New Boston, Texas–Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday morning at the Bowie County courthouse in New Boston for a Texarkana teen accused of beating a 2-year-old to death in January. Clifford James Gayton, 19, faces life without the possibility…
Two inmates caught with contraband in Texarkana’s Federal Correctional Institution were sentenced Tuesday to more time behind bars. Scott McGarry, 42, was charged after a hand-made shank was found during a search of his cell Aug. 17, 2015, at Texarkana…
A Texarkana man was arrested recently by Miller County deputies checking on his welfare. Christopher Antonio Crenshaw, 32, was behind the wheel of a green Dodge pickup truck parked along the side of Interstate Highway 49 near the one mile…
A Texarkana pastor accused of sexually abusing two girls he met through his work as a clergyman is scheduled to appear for arraignment on nine felonies and one misdemeanor the week after Thanksgiving. David Wayne Farren, 41, was arrested twice…
A New Boston, Texas, man accused of sexually assaulting a woman in her bedroom last year was acquitted Wednesday by a Bowie County jury. Bennie Joe “Hulk” Nelson, 38, pleaded guilty to the crime last month at a hearing before…
Testimony is expected to begin this morning in the sexual assault trial of a man accused of misconduct with a 27-year-old woman at her home in New Boston, Texas, last year. Bennie Joe Nelson, 38, aka Hulk, faces two to…
TEXARKANA, TEXAS – The Texarkana Texas Police Department has obtained an arrest warrant for Aggravated Assault for Casey Paul-Aaron Williams, 21. His last known address was in Garland City, Arkansas. A warrant has also been issued for Hope Ashley Huffman,…
A woman who brought drugs into the Bowie County jail in September pleaded guilty Monday. Charges against inmate Michael Kamokee Wyrick, 26, and former correctional officer Rashad Edward Faucette, 23, remain pending in connection with contraband including tobacco, lighters and…
A Texarkana pastor accused of sexually abusing two girls has been formally charged with nine felonies and a misdemeanor by the Miller County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. [su_survey] David Wayne Farren, 41, was arrested twice in August for allegedly abusing two…
A Bowie County grand jury indicted a Texarkana woman for injury to an elderly person and unlawful restraint Thursday. Sebrina George, 49, faces two to ten years on each count if convicted. According to a probable cause affidavit, Bowie County…
A 19-year-old Texarkana man accused in the January death of a 2-year-old made a court appearance Wednesday in Bowie County. Clifford James Gayton, Jr., appeared Wednesday with Texarkana lawyers Josh Potter and Eric Marks for a pretrial hearing before 102nd…
A first degree murder charge was filed Tuesday in Miller County, Ark., for a Texarkana, Texas, man who previously served time in prison for shooting at the man he is now accused of killing. LaJason Jaquize Coakley, 23, is scheduled…
Amtrak has settled a federal lawsuit with a disabled man who claimed the passenger rail business refused to accommodate his disability on a ride from Dallas to Texarkana in 2014.. Bobby Cummings filed suit in the Texarkana Division of the…
A federal search warrant for Facebook accounts suspected to contain information needed in an investigation into underage prostitution and drug trafficking in Texarkana was unsealed this week. [su_survey] The warrant targeted the Facebook accounts of Jamie Yates, 44, and several…
Settlement notices were filed Tuesday in two federal lawsuits accusing Harte-Hanks call center in Texarkana of failing to pay workers for all the time they worked. The first of the suits was filed July 14, 2015, by Joshua Sanford of…
