A stepmother accused of capital murder in the April death of her husband’s 3-year-old daughter was in court Monday for a pretrial hearing. The state is seeking a death sentence for McKenna Faith Belcher, 26. Circuit Judge Kirk Johnson addressed…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A man who stalked a woman before breaking into her home and raping her at gunpoint in 2017 was sentenced to 99 years in prison Thursday by a Bowie County jury. LaDavion White, 21, was found guilty…
TEXARKANA, Texas – A 42-year-old Texarkana, Texas woman has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown and FBI Special Agent in Charge Matthew J. DeSarno. Nikki Diane May pleaded guilty…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A Bowie County jury found a 21-year-old man guilty of two counts of aggravated sexual assault with a deadly weapon Wednesday after less than an hour of deliberations. The victim testified that she did not know LaDavion…
A crash that took the life of a 28-year-old man Aug. 29 has resulted in the arrest of a Monroe, La., woman for felony negligent homicide. Stacey Wink, 28, was allegedly under the influence of alcohol when her 2004 GMC…
A Texarkana man who fractured his mother’s breast bone last year was recently sentenced to 30 years by a Miller County jury. James Theodore Livsey, 47, was found guilty last week by a Miller County jury of second-degree domestic battery.…
A man accused of holding a gun to a 2-year-old’s head after pistol whipping his mother as they entered their Texarkana, Texas, apartment in June pleaded not guilty to aggravated robbery and aggravated kidnapping at a hearing Thursday in Bowie…
The prosecutor handling the case of a nephew accused of murdering his uncle said she has been unable to get the victim’s family to speak with her. First Assistant District Attorney Kelley Crisp said at a pretrial hearing this week…
A man accused of breaking into a family member’s hotel room, breaking bones in her neck and sexually assaulting her in 2016 received a court appointed lawyer Monday. Clifton “Kippie” Littlesam Poulton, 44, was indicted in January by a Bowie…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A Bowie County jury deliberated less than half an hour before sentencing an inmate with a history of murder to life in prison for assaulting a Telford Unit correctional officer in November 2016. The eight-woman, four-man jury…
A felony information filed Wednesday in a Texarkana, Texas, court charges a former treasurer of the Pleasant Grove High School Showstoppers Booster Club with wire fraud in connection with the alleged embezzlement of approximately $60,000. Nikki Diane May allegedly pocketed…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–An inmate accused of assaulting a correctional officer in November 2016 at the Barry Telford Unit in New Boston is on trial this week in Bowie County. David Robert Steiner Jr., 40, is serving time in the Texas…
A Miller County circuit judge granted a defense request Tuesday for a gag order in the case of woman accused of capital murder in the death of her husband’s 3-year-old daughter. McKenna Belcher, 26, appeared with Little Rock lawyer Andrea…
A man who claims he was beaten and denied medical treatment during a two-day stay at the Bi-State jail is suing the private company that manages it in a Texarkana, Texas, federal court. William Scott Jones, 41, was arrested by…
Prosecutors in Miller County recently filed formal harges of rape against two brothers, 20 and 21, accused of sexual misconduct with a younger male. Joseph Baker, 21, and Joshua Baker, 20, are each facing two counts of rape. Deputy Prosecuting…
