Local crime, high school sports, county politics, events tonight, and business closings — the daily Ark-La-Tex report from HERE Shreveport.
SportsSHREVEPORT, La. — C.E. Byrd High School in Shreveport, La., is hunting for a new head football coach after the school moved on from Stacy Ballew, Principal Jana Panos announced Thursday. The change comes days after the Yellow Jackets wrapped up a 1-9 campaign, one…
From HERE ColumbiaCOLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina senior Max Spencer picked up the Southeastern Conference Diver of the Week award on Tuesday, the second time the league has given him the weekly honor during his career with the Columbia program. Spencer earned it by winning both springboard…
From HERE ColumbiaCOLUMBIA, S.C. — Columbia’s South Carolina Gamecocks, ranked 20th, are getting ready for a Saturday night road game at Arkansas, with kickoff set for 7:45 p.m. Eastern on Nov. 14. The Gamecocks arrive off a victory against Texas A&M, and head coach Shane Beamer used…
From Merger Monday
UFORCE, a defense-technology company founded in Ukraine, raised $700 million in a Series A round that values it at $6 billion, one of the largest private financings yet for a maker of battlefield drones. Valor Equity Partners and Britain’s state-backed National Wealth Fund co-led the round. The U.S.-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund,…
From Merger Monday
For most of this year, the question in deal markets was whether there was enough money. This week the question was price, and the people with the money answered it. Take Hancock Whitney’s $3.2 billion all-stock purchase of Trustmark. The board agreed to an 18.6% premium. By the close, Hancock Whitney’s…
From Merger Monday
Kinder Morgan Inc. and Southern Co. are moving ahead with a roughly $7.6 billion natural gas pipeline that would run 470 miles from Middle Tennessee to central Georgia, one of the largest gas infrastructure projects proposed in the Southeast, as landowners along the route begin receiving notices. The Southeast Connector is…
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