Alexandria, Louisiana

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Weather in:
Alexandria

Fair
Temperature: 45.8 °F

Humidity: 69 %
Wind Speed: 4 mph WSW
Pressure: 29.83 "

Dew Point: 36 °F
Gusts: 9 mph SW
Rain Today: 0.00 "

• Combat team returns to La. from Iraq
  

  For Fort Polk soldier Laquanna Solano, the hardest thing about being deployed to Iraq was missing out on her daughter's life.

• Louisiana Book News: State sets good place for Abbott mystery
  

  Tony Abbott, author of The Secrets of Droon series and the novels Kringle, Firegirl and The Postcard, creates another new world, one in which the dead walk the earth, in the young reader series The Haunting of ...

• Orchid show set for February in Alexandria
  

  The Central Louisiana Orchid Society Orchid Show will be held Friday and Saturday, February 7 - 8, at the Best Western Convention Center, 2720 MacArthur Drive.

• Jazz and Razz
  

  DAISY LACHNEY, a 5-year-old with kidney cancer, wished for something other children could share: a playground for her town of Fifth Ward near Alexandria.

• Lafayette woman, wounded in Alexandria shooting, dies in hospital
  

  The female victim of the early Friday morning shooting passed away Monday, Alexandria police said.

• With lost infants, the pain never leaves
  

  There is nothing more disturbing, I think, than death in the dawn of life - the loss of a newborn or infant child.

• United Way cut affects central La. Boys & Girls Club
  

  ALEXANDRIA, La. - The director of The Boys & Girls Club of Central Louisiana says the club will not close despite an $86,000 cut in funding from the United Way of Central Louisiana.

• Paula LeBlanc Named Associate State Vice President for Louisiana
  

  The American Cancer Society is pleased to announce Paula LeBlanc as the Associate State Vice President for Louisiana.

• Mrs. Hunter Moody
  

  Emily Elizabeth Wells and Hunter Armstrong Moody exchanged wedding vows on Saturday, December 13, 2008 at St.

• Pollock inmate indicted in slaying at prison
  

  ALEXANDRIA, La. - An inmate of the U.S. Penitentiary in Pollock has been indicted in connection with the death of a fellow inmate.

• La. man pleads guilty to hate crime
  

  Associated Press - December 18, 2008 2:24 PM ET ALEXANDRIA, La. - A Louisiana man accused of dressing up like a member of the Klu Klux Klan and threatening a black man has pleaded guilty to conspiring to ...

• Counterfeit, pirated merchandise seized
  

  Louisiana Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control agents have seized tens of thousands of dollars worth of counterfeit goods and pirated DVDs from three stories.

• Police Beat
  

  A Houston man has been charged with possession with intent to distribute Schedule II narcotics , possession of drug paraphernalia and speeding.

• Nalezinek - Wilson
  

  Johnny Nalezinek and Cheryl Jarrell of Alexandria are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Chelsea Ann Nalezinek, to Edward "Grant" Wilson, son of Ed and Kathy Wilson of Monroe.

• From My Mail Just in Time for Christmas
  

  Longtime friend Randy Tompkins of Alexandria, LA, is president of Cornerstone Consultants Ministries.

• Three tornadoes spotted near Alexandria
  

  At least three confirmed tornadoes touched down in Rapides Parish on Tuesday as a powerful storm system moved through Central Louisiana.

• Metro N.O. Escapes Severe Weather As Front Approaches
  

  Metro New Orleans escaped damage from any severe weather Tuesday night as a squall line of strong storms preceded a cold front sweeping into Louisiana.

• At least 3 tornadoes seen in Alexandria, La. area
  

  At least three tornadoes touched down in the Alexandria area Tuesday, scattering debris and knocking down a cinderblock wall.

• DOTD releases area results for road bids
  

  BATON ROUGE - The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development considered bids totaling more than $87 million at its Nov.

City Description

Alexandria is a city in and the parish seat of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States. It lies on the south bank of the Red River in almost the exact geographic center of the state. It is the principal city of the Alexandria metropolitan area (population 147,000) which encompasses all of Rapides and Grant parishes. The population was 46,342 at the 2000 census. Its neighboring city is Pineville. The area of Alexandria, located along the Red River, was originally home to a community supporting activities of the adjacent Spanish outpost of Post du Rapides. The area developed as a vibrant, yet sometimes debaucherous, assemblage of traders and merchants in the agricultural lands bordering the mostly unsettled areas to the north, and providing a link from the south to the El Camino Real and then larger settlement of Natchitoches. Alexander Fulton, a Pennsylvania businessman, received a land grant from Spain in 1785, and the first organized settlement was made at that time. In 1805, Fulton and business partner Thomas Harris Maddox laid out the town plan and named the town after Fulton's infant daughter who died around that time. It was first incorporated as a town in 1818 and received a

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• United States
• Louisiana
• Rapides Parish

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