Houma News

A police chase in Houma ended with an exchange of gunfire that left a suspect hospitalized.

HOUMA, La. -- The head of a family-owned shipbuilding company says a massive new shipyard planned for Houma will begin production early next year.

A bullet proof vest may have saved the life of a Houma Police officer early this morning.

For more than an hour Saturday afternoon, U.S. Sen. David Vitter stood front and center inside the Houma Municipal Auditorium, warning the 200-plus attendees about the potential evils of government-run health care and promising them he will focus like a 'laser' on the issue.

She knows so many of them in this neat, oak-lined cemetery that smells of fresh paint and mowed grass.

Fifteen minutes before he was shot down, U.S. Sen. Huey Long turns toward Louisiana state House Speaker Allen Ellender of Montegut at the speaker's rostrum in the statehouse Sept.

The head of the local NAACP branch filed a lawsuit Friday against the Houma-Terrebonne Housing Authority alleging its director made defamatory fliers about him during this year's state Senate race.

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.

HOUMA - Coast Guard crews have begun work to remove 42 boats that have littered some South Louisiana bayous since the 2005 hurricanes.

Johnston Flying Services, which had opened a helicopter flight school in Monroe last summer and worked in tandem with the University of Louisiana at Monroe's aviation program, has permanently ceased operations, leaving 12 ULM students temporarily grounded.

Two Houma teens died Saturday evening when their vehicle crossed the center line and struck another vehicle on LA 315 in the Dularge community in Terrebonne Parish.

As authorities began building a case against the 23-year-old man they say is a baby killer, relatives and neighbors of the dead 10-month-old seek to make sense of the tragedy.

A helicopter flight school that opened last summer and worked with the University of Louisiana at Monroe's aviation program has shut down.

Houma- A five year old girl from Houma, LA with osteosarcoma will get her wish today to meet Miley Cyrus.

United Community Bank of Gonzales, which has about $129 million in deposits, is the subject of a merger bid by a larger bank based in Raceland.

A 50-year-old Houma man has died after he was allegedly punched by another man in Terrebonne Parish.

Everlina Tolbert saw a man wave to her from beneath a Canal Street tree a week ago and returned the gesture.

A former Terrebonne Parish president and Houma mayor has been named interim mayor of Mandeville.

HOUMA, La. - Ricky Pierron's mother still remembers what impassioned her son about the Navy.

Business consultant Glen Runyon applied Wednesday to become interim mayor of Mandeville, joining former Houma mayor Edward "Bubby" Lyons as the two candidates who have signed up so far.