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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.

Lafayette Police report a body was found this morning in a Lafayette park.

Demetris Lincoln of Houston, Texas, has been identified through St. Landry Crime Stoppers and DNA as the body found in Beggs.

The cause of death has not yet been released.