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  • Livingston schools face more financial hurdles

    January 6, 2012 9:56 AM

    LIVINGSTON, La. (AP) - The president of the Livingston Parish school board says finances again will be the major challenge facing the school system in 2012. Malcolm Sibley says the board would be tasked with increasing capacity because of the parish's continued growth. The school board declared a financial exigency,... more »
  • Coalition Demands Financial Records from School Board Play Video

    December 9, 2011 7:34 PM

    In Saint Landry Parish, a newly formed group of educators is demanding financial records for the past three years from the St. Landry Parish School Board. This after at least one board member requested the same information. The Saint Landry United Coalition of Educators says the school board is... more »
  • Anti-Terrorism Requirements for Financial Institutions

    September 27, 2010 12:23 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration is proposing that banks report all electronic money transfers in and out of the country, expanding its anti-terrorism requirements for financial institutions. The Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network says the new requirement would boost their ability to track the source of funding for... more »
  • Financial Bailout Chief Announces Resignation

    September 22, 2010 10:57 AM

    WASHINGTON (AP) - Herb Allison, the head of the government's $700 billion financial bailout program, is resigning. Allison says in a letter to his colleagues in the Treasury Department's Office of Financial Stability that they had accomplished a great deal. He said that the bailout fund, known as the Troubled... more »
  • Finish Line in Sight for Major Financial Overhaul

    July 10, 2010 4:19 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) - Big changes are in store for the financial world from a government crackdown more than a year in the making. Democratic leaders in the Senate are trying to secure the final votes needed to pass legislation this coming week that would impose the most sweeping rules on... more »
  • Oil Spill: Moving on General News and Financial Services

    June 21, 2010 9:29 AM

    A summary of events on Monday, June 21, Day 62 of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that began with the April 20 explosion and fire on the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, owned by Transocean Ltd. and leased by BP PLC, which is in charge of cleanup and containment. The... more »
  • Financial Literacy Starts Early

    April 29, 2010 2:34 PM

    With credit card debt averages at about $16,000 dollars and last year's bankruptcy filings at more than a million, financial experts are worried about the future. CPA's and bankers from the Society of Louisiana Certified Public Accountants and from Junior Achievement spent Thursday teaching students across the state about... more »
  • February 21 is College Goal Sunday in Louisiana

    February 17, 2010 12:42 PM

    BATON ROUGE, La. - Louisiana's third annual College Goal Sunday will be held on February 21, 2010, from 2-4 p.m. at seventeen locations around the state. The purpose of College Goal Sunday is to provide students and their families with free professional assistance in completing the primary student financial aid... more »
  • Ponchatoula Man Arrested for Alleged Ponzi Scheme

    November 19, 2009 11:51 AM

    (Baton Rouge, LA)-Investigators with the Louisiana Attorney General's Office, with the assistance of the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office, arrested William J. Chaucer, Jr., of Ponchatoula, Louisiana today for creating a Ponzi scheme that has cost at least 200 investors over $11 million dollars. This arrest is the result of a... more »
  • Your Hard-Earned Money: Keep it. Save it. Play Video

    November 12, 2009 2:15 PM

    In Acadiana $30 million dollars in tax returns were left unclaimed last year. United Way of Acadiana has teamed up with the Acadiana Asset Building Coalition, 232-HELP, and the Department of Social Services to help people get their full returns and become money savvy. . "Earn it. Keep it.... more »
  • How to Deal With Freeloading Friends and Family

    October 6, 2009 2:50 PM

    Mellody Hobson Reveals Warning Signs, Ways to Stop Financial Freeloaders . more »

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