The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announce the availability of a Draft Compatibility Determination for ATV Use on Pond Creek NWR for public review and comment. The public comment period will extend from March 17 through April 17 , 2015…
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA has funded three rural telecommunications infrastructure projects that will improve broadband service in portions of rural Arkansas, Iowa and New Mexico. This announcement coincides with the news that the President Obama signed…
The Hooks ISD ACE Program started the Scholastic R.E. A.L last month. The program is for students K-5, mentoring students to “READ EXCEL ACHIEVE LEAD”. Members of the community or celebrity readers come into the classrooms to read and engage…
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s “Mandatory Hunter Education” regulation went into effect July 1, 1985. The regulation makes it unlawful for any person born after December 31, 1968, to take or attempt to take wildlife with firearms, crossbow, or…
Former Lafayette County, Ark. Treasurer Keesha Rose was sentenced to two years in federal prison and ordered to pay back $282,036.97 that she embezzled from county tax payments. On March 19, 2014, a Federal Grand Jury issued an indictment against…
Texarkana, Arkansas – Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Derrick Estell, age 35, of Hot Springs, was sentenced today on two counts of Use of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of…
Texarkana Independent School District Board of Trustees talked middle school curriculum, construction, election cancellation, snow days and land purchase during their regular session on March 17, 2015. Trustees approved the competitive proposal for construction of the Sixth Grade Center at…
The search for a man that went missing from Gurdon, Arkansas and was possibly last seen in Hope, Arkansas is entering its second week. Wesley Livingston, 24, went missing around noon Tuesday from a work site at Georgia Pacific in…
The monthly Texarkana, Arkansas, recycling event, Green Texarkana, will be held Saturday. Paper, cardboard and plastic will be accepted and may be mixed together for single-stream recycling. Electronics, ink cartridges, plastic film such as grocery bags and small metal such…
Tourism partners from across the state will join together at the 41st Arkansas Governor’s Conference on Tourism, to be held March 8-10 at the Arkansas Convention Center in Texarkana. The city serves as host for the first time in the…
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchison recently signed legislation that makes boating while intoxicated penalties exactly the same as DWI penalties. The parents of William “Trey” Varner III, 21, who was killed when the intoxicated driver of the boat he was riding…
Texarkana, Arkansas Fire Department responded to Dairy Queen in the 800 block of East Street Thursday evening for an oven fire. Texarkana, Arkansas Police Department was first on scene and advised heavy smoke coming from the building. No injuries were…
The Miller County Sheriff’s Office is looking for 26 year old Andrew Wayne Bledsoe. He is 5-11, 156 lbs, Brown hair, Blue eyes, Last known address of 540 MC 23, Fouke, AR. According to the Sheriff’s Office Bledsoe is wanted…
According to Miller County Sheriff Ron Stovall, his office is looking for 55 year old Scott Alan McWilliams. He is 5-11, 147 lbs, Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes. Last known address of 3015 Satterfield Ln, Texarkana, AR. According to Stovall McWilliams…
According to an Arkansas State Police news release special Agents of the Arkansas State Police Criminal Investigation Division have arrested two Clark County Jail employees who are charged with Battery (2nd degree). William D. Sayre, 25, of Nashville and Robert…
