The Fourth of July is one of America’s favorite holidays. And why not? Families and friends gather to celebrate our country with food, parades, parties, picnics and fireworks. And yet there is a very dark side to this great holiday.…
Highway 71 remains closed despite the Red River cresting 5 feet below the record crest in early June. According to the National Weather Service the Red River has crested and is now on the fall in the Texarkana area. NWS forecasts…
The National Weather Service has issued a special weather statement for Miller and Bowie Counties. At 12:13 a strong line of storms was 6 miles SE of Prescott to near New Boston moving SE at 10 mph LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE……
The National Weather Service in Shreveport has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for NW Bowie County until 8:30 p.m. According to the report a severe thunderstorm was located 11 miles NE of Clarksville at 7:50 p.m. moving east at 20…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that federal disaster aid has been made available to the state of Arkansas and ordered federal aid to supplement state, tribal, and local recovery efforts in…
In the wake of Friday’s Supreme Court decision that renders laws limiting marriage to one man and one woman unconstitutionally invalid counties across Texas are having to prepare to issue same sex marriage licenses for the first time. The Court…
The Texas Department of Transportation, in conjunction with the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department (AHTD), has again closed US 59/71 at the Red River between Texarkana, TX and Ashdown, AR due to floodwaters over the highway north of the river.…
KPGG 103.9 The Pig is currently off air due to a LARGE cottonmouth Texas Rat Snake that had taken up residence in the transmitter. According to Fabienne Thrash, “our engineer literally had his hands inside the transmitter box, had pulled…
An 8.52-carat white diamond was found Wednesday (June 24) by Bobbie Oskarson of Longmont, Colorado, at Arkansas’s Crater of Diamonds State Park, according to park officials. Clear white and icicle shaped, this gem is the fifth largest diamond found by…
Some video of Highway 71 just as they were closing the road and turning people around this afternoon. for the latest. Posted by TXK Today on Friday, June 26, 2015 Highway 71 is once again closed due to being covered…
Bowie County US 259 – At Red River north of De Kalb, closed due to damage from flooding. IH 30 – From Spur 86 to FM 44, repairing pavement and installing new guard rails. Various lane closures. US 82…
Texarkana residents who recently called Senator John Boozman’s Washington, D.C. office may have heard a familiar voice at the other end of the line. Robert Dalby, a 2012 graduate of Arkansas Senior High School, completed Boozman’s five-week long Congressional Summer…
Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Theron Vance, age 22, of Rogers, was sentenced to 100 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release on one count of Conspiracy to…
Paul Norton, Superintendent of Schools for Texarkana Independent School District, has been named the Region VIII Education Service Center Superintendent of the Year from a field of 46 school districts within the regional area. Since 1984, the Superintendent of…
A woman that Officer Billy Giddens arrested almost 11 years ago presented him with a plaque today for changing her life. Janet Clark was arrested by Officer Giddens for a felony offense she committed. Clark said that the talk Officer…
