Every area of Louisiana still is experiencing drought, even though some corners have seen conditions ease a bit after much needed rains. But a swath across the state, including Rapides Parish, remains ...

The Louisiana Supreme Court issued an order Monday that all jury trials in the state that haven't started yet are to be continued until at least March 30. The order came just hours after the 12th ...

WARNING: Graphic language, violence. Alexandria police released body camera video of an officer's interactions with three people as he arrested them.

Online Rapides Parish Clerk of Court records show nothing from what was to have been an Aug. 19 evidentiary hearing scheduled for Stormy Cofer, convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life ...

Timothy Teasley was removed from a Rapides Parish courtroom before his hearing got underway Monday morning, but that didn't stop him from being ruled competent to stand trial on first-degree murder ...

Jayme Etheridge (left), Stacey Blake and Starlett Cram watch the bald eagle Anna sitting in the eagle's nest at the new Eagle Nest Viewing Area in the Kincaid Recreation Area west of Alexandria. The ...

Stormy Cofer was sentenced Monday to life in prison for the October 2013 shooting death of 18-year-old Keiunna Collins after a defense motion for a new trial was rejected. Before 9th Judicial District ...

Donnie Cayer's sisters does not want him to be forgotten, standing at the spot on Horseshoe Drive where the 43-year-old father of two was killed three years ago while bicycling with his two sons.

Runners and walkers celebrated Independence Day at Run Wild's Freedom 5K & Fun Run held at England Airpark in Alexandria.

An attempt Monday by a mother charged in the death of her special-needs daughter to withdraw her not guilty plea and have a sanity commission appointed was ruled premature. Karen Johnson Harrison, 48, ...

MARKSVILLE — Standing in front of the Avoyelles Parish Jail, an NAACP chapter president and others called Friday for the resignation of Avoyelles Parish Sheriff David Dauzat almost two months after a ...

A hearing on motions in the Kayla Giles homicide case has been rescheduled for Nov. 9. The hearing was to have been held Aug. 5 after having been paused in mid-March. Giles has been indicted on second ...