By Jon Herskovitz (Reuters) – Eight Arkansas death row inmates who are scheduled to die over a 10-day period in April filed a lawsuit in federal court on Monday to halt their executions, saying the state’s rush to the death…
A 21-year-old Ashdown man was ejected from his vehicle in a single-vehicle accident on the loop Thursday afternoon. According to police, Kierre Moore was traveling northbound on Interstate 49 at the E. 9th St. exit when he ran off the roadway…
A federal judge in Texarkana, Ark., has dismissed 11 lawsuits stemming from the 2010 flood at Albert Pike campgrounds which killed 20 campers. Many of those that died in the early hours of June 11, 2010, were from the Texarkana…
One person was killed in a wreck on Interstate 30 Monday night in Texarkana, according to police. Texarkana Arkansas Police responded to a fatal accident on I-30 around 9 p.m. Monday. According to police, traffic was stopped due to a…
A man and woman accused of possessing methamphetamine and marijuana while driving with a 2-year-old on a Miller County, Ark., road in February, are facing criminal charges. Mindy Floyd, 31, was allegedly driving a 2004 Chevy Impala at about 11:15…
Texarkana, Ark. Police are searching for the suspect vehicle in an early morning hit and run that seriously injured a pedestrian. According to Police they responded to a pedestrian that had been struck by a vehicle in the 2100 block…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
