Historic Hotel Bentley in Alexandria damaged by fire
May 5, 2023 GMTALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — Central Louisiana's historic Hotel Bentley was damaged Friday by a fire in which one person was believed to be injured.
The fire, which damaged the building's exterior on the north side, was concentrated in the lower roof area, said Scott Laliberte, the hotel's president.
Some Louisiana voters reject taxes in Saturday elections
April 30, 2023 GMTNEW ORLEANS (AP) — Voters in Louisiana mostly approved extending dozens of taxes to pay for school and local government operations on Saturday, but voters in low-turnout elections in New Orleans, Alexandria and some other jurisdictions rejected levies.
Judge rules against Google, allows antitrust case to proceed
April 29, 2023 GMTALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday rejected a motion from Google to toss out the government's antitrust case against it.
U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled the lawsuit alleging Google wields monopolistic power in the world of online advertising can proceed in its entirety.
Family, feds reach $5M settlement of Park Police shooting
April 21, 2023 GMTFALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — The family of a northern Virginia man fatally shot by U.S. Park Police officers has reached a $5 million settlement in its civil lawsuit against the government.
Two officers shot 25-year-old Bijan Ghaisar of McLean in November 2017 after a stop-and-go chase on the George Washington Memorial Parkway outside the nation's capital.
Terror convict back in prison after meetings with Lindh
April 4, 2023 GMTFALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A northern Virginia man convicted on terrorism charges as a teenager has been sent back to prison for a year after violating conditions of his release by meeting with convicted Taliban supporter John Walker Lindh and others linked to terrorism.
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Inmate’s estate reaches settlement with Arlington jail
February 5, 2023 GMTARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — The family of an inmate who died in a northern Virginia jail has reached a wrongful death settlement with the county sheriff and the jail's former health care provider.
Darryl Becton died at the Arlington County jail at the age of 46 in October 2020.
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Egypt’s state media says roof collapse in Alexandria kills 2
January 7, 2023 GMTCAIRO (AP) — The roof of a three-story apartment building collapsed early Saturday in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, killing at least two people, Egypt's state-run news agency reported.
Another person was injured in the incident in Alexandria’s Gomrouk neighborhood, MENA said.
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Man and dog die in western Minnesota house fire
January 2, 2023 GMTMILTONA, Minn. (AP) — An 85-year-old man and a dog have died in a New Year's Day house fire in western Minnesota.
The Douglas County sheriff’s office says it got a 911 call about the fire near Miltona around 9:30 p.m.
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Judge turns away Psaki’s effort to quash subpoena
November 18, 2022 GMTALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A judge refused Friday to quash a subpoena issued to former White House press secretary Jen Psaki that seeks her deposition in a lawsuit filed by Missouri and Louisiana, alleging that the Biden administration conspired to silence conservative voices on social media.
Reputed drug dealer accused of raping informant jumps bail
October 17, 2022 GMTALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A reputed drug dealer accused of raping a woman police informant sent into his house alone in an unmonitored sting has skipped bail and was a no-show Monday at what was supposed to the start of his trial.
Louisiana town settling with FEMA over Rita, Gustav payments
September 23, 2022 GMTBALL, La. (AP) — A Louisiana town is preparing to settle a 20-year dispute with the Federal Emergency Management Agency by making a repayment of $163,102.
The Town Talk of Alexandria reports that the Town of Ball Council voted unanimously Tuesday to make the payment to settle a dispute involving $268,668 that was paid out in fraudulent claims related to Hurricane Rita in 2005 and Hurricane Gustav in 2008 when the Town of Ball applied for FEMA funds.
Woman’s rape cries go unheard in unmonitored drug sting
September 13, 2022 GMTALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A woman outfitted with a tiny microphone and hidden camera walked up to a dilapidated drug house on a chilly afternoon last year looking to buy meth from a dealer known on the streets as “Mississippi.”
Red River Bancshares: Q2 Earnings Snapshot
July 29, 2022 GMTALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) _ Red River Bancshares Inc. (RRBI) on Friday reported net income of $9.1 million in its second quarter.
The Alexandria, Louisiana-based bank said it had earnings of $1.27 per share.
In a first, coin bearing zodiac found off Israel’s coast
July 26, 2022 GMTJERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's Antiquities Authority said Monday it has discovered a rare 1,850-year-old bronze zodiac coin during an underwater survey off the coastal city of Haifa.
The coin bears the image of the zodiac sign Cancer behind a depiction of the moon goddess Luna.
Egypt court sentences man to death for killing Coptic priest
June 12, 2022 GMTCAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court Saturday sentenced a man to die for the April stabbing death of a Coptic Christian priest in an attack that shocked the Arab world’s most populous nation.
Nehru Tawfiq, 60, was convicted in Alexandria criminal court of murder for killing 56-year-old priest Arsanious Wadid and illegal possession of a knife.
