Galliano News

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Jhen P. Garcia, 23, 122 Lussan Lane, Luling, was booked with twelve counts of criminal damage to property by graffiti, after he allegedly defaced several properties between April 24 and June 10 in the Luling area June 12.

The Terrebonne Port Commission threw out a bid Tuesday by Larose-based North American Shipbuilding for construction of a drydock after the state ethics board ruled the bid violated conflict-of-interest laws.

A woman was attacked by another woman who was trying to steal her wallet in a shopping center parking lot in Galliano, police said.

Nearly three decades after the nation's first offshore oil port opened 18 miles off the coast of Louisiana in 1981, known as the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port, the port that once reportedly lost more than $40 million during its first full year of operation is now awash in profits.

When the nation's first offshore oil port opened off the coast of Louisiana in 1981, the country was still reeling from an energy crisis that had sapped fuel consumption and slashed commodity prices.

THIBODAUX - A 23-year-old amateur boxer from Galliano has drawn a five-year prison sentence for having sex with six underage girls.

Ambulances and fire trucks will be subject to tolls on a new bridge in Leeville when it opens in a month or two, officials say, while police cars will cross toll-free. Firefighters, medics and members of the Greater Lafourche Port Commission say that's unfair.

Authorities say a student shot himself in the head at a Louisiana middle school after he fired at a teacher and missed.

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.

A Galliano man was booked with domestic battery and cruelty to a juvenile after he choked a woman and her 8-year-old son, Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre said Monday.

Leeville- A 27 year old Galliano man died after colliding his pickup truck head-on with an 18-wheeler on LA 1 south of Golden Meadow near Leeville.

A Galliano man is in custody in Terrebonne Parish for an alleged 2008 kidnapping.

A Galliano shipyard employee whose marriage to a Filipino man turned out to be a sham said he had assured her he had no other wives prior to their marriage in August 2007.

The Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office is seeking two Spanish-speaking men who robbed a Galliano store at gunpoint, Sheriff Craig Webre said Monday.

Civic and education leaders in Lafourche Parish are mourning the death of Royce Dourcet of Galliano.

They're killed by the thousands every year, their carcasses buried in the marsh.

Autoship Systems Corporation announced that Edison Chouset Offshore LLC of Galliano, LA, USA has chosen to have their offshore fleet of vessels outfitted with the Autoload onboard stability program.

A man convicted of sexual abuse charges in Kentucky has been arrested for allegedly failing to register as a sex offender in Lafourche Parish.

The Galliano pontoon bridge across Bayou Lafourche closed to vehicular traffic for an indefinite period at 5 p.m. Tuesday.