La.’s licenced casinos win $182 million in august
Louisiana’s state-licensed casinos won $182 million from gamblers in August, a 4.6 percent increase from a year ago, state police reported Tuesday.
The figure for August 2002 was $173.5 million.
The state’s 14 riverboat casinos won $140.3 million last month, compared with $139.4 million in August 2002. Harrah’s New Orleans Casino won $25.3 million in August, up from the year-ago figure of $22.5 million.
Slot machines at race tracks won $16.4 million last month, compared with $11.6 million in August 2002, a difference due to this year’s opening of a slot machine casino at Louisiana Downs in Bossier City.
The figures do not include the state’s three Indian reservation casinos, which are not required to publicly report their revenue figures.
Plane crash at airport in New Orleans kills two
NEW ORLEANS — A small plane crashed Monday at Lakefront Airport, killing two people.
The crash occurred shortly before 9 a.m. and involved a twin-engine Cessna, said Randolph Taylor, director of aviation for the airport.
The airplane had taken off from the Hammond airport, said Tanya Hernandez, the airport’s interim director.
She said those on board were Robert Sutherlin, a lawyer who practices in New Orleans and Covington, and Henry Billeaud of Picayune, Miss., an independent lighting contractor for filmmakers.
Hernandez said she had been told the pilot touched down, then asked to fly around and make another approach. The airplane got only about 30 feet off the ground and crashed into a flood wall.
CIA asks Black Colleges for more recruits
WASHINGTON – The CIA appealed on Tuesday to a black educators’ group to send more recruits.
“Our work force is about 11 percent African-American,” said Deputy Director of Central Intelligence John McLaughlin, in prepared remarks to the National Conference of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. “We know that it can be higher.”
CIA officials have said that many of their minority recruits enter technical and scientific fields, adding they would like to recruit more who can serve as analysts and overseas case officers.
“We rely heavily on the gifted scientists, engineers, IT specialists, and mathematicians your schools develop,” McLaughlin said in a rare public appearance. “Please, keep them coming.
But I also ask you to encourage others – your linguists and area studies majors – to consider careers of service in intelligence.”
