Calcasieu Coroner Terry Welke says he is resigning from office August 11. Two years ago he stopped performing autopsies due ...

The search is on for a new forensic pathologist. After nearly three decades of doing his own autopsies, Dr. Terry Welke, who ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - It was a quiet and overcast morning at Consolata Cemetery where employees of the Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office and a local funeral home owner prepared to bring 107 ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - A Lake Charles man and his wife are facing charges after he reportedly raped three young children and she failed to notify law enforcement. On March 23, Calcasieu Parish ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. – An elderly Lake Charles woman who was attacked and sexually assaulted at the beginning of July died, now turning the investigation into a homicide.According to the Lake ...

ST. TAMMANY PARISH, La. — The former St. Tammany Parish coroner is speaking at a public meeting Wednesday to address concerns from residents surrounding the new coroner.

La Porte County Coroner Lynn Swanson said an autopsy revealed 60-year-old Charles Adams had extensive heart disease and a prior heart attack before the Wednesday afternoon collision.

The Coroner’s Office says the victim was identified as 64-year-old Anna Mae De La Merced. Officials say Merced was not wearing a water flotation device and was found nearly 60 yards from shore.

UPDATE 10/17: According to LCPD, the dead subject has been identified as Christopher L. Ardoin, 31, of Lake Charles. LAKE CHARLES, La. (KLFY) – A fatal officer-involved shooting in Lake Charles ...

Christie Thomas Ward, 50, of Ocean Isle, N.C., died from multiple blunt force trauma to the head, Coroner Keith von Lutcken ...

LACOMBE, La. (WVUE) - St. Tammany Parish Coroner Dr. Charles Preston says his office has nothing to hide when it comes to how it spends taxpayer money. “There’s probably no more transparent ...