Houma News

MORGAN CITY, La. - The Port of Morgan City is looking to build a new government and operations training center, which it has received $100,000 in funding from the state to do preliminary design work, that would also serve as an emergency operating center when necessary.

HOUMA, La. An ex-Subway employee turned himself in after robbing the store in order to support his "MoJo" habit, according to the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office.

Attempts to limit Gulf Coast oil spill penalty money to coastal restoration in the Louisiana Constitution failed to gain legislative passage for a second year, while disagreements continue over just how tightly the dollars should be restricted.

Terrebonne Parish officials are moving ahead with a project designed to dump freshwater from the Houma Navigation Canal into endangered coastal forests north of the Falgout Canal.

Attempts to limit Gulf Coast oil spill penalty money to coastal restoration in the Louisiana Constitution failed to gain legislative passage for a second year in a row.

A man who pleaded guilty to child molestation and child porn charges will most likely spend the rest of his life in prison.

MORGAN CITY, La. - The largest auction of marine vessels the area has seen is coming to Gibson and Morgan City Wednesday and Thursday, totaling $60 million worth of items, from barges used as living quarters during the BP oil spill response to 300-ton capacity cranes used on barges.

A man who pleaded guilty to child molestation and child porn charges will most likely spend the rest of his life in prison.

The commission has given approval for 3,976 employees, 2,771 of whom are classified state Civil Service, to receive pink slips effective "at the end of business June 23." This is part of the state's privatization of those hospitals, and it's expected that most of these employees will be rehired by the partners who are taking over the operations.

Terrebonne Parish officials are moving ahead with a project designed to dump freshwater from the Houma Navigation Canal into endangered coastal forests north of the Falgout Canal.

St. Mary Parish may be able to receive 2012 Restore Act funding, legislation Congress passed to help the Gulf Coast communities recover from the 2010 BP oil spill, for one of its flood protection projects.

Carrol Joseph Boyne Jr., 61, died at 12:41 p.m. Wednesday, June 12, 2013. He was a native of Houma and resident of Gray.

A jury on Thursday convicted a Houma man accused of raping a family member when she was 9 years old and stalking another girl at her bus stop.

The nearshore rigs off the Terrebonne Parish coast are smoking-hot right now, delivering plenty of speckled trout limits for charter captains and weekend anglers leaving out of Cocodrie, Dulac and Dularge.

Bruce H. Augustine, Jr., 51, a native of Morgan City and a resident of Patterson, died Friday, June 7, 2013 at 3:54 p.m., at Terrebonne General Medical Center in Houma.

"The next day woke up and asked me, 'Why doesn't he want to come home?' " Guidry said.

Arrested while chatting online with undercover agent LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Michael David Honan, 59, of Gig Harbor, Wash., was sentenced to 24 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Richard T. Haik for attempting to send obscene materials to a minor.

Good Earth Transit has been serving Houma since 1997 and extended its reach in Thibodaux a little more than a year ago.

Melissa Henry Brooks, 40, a native of Patterson and a resident of Jackson, Mississippi, died Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at Chateau Terrebonne Nursing Care in Houma, at 11:23 p.m. Visitation will be Thursday, June 13, at New Mt.

After arriving in the Louisiana Senate following a 2009 special election and currently in his first full term, state Sen. Norby Chabert , R-Houma, confirmed he is being courted to oppose U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu in her re-election bid next year.