Chauvin News

As authorities prepare to prosecute a Chauvin man accused of killing his girlfriend's baby last month, child advocates say the case offers a grim reminder of the importance of reporting suspected abuse.

Lafourche and Terrebonne Parish sheriff's drug task force agents said they intercepted two men planning to conduct a cocaine deal at a McDonald's restaurant in Larose on Thursday and arrested them on drug distribution charges.

A Chauvin man wounded after he traded gunfire with a Houma Police officer Wednesday got out of prison months ago and was scheduled to stand trial in December, a prosecutor said.

A Houma policeman and the 25-year-old suspect he pursued on a miles-long chase early this morning were both shot when they exchanged gunfire, police said.

Tim Davenport watches as a section of a boat is removed from Bayou Terrebonne Wednesday afternoon below Montegut.

As authorities began building a case against the 23-year-old man they say is a baby killer, relatives and neighbors of the dead 10-month-old seek to make sense of the tragedy.

Terrebonne Parish investigators have arrested a 23-year-old Chauvin man in connection with the death of a 10-month-old boy.

The Ouachita River will reach flood stage in October for the first time in the history of the Tensas Basin Levee District's records, executive director John Stringer said Thursday.

A 47-year-old Thibodaux man was struck and killed by a truck tonight while walking on Main Street in a downpour, cops say.

By 7:30 am, Capt. Ryan Folse, charterboat operator for Coco Marina below Chauvin, positioned us - me, Johnny Glover, cameraman Brian Lukas, and himself - on the breakers adjacent to Grand Pass Ilettes and securely attached choice pieces of cracked blue crab on 5/0 Kahle hooks weighted down by full 3-4 ounce lead sinkers.

Authorities say three men have been booked with soliciting a female state trooper posing as a prostitute near downtown Houma.

Since Hurricane Gustav, debris has been removed, roads and embankments repaired.

Terrebonne was ground zero for Hurricane Gustav, which did more structural damage in the parish than any storm since Hurricane Betsy.

Norby Chabert beat out competitor Brent Callais Saturday in a runoff election for the state Senate seat representing southern Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes, according to complete but unofficial results.

State Rep. Ernest Wooten addresses about 500 commercial shrimpers who gathered on the steps of the state Capitol last week to protest low prices.

The so-called dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, where oxygen levels drop too low to support most life near the oceana s bottom, is smaller this year than expected, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said today.

According to Vermilion Parish Sheriff Mike Couvillon two people have been arrested on grand jury warrants which were handed down earlier this week.

Flooding and drainage problems are so bad at the Houma-Terrebonne Airport that a drainage ditch is always full of water - so much water that an alligator is making a home there, according to the owner of an aircraft charter business.

The Ouachita River will likely fall below its 40-foot flood stage on Sunday or Monday for the first time in three weeks.

Willard Thibodeaux, 69, of Houma looks out at the water Friday with his grandson Demarco Thibodeaux, 3, on the deck of a houseboat in Cocodrie.