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A large explosion and fire hit a Williams Olefins chemical plant in southern Louisiana, injuring at least 30 people, authorities said.
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NEW ORLEANS-- Citing a history of inmate deaths, sexual assaults, beatings, stabbings and poor medical care at the New Orleans jail, a federal judge on Thursday approved an agreement between the U.S. Justice Department and the city's sheriff aimed at reforming the notoriously dangerous lockup.
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CHICAGO, June 6- Illinois' bond rating slid down the credit scale on Thursday to the lowest level in the state's history as Moody's Investors Service cut it a notch and Standard& Poor's Ratings Services warned that the state could fall into the triple-B category.
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HOUSTON-- Houston Fire Chief Terry Garrison saluted an honor guard member, received from him an American flag and a return salute, then turned on his heels and knelt before grieving relatives of a firefighter killed on the job.
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BATON ROUGE, La.-- State agencies will be prohibited from paying unequal wages based on gender to their employees for the same job, under a bill that received final passage Tuesday from the Louisiana Senate. Ed Murray, D- New Orleans, sponsor of the proposal, said women in Louisiana routinely make less than men who perform the same jobs.
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WASHINGTON, June 3- Fourteen Republican-led states that oppose expanding Medicaid under President Barack Obama's health reform will leave 3.6 million of their poorest adult residents uninsured, at a cost of $9.4 billion per year by 2017, researchers said on Monday.
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*As storm season starts, Florida worries about insurance. *Florida has not been hit by a major hurricane since 2005. "It's very fortunate for Florida that is has been able to build up its reserves, but the fact of the matter is that Florida is living on borrowed time," said Robert Hartwig, president of the Insurance Information Institute.
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May 30- Thirty-three states have enlisted the federal government to run their health insurance exchanges under President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona, Aetna Inc, Cigna Corp and Humana Inc filed documents for exchange products with the state department of insurance.
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WASHINGTON, May 30- The White House, seeking to show early success for President Barack Obama's health reforms, said more than 120 insurers have applied to sell plans on federally-run online marketplaces that begin offering subsidized coverage in just over four months.
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SINGAPORE, May 30- London copper pulled back on Thursday on fears the United States could start curbing its monetary stimulus programme earlier than expected, dimming the demand outlook for metals. *The most-traded copper contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange, for September, fell 0.89 percent to 52,150 yuan a tonne.
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WASHINGTON, May 29- The U.S. Commerce Department on Wednesday set preliminary duties of up to nearly 63 percent on shrimp from Malaysia to offset government subsidies, but much lower duties on shrimp from China, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and Ecuador.
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WASHINGTON, May 29- The Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday it filed a complaint aimed at stopping casino operator Pinnacle Entertainment Inc from buying rival Ameristar Casinos Inc because the merger would reduce competition and lead to higher prices for customers in St. Louis and Lake Charles, Louisiana.
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WASHINGTON, May 29- The Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday that it filed a complaint aimed at stopping casino operator Pinnacle Entertainment Inc from buying rival Ameristar Casinos Inc..
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May 29- A $100 million database set up to store extensive records on millions of public school students has stumbled badly since its launch this spring, with officials in several states backing away from the project amid protests from irate parents.
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The FDA said full clinical information about the patients is still being gathered, but it suggested some of the problems were infections and that "at least one of these infections appears to be fungal in nature." The FDA has since stepped up its oversight of pharmacies that compound drugs tailored to specific patient needs.
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LONDON, May 24- A group of accountancy professors is backing BP's fight to cap the U.S. oil spill compensation payouts it has to fund as the cash outflow threatens to add billions of dollars to its bill for the disaster.
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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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*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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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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