The 30 percent earnings dip Duke Energy reported Thursday might not be the last of the pain stockholders feel as a result of a power plant nearing completion in Indiana. A $222 million charge for cost overruns at the Edwardsport plant shaved 10 cents a share off Duke’s third-quarter earnings. Profits fell to $472 million, [...]

Specialty bag maker Ronpak Inc. said Thursday that it will spend $16.8 million to build a manufacturing plant at the Port of Shreveport-Bossier, creating 175 jobs. The project will be the third manufacturing plant for Ronpak, which is based in South Plainfield, N.J. Besides a New Jersey plant, the company also has a manufacturing facility [...]

SPRINGDALE – A solution of chlorine was poured into a drum of acid inside a Tyson Foods Inc. chicken processing plant in Arkansas this week, , authorities said in a report obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press. About 300 workers were evacuated from the plant Monday morning in Springdale. Ten workers remained hospitalized Wednesday afternoon, [...]