Arcadia News

ARCADIA - Jo Ann Dauzat, a dean and professor emerita at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, will sign copies of what she considers an unusual cookbook at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Bienville Parish Library, 2768 Maple St.

RUSTON -- The Louisiana Tech athletic department has made it more convenient for parents to register their children for the LATech Kids Club by announcing the July tour dates on Tuesday.

In another hot and humid day of racing at the Twin City Dragway, the action was delayed an hour to avoid the main heat of the day on Saturday.

Extended Stay of America's filing for bankruptcy should have should have no affect on its three local hotels, officials said Monday.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009 [LA] Police Chief Victor Rogers wants Asst. Chief Andre Rogers fired for domestic crimes, but... A suspended Arcadia police officer with one ex-wife beating charge under his belt will continue to draw his pay even though the chief wants him fired for a second violent confrontation with his former wife... Shreveport Times By ...

MINDEN -- The Sparta Ground Water Conservation District Commission will meet at 3 p.m. Thursday at the Minden Civic Center.

Jill Elizabeth Brown of Arcadia, La. and Benjamin Brooke Tabor III of West Monroe, La.

The Kansas City Southern railroad crossing on state Highway 151, in downtown Arcadia remains closed for repairs, according to Louisiana Department of Transportation.

This weekend will probably be as busy as it ever gets in Gibsland. The Bienville Parish town's major claim to fame, as the place outlaws Bonnie and Clyde ate their last meal before heading to appointments with bloody death at the hands of pursuing lawmen, is being celebrated this weekend on the 75th anniversary of the famous ambush.

ARCADIA - A Bienville jury deliberated about three hours Thursday night before convicting a Ringgold man of the second-degree murder of another Ringgold man during a dispute two years ago.

A bloody trail that covered a half-dozen states and led authorities on what might have seemed like a 10,000-mile wild goose chase ended 75 years ago this month on a quiet country lane in Bienville Parish, when outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were gunned down by law officers.

GIBSLAND - Like a lot of small towns, Gibsland has lost most of its once thriving downtown atmosphere.

All of the dozen people who were at the ambush of Bonnie and Clyde in 1934 are dead.

They had terrorized much of the Midwest and Southwest during a two-year crime spree, the bodies of lawmen and laypersons alike left in their wake.

Nearly 67 years after he died in World War II, the remains of Sgt. Aub Atkins Jr.

Two people are dead following a wreck involving an 18-wheeler Wednesday night, according to Louisiana State Police Troop G. The accident happened just before 9:30 p.m., along a stretch of Interstate 20, just East of Arcadia, Louisiana, in Bienville Parish.

Harris, Albert, 61, of Gibsland, died Monday; services at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at Faith Memorial Baptist Church, Gibsland; burial in Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Mount Lebanon; arrangements by Paradise Funeral Home, Arcadia.

An Ark-La-tex Family pleads for your help. They are desperately searching for the truck driver they say killed a seven year old-girl and her grandmother in a hit and run crash on I-20. "I just got through talking to her dad and i was just telling him how she was in love with the simple stuff in life," said Michelle Archie, the child's mother.

Mr. and Mrs. Randal W. Hood of Arcadia, La. are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Brandi Gayle Hood, to William Kasey Kyzar, son of Mr.

A seven-year-old female died Thursday night in a hit-and-run crash on Interstate 20 in western Ouachita Parish.