ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A Louisiana sheriff serving his sixth term said he’s decided to retire.

Rapides Parish Sheriff William Earl Hilton said he will not run for re-election, opting to retire so he can spend time with his family, including his 12-year-old grandson who wants to be a police ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — Authorities say a man’s body has been recovered from a Louisiana lake.

The Rapides Parish Sheriff’s office tells news outlets that the body of 26-year-old Ryan Reed was pulled out of Catahoula Lake on Sunday. Sheriff William Earl Hilton says his office received a ...

CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court has sentenced the deputy governor of the country’s second-largest city to 12 years in prison on corruption charges.

The Cairo criminal court also sentenced Souad el-Kholy, deputy governor of the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, to a one-year suspended ...

NATCHITOCHES, La. (AP) — Court records have been sealed from the public in the cases of two women accused in the 2018 burning death of a 6-month-old boy.

The Alexandria Town Talk

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — The Christmas tree is simple, clean, orderly— much the way Brittney Metrejean aspires to live her life these days.

It’s full but not overcrowded. It’s colorful but not clashing.

“It’s the most beautiful thing,” Brittney said.

The tree might seem ...

PILOTTOWN, La. (AP) — The Coast Guard says a ship loaded with coal that had run aground near the mouth of the Mississippi River has been moved and the river partially reopened.

The news release Friday says the Coast Guard has reopened the river at mile 3.5 near the community of Pilottown ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man has been charged with vehicular homicide for a wreck that killed a woman in November.

The Alexandria Town Talk reported that ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — The former police chief for a central Louisiana town has been arrested on multiple charges.

News outlets report 34-year-old Nate Ussery, who led the Ball Police Department, was arrested Thursday. According to his attorney, Adam Huddleston, Ussery turned himself into ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A woman in active labor crossed the stage to graduate from college in Louisiana.

The Daily Advertiser reports 31-year-old Anshonarial Greenhouse was in active labor during Louisiana State University of Alexandria’s fall ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A Louisiana woman and her husband are accused of trying to frame her boyfriend by claiming he’d kidnapped her.

News outlets report that 29-year-old Rebecca Lea Champion of Jennings and 33-year-old Christopher John Champion were arrested on criminal mischief charges. ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — Police in Louisiana say a woman was killed when two brothers fought over a gun and the weapon fired.

News outlets reported that Alexandria police were called Friday night about the shooting and found 32-year-old Jazzlyn Fields dead at the home from a single gunshot ...

CAMPTI, La. (AP) — The Louisiana State Fire Marshal’s Office says a 71-year-old woman died as she unsuccessfully tried to save her 6-year-old granddaughter from a house fire in Natchitoches Parish.

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CAIRO (AP) — The family of a 19-year-old British tourist says Egyptian authorities have arrested the young man over a video he filmed on his cellphone that showed a military helicopter in the background.

Speaking from the UK on Friday, humanitarian relief worker Shareen Nawaz told The ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A former Louisiana police officer has been sentenced to three years in prison for abuse of office, after his attempt to withdraw a guilty plea was rejected.

News outlets reported former Alexandria officer Kenneth Seth Thomas was sentenced Monday for an October guilty ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — Authorities say they have arrested a suspect who kidnapped and killed a man from the same Louisiana home where he beat a woman with an ax handle hours earlier.

Alexandria police said 32-year-old Terry Williams was taken into custody Saturday afternoon not long after ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — Melissa Myers had a bit of a wait before her friend Kim Bravo arrived at Alexandria International Airport from Jacksonville, Florida.

That was OK. She had the time to make a new friend — Michael, a resident at the Louisiana Special Education Center and a participant ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — Police in central Louisiana have arrested a man on dogfighting charges after a months-long investigation.

Alexandria police tell local news outlets that 56-year-old Clarence McHanney of Alexandria was arrested Oct. 27. He’s charged with three counts of dogfighting, ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — An airman assigned to Barksdale Air Force Base has died in a crash on Interstate 49 in Louisiana.

News outlets reported the wreck happened shortly before 8:30 p.m. Saturday when a car being driven by 22-year-old Airman Eduardo Ramos Jr. crashed into a bridge ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — When Ed Tarpley read “Jim Crow’s Last Stand: Non-unanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana” three years ago, he couldn’t let it go.

The book, by historian Thomas Aiello, details how and why a law allows Louisiana juries to convict defendants of felonies, ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A man in Louisiana has rejected a plea deal in a wreck that killed a woman and her son.

The Alexandria Town Talk reported that ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A Louisiana police department has arrested one of its own officers after he was accused of threatening a woman and cursing at another woman in front of her children.

The Alexandria Town Talk

CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian military court on Thursday sentenced 17 Islamic militants to death for involvement in deadly attacks on Christians, a rights lawyer said.

The court in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria also issued life sentences to 19 defendants and sentenced another nine to 15 ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A former police officer in Louisiana who was arrested last year has pleaded guilty to one felony count of abuse of office.

