Alex Cox
Report for America corps memberAlex Cox is a corps member of Report for America, an organization that pairs journalists with local news organizations to help them serve their communities. They will be covering St. George's split from Baton Rouge and how it may impact marginalized communities.
Before coming to WRKF, Alex was a student at the University of Missouri, where they worked for the NPR affiliate for Central Missouri and a local paper for Columbia, Missouri. They've covered everything from state politics to health care access issues in rural Missouri.
When not on the job, Alex enjoys being a nerd playing Dungeons and Dragons.
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Documents obtained by The Associated Press show that federal border agents are pulling out of a Louisiana immigration crackdown and heading to Minneapolis. The shift appeared to signal a wind down of the Louisiana deployment that began in December and had been expected to last into February. -
The protest centered around the perception that Cassidy, a licensed physician, has not challenged Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. enough. -
Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge will be closed through the weekend after officials called a lockdown Thursday morning due to a “potential threat.” -
“Camp 57” is the latest attempt to repurpose U.S. prison facilities to accommodate mass arrests by ICE amid President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
