Weaving his way through the streets of downtown Alexandria, a big black spider with glowing red eyes marched with other lighted figures including a pelican, an alien head, a dragon, a goldfish, a mermaid and an alligator in the Alexandria Museum of Art Luminary Procession Friday evening. The procession, led by the Pineville Elementary School Drumline, is […]
Authorities on Friday continued to search for a bank robbery suspect after law enforcement and a SWAT team moved into an Alexandria, Minn., neighborhood Thursday, but failed to locate the perpetrator. Police went to the Bremer Bank in downtown Alexandria at about 4:25 p.m. after getting a call about a robbery in progress. Officers set […]
Alexandria Police Department Cpl. David Moore’s purpose for being downtown was to be part of the increased police and security presence for the influx of students that were going to be at the main Central Louisiana Technical Community College downtown campus and the Cleco Advanced Manufacturing Center. Now, his daughter Madison Moore is a drafting […]
The city of Alexandria has announced that its longtime director of the Alexandria Utility System (AUS), Michael Marcotte, is leaving for another position. The city of Alexandria has announced that its longtime director of the Alexandria Utility System, Michael Marcotte, is leaving for another position. Mayor Jacques Roy has named Marcus Connella, who served as […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Negotiations aimed at luring the NHL’s Washington Capitals and the NBA’s Washington Wizards to northern Virginia have “ended” and the proposal to create a development district with a new arena for the teams “will not move forward,” the city of Alexandria said Wednesday. Virginia’s House speaker also confirmed he was told […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Work on compromise budget legislation Virginia lawmakers will take up later this week is complete, and the bill does not include language enabling a proposed relocation by the NBA’s Washington Wizards and NHL’s Washington Capitals to Alexandria, top lawmakers said Thursday. The development does not necessarily mean the end of the […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A top Democratic Virginia lawmaker vowed Wednesday to keep language enabling a proposed relocation by the NBA’s Washington Wizards and NHL’s Washington Capitals to Alexandria out of the state budget lawmakers will take up later this week. Sen. L. Louise Lucas, who chairs the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee and is […]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lost her cool with pro-Palestinian protesters on Monday claiming their tactics were “f—-ed up”. The Democrat congresswoman and staunch critic of Israel was visiting a cinema in New York with her fiancé Riley Roberts when she was confronted by two vocal activists. Video footage of the confrontation shows the protesters following Ms Ocasio-Cortez, […]
A 41-year-old Alexandria woman has been arrested months after a fatal crash on Browns Bend Road, accused of vehicular homicide, drag racing and other charges. A 41-year-old Alexandria woman has been arrested months after a fatal crash on Browns Bend Road, accused of vehicular homicide, drag racing and other charges. The Alexandria Police Department announced […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) delivered a stinging assessment of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) after House Republicans failed this week with their baseless bid to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. “Let’s just call a spade a spade here,” Ocasio-Cortez told MSNBC’s “All In” host Chris Hayes on Wednesday. “Republicans are dealing with not their […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) mocked Republicans in Congress over their inability to govern after a chaotic day on Capitol Hill. The New York Democrat shared a tweet posted by journalist Stephen Neukam, who reported that a senior GOP aide had suggested Republicans could seek to change the House speaker again “if we lose the Israel […]
Jan. 23—LAKE PLACID — Millions of dollars in state grants are coming to the north country villages of Canton, Alexandria Bay and Lowville through the Downtown Revitalization Initiative and the New York FORWARD program. In an announcement from the Olympic park in Lake Placid on Tuesday, Governor Kathleen C. Hochul announced Lowville will be the […]