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Crossing guard Katy Wells was killed Thursday in Denham Springs while directing traffic at an elementary school. Darren Goudeau, 64, was arrested on vehicular homicide charges.

The body of Shane Gregory Kile, 45, of Deville was recovered in the Red River on April 20 after a boating accident near Pineville. None of the three boaters wore life jackets.

A 26-year-old man was killed crossing I-55 after a crash.

One person is dead after an Amtrak train collided with a pickup truck near Amite.

Two Louisiana house fires hours apart left two men dead, prompting officials to stress the importance of working smoke alarms in every home.

A 10-year-old girl died Tuesday after an accidental shooting near a Sonic in Baton Rouge.

Two people were found dead after a house fire in Mamou.

Levi Sahn, 28, has been identified as the victim in a deadly Lafayette hotel fire at a vacant La Quinta. The blaze remains under investigation.

A Bossier Parish Sheriff’s deputy was killed after his patrol vehicle was struck by a train while working traffic in Bossier City Wednesday morning.

Troopers are searching for a vehicle involved in a deadly hit-and-run in Iberia Parish.