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- LA lawmakers looking for ways to fill $1 billion shortfall
Lawmakers on the House budget committee said they want to shrink government employee salary growth and to end program duplications as they started Tuesday to look at how to balance next year's budget, which ...
- Richard-Murphy
AJ Murphy of Petal and Chase G. Richard of Hammond, LA, were married at 5:30 p.m. on May 10, 2008, on the golf course at Canebrake Country Club in Hattiesburg, MS.
- Chain of Crashes Totaling Seven Vehicles Kills Napoleonville Man on LA 308
Napoleonville- On Saturday, November 1, 2008, at approximately 7:30 AM, a Napoleonville man died after being involved in a chain of three crashes totaling seven vehicles on LA 308 in Assumption Parish.
- Woman accused of molesting 14-year-old boy
Assumption Parish sheriff's detectives have arrested a Labadieville woman on allegations she sexually molested a 14-year-old boy.
- More of this story
With tears is how firefighters from St. Tammany were thanked when they arrived in Gustav-ravished south Louisiana recently.
- Communities Still Hurting One Week After Gustav
Just one week after Gustav hit Southern Louisiana, some parishes are still looking for the help they were promised by the government.
- Assumption deputy accused of rape
An Assumption Parish sheriff's deputy was arrested Friday on a complaint he allegedly raped a woman motorist during a traffic stop, authorities reported.
- House OKs tuition increase for La. public institutions
LSU tuition expected to rise 5 percent J.J. Alcantara University students are now one step closer to paying 5 percent more in their tuition costs.
- EDITORIAL: Wasting time
Anyone familiar with immigration law was not surprised when a Texas federal judge on Wednesday threw out a Dallas suburb's ban on rentals to illegal immigrants, deeming the law unconstitutional and ...
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City DescriptionLabadieville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Assumption Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,811 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Pierre Part Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Labadieville, originally called "Brulee Labadie", takes its name from a French pioneer and resident, Jean Louis LaBadie. In 1721, there were some fifty warriors of the Chitimacha tribe. During the two decades after 1750, the area around Labadieville was taken up by French and Spanish, joined by Acadians, Islenos and a sprinkling of Germans from the Cote des Allemands or German Coast to the east on the Mississippi River.
In 1843, a mission was established. St. Philomena Catholic church dates from 1848 as an organized parish and the first mass was said in the home of Widow Zacharie Boudreaux. The first building was occupied in 1847.
Labadieville was the scene of a battle, Oct. 27, 1862, between U.S. forces under Gen. Weitzel and a body of Confederate troops under Brig. Gen. Alfred Mouton. Major General Benjamin F. Butler, commanding Union forces in the Department of the Gulf, launched an expedition into the Bayou Lafourche region to eliminate the Rebel threat from that area, to make ... Read MoreCity Contained By:- Assumption Parish
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