NEW BOSTON, Texas–Twelve Bowie County citizens were chosen Tuesday to decide the case of a man with convictions for sex offenses in California and Arkansas who now stands accused of attacking a vulnerable Texarkana woman in her home in 2021.…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A man who allegedly shoved a 6-year-old boy who was trying to protect his mother from an unwanted sexual advance and a physical assault is facing a felony charge of injury to a child in Bowie County. Earnest Deon…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A murder arrest has been made in the unsolved 2009 death of a Texarkana man who was shot at a reputed drug house on Apple Street in Texarkana, Texas. Rickey Lee Dorsey Jr., 25, died at a local hospital…
TEXARKANA, Texas–The major player in a bid rigging scheme at Red River Army Depot was sentenced to four years in federal prison, fined $50,000 and ordered to forfeit more than $200,000 on Wednesday by a federal judge in Texarkana. Jimmy…
TEXARKANA, Texas–An FBI tip on the last day of 2022 led investigators with the Texas Department of Public Safety to a Texarkana man who allegedly was in the possession of child pornography. Joseph Anthony Sterle Jr., 54, was arrested by…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–A Texarkana, Texas, man with a history of violence in and out of jail was sentenced to life in prison Monday for strangling his former girlfriend to death in 2021. A jury of six men and six women…
On Sunday, February 5 at approximately 12:30 a.m., Miller County Deputies responded to a shots fired call with injuries in the 7600 block of Goodson Lane. Upon arrival, deputies determined that the unknown suspect had fled the scene, and the…
The City of Texarkana, Texas Municipal Court recently offered an Amnesty Program that began Wednesday, February 1, 2023, until Monday, April 17, 2023. Citizens with an outstanding warrant with Texarkana, Texas Municipal Court may come in before the April date…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–Travis Turner was found guilty Friday afternoon by a jury in the August 2021 murder of Jennifer Garrett in Texarkana, Texas. The jury deliberated about 20 minutes before returning a guilty verdict for murder. “She didn’t hold value…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–A registered nurse was arrested Monday on felony bribery and drug charges after she was allegedly caught on video passing a package to an inmate in his cell at the Telford Unit in New Boston, according to court…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–Co-workers of a murdered Texarkana woman testified Wednesday that they were shocked to find her lifeless body on a couch five feet from the front door where accused murderer Travis Turner had turned them away less than an…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–A jury of six men and six women began hearing testimony Tuesday afternoon in the case of a man accused of murder in the alleged strangulation killing of his girlfriend. Travis Alston Turner, 29, is accused of strangling…
LITTLE RIVER COUNTY, Arkansas–An Ashdown woman who allegedly claimed she had been sexually assaulted to conceal an affair from her spouse has been charged with filing a false report in Little River County. Melessa Visser, 21, allegedly made the false…
TEXARKANA, Texas–An Indiana man who used threats to coerce girls from Texas and Oklahoma to send him sexually exploitative images was sentenced to over two decades in prison by a federal judge in Texarkana. Russell James Ott, 35, pleaded guilty…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A man who used a hidden camera to secretly record a friend’s wife and two daughters in their bathroom was sentenced to 14 years behind bars as part of a plea agreement. Jarrod Wade Dee, 37, pleaded guilty to…
