Texarkana, Ark. Police are investigating a fatal shooting that happened in the 3000 block of Jefferson Avenue. The shooting happened around 8:20 a.m. Saturday morning. According to police a 78-year-old Richard Mullens allegedly shot his 42-year-old son Mark Mullens during…
Miller County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office has charged a local man with rape and sexual assault involving a young girl. Jimmy Ted Standridge, 44, allegedly sexually abused the girl beginning when she was 7 until age 10 when she was living…
Last week two men were arrested and charged with online solicitation of a minor in Bowie County for allegedly attempting to arrange sex with a 15-year-old girl. An agent with the Texas Department of Public Safety posed as a 15-year-old…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A Bowie County jury found one of three teens accused in the shooting of a Texarkana man guilty of capital murder Thursday. Daveon Woods, aka “Shoota,” was sentenced by 202nd District Judge John Tidwell to life in…
Texarkana, Texas, police arrested a third suspect last week in the Nov. 9 shooting of a local father and husband in the family’s Texarkana, Texas, apartment. Kentraile Collins Jr., 17, was arrested Aug. 13 on a charge of capital murder…
A local doctor accused of operating a pill mill in the Texarkana area is scheduled for trial in January. Lonnie Joseph Parker, 55, is scheduled to face a jury Jan. 19 in the Texarkana Division of the Western District of…
TEXARKANA, Texas – A 28-year-old Dallas, Texas, man has been sentenced for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today. On March 6, 20202, a federal jury found Collin Garrett Hayden guilty of…
A Bowie County grand jury has indicted a woman for first-degree arson with injury in connection with a house fire in New Boston, Texas, earlier this year. Sherelle Hurd, 33, faces five to 99 years or life in prison if…
Over the weekend, the Texarkana Arkansas School District was notified that one of their students tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19). “We have not received any reports of other students or staff members experiencing illnesses with symptoms resembling those of coronavirus,”…
A Bowie County grand jury indicted a Texarkana, Texas, man for murder Thursday in connection with a fatal shooting June 13. Robert Sentell Moore, 40, allegedly shot Quinton Minnifield, 48, multiple times at approximately 3:30 a.m. June 13. A woman…
TEXARKANA, Texas – A 32-year-old Texarkana, Texas, man has pleaded guilty to distribution of child pornography in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today. Troy Dewayne Daniels pleaded guilty on August 6, 2020, to distributing…
A man who was found in the company of a 14-year-old runaway girl last year at the Texarkana Public Library was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in prison. Devonta Vashun Smith, 24, pleaded guilty Tuesday to indecency with a child…
An 18-year-old has been arrested in the shooting death of a 17-year-old late Monday night. On August 3, 2020 at 11:10 p.m. TAPD was notified of a shooting in the 2800 block of Love Creek. Officers arrived on scene to…
A federal indictment issued last week in Texarkana, Ark., accuses a convicted sex offender of failing to advise local authorities of his current address in violation of the law. Terry Edward Doolittle Jr., 43, was convicted Jan. 23, 2008, of…
A 17-year-old was killed in an overnight shooting in Texarkana, Arkansas. On August 3, 2020 at 11:10 p.m. TAPD was notified of a shooting in the 2800 block of Love Creek. Officers arrived on scene to find a 17 year…
