Houma News

A national civil rights leader is expected to make a stop in Louisiana Friday. Reverend Al Sharpton is expected to rally in Houma, specifically in "Senator Circle," one of the town's two public housing ...

A national civil-rights group is expected to bring down long-time activist the Rev.

NEW ORLEANS - Job growth in Louisiana will virtually stop in 2009 as the nation goes into recession but should pick up in 2010, according to an annual economic forecast released Wednesday.

By the second day of the multiple sclerosis 150-mile bike ride, I start to feel that I'm a little crazy.

A lengthy agenda, including the introduction of eight resolutions and public hearings and votes on five others, faces members of the Bogalusa City Council when they meet at 5:30 Tuesday afternoon in the ...

Over the course of a decade, a mother and son's exploitative relationship with a 92-year-old man allowed them to use his credit cards, steal valuable belongings and sell more than $500,000 in bonds he'd saved ...

Chief Daniel Scott, a 27-year veteran of the city Fire Department, has tendered his resignation adding to a growing list of high-level vacancies in the parish administration.

An 11-year-old girl stabbed a 9-year-old girl with a pencil in the leg three times while waiting for the school bus in Houma, said Houma Police Chief Todd Duplantis.

When Louisiana called for help, Champaign firefighters answered. On Sept. 17, six area firefighters returned from Louisiana where they assisted local fire personnel in relieving devastation caused by hurricanes ...

Ryan Miles kisses his son, Rayndre Miles, three months, while staying at the shelter at Dumas Auditorium Friday afternoon in Houma.

Argus Leader reporter Dorene Weinstein is serving with the Red Cross in Louisiana following recent hurricanes in the area.

Louisiana blues-rocker Tab Benoit loves making music before a live audience, but his goal's beyond.

JOHN H. WALKER The Daily News "Pay it Forward." Hopefully, those three words will come to have a much greater meaning over the next week as students at Bogalusa High School work to help their peers at Houma's ...

A man suspected of killing as many as 23 men in southern Louisiana over 10 years has pleaded guilty to killing eight men.

HOUMA - Victims' relatives sobbed in court Tuesday as a serial killer pleaded guilty to eight slayings and was sentenced to eight consecutive life terms in prison.

Montgomery County's Urban Search and Rescue Team performs a door-to-door grid search in a bayou area just outside Houma in Louisiana's Terrebonne Parish in the week after Hurricane Ike.

A man who police say confessed to slaying 23 men in south Louisiana during a serial-killing spree that spanned several years is expected to plead guilty today to eight counts of murder, prosecutors said.

A man who police say confessed to slaying 23 men in south Louisiana during a serial-killing spree that spanned several years is expected to plead guilty Tuesday to eight counts of first-degree murder, ...

On Sunday evening, September 21, 2008 at approximately 5:10 PM, Troop C troopers were notified of a single vehicle crash on LA 182 in the Gibson community of Terrebonne parish.

Officials in Terrebonne Parish say they have counted more than 15,000 flooded structures as a result of Hurricane Ike.