ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A nurse has pleaded guilty to stealing painkillers from the VA clinic where she worked.

Jolie King, 40, of Alexandria, pleaded guilty Thursday to taking the drugs...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) _ Red River Bancshares Inc. (RRBI) on Wednesday reported first-quarter profit of $6.7 million.

The Alexandria, Louisiana-based bank said it had earnings of 92 cents per...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — Officials in Louisiana announced an arrest in a house fire that killed a grandmother and three of her young granddaughters about a month ago.

ALEXANDRIA., Va. (AP) — It could take several days to determine what caused a house fire in central Louisiana that killed a 48-year-old woman and three of her grandchildren, authorities...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A central Louisiana house fire has claimed four lives.

Alexandria firefighters responded to a blaze at a house late Saturday. After the fire was out, the Louisiana...

GLENMORA, La. (AP) — Several charges have been dropped for a Louisiana mother who was once accused of trafficking children for sexual purposes.

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — The currents of the Red River have forced the Louisiana Dragon Boat Races to move to a new location.

Dragon boat racing is a team sport in which people in long, narrow...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) _ Red River Bancshares Inc. (RRBI) on Wednesday reported fourth-quarter profit of $6.7 million.

On a per-share basis, the Alexandria, Louisiana-based company said it had...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man was arrested and accused of detonating a pipe bomb in an attempt to scare and extort a pay-day loan business for $10,000.

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — The former police chief of a Louisiana town who was arrested over a year ago accepted a plea deal on a charge of unauthorized use of funds.

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A minor explosion outside a former bar in Louisiana was an attempt to extort money from a nearby business , news outlets reported.

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — The police chief of a Louisiana city has been abruptly placed on administrative leave for reasons that have not been made public.

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — An impaired driver was arrested over the weekend when she veered off a road and crashed into a Louisiana State Police building, officers confirmed.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A company that makes metal weather stripping and other building construction components is expanding its facility in central Louisiana and closing its plant in...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A Louisiana sheriff's office that suffered a cyberattack over the weekend says it doesn't believe any of its data was compromised or lost during the attempts to hack into...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A Louisiana parish sheriff's office is operating its booking system and other processes on paper after learning over the weekend it had been targeted in a cyberattack, the...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — Three people charged in the death of a Louisiana woman with cerebral palsy have been ordered to undergo mental evaluations.

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ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — Authorities say a missing Florida teen has been rescued from a Louisiana motel where she was being held captive by a man now charged with kidnapping and rape.

BALL, La. (AP) — The small, central Louisiana town of Ball finally has an elected mayor.

The Alexandria Town Talk reports Gail Wilking was sworn in as mayor last week and started the job by...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A sheriff’s office in Louisiana says an inmate was discovered missing during a nightly head count.

News outlets report 33-year-old Anthony Lee Wells is wanted on a...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Eight regional locations for Louisiana’s Office of Motor Vehicles have reopened after a cyberattack crippled agency operations last week.

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A federal inmate in Louisiana has been sentenced to additional time for assaulting a staff member in a prison kitchen.

NATCHITOCHES, La. (AP) — Prosecutors still are debating on whether to pursue the death penalty against a woman accused of burning her girlfriend’s baby to death, at the girlfriend’s...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A navigation lock on the Red River in central Louisiana has reopened.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it reopened the John H. Overton Lock and Dam at Alexandria...

NATCHITOCHES, La. (AP) — Jurors will be brought in from another parish for the trial of a Louisiana mother charged with first-degree murder in the July 2018 burning death of her 6-month-old...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man has been sentenced to two years' supervised probation for raping a 40-year-old resident of an assisted living facility in 2016.

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) _ Red River Bancshares Inc. (RRBI) on Tuesday reported net income of $6.8 million in its third quarter.

The Alexandria, Louisiana-based company said it had profit of 93...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man accused of fatally burning a nursing home patient has been indicted on a manslaughter charge.

The Alexandria Town Talk reports a Rapides Parish grand...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A former vice chancellor at Louisiana State University has been named chancellor at the school's Alexandria campus.

Paul Coreil has been serving as interim chancellor...

DRY PRONG, La. (AP) — A Louisiana woman is accused of holding a juvenile against her will and offering the young mother her freedom in exchange for the parental rights to her...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — An arrest may have cleared a missing persons' case that dates to 1989.

A tip to the case's original investigator — Rapides Parish Sheriff's Major Mark Baden — led to...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man will spend 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to robbing an armored truck at gunpoint outside of a Walmart.

CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court has sentenced a man who hijacked a domestic EgyptAir flight and ordered it to land in Cyprus to life in prison.

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A Louisiana woman has pleaded guilty to authorizing fraudulent loans, which cost her former employer almost $250,000.

GLENMORA, La. (AP) — A Louisiana mother accused of trafficking a child for sexual purposes has been denied a bond reduction.

The Alexandria Town Talk reports a trial date was set on Thursday...