Egypt’s top mufti to weigh in on penalty for priest’s killer
May 18, 2022 GMTCAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court is asking the country’s top mufti, the highest religious authority for Islam, to weigh in on the case of a man accused of stabbing to death a Coptic Christian priest, the leading judge in the trial announced Wednesday.
Egypt begins trial of man accused of killing Coptic priest
May 14, 2022 GMTCAIRO (AP) — A court in the Egyptian city of Alexandria began the trial Saturday of a man accused of stabbing to death a Coptic Christian priest, an attack that shocked the Arab world’s most populous country.
Feds: fentanyl sold as heroin; buyer ran into police station
May 3, 2022 GMTALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man who sold fentanyl as heroin was sentenced Tuesday to 22.5 years in prison, federal prosecutors said.
In 2018, a buyer who thought he had taken heroin passed out at the wheel and crashed into the Alexandria Police Department, U.S.
Guns stolen last year found in vehicle left in hospital lot
May 3, 2022 GMTALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — Scores of guns stolen last year in northwest Louisiana have been found 120 miles (195 kilometers) away, in a vehicle left in a hospital parking lot in central Louisiana, authorities said.
Red River Bancshares: Q1 Earnings Snapshot
April 29, 2022 GMTALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) _ Red River Bancshares Inc. (RRBI) on Friday reported net income of $7.4 million in its first quarter.
The Alexandria, Louisiana-based bank said it had earnings of $1.03 per share.
Egypt refers man accused of killing Coptic priest to trial
April 19, 2022 GMTCAIRO (AP) — Egyptian prosecutors Tuesday referred a man to trial for allegedly stabbing to death a Coptic Christian priest in an attack that shocked the Arab World’s most populous country.
The public prosecution said in a statement the suspect was accused of killing the priest earlier this month at the popular seaside promenade in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria.
Priest dies from stabbing on seaside promenade in Egypt
April 8, 2022 GMTCAIRO (AP) — A knife-wielding man mortally wounded a Coptic priest in an attack at the popular seaside promenade in the northern city of Alexandria on Thursday evening, Egypt's interior ministry said.
Trial postponed for man indicted on numerous counts of rape
March 22, 2022 GMTALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — The trial of a Louisiana man indicted on numerous counts of first-degree rape that date back decades has been pushed back to October.
Harvey Fountain Jr. was scheduled to go to trial this week, but his defense attorney and the state asked for it to be postponed, The Town Talk reported.
Teenager killed in nightclub shooting that wounded 2 others
February 22, 2022 GMTALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — Police say a 17-year-old boy was shot and killed and two other teens wounded during gunfire at an Alexandria nightclub.
Trevon Washington, a former Natchez resident, died after being shot in the upper torso late Saturday night, the Natchez Democrat reported.
Nurse practitioner arrested for human trafficking, narcotics
February 3, 2022 GMTALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A psychiatric nurse practitioner in Louisiana has been arrested on human trafficking and drug charges, authorities said.
Mark Damian Declouet Jr., who worked in the Alexandria area, was booked into the Rapides Parish Detention Center on Wednesday, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office.
Suits target New Orleans virus rules, some affect Mardi Gras
February 2, 2022 GMTNEW ORLEANS (AP) — More than 100 people have joined a lawsuit against New Orleans’ mayor and health director over COVID-19 restrictions that recently were extended to parade and other participants on Mardi Gras and during the season leading up to it.
1 of two 16-year-olds caught after detention center escape
January 21, 2022 GMTST. MARTINVILLE, La. (AP) — Authorities have caught one of two 16-year-olds who escaped from a Louisiana juvenile detention center but are still looking for the other.
A preliminary investigation has found that “human error played a role in the ...
New Year’s tradition: Checking out man’s lawn designs
January 1, 2022 GMTALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man welcomes the new year in a unique way — by cutting designs into his lawn.
Arthur Brown is known in his Alexandria neighborhood for the designs he creates in the strip of lawn in front of his house.
Stormy weather prompts Egypt to close some classes, ports
December 20, 2021 GMTCAIRO (AP) — Stormy weather has prompted Egyptian authorities to suspend classes Monday in the capital of Cairo and a handful of other provinces as a precautionary measure.
Authorities also closed the ports in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria and the Suez Canal cities of Port Said and Suez.
Sentenced man left fingerprints on pans in boxes of meth
December 18, 2021 GMTLAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man who left fingerprints on cooking pans packed in boxes with methamphetamine has been sentenced to nearly 16 years in prison.
Derrick Felton, 43, of Alexandria, was sentenced Thursday to 15 years and 8 months on drug trafficking charges, U.S.
Louisiana welcomes 2 new U.S. Attorneys
December 14, 2021 GMTBATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana has two new top federal prosecutors after each took the oath of office.
