Evan Thomas Watson was at Yorktown when Cornwallis surrendered in 1781. He died in 1834 on the Red River in what is now northern Bowie County, then claimed by Arkansas Territory. Where he is buried is uncertain, but his descendants say the family's own records point to the Red River homestead, not to the Sulphur River land now under Wright Patman Lake.
Dr. Robert Clark Green, a pediatrician who cared for Texarkana children for more than 36 years, died Oct. 26 while in Maui, Hawaii, according to his obituary from Texarkana Funeral Home. He was 66. Green, known as Clark to family…
Lamont Bernard Evans (54) passed away on October 20, 2026, arrangements are pending and will be announced when finalized.
Dr. Robert Clark Green
Max Weldon Jones, age 81, of New Boston, Texas, passed away on Thursday, October 29, 2026, at his residence. He was born on February 14, 1945, in Lamesa, Texas to Joseph Weldon and Altha Beatrice (Safford) Jones.
IDABEL, Okla. — McCurtain Memorial Hospital CEO Brian Whitfield has resigned, and the hospital’s chief financial officer, Kena Allen, will run the hospital while the board searches for a permanent replacement. The hospital’s Board of Trustees announced Friday that it…
TEXARKANA, Ark. — Members of the Arkansas High School Class of 1991 marked their 35th reunion earlier this month by giving back to their alma mater. Classmates collected food and essential items and donated them to the school’s Pig Pantry,…
TEXARKANA, TX — Job seekers in Texarkana are invited to meet employers face-to-face at the 15th Annual Hiring Red, White & You! Hiring Fair, hosted by Workforce Solutions Northeast Texas in collaboration with the Texas Workforce Commission, Texas Medical Center…
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 away for college, the partnership between the University of Arkansas Hope-Texarkana (UAHT) and the University of…
John Calvin Sirmans, age 90, went to be with his heavenly Father Tuesday, October 27, 2026. He was born at home March 4, 1936, in Queen City, Texas, only child of Grady C. and Rosie Lee Harper Sirmans.
In 1942, crews laid the Big Inch, then the biggest oil pipeline ever built, through southern Miller County and across the Red River near Garland. Here's the route, the Hope boom and John Vachon's photos of the men who built it.
ASHDOWN, Ark. — An Ashdown man who handed police his own video of a September confrontation with a neighbor has been charged with aggravated assault after an investigator reviewed the footage and concluded he was the aggressor, court records show.…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–A jury of seven men and five women have heard two days of testimony in the capital murder trial of a man accused of killing a man and a woman at a residence in De Kalb, Texas, last…
It is with great sadness that the Moton family announces the passing of Kenneth E. Moton of Texarkana, Arkansas. Arrangements are pending and will be announced when finalized.
Richard Alan Presley, age 71, of Texarkana, Texas, passed away at his residence on Wednesday, October 28, 2026.
