Mathews News

Published: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 11:44 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 11:44 a.m. The following is a rundown of action taken Tuesday by the Lafourche Parish Council.

A Bayou Blue man who said his civil rights were violated by Lafourche sheriff's deputies during Hurricane Ike is looking to bring his $2.1 million lawsuit before the Lafourche Parish Council tonight in hopes of settling the matter, he said.

What was supposed to be a process that would save Lafourche Parish money on garbage collection is beginning, some officials say, to feel like a waste of time and could result in the unnecessary disposal of taxpayers' money.

For the second month in a row, a committee formed by the Lafourche Parish Council to identify ways to solve the parish's jail crisis postponed the date they were scheduled to report their findings.

Lafourche Parish's proposed $56 million spending plan for 2010 is about 7 percent less than this year's budget, leaving officials wondering where they'll find money for a new jail, among other concerns.

Four faculty members, including a teacher suffering minor burns, were sent to the hospital Monday after a small fire in Central Lafourche High's chemistry lab caused the school to be evacuated.

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.

Jurors sat through a morning of tearful, wrenching testimony Friday as they weighed the question of whether a Mathews mother convicted of murdering her children should face execution.

In her distorted view of reality, Amy Hebert performed an act of love, not hate, when she followed a voice's commands to stab her two children, a nationally renowned forensic psychiatrist told jurors during her capital-murder trial Monday.