The Texas Attorney General’s Office has found a new way to punish parents who are behind on child support payments: blocking their vehicle registration renewal. The agency plans to employ the new tool beginning this fall against parents who haven’t…
The defense team representing a Texarkana man accused of raping his former Sunday school leader wants a gag order to limit pretrial publicity. Little Rock attorneys Lawrence Walker and Crystal Okoro filed a motion last week asking the court to…
A Texarkana woman who embezzled about $100,000 from a local attorney pleaded guilty last week in federal court to embezzlement. Ashley Meree Wilde appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Caroline Craven Aug. 25 for a change of plea hearing with federal…
The husband of a 34-year-old New Boston, Texas, woman who burned to death when an 18-wheeler slammed into her car Aug. 11, recently filed a lawsuit. Jared Higgs, husband of Heather Higgs, filed suit last week against the driver and…
A Honduran man allegedly in the U.S. illegally appeared Thursday before a federal judge in Texarkana on charges of transporting illegal aliens. Gustavo Adolfo Pavon-Castro, 29, was pulled over Aug. 9 by an Arkansas State Trooper around 8:30 a.m. as…
A Texarkana man who failed to appear for his sentencing hearing at 9 a.m. Tuesday morning at the Miller County courthouse was handed two consecutive six-year terms at a hearing Wednesday. Charlston Brown, 35, entered guilty pleas Monday to felon…
Three people in Fouke, Ark. were arrested Wednesday morning by a task force of area law enforcement investigating automobile thefts. [su_survey] According to the Miller County Sheriff’s Office, at approximately 7:00 a.m. a task force of area law enforcement officers…
A warrant has been issued for a Texarkana man who was supposed to be in Miller County Circuit Court for sentencing Tuesday morning but failed to show. Charlston Brown, 35, pleaded guilty Monday to engaging in organized criminal activity and…
A man who attacked two convenience store clerks last year with a box cutter was sentenced to 40 years by a Miller County judge Monday. David Wayne Clark, Jr., 25, has been behind bars since his arrest March 27, 2015,…
In responses filed last week in two civil lawsuits connected to a 2013 drunk driving wreck that left two dead, Texarkana’s Fat Jack’s Oyster and Sports Bar denies any wrongdoing. Chad Caldwell had a blood alcohol level of .301 when…
A nurse working for the private company managing the Bi-State Justice Center jail allegedly refused to check the sugar level of a diabetic inmate housed in a cell 20 feet away from the medical station. [su_survey] Brittany Johnson, 26, was…
A former dance coach and teacher for Texarkana, Ark., School District appeared before a Miller County judge Tuesday morning. Julie Aultman, 42, is accused of first degree sexual assault and second degree sexual assault involving a 17-year-old boy. Aultman, who…
A Texarkana man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday in connection with a July 2014 collision with a Texas-side fireman. James Collins, 34, was sentenced to a decade behind bars after pleading guilty to intoxication assault. Collins was…
A pastor facing multiple counts of sexual assault appeared before a Miller County judge Monday. David Wayne Farren, 41, was arrested Friday on a charge of second degree felony sexual assault and a misdemeanor charge of violation of mandatory reporting…
Texarkana pastor David Farren was arrested Friday on a sexual assault charge for the second time this month. Farren, 41, was taken into custody Friday on a felony charge of second degree sexual assault and a misdemeanor charge of violation…
