A Miller County jury recommended a 40-year prison sentence for a man who plotted with others to commit aggravated robbery. Master Laffon Leal, 23, was found guilty and sentenced Tuesday for his role in a Nov. 25, 2016, armed robbery…
A Bowie County grand jury handed down an indictment this month for a Texarkana man accused of raping a former girlfriend at knifepoint. Brandon Lee Harrison, 30, was arrested Sept. 15 by members of the New Boston, Texas, Police Dept.…
A man whose wife allegedly died of a prescription pain killer overdose in 2015 is suing a Texarkana doctor in Miller County Circuit Court. A suit filed Monday on behalf of Michael Harrison Spencer and the estate of Kathy Renea…
A former licensed vocational nurse who refused treatment to a diabetic inmate at the Bi-State Justice Center jail last year pleaded guilty to misdemeanor negligent homicide at a hearing Monday in Miller County. Brittany Danae Johnson, 27, was ordered to…
A Texarkana man accused of leaving behind a 16-month-old baby when he ran from police during a traffic stop last month has been formally charged by Miller County prosecutors. Kenneth Wayne Brooks, 24, was arrested following a short foot chase…
Miller County Sheriff’s Office investigators have arrested a 76-year-old Fouke man for alleged sexual misconduct with teen boys. Kenneth Richards was arrested for rape, second-degree sexual assault and two counts of sexual indecency with a child Nov. 9. Richards began…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: It took about an hour for a Bowie County jury to sentence Billy Joel Tracy to death for the July 15, 2015, slaying of a correctional officer at the Barry Telford Unit. Tracy, 39, is now headed…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A Bowie County jury began deliberations in the sentencing phase of Billy Joel Tracy’s capital murder trial at about 10:30 a.m. this morning at the Bowie County courthouse in New Boston. The jury has the choice of…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: The state and defense closed their cases Tuesday afternoon in the capital murder trial of Billy Joel Tracy, a Texas inmate who beat a correctional officer to death at the Barry Telford Unit in 2015. Tracy, 39,…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: The defense rested Monday in Billy Joel Tracy’s capital murder trial at the Bowie County courthouse in New Boston. Tracy, 39, is facing a possible death sentence in the July 15, 2015, beating death of Barry Telford…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: Several defense experts testified in the sentencing phase of Billy Joel Tracy’s capital murder trial that the inmate who beat a correctional officer to death in 2015 at the Barry Telford Unit has a “broken brain.” Tracy,…
A man who never returned after lunch during his trial in Bowie County for felony drunk driving Wednesday received a 20-year sentence from a jury. Eric Darnell Jemison Jr., 32, is now a wanted man. Jemison was in court for…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A medical expert testified Thursday for the defense that inmate Billy Joel Tracy has an abnormal brain. Tracy, 39, is facing a possible death sentence for beating Correctional Officer Timothy Davison to death July 15, 2015, at…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: The state rested its case Tuesday in the sentencing phase of Texas inmate Billy Joel Tracy’s capital murder trial. Tracy, 39, faces a potential death sentence in the July 15, 2015, murder of Correctional Officer Timothy Davison…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–A jury in Bowie County handed down a 35-year prison sentence Friday for a former National Guardsman who slipped into a female guard member’s hotel room as she slept in November 2014. Ronnie Ricks, 33, and a group…
