Arcadia News

Wade Robert Byington, age 91, resident of Arcadia, Kansas, died Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, at his home.

Newcomers to the Arcadia Christian Church Sunday School on the first Sunday in October were Cherish Taylor and her sister Alyshia Taylor, who attended with their neighbor, Cheyenne Melon.

ARCADIA, Kan. - The death of a 29-year-old man inside a burning home Sunday morning has been determined to be a suicide by gunshot, Crawford County authorities said Tuesday.

Sunday at approximately 3:09 a.m., Crawford County 911 received a call of a domestic dispute in which shots were fired at a vehicle.

Authorities responding to a domestic dispute have found a man's body in a burning southeast Kansas home.

Richard L. Kerley and Joyce Mae Briggs were married on Sept. 4, 1949, in Arcadia, Kan.

Chrisi Playford and Michael Shead were married on July 11, 2009, in Grandville, Mich.

Chrisi Playford and Michael Shead were married on July 11, 2009, in Grandville, Mich.

Jim Gaskell is project manager for the Public Wholesale Water Supply District No.

Authorities had said Riley took the girl from her southeast Kansas home while Riley and her boyfriend, Richard Davis , were staying with the family in Arcadia, Kan.

An Independence woman convicted in Missouri of sexually torturing two women and murdering one pleaded guilty today in federal court in Kansas to kidnapping a 5-year-old girl.Dena D. Riley, 42, kidnapped the child in Kansas and sexually assaulted her in Missouri while on the run for two murders, according to court records.

The Kansas Committee on Arson Prevention is offering a reward to anyone who can help them apprehend the individual or individuals responsible for setting two suspicious fires, which occurred in Crawford County on Tuesday.

A $5,000 reward has been issued for information leading to the arrest of a person or persons suspected of setting fires that destroyed two buildings in Arcadia on Tuesday, according to a press release from the Crawford County Sheriff's Office.

A tornado warning is in effect for northern Crawford County, Kan., until 4 p.m. today, according to the National Weather Service station at Springfield.

Literature and Teaching Ministries were represented by Doug Reed, Cindy and Ralph Shead on the first Sunday in May when they visited Community Christian Church in Ft.