Houma
Americannoun
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In August 2014, local newspaper Houma Today reported Ashley Ann Worrell, 31, and her three-year-old daughter Delaney Rae Lirette died after their pick-up overturned into a canal.
From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026
Based in Houma, in the heart of the Louisiana bayou, they began enjoying increased prices for their catch last year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 31, 2025
“Unfortunately, a local couple from Houma won’t stop flying drones into our windows every morning and following us with a tracker,” she wrote.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2024
The man, identified by family as Tyler Barnett, 28, of Houma, was last seen on security camera footage aboard the Carnival Glory cruise ship late Sunday, officials said.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 14, 2023
I dogged it on through La Fayette and Morgan City and came in the early dawn to Houma, which is pronounced Homer and is in my memory one of the pleasantest places in the world.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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