BATON ROUGE – Gov. Bobby Jindal vetoed the Legislature’s proposed pay increase, chiefly at the urging of an outraged public.
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THIBODAUX – Area residents who helped churn widespread dissent that prompted Gov. Bobby Jindal to veto a legislative pay raise Monday celebrated a victory they say highlights the power of public outcry.
THIBODAUX -- Last weekend, police arrested two teens from Thibodaux for allegedly robbing a Galliano man at knifepoint at the Ramada Inn on East First Street. Authorities say the man invited his alleged attackers into his hotel room.
HOUMA -- Wildlife and Fisheries will partially close waters to shrimping in the state’s eastern-and-western most bays and lakes today, bringing an end to what has become a short season for many shrimpers.
HOUMA – John Ahlf II says he stood by his wife, Mary, as she suffered through pain caused by a rare form of arthritis. Sometimes, the 32-year-old offshore worker said, things got so bad she talked of suicide.
HOUMA -- Cindy Vo faced the audience at Ellender High School’s graduation last month wearing a valedictorian’s vestments.
HOUMA -- The story is well known, and it goes like this: A second-grade Jerry J. Larpenter was cutting school one day when a Terrebonne sheriff’s deputy dispatched to bring him back to class found him playing in a neighbor’s barn.