As the next step in its ongoing efforts to increase safety at railroad crossings, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today released a list of railroad crossings in the United States where multiple incidents have occurred in…
A Mount Pleasant, Texas woman was killed in a single vehicle motorcycle accident on Interstate 49 early Saturday morning near State Highway 237. According to an Arkansas State Police Fatal Crash Summary, 38-year-old Jennifer Vandenberg was pronounced dead on scene after…
One person is in custody after a pursuit involving Texarkana, Texas police down State Line Ave. Friday evening. According to police radio traffic the pursuit began on Texas Blvd. and led police down State Line Ave. before the driver and…
A federal grand jury in a Texarkana, Texas, federal court handed down a nine-count indictment Wednesday for a 66-year-old woman accused of stealing at least $100,000. Tanya Sue Cooper allegedly used the identities of at least three people to withdraw…
Meetings will be held in the Beverly, Highland Park and Rose Hill neighborhoods in April and May hosted by the City of Texarkana, Texas’ Planning and Community Development Department. Meeting schedules are as follows: Rosehill- April 28, 2016 from 6:00…
A Fouke, Ark., woman who molested a 10-year-old relative of her husband’s, received a seven-year probation Tuesday in Miller County. Sarah Walker, 29, must register as a sex offender and submit her DNA for inclusion in Arkansas’ database of felony…
A Fouke, Ark., woman pleaded not guilty to manslaughter Tuesday in the January stabbing death of her husband. Tarah Wynette Fries, 25, made a brief court appearance before Miller County Circuit Judge Carlton Jones in a courtroom at the Miller…
A woman accused of hiding her wanted cousin from New York in residences in Texarkana, Ark., and New Boston, Texas, was arrested Thursday by deputy U.S. marshals. Rachel Lynn Baumann, 25, allegedly provided her cousin, Taylor Morley, a place to…
Thanks to a generous donation Pleasant Hill Volunteer Fire Department of Miller County Arkansas received high visibility safety shirts Thursday evening. Rusty Latham donated the money that enabled the department to get the shirts. They are printed with an ink…
A woman and a man who were arrested by Texarkana, Ark., police and members of the Bi-State Narcotics task force at a local hotel were sentenced by a federal judge Thursday. Edwin Tirrell Young, aka T.Y., 40, and Vanessa Joy…
Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Jeffrey N. Bain, age 52 of Hope, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 63 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on two counts…
A little after 8:00 this morning two men robbed the Chick-fil-A in Central Mall at gun point. According to police, two men entered the restaurant’s office area before they opened and confronted the assistant manager. According to police radio traffic,…
A Lockesburg, Ark., man convicted of stalking a child online in 2013, pleaded guilty Wednesday to using his computer to look at child porn. Nolen Reece Baker, 41, appeared before U.S. District Judge Susan Hickey for a change of plea…
On March, 24 the Bi-State Narcotics Task Force, assisted by FBI Agents from the Texarkana Arkansas Regional Office, and members of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives from Little Rock, arrested Skip Lomax and charged him with illegally…
An overnight wreck between two semi-trucks on Interstate 30 near Summerhill Rd. left westbound lanes of interstate closed for most of the night. According to Texarkana, Texas Police no one was injured in the accident. The accident happened about 12:30…
