Houma News Archives

A Bourg woman attacked by a deputy's canine this summer alleges in a lawsuit that the deputy and Terrebonne Parish Sheriff Vernon Bourgeois failed to properly leash the animal, among other claims.

HOUMA - Coast Guard crews have begun work to remove 42 boats that have littered some South Louisiana bayous since the 2005 hurricanes.

Johnston Flying Services, which had opened a helicopter flight school in Monroe last summer and worked in tandem with the University of Louisiana at Monroe's aviation program, has permanently ceased operations, leaving 12 ULM students temporarily grounded.

Two Houma teens died Saturday evening when their vehicle crossed the center line and struck another vehicle on LA 315 in the Dularge community in Terrebonne Parish.

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.

A helicopter flight school that opened last summer and worked with the University of Louisiana at Monroe's aviation program has shut down.

Houma- A five year old girl from Houma, LA with osteosarcoma will get her wish today to meet Miley Cyrus.

United Community Bank of Gonzales, which has about $129 million in deposits, is the subject of a merger bid by a larger bank based in Raceland.

A 50-year-old Houma man has died after he was allegedly punched by another man in Terrebonne Parish.

Everlina Tolbert saw a man wave to her from beneath a Canal Street tree a week ago and returned the gesture.

A former Terrebonne Parish president and Houma mayor has been named interim mayor of Mandeville.

HOUMA, La. - Ricky Pierron's mother still remembers what impassioned her son about the Navy.

Business consultant Glen Runyon applied Wednesday to become interim mayor of Mandeville, joining former Houma mayor Edward "Bubby" Lyons as the two candidates who have signed up so far.

On the brink of appointing an interim mayor just three days after Eddie Price's resignation, the Mandeville City Council changed course and will solicit applications before making a decision.

Three people were shot after a fight outside an East Main Street nightclub shortly after 2 a.m. today.

Tab Benoit hosts the Voice of the Wetlands Festival in Houma this weekend. Wetlands advocacy is rarely as entertaining as at the Voice of the Wetlands Festival , guitarist Tab Benoit's annual throwdown in his hometown of Houma.

The bayou rock band LeRoux is on tap to be inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame during its performance this weekend at the Voice of the Wetlands festival in Houma.

Terrebonne Parish authorities say they will continue an investigation begun in Morgan City that led to the arrest of a man accused of stealing a car that was later driven in a deadly crash.

Louisiana State Police said a pickup truck swerved to avoid a pit bull and hit at least five people in a Montegut yard - and the dog.

In Kim Whitney's mind, the embryos she had frozen in a medical clinic were more than fertilized eggs.

The Rev. Thomas J. Tucker III's redemption story - a convicted killer saved by God's grace - has changed the lives of inmates and ex-convicts, his supporters say.

Louisiana State Police say four teens died and a fifth was critically injured when a stolen car ran off a curve and hit a tree.

ROBERT KIM ISTRE, 55, of Houma, Louisiana, was arrested today by Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on a criminal complaint charging receipt of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Jim Letten and FBI Special Agent in Charge David Welker.

For eight years, he's dragged their scaly hides from ditches, storm drains, airport runways, the living rooms of terrified housewives and anywhere else a brash alligator might decide to make a pest of itself.

Demolition of the old Waterland USA on Highway 311 in Houma is under way. The site will make way for new commercial property.