Grosse Tete News

Advocate staff photo by BILL FEIG. Photo shot on 4/20/10 --- Trax #00021380a --- Slug: FireFatal --- Overall view.

"Watching the children come down the hill on 'slippy slides' gave me the idea for a water feature, a meandering stream that started near the top of the hill," Debbie Corbo said.

In November, state District Judge Mike Caldwell ordered the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries to revoke the permit that let Tiger Truck Stop Inc.

An animal-rights group was granted permission Monday to intervene in a truckstop owner's civil-suit effort to keep Tony the tiger, a 550-pound Siberian-Bengal mix, at a roadside exhibit in Grosse Tete.

Iberville Parish sheriff deputies arrested a Houston man Thursday and booked him into Parish Jail with possession of more than 33 pounds of cocaine.

A state district judge says an animal rights group may help defend Louisiana's law barring private ownership of big cats.

Just in time for Cinco de Mayo, Jennifer Trahan shares her recipe for Mexican Rice made with Cajun Country long grain rice.