U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson on Monday swore in veteran prosecutor Ronald Gathe Jr.
Man charged with attempted murder over infant head trauma
November 28, 2021 GMTALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A central Louisiana man is charged with attempted murder after his child was brought to a hospital with severe head injuries.
The Town Talk of Alexandria reports 22-year-old Kendrick Laron Williams of Pineville was arrested by Alexandria police after his infant was brought to a hospital by ambulance Tuesday.
Prince Charles ends first tour since start of pandemic
November 19, 2021 GMTCAIRO (AP) — Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, on Friday concluded their first foreign tour since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, a four-day trip that took them to Jordan and Egypt and was meant to strengthen bilateral ties and discuss ways to combat climate change with leaders.
Former bookkeeper must repay $121K to school in Louisiana
November 2, 2021 GMTLAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana woman has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison and has agreed to repay $121,600.50 to a school where she was a bookkeeper for about two years.
Carlina Moore of Alexandria pleaded guilty to wire fraud in August and was sentenced Tuesday in Lafayette, the U.S.
5-year sentence given in central Louisiana strip mall arson
October 22, 2021 GMTALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A man who set two fires at a central Louisiana strip mall has been sentenced to five years in prison, the U.S. Attorney's Office said Friday.
Jasmine Roberson of Baton Rouge was sentenced by U.S.
Woman reaches plea deal after daughter found dead amid filth
October 19, 2021 GMTALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A 50-year-old Louisiana woman has accepted a 50-year sentence as part of a plea agreement in the death of her 25-year-old disabled daughter, who died dehydrated and in filth.
2 of 5 escaped inmates back in custody in Louisiana
October 1, 2021 GMTMARKSVILLE, La. (AP) — Two inmates who escaped from a Louisiana jail this week are back in custody but three others remain on the loose.
The Avoyelles Parish Sheriff's Office said Kyle Cavalier, 19, and Davantae Williams, 20, were found Thursday in Alexandria by U.S.
Rapides Sheriff’s Office to start selling firewood Oct. 1
September 25, 2021 GMTALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — Next month, people can order firewood from the Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office and in the process help out the community and inmates.
Sheriff Mark Wood has started a firewood project that can help recycle the many trees felled by recent hurricanes and winter storms.
Louisiana man indicted on murder charge in baby’s May death
August 25, 2021 GMTALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A grand jury in Louisiana has indicted a man in the death of an infant.
The Town Talk of Alexandria reports that 20-year-old Charles Otis Sneed was indicted in Rapides Parish on Aug.
Egypt opens naval base, latest example of military build-up
July 3, 2021 GMTCAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s president inaugurated a new naval base on the Mediterranean Sea on Saturday, the latest example of the government’s military build-up.
The base is meant to “secure the country’s northern and western front… and the maritime shipping routes,” according to a statement by Abdel Fattah el-Sissi’s office.
Report: Building collapse in northern Egypt kills 5 women
June 26, 2021 GMTCAIRO (AP) — An apartment building collapsed in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, killing at least five women, Egyptian state-run media reported on Saturday.
The report by the daily Al-Ahram said that along with the five deaths, a 70-year-old woman was injured when the five-story building in the city’s Attarin neighborhood collapsed on Friday.
Police: Suspect talked of death details cops never released
June 12, 2021 GMTALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A man accused of killing a 19-year-old Louisiana woman in 2004 and dumping her body in Texas told people details that police never made public, a detective says.
Alexandria Police Detective Tanner Dryden told a judge that David Anthony Burns, 45, of Boyce, mentioned such details to two or three people, The Town Talk reported.
Ex-jail guard gets nearly 6 years for using stun gun on 3
May 17, 2021 GMTALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A former jail guard in Louisiana was sentenced Monday to nearly 6 years in prison for using a stun gun three times, each on a different man who was either handcuffed or not making any threat.
Arson suspected in Kisatchie National Forest fires
April 2, 2021 GMTALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — Authorities in Central Louisiana are asking for the public’s help in finding whoever set multiple fires in the Kisatchie National Forest...
Trains crash in southern Egypt, killing at least 32
March 26, 2021 GMTTAHTA, Egypt (AP) — Two trains crashed Friday in southern Egypt, killing at least 32 people and injuring 165, authorities said in the latest of a series of deadly accidents on the country’s troubled railways...
Egypt officials: Death toll from lake shipwreck climbs to 9
February 23, 2021 GMTCAIRO (AP) — Rescue workers searched a second day Tuesday for at least five people missing after a tour boat capsized on a lake near Egypt’s Mediterranean city of Alexandria...
Specialist optimistic that most sugarcane will weather cold
February 21, 2021 GMTBATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana farmers are worried that more than 60 hours of subfreezing temperatures will hurt next year’s sugarcane crop, but an LSU AgCenter specialist is optimistic the damage won't be that bad...