Houma Times: Top 10 News Stories of 2022

2022 has been a crazy year for news in our community. From tragedies to successes, our newspaper strived to to be there and offer you coverage of the events that define our area.

We determined our top stories based on total pageviews of individual pieces. As you can imagine, our top 10 stories all revolve around sad news. It seems that is just human nature these days… the saddest and most tragic of headlines are the ones that garner the most views.

As a community, maybe we can change that in 2023! We would love if our top headlines were all about the positives that happened around us.

Here are the top 10 news headlines of 2022:

1. One Dead in Two-Vehicle Crash; Impairment Suspected in Both Drivers
2. Kennedy: “Louisianians can’t afford energy bills because Biden administration forfeited America’s energy independence”
3. 14 arrested on multiple drug, weapons charges after lengthy investigations
4. Gov. Edwards Activates Louisiana State Police, Dept. of Corrections; Sends Additional Personnel to Assist at Bridge City Center for Youth and Swanson 
5. Houma Man Arrested for Second Degree Murder in Main Street Shooting
6. Helicopter crash victims identified by Lafourche Coroner
7. Area Marching Bands have successful shows at the Louisiana Showcase of Marching Bands State Championship
8. Cause of Death released in Ezekiel Harry investigation
9. Body of missing two-year-old found
10. UPDATED: HPD releases more information on disappearance of two-year-old boy