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This is a strange one: a man buys a new phone and, when he activates it, it logs him in to a deceased man's Facebook account.

Louisiana Tech running back Tyronne Duplessis has been found dead at his off-campus apartment.

After CBS news reporting last eveing that Joe Paterno had died, a family spokesman came forward and said he had not died.  CBS news retracted its statement, but now its confirmed Paterno is dead.

Police detectives are investigating the shooting death of a local man whose body was discovered outside of his southeast Shreveport home this afternoon.

A single-family house fire in Plain Dealing has claimed the life of an elderly North Bossier Parish woman.

According to multiple reports, former Michigan basketball star and NBA player Robert 'Tractor' Traylor was found dead Wednesday on the bedroom floor of his apartment in Isla Verde, Puerto Rico. He was 34. Police said Traylor had been missing for a few days, and that he apparently died of a heart attack. At time of his death, Traylor, a team member for the Bayamon Cowboys, was recovering from a hee

Elizabeth Taylor, a voluptuous violet-eyed actress who lived a life of luster and anguish and spent more than six decades as one of the world's most visible women for her two Academy Awards, eight marriages, ravaging illnesses and work in AIDS philanthropy, died Wednesday at age 79.