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INDEPENDENCE, La. - A Tangipahoa Parish seafood processing company and an Illinois seafood distributor are charged for mislabeling and selling shrimp for over a year.

The Tangipahoa Parish School Board voted Tuesday to give attorney Bob Hammonds, of Baton Rouge, an expanded role in dealing with its decades-old desegregation litigation as well as how new state laws affect operations of Louisiana school systems.

The Advocate reports that of 7 firms responding to a request for proposals, the board's current audit firm, Harris CPA of Baton Rouge, was not among those scoring highest.

Authorities are seeking two men, who are considered armed and dangerous, in a shooting in Natalbany, the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office reported Friday in a news release.

The Tangipahoa Parish Council has declined to adopt a proposed ordinance that would have regulated and required a permit for companies to drill for oil and gas in the parish.

Deputies shut down two methamphetamine operations and arrested five people on related drug counts, the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office reported Thursday.

The number of oil leases in Tangipahoa Parish during the first four months of 2012 has nearly matched the 564 in the parish for all of 2011, said Tangipahoa Parish Clerk of Court Julian Dufreche.

Employment has rebounded in the five-parish area east of Baton Rouge after 16 consecutive quarters of decline, according to the Southeastern Louisiana University Business Research Center.