NEW BOSTON, Texas: A Bowie County prosecutor told a jury Wednesday that Travon Walker inadvertently killed his wife with a stray bullet when he was shooting at someone else. Assistant District Attorney Katie Carter said that Kaitlin Lee was standing…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A jury of four men and eight women was selected Tuesday to decide the case of a man accused of murder in the death of his wife. Prosecutors have not alleged that Travon Walker, 27, intended to…
A man who turned down an offer for an eight-year sentence earlier this year is facing possible life in prison if a jury finds him guilty at his trial later this month. James L. Morgan, 44, was in court Monday…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A Bowie County jury found a man who shot his uncle to death as he slept in front of the living room television was found guilty of capital murder Thursday and sentenced to life without parole. Andrew…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: Testimony is scheduled to begin Wednesday morning at the Bowie County courthouse in the trial of a 21-year-old man accused of capital murder in the death of his uncle. Andrew Deiontrey Hamilton allegedly shot one of the…
A 26-year-old man who molested a 12-year-old boy suffering from autism and other medical conditions was sentenced to 35 years Monday as part of a plea bargain. Javier Perez appeared before 202nd District Judge John Tidwell with Clayton Haas of…
A woman who was convicted of murder in Missouri in 1998 is now facing a murder charge in Bowie County, Texas. Shirley Ann Falkowski, 54, was arrested in February in connection with the August 2015 stabbing death of James Earl…
A Texarkana, Texas, man is one of three defendants accused of using stolen identities to file phony tax returns in a scheme that defrauded the U.S. government of more than $1 million. A federal indictment unsealed Tuesday in the Texarkana…
In a response filed Friday to a federal civil rights lawsuit involving a 17-year-old who lost vision in his left eye when his face was struck with pepper spray from a police JPX gun, the City of Texarkana, Texas, alleges…
A New Boston, Texas, man who possessed hundreds of images depicting the sexual exploitation of children was sentenced Thursday to six and a half years in federal prison. John Matthew Emerson, 35, appeared with Longview, Texas, attorney Jason Cassel appeared…
A man who is required to register as a sex offender because of a conviction in Alabama for first-degree sexual abuse was indicted last week by a Bowie County grand jury for two counts of aggravated sexual assault with a…
A woman arrested for murder this month after her boyfriend’s decomposing body was discovered in a Texarkana, Texas, apartment allegedly told police she hit the man with a brick. Lamarya “Margie” Bradley, 54, was taken into custody on the evening…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A Bowie County jury has convicted Toddrick Matthews of murder in the 2013 death of Sonjha Banks. Matthews, 40, beat and strangled Banks to death on the night of Sept. 8, 2013, and then took steps to…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A Bowie County jury deliberated for about five hours Thursday in the case of Toddrick Matthews, a man accused of beating and strangling his girlfriend to death in 2013. At about 9:45 p.m., 5th District Judge Bill…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A Bowie County prosecutor described a man accused of beating and strangling his former girlfriend to death in 2013 as a maniac and a stalker in opening statements Wednesday. Toddrick Eugene Matthews, 40, is accused of murder…
