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Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms were down across wide swathes of the world today. Facebook’s internal systems used by employees also went down.

DIF Capital Partners, a global infrastructure investment fund manager, today announced an agreement to acquire Bernhard, LLC, the New Orleans-based energy services firm owned by Baton Rouge-based private equity firm Bernhard Capital Partners.

The commercial pipeline that each year brings $1 trillion worth of toys, clothing, electronics and furniture from Asia to the U.S. is clogged and no one knows how to unclog it.

The board of directors for the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana has selected Steven Procopio, currently PAR’s policy director, to be the group's next president. 

IMAC Holdings INC has expanded its services into Louisiana with the acquisition of Louisiana Orthopaedic and Sports Rehab Institute in Baton Rouge, the company announced Monday.

Nearly every other major oil company has abandoned algae research after a flurry of investment at the start of the last decade yielded few results. It’s another example of how ExxonMobil appears to be on a divergent path from its peers. 

The four hospitals that deliver babies in Baton Rouge were among 16 statewide to attain a new designation from the Louisiana Department of Health that recognizes facilities committed to improving quality and outcomes for those giving birth.

A power outage on Baton Rouge Metro Airport property that began Friday night and continued into Saturday, shut down fuel pumps at the airport and forced four commercial flights to make unplanned stops at other airports to refuel.

West Feliciana Parish President Kenny Havard says he’s willing to explore any viable option to reopen and preserve the Bluffs at Thompson Creek golf course, but his parish doesn’t have the resources to take it over and run it. 

President Joe Biden’s administration says it has followed a court order to schedule an...