Thibodaux News

And how soon they will be able to find employment is a huge question mark after the first month of 2010.

Officials broke ground Wednesday on a new St. James Parish sugar refinery, a project that will for the first time give a group of Terrebonne and Lafourche cane farmers an ownership stake in the refining business.

The repeated knocks on the door were brisk and firm. Yet, there was no sign of the suspect inside the white shotgun house at President and East 11th streets.

THIBODAUX, La. - Lafourche Parish authorities have arrested a Bayou Blue teenager accused of shooting another youth in the head after he was sold soap instead of cocaine.

Witty rhymes proclaiming the exploits of players named Brees, Bush and Deuce have appeared in her store's window in the good times and the bad.

Hundreds of the local faithful gathered Sunday afternoon to watch Bishop Sam Jacobs bless the recently completed $3.6 million pastoral center.

Although the heads of the departments of Revenue and Taxation and the State Treasury say they're working to hold down the effects of midyear budget reductions so they don't impact services, cuts are being felt by taxpayers.

The krewes of Hyacinthians and Titans will roll an hour earlier so Houma residents can catch the Carnival parades and make it home in time for the Super Bowl.

A local 15-year-old will travel through Europe this summer after his selection as a student ambassador for the national "People to People" program.

Bright colors and symbolic shapes are the focus of Candace Morrison Roszelle's mosaic and beadwork art.

A Thibodaux man was sentenced Tuesday to 29 years in prison for his role in a March 2008 shootout inside a house that left another man dead.

Father Mike Manase, Pastor St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in the St. Charles Community leads his parishioners in cheering on the Saints at one of the parish's many tailgate parties held in the parish's life center.

A certified nurse's assistant from Thibodaux arrested last month for allegedly abusing an elderly nursing-home resident is charged with mistreating another patient.

Trust in God. Stay true to yourself. Those were the inner principles that guided Donna Douglas, who achieved fame as Elly May Clampett in the starring role of the "Beverly Hillbillies," through her life.

A Lafourche district judge postponed setting a trial date for a man accused of killing a Thibodaux priest after the defendant's attorney filed court papers Wednesday afternoon seeking to have the case thrown out.

His forefathers never had to sit at the back of a bus, drink from a separate water fountain or have the right to vote refused them because of their skin color.

Whether it's sketching mundane details or working on challenging lettering, a comic book artist always has something to do.

A member of Houma-Thibodaux's state legislative delegation will be honored this year by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities for his service to art and culture.

A multi-agency investigation among law-enforcement officers from Lafourche, Terrebonne and Assumption parishes is close to solving a string of sugar-kettle thefts and returning the items to their owners, authorities said.

She was 12, going on 16, and she was in love, her mother said. Now, she is seven months pregnant and the alleged father of her baby girl, 18-year-old Nathaniel Nora Jr., is in jail, charged with aggravated rape.