The search for a man who fell off a boat into Lake Pontchartrain has come to a tragic conclusion.
New Orleans police say someone found the body of the boater along the lakefront off Lakeshore Drive near the University of New Orleans campus around 6 a.m. Thursday, roughly 30 hours after the man fell into the lake. That location is nearly two miles from where the boater was last seen alive.
According to Coast Guard officials, two men fell off a 22-foot vessel just before midnight Tuesday near the New Canal Lighthouse. Rescue personnel later pulled one of the men from the water. That man survived; his condition, unknown…