body found

There is closure for one family after a body was recovered in the Mississippi River on Thursday, March 13 following a vehicle being submerged almost two weeks ago.

The body found dead in a burning sugarcane field on Wednesday has been identified, according to authorities.

According to the West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office, a sugarcane farmer discovered the body in his field.

According to the Franklin Police Department, the human bones were found in the ground near the building.

A man's corpse wrapped inside a tarp was found on Sunday, September 29 dumped alongside a ditch in Tangipahoa Parish.

The body of the child found floating in the water behind a Louisiana Welcome Center has been identified as a 4-year-old boy, according to the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office.

A body was found floating in the Vermilion River in the Lafayette area this past Saturday, according to authorities with the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office.

Late Monday night, a grim discovery was made in the waters of the Mississippi River as a dredging company ran across a lifeless body.

A body was found on Monday evening in Baton Rouge when it washed up near the USS Kidd on River Road along the banks of the Mississippi River.

New Iberia Police discovered the body of a 97-year-old woman at her home in the 600 block of East Pershing Street.

The West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office has confirmed that the human remains of a person found earlier this week inside a car at a truck stop have been identified.

The St. Martinville Police Department received a call on Tuesday afternoon that possible skeletal remains were located in the area of Isadore St.

St. Martin Parish Sheriff Becket Breaux announced this afternoon that his office has arrested and booked a 16-year-old male juvenile suspect in connection with a homicide in Breaux Bridge yesterday afternoon.

The identity of the person has not been released.

The West Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office responded to a call around 7:00 am that a tugboat had spotted the body in the river.

A second man's body has been recovered from Toledo Bend Lake after a fishing trip went awry for two men this past weekend.

According to reports, an elderly man drowned on Toledo Bend Lake on Thursday. The 73-year-old's body was recovered on Friday morning not far from the man's home.

The body of a woman was found in Lake Ponchartrain on Monday, May 31, two days after Causeway Police say a woman jumped off the bridge near the Metairie side on Saturday.

St. Mary Parish Sheriff Blaise Smith says that Melancon has booked with second-degree murder charges.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says it has recovered the body of a missing boater after a crash near the Butte La Rose Visitor Center Boat Launch last week.