Terrebonne Parish

Louisiana's Cajun Ninja is apologizing after he jumped off a Mardi Gras float to confront a rude heckler spewing insults and obscenities.

An independent study conducted on the water in a part of Terrebonne Parish has reportedly tested positive for the brain eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri.

Water testing found the brain-eating amoeba in a small Terrebonne Parish community's water system.

A project to channel treated sewage through wetlands to help rebuild marshes in southern Terrebonne Parish is near completion.

The Terrebonne Parish coroner's office says a fourth man has died of injuries from an explosion at the Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Co. facility in Gibson.

State Police report Thomas' truck apparently crossed the center line, traveled off the left side and returned to the right side where it struck two mailboxes and overturned.

The dead include a 25-year-old man, a sheriff's deputy and a 14-year-old boy.

Sen. David Vitter was at the bill's signing and says this legislation authorizes hurricane flood protection for Terrebonne and Lafourche Parish.

All five four-year judgeships are held by white men, and every seated judge except Ellender plans to run for re-election.

In July, the school board and the Houma-Terrebonne Chamber of Commerce agreed to create the task force to map out the needs and related financing for the schools after a 31-mill property tax was soundly defeated.

After a preliminary budget failed approval, the board set up a committee Tuesday to plan winding down the agency.

They included its lack of familiarity with state incentive programs and lack of follow-up on leads passed along by the parish administration.

The catch is more than 740 traps in Terrebonne parish alone, not including the traps that were collected in the surrounding parishes.

A Dulac couple who nursed a wounded otter back to health at their bayou country home in Terrebonne Parish say they are heartbroken because the animal is now being held at the zoo in New Orleans. Zoo officials say they can't return the animal to Teddy Chaisson and Katina Bergeron because of state Wildlife and Fisheries rules that bar people from keeping wild animals.

A Terrebonne Parish councilman says he'll introduce a new ordinance in response to complaints about brightly colored tombs and grave markers at a public cemetery.

Dozens of rotting, abandoned boats will be hauled out of Terrebonne Parish bayous as part of a parish-wide campaign to remove aquatic blight.

The Thibodaux man accused of beheading his disabled son is not mentally fit to defend himself.District Judge John Leblanc ruled Jeremiah Wright is not capable of understanding the legal proceeding should his case go to trial.

Authorities say three Houma residents were arrested after attacking Terrebonne Parish narcotics agents who were trying to nab a cocaine dealer.

Terrebonne Parish officials say an aggressive effort by parish government to use federal grant programs for elevation of homes is a likely reason why so few homes flooded in Terrebonne as a result of Tropical Storm Lee.

Water lilies are clogging some south Louisiana lakes and bayous, causing problems for commercial and recreational shrimpers.