Raceland News

State highway authorities and area public officials plan to join on Tuesday morning in marking the opening of the new La.

Brittany Elaine Ratcliff and Scott Pierce Thomson were united in marriage Saturday, May 16, 2009, at Saint Patrick Catholic Church in Ferriday, Louisiana, at 6 o'clock p.m. Officiating at the nuptial mass was Father Louis E. Sklar.

Workers are nearing completion of the new Louisiana Highway 1 toll bridge, featuring a no-stop tolling system, over Bayou Lafourche near Port Fourchon and Grand Isle.

Another day, another commitment. Central Lafourche cornerback Brandon Smith committed to Texas Tech yesterday and from all accounts, Smith looks to be an excellent player.

A Raceland man allegedly shot a woman to death in an argument over money, the Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office reported Tuesday.

Amy Hebert was a devoted mother who catered to her children's every need. But on the eve of their murders, she was distracted and distant, relatives and fellow church members testified this morning.

Jurors in the Amy Hebert trial get on a bus Wednesday after looking over Heberta s Mathews home where she killed her two children.

A Lafourche Parish man died Thursday after being ejected from the vehicle he was driving, Louisiana State Police said.

Gheens- A Raceland man was killed after being ejected this morning after the vehicle he was driving went off the roadway and overturned in the community of Gheens, LA in Lafourche Parish.

A tank truck loaded with raw sewage overturned in Lafourche Parish, critically injuring the driver, causing minor injuries to the passenger, and spilling sewage.

Two New Orleans residents suffered injuries, one critical and one minor, when the tanker truck in which they were traveling overturned on U.S. 90 in Lafourche Parish.

Engineers and planners have talked about it since the 1960s. Politicians have promised it for decades.

State Fire Marshal H. Butch Browning announced on Sunday that a house fire in the Lafourche Parish claimed the life of a 47-year-old woman.

Louisiana State Police / MCSAP / TESS / Region II and Weights and Standards / Region II will be conducting a courtesy inspection detail on Thursday, March 26, 2009.

A series of what jail officials called racially motivated attacks at the Lafourche Parish jail have forced officials to consider additional solutions for the antiquated lockup.

NEW ORLEANS -- Fourteen of the 108 nursing homes required to update their emergency plans by March 1 failed to meet that deadline.

Lafourche Parish deputies say bond had been set at $150,000 for the alleged ringleader in three jailhouse beatings even before black inmates attacked white inmates.

The Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office is seeking the public's help in locating whoever heaved cinder blocks through a patrol car's windshield.

Bayou Blue- An eighty-eight year old Raceland man died at the hospital after being involved in a crash on LA 316 at US 90 early this morning.

A school bus with children on board got into an accident in Raceland Wednesday, though officials say no one was seriously injured.