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Four tips from a recent BRAC Small Business Seminar on how to court investors when looking for capital. In short: What attracts money?

Entrepreneur: Lisa Boudreaux-Lecoq launched the The Gilded Artichocke Catering Co. by leasing a kitchen at a local country club.

Executive Spotlight: Rachel P. Cherco is one of five employees who has been with Investar Bank since its 2006 launch in Baton Rouge.

John Paul Funes, the former chief fundraiser for Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, was sentenced today to 33 months in federal prison for stealing nearly $800,000 from the hospital’s foundation.

An attorney “representing Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome” has put officials with the city of St. George on notice that a lawsuit is coming soon and they need to preserve any documents that could be relevant to the case.

In the wake of the St. George incorporation vote, Baton Rouge grapples with where to go from here and whether its city-parish government is forever broken.

A host of state and local leaders joined officials from the Pennington Biomedical Research...

St. George was mostly about a decidedly right-leaning group of residents wanting some independence from an increasing liberal city-parish government.

Gov. John Bel Edwards, despite GOP spin, has show fiscal restraint and political pragmatism in bailing Louisiana out of a deep financial hole.

Republican businessman Eddie Rispone is the clear pick of Publisher Rolfe McCollister in the gubernatorial runoff with Democrat John Bel Edwards.