Bourg News

Published: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 11:51 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 11:51 a.m. The following is a rundown of action taken by the Terrebonne Parish Council at its regular meeting Wednesday.

Voters across Terrebonne will head to the polls Saturday to decide whether to renew a parishwide property tax that helps pay for garbage collection and sewer service.

The former head of Terrebonne's landfills is accused of misdemeanor battery in connection with the alleged harassment of a 19-year-old woman employed by a parish contractor.

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.

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

After 170 years fishing and crabbing in southern Louisiana's swamps and marshes, a group of American Indians repeatedly flooded by hurricanes says it is intent on moving from its ancestral island home.

Donald Bourg sat restless in his living room, a treadmill folded nearby. He used to run a mile on the machine before his shift with the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office - two miles, on his days off.

A judge has refused to lower the $2 million bond for an 18-year-old booked with attempted first-degree murder in last month's shooting of a Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's deputy.

Deputy Donald Bourg and his wife, Mary Bourg, share a laugh in their Gray home last week.

Bourbon House's Darin Nesbit is among the chefs participating in a charity brunch for Share Our Strength on Sunday.

On July 29, 2009, at approximately 1:20 p.m. Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office deputies apprehended suspect Adrian Bryce Broussard for the attempted first-degree murder of Deputy Donald Bourg.

A Terrebonne Parish Sheriff deputy places evidence into a box outside the Montegut Post Office early Wednesday morning.

A Terrebonne Sheriff's Office police dog has been placed on what amounts to a suspension while deputies investigate how it escaped from an officer's yard July 15 and allegedly attacked a woman.

On Tuesday morning at approximately 9:15 a.m. the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office received a call in reference to someone being bitten by a Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office K-9 police dog.

Authorities in Terrebonne Parish say a woman from Bourg was attacked in her driveway by a police dog owned by her neighbor, an off-duty Terrebonne sheriff's deputy.

A Terrebonne Parish K-9 police dog bit a woman in Bourg on Tuesday morning, according to spokesman Malcom Wolfe.

A woman will have to undergo surgery after a K-9 dog bit her. Terrebonne Parish sheriff's deputies said they were called to a home in the 200 block of Guidry Street at about 9:15 a.m. Tuesday in reference to a dog bite.

Brittany Bourg and Justin Streetman exchanged vows June 27, 2009 at First Presbyterian Church of Monroe.

State Sen. Reggie Dupre, left, D-Bourg, sponsor of Senate Bill 166, which would make it a criminal offense for a DWI violator to drive with a suspended license, talks Tuesday with Louisiana State Police Col.

Nate Rivet Dufrene and Stephen Christopher Anson exchanged marriage vows on April 24, 2009 during a ceremony held at Rip Van Winkle Gardens in Jefferson Island, Louisiana.