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  • Jindal: Marine contractor plans $30M expansion

    Updated: 7 hr ago

    THIBODAUX, La. (AP) — An oilfield service company plans a new $10 million headquarters in Gray and a $20 million manufacturing and fabrication plant at a Louisiana port. President and CEO Hank Danos says Danos & Curole Marine Contractors LLC is considering at least two ports. The...

  • Ex-Goldman exec seeks insider trading retrial

    Updated: 7 hr ago

    NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for a former board member at Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble Co. urged an appeals court panel Tuesday to give his client a new trial, saying a judge had excluded evidence that might have led a jury to acquit him on insider trading charges. Attorney Seth Waxman told...

  • NFL, Xbox enhancing interactive television viewing

    Updated: 7 hr ago

    Imagine Sean Payton holding up a Surface tablet instead of a cardboard playsheet on the sideline. Envision Peyton Manning sitting on the bench and dissecting the last series from a variety of camera angles on his hand-held device instead of looking at still photos. Or sitting at home and...

  • ESPN cutting workforce, 'smartly managing costs'

    Updated: 7 hr ago

    NEW YORK (AP) — ESPN is cutting its workforce, the latest Disney division to reduce staff. "We are implementing changes across the company to enhance our continued growth while smartly managing costs," the sports media giant said in a statement Tuesday. "While difficult, we are confident that...

  • Grain futures mostly fall, livestock prices rise

    Updated: 7 hr ago

    CHICAGO (AP) — Grains futures mostly fell Tuesday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for July delivery fell 4.75 cents to $6.805 a bushel; July corn fell 9.5 cents to $6.40 a bushel; July oats fell 8.25 cents to $3.55 a bushel; while July soybeans jumped 13.75 cents to $14.7825 a bushel....

  • Struggling Spain offers engineers to Brazil

    Updated: 7 hr ago

    BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Spain's development minister is urging Brazil to hire some of the engineers that her own economy doesn't have room for. Brazil is beefing up its infrastructure ahead of soccer's World Cup and the Olympics. And Minister Ana Pastor says Spanish engineers could help, if...

  • NJ's Revel casino exits bankruptcy court

    Updated: 7 hr ago

    ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Revel, a brand new but struggling Atlantic City casino, has formally emerged from bankruptcy. Just 13 months after it opened with sky-high hopes, the casino got out of bankruptcy court Tuesday. The pre-planned Chapter 11 filing wiped out $1.2 billion of the casino's...

  • Forecast sees New England economy growing modestly

    Updated: 7 hr ago

    BOSTON (AP) — Modest economic growth is expected in New England over the next three years with the region as a whole returning to pre-recession employment levels by 2015. That's according to a new economic forecast being released this week by the New England Economic Partnership. Forecast...

  • Medtronic cuts 2,000 jobs worldwide, 500 in Minn.

    Updated: 7 hr ago

    MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Medical device maker Medtronic confirms it is eliminating 2,000 jobs worldwide, including 500 in Minnesota. About half of the jobs being eliminated are in the U.S. A Medtronic spokeswoman tells the Star Tribune (http://bit.ly/10Mn866 ) about 65 percent of the job cuts have...