Financial

The price at the pump has dropped three cents, locally, in the past week.

A Mansfield family has created an endowed scholarship at Northwestern State University to benefit a student from DeSoto Parish. The Jerrie and Dennis Choate Endowed Scholarship is a two-year award that will benefit a student pursuing an education degree...

Shreveport Mayor Cedric Glover hosts a series of public meetings -- beginning tomorrow. He'll kick things off at Winnfield Funeral Home on Hollywood Avenue at 6 tomorrow evening, to present details about his plan to provide speedier relief for the city's crumbling streets and sidewalks...

Tomorrow will be a busy one for Shreveport firefighters. Not only will they be installing smoke detectors in the MLK area, they'll also participate in the American Heart Association's Annual "Golden Hour." The fundraiser runs from 11 a.m. until noon, with firefighters positioned at major intersections throughout the city collecting money for the cause...

The 377,487 residents of Raleigh, the state capital of  North Carolina, have something to cheer about as their city has been rated the number one city to live in the nation by Businessweek.com’s first-ever ranking of America’s Best Cities.

In the wake of unpopular rate increases that caused customers to cancel subscriptions in droves and resulted in the company stock nosediving, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings apologized in a blog post on Sunday. “I messed up,” he said. “I owe everyone an explanation … In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.”

In a speech given from the White House Rose Garden on Monday, President Obama proposed a $3 trillion plan to cut the deficit, with half of that amount covered by increased taxes on the wealthy and another $800 million financed by letting the Bush-era tax cuts expire. “If we are going to make spending cuts… then it is only right we ask everyone to pay their fair share … We can’t afford these specia

On Monday, Bank of America announced that part of its plan to cut $5 billion in spending by 2014 includes the elimination of 30,000 jobs. CEO Brian Moynihan made no mention of layoffs during an investor conference, and the bank says it expects the job losses to occur naturally through attrition and not rehiring when people vacate their positions.

The Shreveport Journalism Foundation is offering two $1,000 scholarships for college juniors or seniors -- and the application deadline is quickly approaching. Interested students, who reside at or attend a four-year college in the 10 northwest Louisiana parishes, have until September 1st to apply...

Picture the government placing a GPS on your car and tracking every mile you drive. Now, imagine being charged a tax based on those miles, your vehicle’s fuel efficiency rating and the time of day you drove. Such a system is being explored in car-clogged regions of Europe and Asia. Even the US is interested in studying mileage charging systems.