TEXARKANA, Ark. — A Miller County man is suing a Texarkana contractor and its manager, saying he paid nearly $1.4 million to remodel his family’s Little River County home and was left with a house that is still unfinished more…
TEXARKANA, Ark.–Miller County prosecutors have dropped a capital murder charge against a man accused in the August 2022 shooting death of Bonderic Nard on Edwards Street after his trial in May ended with a hung jury. Circuit Judge Wren Autrey…
Southern Arkansas University Director of Percussion Michael Britt will perform with the Heartland Marimba International Festival Orchestra in Pennsylvania and at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention in Indianapolis.
Texas Adjutant General W. H. Mabry ordered Texarkana's volunteer company raised in 1898. Months later, with his family living here, he died near Havana. Disease, not battle, killed most of the Americans who died in that war.
TEXARKANA, Ark. — Tammy Waters, a longtime Domtar public affairs executive, was elected mayor of Texarkana, Arkansas, on Tuesday, defeating Ward 2 Director Laney Harris. Waters received 4,571 votes, or 69.3%, to Harris’s 2,022, or 30.7%, according to the unofficial…
TEXARKANA, Ark. — Republican Lynn McDowell, a retired Cooper Tire manager and former justice of the peace, was elected Miller County judge on Tuesday, defeating Democrat Ulysses Brewer. McDowell received 7,624 votes, or 71.2%, to Brewer’s 3,082, or 28.8%, according…
ASHDOWN, Ark. — The Ashdown Police Department is asking for the public’s help finding a 15-year-old girl reported as a runaway. Emberly Oglesby left her home around midnight Nov. 3 with friends her family did not know, according to the…
ASHDOWN, Ark. — Ashdown police have arrested a registered sex offender on new charges involving a juvenile, three years after he pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Little River County. He had been paroled in July, state…
Lawyers for a Texarkana man charged with killing his wife in 1991 have subpoenaed the circuit judge who once presided over the case to testify for the defense at a hearing Tuesday. They are also asking the court to throw…
Hope police say a girl was hit by a stray bullet when people in a vehicle and a yard exchanged gunfire Sunday on East 14th Street.
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, unnamed. In the 1930s, a Texarkana women's group and Rep. Effiegene Wingo got them 17 government stones, one for every five.
The military's own photographers have recorded Texarkana-area service members at work around the world for two decades. See 110 of their photos.
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.
A Texarkana, Texas, man is charged in Hempstead County with breaking into a property near Fulton, Arkansas, and stealing two boat motors, then trading them for methamphetamine at a Texarkana, Arkansas, hotel, according to court records. Thomas Jason Goff, 54,…
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 days before Election Day, her campaign announced Saturday. The campaign is calling it the Southwest Arkansas…
