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

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 ...

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

The deal also marks a turn back toward Business First’s home state, after the Texas Citizens acquisition sought expansion in ...

Courtney Gerace, 34, and her husband operate a farm in Melville, where they raise sugarcane, cattle and five young ...

Louisiana Rev. Jimmy Swaggart, who headlined the Golden Age of Televangelists in the 1980s before an adultery scandal ...

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

A jury has found Jaden Ardoin of Krotz Springs and Jaimon Mason of Port Barre guilty in the slaying of Wade Vaughn-Smith and ...

One of the men was jealous over the brothers flirting with his girlfriend at a gas station and began a chase that ended with a fiery crash and one of the men shot dead, authorities said.

Jaden Ardoin and Jaimon Mason were both convicted of the murder of Wade Vaughn-Smith and the attempted murder of James ...