Houma News

A 32-year-old oilfield worker was indicted by a Terrebonne Parish grand jury on a criminal charge of assisting a suicide in connection with the May 14th death of his wife.

The 20-year-old drunken driver who killed a married couple in a collision last year was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of vehicular homicide in a deal with prosecutors.

Authorities in Houma, La., said a woman has been arrested after she allegedly made two men ill by having them smell "cologne samples." Houma police officers and Terrebonne Parish sheriff's deputies said Patches ...

An American Indian tribe lost a $45,800 grant that members had hoped would aid their efforts to buy Dulac land that's home to a large earthen mound built centuries ago by their ancestors.

Jefferson Parish residents could see their garbage bills climb at least 39 percent and as much as 89 percent above the current $8.98 monthly fee, according to proposals from five haulers competing for the ...

Ashley Hudson always knew she wanted to be in movies. "I don't remember a time when I didn't want to do this," said the 24-year-old graduate of H.L. Bourgeois High School in Gray.

Houma police officers and Terrebonne Parish sheriff's deputies say an attractive woman named Patches has been arrested after her "calogne samples" made at least two men pass out.

KENNER, LA U.S. Senate candidate John Kennedy this morning rolled out his campaign for US Senate against Mary Landrieu with a week long bus tour across Louisiana called "Stand Up Louisiana." From July 8-11, the ...

A seven-vehicle wreck that caused what police described as several minor injuries occurred about 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Martin Luther King Boulevard and South Hollywood Road, along Houma's busiest shopping ...

State officials were in Lafayette on Tuesday to tout Gov. Bobby Jindal's workforce reform legislation.

Area lawmakers who opposed raising their pay praised Gov. Bobby Jindal's veto of the volatile increase on Monday.

On Friday, June 27th, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Louisiana State Police, Troop B investigated a serious injury crash on LA 23 northbound, in front of Meadowcrest Hospital.

Police say a Houma man they've arrested had over $90,000 in drugs. Captain Darryl Stewart says 26-year-old Joseph Lee Cooper Junior ran off after police approached him Friday to find out why he was parked in ...

Forty years ago, Frederick Wiseman released the cinema verite documentary "High School," showing Americans how poignant and painful it is when a teenager goes off to war.

Keeping floodwaters away from Ray Boudreaux's home in the Atchafalaya flood basin has become a daily battle, one that forced him to build his own levee just to stay dry.

Troop C Houma Man Arrested for Computer Solicitation of a Minor Colonel Michael D. Edmonson, Superintendent Troop C News Release June 19, 2008 HOUMA- On June 18, 2008, detectives with the Louisiana State ...

In August of last year, then-Congressman Bobby Jindal promised voters that he would, as governor, "prohibit legislators from giving themselves pay raises that take effect before the subsequent election." It ...

The proposed 72-mile Morganza-to-the-Gulf levee system that would protect the Houma area could cost between $10.7 billion and $11.2 billion, according to a preliminary estimate prepared for the Army Corps of ...

The pit bull shot to death by a Houma Police officer early Thursday morning after the dog reportedly charged at the patrolman had never bitten anyone before and wasn't an overly aggressive animal, the dog's ...

Carl H. Franklin, a Shreveport lawyer, was elected as first vice chair for Louisiana Community and Technical College System Board of Supervisors today.