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Authorities are searching for a Houma man wanted in connection with a missing elderly resident.

Two Houma men have been charged in connection with the 2015 murder of a Bourg resident, authorities said.

Two Houma judges were honored by Louisiana Legislature this week for their service in a program that helps students understand how the court system works.

Massive, unexplained bivalve die-off sends many Louisiana oystermen back to square one Halle Parker Mitch Jurisich, a third-generation oysterman, dropped a long pair of oyster tongs into the Gulf of Mexico and lightly raked the water bottom. When he brought up his catch — several oysters that he laid along the side of his boat — all but one were dead. The more resilient hooked mussels, typically found clustered along the area's oyster reefs, had suffered the same fate. The stench of rotting bivalves filled the air. "That's the smell of death," Jurisich said. Early this month, millions o...