Thibodaux News

Lafourche officials had considered a ban on private fireworks displays this year because of dry conditions that prompted a statewide prohibition on outdoor fires.

THIBODAUX - Nobody wanted to buy a nearly 30-year-old pumper truck being sold by the St.

Those who look upon Louisiana's state-funded colleges and universities as a burden on taxpayers should be reminded that each of these institutions brings money into its region - money that does not come from the state's budget, but from spending by individuals and businesses who have relationships with the institution.

Where I come from, aside from our spicy Cajun cuisine and funny half-French accents, there isn't too much that puts us, in south Louisiana, on the map! Sure, New Orleans has Bourbon Street and the Super Dome, but out here in the Tri-parish Bourgeois Meat Market Neigborhood: area of Terrebonne, Lafourche, and Assumption parishes, there isn't really ...

Candles are a great way to make your home smell fresh and enhance the atmosphere.

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

NOCCA teens get cooking tips from the pros Tuesday, June 23, 2009 Sheila Stroup For teenagers who love to cook, NOCCA's summer culinary arts session is a dreamy way to spend three weeks in June.

Louisiana Economic Development and the Louisiana Industrial Development Executives Association will honor the 2009 Lantern Award winners for excellence in manufacturing and community involvement at a reception this evening at the Governor's Mansion.

An organization advocating academic freedom has censured Nicholls State University for giving only one day's notice when it refused to rehire a mathematics teacher who had a reputation for doling out failing grades.

THIBODAUX, La. Undercover agents were able to purchase large amounts of drugs during a three-month period in Lafourche Parish, leading to 23 arrests early Friday morning for various drug charges.

The Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office arrested 23 people and confiscated a variety of illegal drugs in a three-month undercover investigation, Sheriff Craig Webre said Friday.

Carnell McIntyre, 16, Rondraye Turner, 16, and Clfford Harris III, 12, sit outside of the Stark Municipal Complex Monday evening in Thibodaux after they were stopped by Thibodaux Police, along with four other juveniles, for a suspected weapon in an SUV.

THIBODAUX - Two arrests have been made in the Thibodaux area shooting death of an 18-year-old man.

State Supreme Court Justice John Weimer has created award-winning images of south Louisiana that have helped raise money in local charity auctions.

THIBODAUX - The Lafourche Parish School Board has unanimously agreed to add nearly $27,000 worth of security cameras on the campus of a school where a teenager killed himself after shooting at a teacher last month.

Tonight two men are in the Lafourche Parish Detention Center charged with the murder of 18-year old Ronnie Brown of Thibodaux.

A 19-year-old Thibodaux man has been charged with murder in the shooting death early Wednesday morning of an 18-year-old and investigators credit the NAACP for helping to solve the case.

An 18-year-old Thibodaux man was found early Wednesday shot to death on the street where he lived, Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre said.

The Lafourche Parish School Board is considering whether to install more cameras at the school where an eighth-grader shot over a teacher's head, then killed himself in May.

Two Army National Guard units from the Houma-Thibodaux area are awaiting orders for a planned deployment to Iraq next year.