Cut Off News

Published: Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 12:04 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 12:04 p.m. The following is a rundown of action taken by the Lafourche School Board at its regular meeting Wednesday.

Louisiana State Police are asking the public's help in finding the hit-and-run driver accused of killing a Cut Off man nearly a year ago, troopers said Thursday.

Published: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 12:59 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 12:59 p.m. The following is a rundown of action taken Tuesday by the Lafourche Parish Council.

George Foreman made his first visit to Bayou Lafourche Saturday, but sadly, still hasn't tried our food.

Growing up in this bayou town, filmmaker Glen Pitre remembers playing with gifts from his parrain, who owned a furniture and appliance store.

GALLIANO, La. A 19-year-old Cut Off man ran over his girlfriend's legs after dragging her as she tried to get in to his truck early Wednesday morning, according to Lafourche Sheriff Craig Webre.

Foreman III Returns on Nov. 14 Posted by Ramon Aranda on 11.09.2009 Fight number 4 is next in Louisiana.

Published: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 12:32 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 12:32 p.m. The following is a rundown of action taken by the Lafourche School Board at its regular meeting Wednesday.

Lafourche Parish sheriff's deputies used Walmart surveillance video to help arrest a man on burglary and other charges, deputies said.

Lauren Kay Ledet, of Cut Off, Louisiana, and Dennis Paul Gardner, Jr. of Lafayette, Louisiana, were married at 7:00 p.m. on October 23, 2009 at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church, in Broussard, Louisiana.

Gerhort and Leverna Alford and George and Ruth Ledet, of Cut Off, Louisiana, announce the engagement of thier daughter, Lauren Kay Ledet, to Dennis Paul Gardner, Jr., son of Dennis and Melanie 'Mitzi' Gardner of Lafayette, Louisiana.

Galliano- Just after 9:00 PM last night, a Cut Off man died after his vehicle went off of LA 308 and struck a tree head-on in Lafourche Parish.

A ship moves out to sea through wetlands west of Cut Off, Louisiana. The report also points out that destruction caused by pipeline and navigation channel construction could be avoided or reduced by using the least damaging and most easily mitigated construction method.

The Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office is getting nearly $150,000 in federal money to put security cameras in the 15 public elementary schools that don't have them.

Shaun L. Pierre, 30, 419 Boutte Estates, Boutte, was booked Sept. 10 with possession of heroin and drug paraphernalia.

A Golden Meadow police officer was fired after he pepper-sprayed a 61-year-old woman during a traffic stop for overly tinted windows.

An LSU student who fell asleep moments before causing a head-on crash that killed three people last year in Larose received a 30-day jail sentence Tuesday.

Citing "complexities and the odd nature of the case," a Terrebonne Parish judge this morning ordered a Houma man to spend six months in jail for helping his ailing wife commit suicide.

IberiaBank has taken over CapitalSouth Bank after the Birmingham, Ala., institution failed Friday.

Gov. Bobby Jindal is backing Republican Brent Callais in a Houma-area state Senate race, and that support has been featured on a campaign mailer and is being used to help raise campaign funds.