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Mark Wood re-elected as Rapides Parish sheriff, defeating Kris Cloessner
The Town Talk via Yahoo News· 7 months agoRapides Parish Sheriff Mark Wood won re-election Saturday night, again defeating challenger Kris...
Sheriff says violent crimes task force’s 171 arrests cut down on drug overdoses
The Town Talk via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA new violent crime task force has started operating in the region, netting 171 arrests over a...
'No Reasonable Officer' Would Have Arrested a Guy for a COVID-19 Joke, the 5th Circuit Says
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 9 months agoParamount Pictures In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Waylon Bailey, a resident of Rapides...
Rapides assessor adjusts some property values for elected officials
The Town Talk via Yahoo News· 1 year agoALEXANDRIA — Rapides Parish Assessor Rick Ducote has updated some of his numbers after the...
Mark Woods: As father-son chase America's high points, Denali becomes more than a mountain
The Florida Times-Union via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA year ago, when kids were returning to school, I thought about writing sort of a "how I spent my...
Wrongful deaths, beatings, false arrests alleged in lawsuits against Rapides law enforcement
The Town Talk via Yahoo News· 8 months agoA string of lawsuits lays out allegations of death, violence, negligence and unwarranted arrests,...
Super low property valuations for some Rapides officials result in smaller tax bills
The Town Talk via Yahoo News· 1 year agoALEXANDRIA — Public records available on the Rapides Parish assessor’s website show properties for...
Informant sues Rapides Sheriff's Office over rapes after testifying she didn't blame agency
The Town Talk via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA woman raped while acting as a confidential informant for the Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office has...
11 years later, a video surfaces and galvanizes push to reopen police custody death case
The Town Talk via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe case of Robert Ricks, an Alexandria man who died while in police custody in 2011, has been given...
Body-Cam Video Shows Louisiana Sheriff’s Deputy Shooting Unarmed Black Man In Head
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDerrick Kittling, 45, was killed after a deputy stopped him for an alleged window tint violation on...