Alex Onken
Digital Content Producer - KSLA
Shreveport, La.
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Alex Onken joined KSLA News 12's digital team on Halloween 2016. Before that, he worked in newsprint, writing both for the Starkville Daily News and the Lake Charles American Press. A native Louisianan, he was born in Lake Charles and raised in nearby Welsh. He graduated from McNeese State University in December of 2014 with a degree in mass communications.
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Updated: Sep. 22, 2022 at 10:06 AM CDT
|By Alex Onken
His bond has not been set.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2022 at 2:51 PM CDT
|By Alex Onken, Rachael Thomas and Destinee Patterson
A woman was also taken into custody.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2022 at 12:24 PM CDT
|By Alex Onken, Stacey Cameron, Andrun Fisher and Curtis Heyen
Adrian Perkins appeals district court ruling, describes lawsuit as an attempt “to steal your vote”
Updated: May. 15, 2022 at 6:22 AM CDT
|By Alex Onken
Two of the teens are facing an attempted murder charge.
Updated: Mar. 27, 2022 at 7:11 AM CDT
|By Alex Onken
Crews with the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office Marine Unit will help pull the car from the bayou.
Updated: Mar. 14, 2022 at 1:23 PM CDT
|By Alex Onken and Tayler Davis
Crews are searching the Toledo Bend Reservoir for a missing man after the discovery of a body on Saturday.
Updated: Mar. 6, 2022 at 7:36 AM CST
|By Alex Onken
One man was found clinging to a stump,
Updated: Dec. 30, 2021 at 1:10 PM CST
|By Alex Onken and Fred Gamble
Have you ever heard of animal rain? Well, the city of Texarkana just experienced it.
Updated: Dec. 20, 2021 at 5:54 PM CST
|By Alex Onken and Rachael Thomas
The couple’s 2-month-old was sent to an east Texas hospital.
Updated: Nov. 4, 2021 at 6:02 PM CDT
|By Collin Maxwell, Alex Onken, Christian Piekos and Curtis Heyen
He shot at law officers numerous times and opened a fire extinguisher in their direction, authorities say
Updated: Nov. 4, 2021 at 10:36 AM CDT
|By Collin Maxwell, Alex Onken, Christian Piekos and Gray News staff
Police said a mother of one of the residents checked the back door to the building. That’s when, police say, she discovered the bodies of two males and a female, all shot to death.
Updated: Oct. 4, 2021 at 12:14 PM CDT
|By Alex Onken
In total, 18 children younger than 18 have died from COVID in Louisiana.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2021 at 12:25 PM CDT
|By Alex Onken
"It's incumbent upon all of us to get the vaccine and wear a mask to protect ourselves and one another, including our children."
Updated: Sep. 4, 2021 at 11:20 AM CDT
|By Alex Onken
Two other evacuee’s deaths at the facility are not storm-related.
Updated: Aug. 24, 2021 at 5:06 PM CDT
|By Daffney Dawson, Collin Maxwell and Alex Onken
According to the Sabine Parish Sheriff’s Office Facebook Page, two more bodies where found in Toledo Bend on Sunday, Aug. 1.
Updated: Aug. 24, 2021 at 12:39 PM CDT
|By Alex Onken
The new overall total deaths to 12,116 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2021 at 7:56 PM CDT
|By Alex Onken
In part, the faculty member wrote “she wouldn’t care if every unvaccinated person died.”
Updated: Jul. 13, 2021 at 12:31 PM CDT
|By Alex Onken, Destinee Patterson and Curtis Heyen
The body was found in a field not far from where the teen was last seen.
Updated: Jun. 23, 2021 at 11:23 PM CDT
|By Alex Onken and Chandler Watkins
"We will all miss his presence & voice."
Updated: Apr. 7, 2021 at 7:43 AM CDT
|By Alex Onken
A woman is in custody, accused of her alleged role in a shooting on Tuesday, April 6.
Updated: Apr. 1, 2021 at 4:54 AM CDT
|By Alex Onken
Reportedly, the tremor was light, but it could be felt.
Updated: Mar. 4, 2021 at 2:35 PM CST
|By Curtis Heyen and Alex Onken
City leaders in the ArkLaTex are issuing boil advisories amid severe winter weather.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2021 at 7:19 AM CST
|By Alex Onken
The two missing boys were found safe in Florida Wednesday, March 3.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2020 at 4:40 PM CDT
|By Danielle Scruggs, Kaitlyn Gibson and Alex Onken
KSLA surveillance video captured the alleged hospital shooting suspect carjacking a woman.
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