Mathews News

What was supposed to be a process that would save Lafourche Parish money on garbage collection is beginning, some officials say, to feel like a waste of time and could result in the unnecessary disposal of taxpayers' money.

For the second month in a row, a committee formed by the Lafourche Parish Council to identify ways to solve the parish's jail crisis postponed the date they were scheduled to report their findings.

Lafourche Parish's proposed $56 million spending plan for 2010 is about 7 percent less than this year's budget, leaving officials wondering where they'll find money for a new jail, among other concerns.

Four faculty members, including a teacher suffering minor burns, were sent to the hospital Monday after a small fire in Central Lafourche High's chemistry lab caused the school to be evacuated.

The content of two suicide notes Amy Hebert wrote the day she killed her children convinced jurors the Mathews mother was guilty of first-degree murder, a juror said Saturday following the trial's conclusion.

Jurors sat through a morning of tearful, wrenching testimony Friday as they weighed the question of whether a Mathews mother convicted of murdering her children should face execution.

In her distorted view of reality, Amy Hebert performed an act of love, not hate, when she followed a voice's commands to stab her two children, a nationally renowned forensic psychiatrist told jurors during her capital-murder trial Monday.

Amy Hebert's 9-year-old daughter begged her knife-wielding mother to spare her life before she stabbed her to death, a forensic psychologist testified Sunday afternoon during the Mathews mother's capital-murder trial.

Lafourche Parish Sheriffa s Office deputies Jill Lee and Cynthia Landry escort Amy Hebert into the Lafourche Parish Courthouse Annex Friday morning.

Amy Hebert said she believed the voice that commanded her to kill her children and herself was Satan, a forensic psychiatrist testified Thursday during her capital-murder trial.

Jurors in the Amy Hebert trial get on a bus Wednesday after looking over Heberta s Mathews home where she killed her two children.

A forensic pathologist told jurors today that one of Amy Hebert's slain children had more than 50 knife wounds on his back and many more on his chest.

Amy Hebert heard a male voice tell her she must die with her children the morning of Aug.

Nicholls State University students protest proposed cuts in higher education Monday before the opening of the 2009 regular legislative session at the state Capitol in Baton Rouge.