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A man who is required to register as a sex offender because of a conviction in Alabama for first-degree sexual abuse was indicted last week by a Bowie County grand jury for two counts of aggravated sexual assault with a…
A woman arrested for murder this month after her boyfriend’s decomposing body was discovered in a Texarkana, Texas, apartment allegedly told police she hit the man with a brick. Lamarya “Margie” Bradley, 54, was taken into custody on the evening…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A Bowie County jury has convicted Toddrick Matthews of murder in the 2013 death of Sonjha Banks. Matthews, 40, beat and strangled Banks to death on the night of Sept. 8, 2013, and then took steps to…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A Bowie County jury deliberated for about five hours Thursday in the case of Toddrick Matthews, a man accused of beating and strangling his girlfriend to death in 2013. At about 9:45 p.m., 5th District Judge Bill…
Due to a water main break, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has required the City of Hooks AND Burns Red Bank Water Supply public water system to notify all customers to boil their water prior to consumption (e.g., washing…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A Bowie County prosecutor described a man accused of beating and strangling his former girlfriend to death in 2013 as a maniac and a stalker in opening statements Wednesday. Toddrick Eugene Matthews, 40, is accused of murder…
Co-defendants charged with aggravated robbery in connection with the armed holdup of Ellis Pottery in Texarkana, Texas, last year entered pleas of not guilty Monday at court hearings in Bowie County. Brandon Lee Staggs, 25, and Toni Jo Works, 37,…
Two men who caused a fatal crash when they raced their cars last year along Richmond Road in Texarkana, Texas, pleaded guilty Monday at a hearing in Bowie County district court. Kalob Doyle, 26, appeared before 5th District Judge Bill…
Two men accused of trafficking heroin, fentanyl and cocaine in the Bowie County area appeared in federal court Friday. Armando Moya, 46, was first indicted last June for alleged heroin trafficking. A superseding indictment issued in November added accusations of…
TEXARKANA, TEXAS – The Texarkana Texas Police Department is searching for Melchor Antonio Labrada Hernandez, 23, after he shot his uncle, Antonio Labrada, 30, with a rifle at a residence in the 2300 block of Summerhill Road early Saturday morning.…
TEXARKANA, TEXAS – The Texarkana Texas Police Department arrested Lamarya Bradley, 54, of Texarkana Texas, for Murder. Officers were dispatched to the report of a deceased person at a residence in the 2100 block of W. 10th Street at 1:44…
Mardi Gras festivities kick of at 10 a.m. Saturday morning in downtown Texarkana. There will be three parades this year. 11 a.m. – Krewe of Barkus, Meoux and Little Rascals — pets and kids of all ages to enter-decorating wagons,…
The case of a man accused of human trafficking, possession of child pornography and sexual assault of a child has been set for jury selection in May. Robert Allen Smith, 34, pleaded not guilty to the charges in January at…
A man who buried his best friend beneath the floor of his backyard shed was sentenced to a maximum 10-year sentence and assessed a maximum $10,000 fine following a one-day, punishment-only trial at the Miller County courthouse. Chad Allen Jernigan,…
Testimony is expected to begin Tuesday morning in the trial of a Texarkana, Ark., man accused of burying a friend beneath a shed in his back yard in 2017. Chad Allen Jernigan, 42, is charged with abuse of a corpse…
