Thibodaux ranked among America's best small town food scenes in the latest USA Today readers' choice listing. It's the fourth straight year the city has made the list and it's the only place in Louisiana to rank in the top 10 during that time. For the past two years, the city ranked No. 2, behind Abington, Virginia.

ROME (AP) — Italy has been so successful in recovering ancient artworks and artifacts that were illegally exported from the country it has created a museum for them. The Museum of Rescued Art was inaugurated Wednesday in a cavernous structure that is part of Rome’s ancient Baths of Diocletian. The Octagonal Hall exhibition space was designed to showcase Italy’s efforts, through patient diplomacy and court challenges, to get valuable antiquities returned to Italy, often after decades in foreign museums or private collections.

Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. We are part of The Trust Project. Roughly half of sugar grown in the United States comes from sugarbeets and the other half comes from sugarcane. Sugar, or sucrose, is a carbohydrate that occurs naturally in fruits, vegetables and other agricultural crops, but at greater levels from sugarbeets and sugarcane.

An award-winning chef and volunteer firefighter has brought his culinary talents back to his hometown of Thibodaux. No longer will you have to drive to New Orleans to taste the gourmet cuisine prepared by Nathan Richard. The longtime Thibodaux volunteer firefighter and the reigning King of American Seafood has joined forces with local physician Dr. Jody Plaisance and his wife, Dollie, to open Cuvée in Thibodaux’s Acadia Plantation neighborhood.