Morgan City News

"That's all we've got up there," said Smith, who took the Day 1 lead in the third Central Open of the season.

With a thundering splash, a local boat company welcomed a new ship into the world Tuesday.

Alaina Catherine Kraus of Lafayette, Louisiana and Paul Vincent Saltaformaggio of New Orleans, Louisiana will be united in holy matrimony on December 4, 2009 during an evening ceremony at Immaculate Conception Jesuit Church in New Orleans.

The owner of the Evangeline Downs race track-casino has closed a $106.8 million deal to buy the Amelia Belle riverboat casino near Morgan City.

BATON ROUGE - The current sales tax imposed on gasoline is not providing enough revenue to finance needed highway construction and repairs, a legislative panel was told Wednesday, so an alternative source or increased funding is needed.

His name hasn't been released, apparently to protect the innocent, but a troubled baby black bear was recently found on the side of the road in Morgan City.

Cleaning the Gulf of obsolete platforms is the goal of the Southern Recycling's Morgan City, Louisiana facility.

A single vehicle crash on LA 20 at US 90 claimed the life of a Morgan City man in western Terrebonne Parish.

The driver of a white Pontiac G6 died Saturday after striking a GMC Yukon on Bayou Dularge Road near the Dularge Overpass.

An orphaned black bear cub was rescued in the Morgan City area Oct. 22 and will spend the winter at a rehabilitation facility in Tennessee, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries reported.

It was nearly two years ago that I first told you of a creature feature called The Platform starring William Forsythe and Art LaFleur about a crew trapped aboard an oil rig with a mutant monster.

Bob and Ginger Bourg of Rayne are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter Ms.

Fast Eddie Too, owned by Jim Sechler and driven by Dan Kanfoush, holds four world speed records, as well as divisional, national and Canadian championships.

The car driven in a deadly Gibson crash Sunday morning had been abandoned on a nearby highway by a 23-year-old woman that same weekend, police said.

Way back in 1950 a Seattle Auto dealer named Stan Sayres brought a "Strange" looking 3 point hydroplane to Detroit Michigan.

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

Grief counselors spent Monday at H.L. Bourgeois High School in Terrebonne Parish.

The National Weather Service has issued flood warnings for the Atchafalaya River at Morgan City and the Calcasieu River at Old Town Bay.

Two separate crashes over the weekend killed eight people in Louisiana, the latest on Sunday morning, when four teens died and a fifth was critically injured when a stolen car ran off a curve and hit a tree, police said.

All of the male victims were from Gibson. State police say the Nissan Sentra had been reported stolen Friday in Morgan City.