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Arkansas News3 arrested after stray bullet hits 9-year-old girl in Hope shooting
Hope police say a girl was hit by a stray bullet when people in a vehicle and a yard exchanged gunfire Sunday on East…
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Two charged with murder in Blanton Street killing; police say 19-year-old was a random target
TEXARKANA, Texas — Texarkana, Texas, police have arrested two people in the shooting death of 19-year-old Fran’Davion Smith, who was killed Monday night in…
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Wellons Real Estate Helps Landowners Buy, Sell and Build the Outdoor Property They Want
Wellons Real Estate offers full-service land brokerage and land development for families and landowners across the South, including Zach Flanagan’s Bodcau Creek 320 listing…
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Man Gets Life Without Parole In De Kalb Double Murder
NEW BOSTON, Texas–A repeat offender who murdered two people last year at a De Kalb, Texas, home was found guilty of capital murder Thursday…
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Tear gas, SWAT team used to arrest Texarkana man wanted on protective order warrant
TEXARKANA, Texas — Officers used tear gas and a SWAT team to arrest a Texarkana man who ran into his house Tuesday when police…
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Texas Parks and Wildlife taking applications for next game warden cadet class
Texas Parks and Wildlife is taking applications for its next class of game warden and state park police cadets, and anyone interested has until…
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Texarkana, Texas, to dedicate state historic landmark marker at City Hall
Texarkana, Texas, will dedicate a state historical marker at City Hall at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, recognizing the 101-year-old building at 220 Texas…
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The 85 at Rondo: Measles, 1862, and the women who got them headstones
In the late summer of 1862, disease swept a Confederate camp at Rondo, east of Texarkana. Eighty-five men lie there in a common grave,…
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Texarkana serves: local service members around the world
The military’s own photographers have recorded Texarkana-area service members at work around the world for two decades. See 110 of their photos.
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A Yorktown veteran, a lost grave and Wright Patman Lake
Evan Thomas Watson was at Yorktown when Cornwallis surrendered in 1781. He died in 1834 on the Red River in what is now northern…
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Texarkana man accused of stealing boat motors near Fulton and trading them for meth
A Texarkana, Texas, man is charged in Hempstead County with breaking into a property near Fulton, Arkansas, and stealing two boat motors, then trading…
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Sanders to hold get-out-the-vote rally at Naaman’s BBQ in Texarkana on Sunday
TEXARKANA, Ark. — Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders will hold a get-out-the-vote rally at Naaman’s BBQ in Texarkana at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1, two…
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Video shows trooper firing rifle to shoot out tires of semi that rammed police units in Hope
HOPE, Ark. — Arkansas State Police dash camera video of the Oct. 12 tractor-trailer chase through Hope is now online. It shows a State…
Crime
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Police say man fired shot at visitor, pointed gun at ex-girlfriend inside Hope apartment
HOPE, Ark. — A Sherwood man is charged with two counts of aggravated assault after police say he let himself into his ex-girlfriend’s Hope…
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Juvenile found dead after reported shooting in Stamps; State Police investigating
STAMPS, Ark. — Arkansas State Police are investigating the death of a juvenile who was found dead late Thursday after a reported fight and…
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Man said he threw a dropped wallet out his truck window; police found it inside, TTPD says
TEXARKANA, Texas — Police arrested a 23-year-old man Monday after a woman’s dropped wallet went missing from a Summerhill Road business and her credit…
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Bowie CO Allegedly Allowed Inmate To Escape, Provided Cuff Key
TEXARKANA, Texas–A former Bowie County correctional officer allegedly helped an inmate escape from a local emergency room by leaving a handcuff key within easy…
Obituaries
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Texarkana Obituaries
Avan Nell Eddy
Avan Nell Eddy, age 72, passed away on October 26, 2026. She was born on February 7, 1954, in Texarkana, Arkansas, to Violet and…
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Evan Lee Greene
Evan Lee Greene, age 44, of Texarkana, Texas went to be with his Lord on Thursday, October 26, 2026.
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Rita Merle Tucker Jones
Rita Merle Tucker Jones, 96, passed away peacefully on October 29, 2026, in Terrell, Texas.
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John Wallace Ethridge
John Wallace Ethridge, age 68, passed away on October 31, 2026. He was born on August 24, 1958, in Texarkana, Texas, to Edwin Gene…
Business
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PeopleFund brings small business loans, grants to Texarkana with Amber Keith leading local effort
The nonprofit lender is hosting a free Nov. 5 event at Texas A&M University-Texarkana and plans an office in The Assembly Line.
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Pickers Self-Service Auto Parts Takes 50% Off All Auto Parts in Two-Day Customer Appreciation Sale
Pickers Self-Service Auto Parts is taking 50% off all auto parts, excluding batteries, Friday, Oct. 30, and Saturday, Oct. 31, at 5512 E. Ninth…
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Hyatt Studios Texarkana makes it official with chamber ribbon cutting
TEXARKANA, Texas — Hyatt Studios Texarkana celebrated its ribbon cutting with the Texarkana USA Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, drawing a big crowd outside…
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TexAmericas Center Signs Agreement to Support Japanese Business Growth and Technology Commercialization
Texarkana, USA (October 9, 2026) – TexAmericas Center, which owns and operates one of the largest advanced manufacturing, logistics and rail-served industrial parks in…
Education
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Arkansas High Class of 1991 marks 35th reunion with Pig Pantry donation
TEXARKANA, Ark. — Members of the Arkansas High School Class of 1991 marked their 35th reunion earlier this month by giving back to their…
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Pleasant Grove teens wash cars to build computer lab at Cambodian school
Pleasant Grove students Daniel Ayers and Mason Fry gave half their earnings to put computers in a rural Cambodian school.
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UAHT-UAM Partnership Gives Working Arkansans a Path to Earn a Bachelor’s Degree Close to Home
HOPE/TEXARKANA, AR — For working adults who want to earn a bachelor’s degree but cannot put their careers and families on hold to move…
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5 Genoa Central FFA alumni earn American FFA Degree
Memphis Brewer, Caleb McClure, Zoe Parsons, Jeremiah White and Emma Williams are among 17 Arkansans to receive FFA’s highest degree.
