Local crime, high school sports, county politics, events tonight, and business closings — the daily Ark-La-Tex report from HERE Shreveport.
Events
SHREVEPORT, La. — Northwest Louisiana will salute its military veterans with two public events this week, an honor ceremony in Bossier City on Friday and the 16th annual Veterans Parade at the Louisiana State Fairgrounds in Shreveport on Sunday afternoon. The Veterans Celebration Committee is staging both events and wants…
Events
SHREVEPORT, La. — Students in north Louisiana high schools and colleges who are thinking about careers in medicine can spend a day inside a working medical school when LSU Health Shreveport holds its annual Pre-Med Day on Saturday, Nov. 21. Sessions run from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. at the…
Events
SHREVEPORT, La. — Volunteers of America North Louisiana will cut the ribbon Tuesday on a new Veterans Safe Haven at 1717 Irving Place, in the Highland section of Shreveport, a building meant to give homeless veterans a stable place to sleep and a path toward a home of their own.…
From Merger Monday
Monday’s deal tape had a pattern. Nearly every buyer already owned a piece of what it was buying. Crédit Agricole holds 29.6% of Banco BPM and wants to reach about 45% by folding its Italian bank into the Milan lender, structured so that it never has to make a tender offer…
From Merger Monday
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has hired Mizuho Securities and BofA Securities to arrange its first yen-denominated bond sale since April, returning to a market where it has borrowed about twice a year to fund its Japanese investments. The planned benchmark offering of senior unsecured notes is expected in the near future, subject…
From Merger Monday
Onodrim Industries, an Amsterdam company that plans to buy and hold European defense and industrial suppliers, raised $300 million in a Series A round led by Lux Capital that values it at $1.3 billion, nine months after its seed financing. General Catalyst, Lakestar, Altimeter, Strike Capital, 137 Ventures, 8090 and Expeditions…
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