News outlets in Alexandria say Kenneth Seth Thomas entered the plea Monday morning.

A marijuana distribution charge against the former ...

NATCHITOCHES, La. (AP) — A Louisiana prosecutor says a mother accused in her infant son’s death asked her girlfriend to kill the baby.

Hanna Nicole Barker is being held without bond. A judge ruled Friday that there’s probable cause to charge her as a principal to murder in the death of ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A man has been arrested in the shooting death of a motorist in Louisiana last week.

The Town Talk of Alexandria reported that police said ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — Seven of the 10 most distressed water systems in the state are in Central Louisiana, according to the governor’s Rural Water Infrastructure Committee.

The committee is tasked with helping at-risk water systems to address their issues before they reach a crisis point. ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — Federal authorities say a leader and a member of a prison-based “whites only” gang have pleaded guilty in Alexandria, Louisiana, to being accessories after the fact in a 2016 slaying.

A U.S. Justice Department news release says 38-year-old Aryan Circle leader, David ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A Louisiana woman has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $114,000 in disability benefits meant for her deceased mother.

U.S. Attorney David C. Joseph, in a news release Thursday, said 44-year-old Elizabeth Poole, of Pollock, pleaded guilty to one count of theft of ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A couple caught having sex in the stairwell of a Louisiana courthouse is facing obscenity charges.

The Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office says 20-year-old Miguel Glorioso, of Alexandria, and 19-year-old Jamie Lee Coutee, of Pineville, were arrested after a courthouse ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man has won the runner-up prize in a drawing for the multi-state Powerball jackpot.

Officials say 75-year-old Glenn Feazell, of Boyce, cashed in a ticket worth $1 million from the drawing held June 23.

He says he was drinking his morning coffee ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A man who worked as a nursing assistant at a veterans’ hospital in Louisiana pleaded no contest Wednesday to a negligent homicide charge in a patient’s 2013 death.

Fredrick Kevin Harris, 56, entered the plea prior to the start of his scheduled trial Wednesday in ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — Raised garden beds at the Alexandria VA Hospital are providing recreation and therapy for the veterans who tend to them daily.

The gardens are located outside the hospital’s nursing home and acute psychiatric units. They were planted in April, thanks in part to an ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — The legal problems for a man facing a felony bank fraud charge in connection with a highly touted Louisiana development project became more complicated after he showed up for his arraignment.

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt says security forces have killed 10 militants involved in a bombing that targeted the convoy of Alexandria’s former security chief in March.

The Interior Ministry said Thursday that six were killed in a shootout in Beheira province and another four were killed in a clash ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A letter to Blue Bell Creameries from a family in Red River Parish proposes a new name for “The Great Divide,” a half chocolate and half vanilla ice cream mix.

Traci Schmidley published a letter that her children and their friend wrote in a Facebook post that’s been ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A federal judge has denied a request to suppress evidence in the criminal case against a former Louisiana prison warden and his ex-wife.

Former warden Nate Cain and his former spouse Tonia Cain were indicted last year on charges that they used a state credit card to ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — Louisiana police investigating a body in the yard of a house in Alexandria, soon got a second call: a burned car, linked to the victim, had been found in a different location.

Alexandria police got the call early Monday morning about a man lying in a ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. John Bel Edwards has vetoed a bill to allow independent Louisiana gas stations to sue larger gas station companies over unfair pricing.

The measure was sponsored by House GOP ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — United Pentecostal Church International leader Tom Fred Tenney, credited with greatly increasing the denomination’s missionary work abroad, died Friday at the age of 84.

Tenney was a minister for more than 65 years. He was in his late 20s when he became the ...

COLFAX, La. (AP) — A central Louisiana man has been sentenced to 45 years in prison after being convicted of five counts of sexual battery.

The Town Talk reports 30-year-old ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — Group projects, 10-page papers, all-night study sessions — these are common in a college graduate’s journey to commencement. But some go through much more to get there.

When Justin Lafleur was 23 years old he was in his final semester of college, just a few months ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — Authorities say an inmate who escaped a Louisiana jail was caught within two hours.

News outlets cite a release from the Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office that says 34-year-old Kevin Mark Warden jumped the fence at Rapides Parish Detention Center on Wednesday afternoon ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — Records say five sheriff’s deputies in Louisiana were fired after an inmate complained about excessive force.

The Town Talk quotes Rapides Parish ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — Authorities say a second person has died following an April 11 gunfight with sheriff’s deputies in rural north Louisiana.

Louisiana State Police said in a Saturday news release that 50-year-old Kendall Lemoine died Friday night at a trauma center in ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s pharmacy board has awarded four more licenses to dispense medical marijuana to eligible patients.

The board granted permits Wednesday for West Monroe, Shreveport, Alexandria and Madisonville on the second day of licensing hearings. Five licenses were ...