michigan say repairs to a tank that leaked slightly radioactive water into Lake Michigan will take until early summer to complete. New Orleans- based Entergy Corp. idled the plant May 5 after operators found a tank leaking faster than regulations allow.
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WASHINGTON, May 20- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has authority to try to speed up the process for installing wireless communications towers when local governments have been slow to act.
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May 18- Texas has joined the crowd of Gulf of Mexico states to file suit against BP Plc, Halliburton Co and others for their role in one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history. Texas joins four other states that have sued BP and other companies in connection to the spill: Florida and Mississippi filed complaints last month, while Alabama and Louisiana did in 2010..
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WASHINGTON, May 18- Cybersecurity professionals know a myriad of ways hackers can try to wreak havoc on critical infrastructure or infiltrate corporations to steal or spy, but it is the fear of the unknown that some say keeps them up at night.
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WASHINGTON, May 17- Unemployment rates dropped in 43 out of the 50 U.S. states and in the District of Columbia in April from a year before, according to Labor Department data released on Friday. A handful of states, including Illinois, Delaware, Indiana, Wisconsin, Mississippi and New Hampshire saw their jobless rates rise over the year.
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LAS VEGAS-- Nevada regulators have approved Pinnacle Entertainment Inc.' s buyout of rival Ameristar Casinos Inc.. Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. has said the acquisition would save it at least $40 million a year and boost earnings. Ameristar's holdings include casinos in Missouri, Iowa, Colorado, Mississippi, Indiana and Nevada.
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NEW ORLEANS-- Tidewater approved the repurchase of up to $200 million shares of its stock, the offshore fleet services provider said Friday. Tidewater Inc. also declared a quarterly dividend of 25 cents per share. The dividend will be paid on June 14 to shareholders of record on June 4.
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NEW ORLEANS, May 16- The deadline for claims against BP Plc in connection with the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill is 11 months away, but the man responsible for paying the claims said on Thursday he is already bracing for a late surge in filings.