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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.

The Natchitoches Sheriff's Department recovered the body and vehicle of a woman who has been missing since 1993 in the Cane River on Monday.

A Southern University student was found dead in Lake Pontchartrain on Thursday afternoon after being missing for two weeks.

Family members told KATC-TV 3 earlier on Monday (3/8/21) that the man's body had been found under the Basin Bridge near Whiskey Bay close to where his car was found abandoned yesterday.

A Lafayette Consolidated Government work crew cleaning a coolly near Hillside Drive found a dead body on Friday.

Deputies with the St. Mary Parish Sheriff's Office has identified 25-year-old Christopher Olivier of New Iberia as the dead body found in the water in a bar pit on Charenton Beach Road.

The body found Tuesday morning is being identified as 58-year-old Donny Joseph Jacobs of Sunset, according to the St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office.

State Police Troop I Spokesman Trooper Thomas Gossen tells KPEL they have found the body of Joyce Thomas.

An investigation is underway in St. Martin Parish for a body that was found Friday morning at Lake Martin.