Houma News

HOUMA, La. - Officials of the Southern Indoor Football League say they are assuming ownership of Houma's indoor football team.

Using music to make things right A A July 8: Making A Difference: When a Tennessee man returned to his impoverished birthplace, he brought music a ' and more revenue a ' with him.

Every week, Wes Brown morphs into Luke McDonald, a competitive ex-football player hell-bent on oppressing Louisiana vampires as part of HBO's sultry hit series, "True Blood." HBO Wes Brown portrays character Luke McDonald on the HBO series a oeTrue Blood.a Brown, who was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and raised in Baton Rouge, has relatives in Houma ...

HOUMA, La. - 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.

Dressed as Betsy Ross, Stacy Hargenrader, 53, speaks during the Houma Tea Party rally Saturday along Main Street in Downtown Houma.

HOUMA, La. - Dozens of batteries have been stolen from Terrebonne Parish pumping stations since April, thefts that officials say increase the risk of flooding to communities during hurricane season and even heavy downpours.

For almost 20 years, the youth-services manager for the Terrebonne Parish Library System has collected more than 150 Barbie dolls a ' a majority of which are in mint condition and original packaging.

Dozens of batteries have been stolen from Terrebonne Parish pumping stations since April, thefts that officials say increase the risk of flooding to communities during hurricane season and even just during heavy downpours.

Gov. Bobby Jindal is applauding the $368 million investment to help coastal restoration and hurricane protection.

Members of Houma's newest Mardi Gras parade club say the organization will make its second ride in 2010 despite alleged financial mismanagement by former leaders.

HOUMA, La. - Shrimping will close at 6 a.m. Tuesday in most state waters in eastern Louisiana.

HOUMA - Derreck Gautreaux says his extended family is never far from his side. That's because Gautreaux keeps them in a big, white binder in a black-and-orange satchel.

A jury found two men guilty Thursday of a 2006 racially motivated beating after a trial marked by recanting convicts and conflicting testimony.

Down 300 from April and down 800 from May 2008. Goods-producing sector was unchanged over the month, but down 700 over the year.

HOUMA - A 36-year-old Houma woman was arrested after she allegedly threatened to tell a man's wife about their sexual relationship if he didn't pay her $5,000. Deputies say Michelle Naquin has been booked with extortion.

An HIV-positive Houma, Louisiana, man is accused of failing to disclose his status to an undercover police officer during a prostitution and drug bust, The Associated Press reports.

They get odd looks when they focus on the corn and potatoes at the crawfish boil, ask for meat-less tacos at La Casa del Sol and dribble just a bit of juice from the chicken-and-sausage gumbo onto their bowls of plain rice.

A 39-year-old Houma man is accused of failing to tell an undercover officer he was HIV positive during a prostitution bust, an omission that resulted in a rarely levied charge.

A 15-year-old from Houma remains in critical condition this morning after a bullet struck him in the head during a fight that ended in gunfire in downtown Friday night.

Over the past month, Houma Police have observed a higher occurrence of car burglaries in West Houma.