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The annual Arkansas High/Texas High Football game is scheduled for Friday Sept. 6th at Arkansas High’s Razorback Stadium. The Texarkana Arkansas Police Department would like to offer the following suggestions to those who will be attending the game. Vehicles may…
A Texarkana man who fractured his mother’s breast bone last year was recently sentenced to 30 years by a Miller County jury. James Theodore Livsey, 47, was found guilty last week by a Miller County jury of second-degree domestic battery.…
A man accused of holding a gun to a 2-year-old’s head after pistol whipping his mother as they entered their Texarkana, Texas, apartment in June pleaded not guilty to aggravated robbery and aggravated kidnapping at a hearing Thursday in Bowie…
A suspect who was arrested Thursday for allegedly stealing items from Texarkana College died overnight at Wadley hospital. On Thursday afternoon, August 29, 2019, officers of the Texarkana College Police Department were involved in a foot pursuit of a suspect…
An Atlanta, Texas, attorney was arrested Thursday afternoon for allegedly smuggling meth into the Cass County jail. Bryan Simmons, 49, handles cases in Cass and Bowie Counties. Simmons was taken into custody Thursday afternoon and charged with possession of a…
Justin Wilson, the suspect in a double homicide, has been arrested with no incident after being located in Lewisville, Arkansas according to police. On Wednesday, August 28th, at approximately 10:00 p.m., TAPD responded to 2400 East 24th Street in reference…
On Wednesday, August 28th, at approximately 10:00 p.m., TAPD responded to 2400 East 24th Street in reference to a 911 call of possible shooting. Upon arrival Officers located 3 male individuals inside an apartment with apparent gun shot wounds. Two…
A man accused of breaking into a family member’s hotel room, breaking bones in her neck and sexually assaulting her in 2016 received a court appointed lawyer Monday. Clifton “Kippie” Littlesam Poulton, 44, was indicted in January by a Bowie…
A collective effort between multiple law enforcement agencies led to the arrest of three burglars this past Saturday afternoon. Bowie County Deputies Randall Baggett and Pat Wrinkle were dispatched to a burglary in progress in the 200 block of Presley…
At today’s board meeting, Texarkana College trustees approved an official partnership with Texas Veterans Commission Claims Representation and Counseling division to provide on-campus accommodations to TVC to provide aid in accessing benefits to any eligible veteran who served in the…
The Arkansas State Police has been in close contact in recent days with the Federal Bureau of Investigation attemping to identify the source of an alleged threat of gun violence at an undisclosed Arkansas school reportedly planned for later this…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A Bowie County jury deliberated less than half an hour before sentencing an inmate with a history of murder to life in prison for assaulting a Telford Unit correctional officer in November 2016. The eight-woman, four-man jury…
A felony information filed Wednesday in a Texarkana, Texas, court charges a former treasurer of the Pleasant Grove High School Showstoppers Booster Club with wire fraud in connection with the alleged embezzlement of approximately $60,000. Nikki Diane May allegedly pocketed…
The Bowie County Sheriff’s Office has been informed that workers for the 2020 census will be actively working in Bowie County from now through July 31, 2020. Currently, census workers will be out verifying addresses only. This means you may…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–An inmate accused of assaulting a correctional officer in November 2016 at the Barry Telford Unit in New Boston is on trial this week in Bowie County. David Robert Steiner Jr., 40, is serving time in the Texas…
