Gray News

It's a chilly, soggy Saturday morning in November, but the Baudoin family continues moving like a small assembly line in the drizzle.

The house that all the fuss is about appears to sit on a hill - two hills actually - on a quiet bayouside road.

Faster "3G" cell-phone service for AT&T customers should be in Houma by the end of the year, not Thanksgiving as originally planned.

Parish officials will re-evaluate plans to spend $10 million in federal hurricane-recovery grant money to help build affordable-rental housing in Gray, after more than a dozen residents spoke against the plans during a Wednesday public meeting.

Frustrated with plans for low-rent apartments near their homes, dozens of north Terrebonne residents are expected to take their complaints to the Parish Council this week.

In a small set of buildings off U.S. 90, there's another option for local students who land themselves in trouble because of disciplinary and behavioral issues.

More than 40 residents voiced strong opposition Thursday to a planned residential and commercial development in Gray that Terrebonne Parish government is helping finance with $10 million in hurricane-recovery grants doled out after the 2008 storms.

A convicted murderer from Houma will still owe the relatives of his victims money in wrongful-death judgments despite his apparent bankruptcy plans, attorneys say.

Published: Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 11:32 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 11:32 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.

A crowd of onlookers peered into Laverne Midyett's booth Saturday, watching the Arkansas woman cut and fry potatoes and onions.

The Terrebonne Parish Council will consider whether to spend nearly $5 million to buy and improve 70 acres of land for a new government complex at a public meeting Monday.

A law that bans driving in the left lane for extended periods of time took effect in August, and State Police say the honeymoon period for drivers to adjust is over.

A truck slammed into the Thibodaux Fire Department's Bowie station Monday morning, shattering the station's toilets, damaging walls and briefly flooding the building following a three-car wreck in front of the station.

Jim Boudreaux says he has heard the desperate pleas of a ghost. The spirit did not scare him; rather, it left him overjoyed.

It was a phone call anyone struggling to conceive a child would dread. The hospital handling Kim Whitney's in vitro fertilization was on the line.

Louisiana is the cradle of jazz, zydeco, Cajun, swamp pop and many other musical styles.

In Kim Whitney's mind, the embryos she had frozen in a medical clinic were more than fertilized eggs.

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.

Regina Marie Duplantis and Eric Joseph Meaux will exchange wedding vows on Saturday, October 10 in an evening ceremony at Sunny Meade in Scott, Louisiana.