NEW BOSTON, Texas: A DeKalb, Texas, man who pointed a gun at firefighters, shot two deputies, injured a third deputy and survived being shot himself, received a 50-year sentence Thursday as part of a plea agreement. Bryan Lee Batchelor, 49,…
A new trial date has been scheduled for a Miller County murder defendant accused of fatally stabbing a man as he drove his pickup on a Texarkana, Ark., street in November. Cameron Scott Halliburton, aka “Fishman,” appeared with Managing Public…
A Magnolia, Ark., man who caused more than $1,000 in damages April 30 to a new visitor’s center on Highway 71 must pay restitution to the department of transportation as a condition of his five-year probation. Dustin Wade Otwell, 37,…
A man who lost his job teaching at Trinity Chrtistian School in Texarkana, Ark., for allegedly filming boys secretively in bathrooms at the school and in a Texarkana, Texas, department store was in court Monday for a pretrial hearing in…
A former substitute teacher accused of misconduct involving New Boston, Texas, Independent School District middle school students entered pleas of not guilty Monday to indecency with a child by sexual contact and online solicitation of a minor. Dylan Reed Simpson,…
Miller County, Ark., prosecutors have charged three Texarkana residents with aggravated animal cruelty after finding two dogs dead in their back yard. Joyce Cooper, 61, Debra Maxwell, 58, and Antonious Maxwell, 37, each face up to six years in prison…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A Bowie County jury deliberated for about three hours Thursday before handing down an 18-year sentence for a Texarkana woman who was drunk when she collided with a motorcycle on New Boston Road in Texarkana last year.…
A Texarkana woman pleaded guilty Monday afternoon to intoxication manslaughter at a hearing before a district judge in Bowie County but a jury is expected to decide her punishment later this week. Callie Jones, 59, appeared Monday before 102nd District…
TEXARKANA, TEXAS – The Texarkana Texas Police Department has arrested three people in connection to a homicide that occurred early Saturday morning. At approximately 3:50 AM this morning, officers were dispatched to a residence located in the 300 block of…
Six federal indictments issued last month by a federal grand jury in Arkansas accuse six men of distributing methamphetamine. All six men were indicted June 5 but appeared for arraignment on different dates in June in Texarkana. Two of the…
An Ashdown, Ark., man with a long history of drunk driving convictions has been indicted for murder in connection with a crash in February that killed two in Bowie County. Isiah Williams, 67, allegedly had a blood alcohol of .216,…
A former New Boston, Texas, Independent School District substitute teacher who worked at the middle school last fall has been indicted by a Bowie County grand jury for alleged misconduct with female students. Dylan Reed Simpson, 21, was indicted in…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A Texarkana man received five consecutive life sentences Thursday after being found guilty of giving teen girls drugs in exchange for sex. Kenneth Dewayne Nelson, 63, was found guilty Thursday morning by a jury of five counts…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A man accused of trading drugs for sex with five teen girls who pleaded guilty to seven felonies Tuesday withdrew his pleas Wednesday and elected to let a jury decide. Kenneth Dewayne Nelson, 63, pleaded guilty Tuesday…
A Duncanville, Texas, man accused of murder in the September 2013 death of a Hooks, Texas, woman pleaded not guilty to murder Monday at a hearing before a Bowie County district judge. Toddrick Matthews, 40, stood before 5th District Judge…
