The well, owned by Spectrum OpCo LLC, is located in shallow water off the coast of Plaquemines Parish about 20 miles south of Venice near Garden Island Bay.

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A group of fishermen are suing the state of Mississippi over its move to lease historically public oyster reefs. The lawsuit is led by Mississippi Commercial Fisheries United Inc. and ...

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The first Orthodox Church in the US was established in New Orleans in 1864, built in 1866, by Greek merchants.

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An ambitious project to restore a rapidly vanishing stretch of Louisiana coast devastated by the 2010 Gulf oil spill has been ...