The founder of the Cajun Navy 2016, Jon Bridgers of Walker, has been arrested on contractor fraud accusations. His lawyer Philip House says Bridgers insists it’s a contractual dispute wrought with miscommunication with a homeowner, who is rebuilding following the August flood of 2016…
Bridgers was invited to Washington D.C. for President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union Address.
The on-line restaurant delivery service Waitr, which is based in Lake Charles, has been sold to a Texas Billionaire, in a deal worth 308 million dollars. Waitr was founded in 2015 and has grown to 30 metro areas from Texas to South Carolina. Chris Meaux the company’s founder will continue as chairman of the board of directors.
Latest job numbers show that more Louisiana residents are employed than ever before. According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. Director of the Louisiana Workforce Commission, Ava Dejoie, says the leisure and hospitality industry, along with technology and construction helped New Orleans gain 29-hundred jobs in the past month. Houma’s job numbers remained steady over the last month, but she says there’s been a 500-percent job gain in that market over the year…
The state’s unemployment rate fell nearly one-percent from April of 2017 to April 2018.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports Joe Burrow, a graduate transfer quarterback from Ohio State, has chosen to continue his college career at LSU. Burrow will be eligible to play this season and he’ll have two years of eligibility left. That gives LSU four players who will compete to be the starting quarterback in the fall, unless one of them decides to transfer out.