A New Boston, Texas, couple accused of keeping their children in a house infested with cockroaches and mold are scheduled for court appearances May 1. Kirt Gortney, 42, and Chastity Gortney, 35, were arrested last month on nine counts of…
New Boston, Texas–A 59-year-old man was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences Wednesday for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl who thought of him as a grandfather until Sept. 20, 2015. Larry Thomas Webb was found guilty of two of four…
New Boston, Texas–A jury of six men and six women was chosen Tuesday to decide if a Hooks, Texas, man is guilty of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in 2015. Larry Thomas Webb, 59, is accused of attacking the girl…
New Boston, Texas–A Bowie County jury sentenced a Hooks, Texas, man to 20 years in prison Thursday after finding him guilty of indecency with a child by sexual contact. Daniel Mooneyham, 33, continued to deny his guilt when he took…
New Boston, Texas–A jury of six men and six women is expected to return to the Bowie County courthouse Thursday morning to continue deliberations in a child sex abuse trial. Daniel Mooneyham, 33, is accused of inappropriately touching a 9-year-old…
A federal judge in Texarkana, Ark., has dismissed 11 lawsuits stemming from the 2010 flood at Albert Pike campgrounds which killed 20 campers. Many of those that died in the early hours of June 11, 2010, were from the Texarkana…
Texarkana, Texas Police have arrested Jimmy Jerome Dancer, 29, of Texarkana Texas, the second suspect in the homicide that occurred on North State Line Ave. on Saturday night. According to police Dancer turned himself into officers at the Bi-State Criminal…
A panel of prospective jurors is expected to report to the Bowie County courthouse Tuesday morning for jury selection in a child sex abuse case. Daniel Mooneyham, 33, of Hooks, Texas, is accused of two counts of aggravated sexual assault…
A man and woman accused of possessing methamphetamine and marijuana while driving with a 2-year-old on a Miller County, Ark., road in February, are facing criminal charges. Mindy Floyd, 31, was allegedly driving a 2004 Chevy Impala at about 11:15…
A Michigan sex offender is facing federal drug charges in Texarkana for allegedly possessing more than five kilograms of cocaine. Rhasheem Jamal Gordon, 40, was arrested Feb. 27 during a traffic stop in Bowie County after police allegedly discovered he…
Jury selection is set to begin in November in civil lawsuits stemming from a fatal drunk driving collision that left two dead in 2013. Chad Caldwell, 38, is currently serving two 20-year prison sentences in the Texas Department of Criminal…
A man who used a deadly pesticide to control wild hogs in Bowie County pleaded guilty Tuesday in a Texarkana federal court to killing protected migratory birds. John Purviance, 46, entered pleas of guilty to two misdemeanor offenses-unlawful taking of…
Miller County prosecutors have filed criminal charges against a Texas man accused of pocketing $5,000 in a fraudulent Ted Nugent booking at Shooter’s Sports Bar in 2014. Robert James Devine, 64, is facing charges of theft of property and unlawful…
New Boston, Texas: A Texas prison inmate facing death himself in the July 2015 beating death of a Barry Telford Unit guard in New Boston was in court Friday for a pretrial hearing. Billy Joel Tracy, 39, is accused of…
A 21-year-old Texarkana man accused of robbing a local convenience store with a juvenile accomplice and a hammer in January, pleaded not guilty this week in Miller County. Devin Javon Whitaker and a 15-year-old juvenile were arrested following an attempted…
