RAPIDES PARISH, La. - If you need a birth certificate or birth card, you don't have to send it by snail mail to New Orleans. You can get it right here in Alexandria.
The Office of the Rapides Parish Clerk of Court is now offering same-day service for birth certificates.
Birth certificates cost $24 and birth cards are $14.
This is being offered due to the closing last month of the vital statistic's office in Alexandria.
