Business First Bancshares CEO Jude Melville and Progressive Bancorp head George Cummings are both second-generation bank CEOs ...

B1Bank is the largest Louisiana based bank, in terms of total deposits statewide. Officials said the deal will expand the ...

Louisiana Farm Bureau's top young farm woman home schools five children while tending to crops, cattle on a Melville farm.

Baton Rouge-based Business First Bancshares would pad its margin as Louisiana's largest state-chartered bank with an ...

A Louisiana mayor running for re-election died in a car wreck on Election Day. Melville Mayor Velma Hendrix was killed when a driver failed to yield to a stop sign and slammed into her car Tuesday ...

At 84 years old, Velma Hendrix devoted her time to being the mayor of a small town in Louisiana. It was a job she loved so much that this year, she ran for reelection. Then on Election Day, that ...

Business First Bancshares will acquire Monroe, Louisiana-based Progressive Bancorp in a roughly $83 million deal that would ...

The incumbent mayor of a small Louisiana town died in a car crash on Election Day. Melville Mayor Velma Hendrix, 84, was the passenger in a 2008 Acura RDX that was involved in a two-vehicle wreck ...

Louisiana-based Business First Bancshares, the parent company of b1BANK, has agreed to acquire local peer Progressive Bancorp ...

A tugboat struck a railroad bridge in St. Landry Parish, causing significant damage to the barge it was carrying, but no injuries have been reported.

On that night in 2022, officials say a call came into the 911 system of shots fired and a truck being on fire in the 9000 ...

Louisiana Farm Bureau's top young farm woman home schools five children while tending to crops, cattle on a Melville farm.