Jury selection is set to begin in November in civil lawsuits stemming from a fatal drunk driving collision that left two dead in 2013. Chad Caldwell, 38, is currently serving two 20-year prison sentences in the Texas Department of Criminal…
A man who used a deadly pesticide to control wild hogs in Bowie County pleaded guilty Tuesday in a Texarkana federal court to killing protected migratory birds. John Purviance, 46, entered pleas of guilty to two misdemeanor offenses-unlawful taking of…
The Hope Police Department is asking for help in locating Kara J. Watson, a 16-year-old from Hope Arkansas. According to police Kara was last seen at her residence in Hope, on Sunday morning at approximately 10:30. It is unknown what…
Texarkana, Texas, police are investigating a body found in a house in the 3100 block of Alexander Avenue. According to officials the body of a middle aged man was found in the house. Crime Scene investigators are currently on scene.
25-year-old Glen Derricks was taken into custody around 1:30 p.m. today at the Ashdown City Park. [su_survey] Derricks, from Dallas, had been on the run after allegedly firing at an Ashdown, Ark. Police Officer Monday night. Derricks was riding in…
TEXARKANA, TEXAS – The Texarkana Police Department arrested Timothy Brooks, 37, of Texarkana, Arkansas for Driving While Intoxicated (three or more prior convictions) and Possession of Controlled Substance (greater than 400 grams). [su_survey] Brooks was stopped by officers at approximately…
Police and Fire have evacuated surrounding houses and sealed off the area after someone reported they found a grenade under the porch of a house at W. 39th Street and Olive. Texarkana, Texas Police and Fire Department are currently on…
Area police are searching for a Dallas man who fired shots at an Ashdown, Ark. Police Officer after being pulled over Monday evening. [su_survey] 25-year-old Glen Derricks was riding in the car when it was pulled over in Ashdown. When…
Miller County prosecutors have filed criminal charges against a Texas man accused of pocketing $5,000 in a fraudulent Ted Nugent booking at Shooter’s Sports Bar in 2014. Robert James Devine, 64, is facing charges of theft of property and unlawful…
The third and final reading of a proposed anti-dog chain ordinance is scheduled for tonight’s Board of Directors meeting in Texarkana, Ark. The ordinance will make it against the law to chain a dog to a stationary object. A “trolley…
New Boston, Texas: A Texas prison inmate facing death himself in the July 2015 beating death of a Barry Telford Unit guard in New Boston was in court Friday for a pretrial hearing. Billy Joel Tracy, 39, is accused of…
Arkansas Highways may soon have a maximum speed of 75 m.p.h. House Bill 2057 would raise the speed on controlled-access highways from 70 to 75. Semi-trucks would be limited to 70. The bill unanimously passed the Arkansas House on Thursday…
A 21-year-old Texarkana man accused of robbing a local convenience store with a juvenile accomplice and a hammer in January, pleaded not guilty this week in Miller County. Devin Javon Whitaker and a 15-year-old juvenile were arrested following an attempted…
(Murfreesboro, AR) – While in southern Arkansas for a baseball tournament, 14-year-old Kalel Langford, of Centerton, Arkansas, fulfilled a longtime dream of visiting Arkansas’s Crater of Diamonds State Park. Kalel and his parents arrived at Arkansas’s diamond site on the…
On March 15, 2017 Texarkana Texas Police Officers made two separate traffic stops and located over 10 pounds of synthetic marijuana. The first traffic stop was conducted in the 200 block of Reading Ave. Officers with the Special Investigations Unit…
