Football
6 parish players honored on All-State team
Six players from St. Charles Parish received honorable mention accolades for the All-State teams in their respective classifications. […]
Month: January 2013
Lifestyles
Local plantation highlighted in blockbuster film “Django Unchained”
Evergreen Plantation director Jane Boddie said movie location scouts often visit the isolated plantation on the West Bank of St. John the Baptist Parish in Edgard. […]
Editorial
Cliff hanging resumes in D.C.
With one fiscal cliff averted and more on the horizon, the new Congress takes over with the seats still warm and feelings still hard from the old one. […]
Government
Oil well penalties coming in handy
It seems that the Gulf Coast is getting more and more revenue from penalties resulting from the BP oil spill. Transocean Ltd., owner of the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon rig that was leased to BP when its macombo well erupted off the Louisiana coast in 2010, has agreed to pay $1.4 billion in civil and criminal fines for its role in the oil spill.
Columns
Does anyone care about debts and deficits?
“Fiscal Cliff, Part One” is over. President Obama wins the round. He wanted to raise the income tax rates on the top two percent of taxpayers and he got his way. […]
Obituaries
Jesse Joseph Chiasson
Jesse Joseph Chiasson, 92, a retired cattle farmer passed away Friday, Dec. 7 in Thibodaux. A native of Bayou Folse and resident of Thibodaux.
Crime
Sheriff’s Reports 1-10-2013
Arrests •Cody J. Falgoust, 30, of 602 Giacomo St. in Norco, was arrested on Jan. 3 and charged with unauthorized entry of a business. •Jelissa E. Bourgeois, 21, of 901 E. Harding St. in New […]
News
Police searching for Boutte man missing since Dec. 25
The St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office is asking for help locating Ronald Miller Sr. Miller was last seen on Dec. 25 at 5:30 p.m.
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Health
Destrehan girl battles rare brain cancer
A little more than a year ago, 11-year-old Caryn Tucker, of Destrehan, was a successful gymnast who competed on the balance beam and uneven bars and had just won a first-place ribbon for her efforts. But last November, Caryn was diagnosed with a deadly brain cancer that has an average survival time of a year.