Arcadia News

ARCADIA - The second Bienville Parish Library health fair and blood drive will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday at the Main Branch, 2768 Maple St.

ARCADIA - The Arcadia Literature Club is starting its year Friday with guest speaker Marilyn Monette, a Louisiana cook and food columnist for The Times.

The Southern University Board of Supervisors is back to its full 16 members after Gov.

A contender for the Louisiana Board of Ethics said the man who beat him in a runoff election is to blame for a House panel's decision to reject his nomination.

A Bienville Parish police juror was arrested early today on domestic violence charges involving his wife.

Harris, Lois, 57, of Bienville, died Saturday; services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Bienville High School gymnasium, Bienville; burial in Shiloh Cemetery, Bienville; arrangements by Paradise Funeral ...

Northeastern Louisiana largely escaped Hurricane Ike's wrath, but last night's winds have left 4,000 Entergy customers without power.

Some northeastern Louisiana gas pumps went dry today, though the outages were caused more from a near panic in demand than in real fuel shortages.

ARCADIA - Bienville police jurors have wasted little time taking advantage of an amended state law that raises the maximum monthly compensation for parish governing officials to $1,600. Act 356 became law Aug.

Seven people were taken to the hospital for observation today after an 18-wheeler ran into the back of a van carrying mentally handicapped hurricane evacuees in Bienville Parish.

With Shreveport shelters filled to capacity today, overflow facilities in surrounding parishes started taking in south Louisiana residents looking for a haven from Hurricane Gustav and they, too, are almost at ...

Robert Andrew Cheatham, through his attorney DeVan Pardue, of Springfield, on Tuesday filed a supplemental motion to withdraw his plea to vehicular homicide that was entered in Bienville District Court.

ARCADIA - Thirteen of 19 fugitives sought on various charges in Bienville Parish were picked up Wednesday during Operation Bienville, conducted jointly by the U.S. Marshal's Service's Fugitive Task Force and ...

RUSTON - Louisiana Tech University's summer quarter commencement exercises were held Thursday with diplomas awarded to 303 graduates.

An 21-month-old child drowned in a family swimming pool in Arcadia Thursday after adults didn't know he had gotten outside.

The University of Louisiana at Monroe awarded diplomas to 204 students during summer commencement on Saturday in Fant-Ewing Coliseum.

Bossier City police are investigating an armed robbery that happened Monday afternoon at the Circle K store on Old Minden Road at Preston Boulevard.

Weight limit on Natchitoches Parish bridge Updated: Truckers used to crossing the Red River at the Natchitoches Parish town of Grand Ecore will have to detour about 30 miles north to Coushatta until the ...

ARCADIA - A Northwestern State University English professor is posting bail this morning following her arrest Wednesday on drug charges.

Man acquitted of shooting death of Arcadia man Updated: A jury in Arcadia has acquitted a man of a murder charge alleging that he shot another man and stuffed his body in a freezer.