Montegut News

The following is a press release from Terrebonne Parish on the parish's preparations for Hurricane Ida.

By elevating homes, building new communities and evacuating together ahead of storms, members of a local American Indian tribe are adapting to their ever-eroding surroundings.

Due chiefly to the recent death of Massachusetts Democrat Ted Kennedy, the official list of America's longest-serving senators had to be slightly reshuffled last week, but it still includes a choice spot for one of Terrebonne Parish's best-known native sons.

Tim Davenport watches as a section of a boat is removed from Bayou Terrebonne Wednesday afternoon below Montegut.

Louisiana State Police say a pickup truck swerved to avoid a pit bull and hit at least five people in a Montegut yard - and the dog.

Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division agents assigned to the Oyster Strike Force cited 22 men on Sept.

A 39-year-old man electrocuted Sunday morning in Montegut was vacationing in a travel trailer with relatives and repairing his storm-damaged fishing camp, police said.

HOUMA, La. - A 39-year-old man was killed as he was diconnecting a travel trailer from its power source at a camp in Montegut, according to his relatives and local authorities.

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.

Terrebonne was ground zero for Hurricane Gustav, which did more structural damage in the parish than any storm since Hurricane Betsy.

A judge has refused to lower the $2 million bond for an 18-year-old booked with attempted first-degree murder in last month's shooting of a Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's deputy.

Deputy Donald Bourg and his wife, Mary Bourg, share a laugh in their Gray home last week.

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A Montegut man and a teenager are accused of having guns stolen by a teenager who allegedly shot a deputy last week.

On July 29, 2009, at approximately 1:20 p.m. Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office deputies apprehended suspect Adrian Bryce Broussard for the attempted first-degree murder of Deputy Donald Bourg.

A Terrebonne Parish Sheriff deputy places evidence into a box outside the Montegut Post Office early Wednesday morning.

By the standards of a state that tends to be a little backward when it comes to drunken driving, the 2009 legislative session was a banner year for those who follow the topic.

Twenty-four people who sold drugs to undercover officers in the last week were arrested Wednesday morning by the New Orleans Police Department.

HOUMA, La. - Terrebonne Parish resident Cherie Mahaffey says its hard to keep her temptations in check.

Gov. Bobby Jindal today signed into law three bills revising the laws for drunk drivers, including one that mandates jail time for driving with a license that has been suspended for a previous DWI.