Mrs. Anne Formby was recently announced the 2016–2017 Texarkana Arkansas School District Teacher of the Year. Mrs. Formby is a math teacher at Arkansas High School and serves as the mathematics department head. Mrs. Formby is a class of 1984…
Texarkana, Ark. Board of Directors voted unanimously Monday evening to censure fellow board director Laney Harris for his behavior and to remove him from the Advertising and Promotion Commission. Harris was censured for three different things according to the motion…
The Texarkana Arkansas Police department is asking for the public’s assistance in locating 26-year-old Christopher Blake Bohn. According to police, Christopher was reported missing by his family and they are concerned about his welfare. Bohn was last seen in the…
A man originally accused of second-degree murder in connection with a drug-related home invasion that ended with two dead in November 2015 pleaded guilty Thursday to a lesser charge of manslaughter. Rashod Rushing, 28, appeared with Managing Public Defender Jason…
The Jack Hardy Memorial Educational Service Award is given annually by the Texarkana Arkansas School District to a person who has given of him -or herself through volunteer work. The award is named after a dedicated TASD volunteer named Jack…
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge today applauded the opening of the final Arkansas Department of Veteran Affairs and Arkansas Department of Workforce Services Veteran Service Office in Hope. The Attorney General’s office contributed the full start-up cost of $170,000 through…
Ever since he was a child growing up in Arkansas, Wendell Fox has wanted to search for diamonds in the Natural State. Now retired and living in Joliet, Montana, the 70-year-old got his chance when he and his wife Jennifer…
Texarkana, Ark. Police Department SWAT team safely took a man into custody Tuesday evening after he allegedly barged into a hotel room and fired shots from a handgun. According to police, around 8:00 p.m. patrol officers responded to Ambassador Inn…
An accident on Highway 82 Sunday afternoon took the life of a Miller County man. According to the Arkansas State Police, 54-year-old Michael Looney was killed in a head on crash in the 6100 block of Highway 82. According to…
A Miller County judge declared a mistrial Monday evening in a child sexual abuse trial because the jury was unable to reach a verdict. Carlos Alberto Garay, 39, of Arlington, is charged with two counts of second-degree sexual assault for…
TEXARKANA, TEXAS-In conjunction with EMS Appreciation week; McDonald’s locations in Texarkana, USA, Ashdown, AR, Atlanta, TX, and Leary, TX will provide free meals for all first responders on Wednesday may 24th between 5 a.m. and 11 p.m., McDonalds Texarkana owner…
Twelve Miller County citizens became the second jury to find a Texarkana man not guilty in the robbery and murder of a drug dealer at the end of a capital murder trial Wednesday. Justin Damone Johnson, 29, was acquitted of…
Miller County Firefighters responded to a fully engulfed house fire Wednesday morning. Firefighters from Texarkana, Ark. and Miller County were dispatched around 9:30 a.m. to the fire in the 8000 block of Highway 82. No injuries were reported. The cause…
A man accused of fatally shooting a man in a drug-related robbery at a Texarkana, Ark., apartment complex in November 2015 was in court Monday for jury selection in his capital murder case. Justin Damone Johnson, 29, is charged with…
A 65-year-old Texarkana man has died from injuries suffered in a house fire Saturday night in Texarkana, Ark. According to Texarkana, Ark. Fire Marshal Stephen Johnson, on Saturday, May 13th, the Texarkana Arkansas Fire Department responded to a structure fire…
