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Lafourche/Terrebonne News

* 07/04/2009

Fourchon beachgoers: swim at your own risk
If you’re planning to spend all or part of your holiday weekend at the beach, you should know that state health officials warn against swimming in the surf off some stretches of sand.

* 07/02/2009

Lafourche fireworks ban doused by rain
Lafourche officials had considered a ban on private fireworks displays this year because of dry conditions that prompted a statewide prohibition on outdoor fires.

* 07/01/2009

Terrebonne Judge suspended again
A Terrebonne Parish judge has been suspended for 30 days and fined $185 for violating the code of judicial conduct with inappropriate comments during a 2007 hearing on a domestic abuse case.

* 06/30/2009

Hearing postponed for Des Allemands man accused of killing father
A sanity hearing scheduled for next month in the case of a Des Allemands man accused of killing his father more than five years ago has been postponed, the Lafourche District Attorney's Office said.

* 06/29/2009

Wife of victim credited after two men convicted for hate crime in beating of husband
It was a moment Vanessa Knight thought might never come.

* 06/27/2009

Houma men found guilty of hate crime
A jury found two men guilty Thursday of a 2006 racially motivated beating after a trial marked by recanting convicts and conflicting testimony.

* 06/24/2009

Nicholls State scolded for teacher’s dismissal
A national association of higher-education teachers scolded Nicholls State University administrators for their abrupt treatment in May 2007 of a former instructor whose contract was not renewed.

* 06/12/2009

23 nabbed in Lafourche undercover drug sting
Undercover agents were able to purchase large amounts of drugs during a three-month period in Lafourche Parish, leading to 23 arrests early Friday morning for various drug charges.

* 05/18/2009

Teen suspect named in school shooting; police, metal detectors added this morning
Authorities have identified the boy in Monday’s shooting at Larose-Cut Off Middle School.
Sheriff discusses shooting.
Principal discusses shooting, aftermath. PHOTOS from the scene.

* 05/04/2009

Galliano man arrested for kidnapping 15-year-old girlfriend, infant child
A 22-year-old man who kidnapped his 15-year-old girlfriend and their infant child before fleeing to Mexico is no longer a free man.

* 12/26/2008

Raceland man killed early Friday morning; suspect surrenders
A Raceland man was killed Friday morning when he was shot from “point-blank range” in the head. Cornell Deon Smith is wanted for second degree murder in relation to the shooting.