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Texarkana Soccer Club’s TSC girls soccer team played at the USA Cup, an international soccer tournament, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. There were over 16,000 players who competed in the event. The TSC, Texarkana’s twelve and thirteen year-old-girls, won their brackets…
A former Trinity Christian School teacher who filmed boys in school restrooms without their knowledge was sentenced to four years in prison Monday as part of a plea bargain. Shane Samuel Jones, 31, pleaded guilty Monday to felony charges of…
Every community has a closet full of skeletons. For Texarkana, it’s the unsolved Moonlight Murders, a series of slayings committed by the Phantom Killer during the spring of 1946. In lieu of shying away from the macabre tales, local artist,…
A Miller County man accused of sexually abusing an 8-year-old is facing multiple felony charges. Drew Curtis Bynum, 27, is charged with sexual assault and three counts of rape for alleged wrongdoing from March until June with the daughter of…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A DeKalb, Texas, man who pointed a gun at firefighters, shot two deputies, injured a third deputy and survived being shot himself, received a 50-year sentence Thursday as part of a plea agreement. Bryan Lee Batchelor, 49,…
A Magnolia, Ark., man who caused more than $1,000 in damages April 30 to a new visitor’s center on Highway 71 must pay restitution to the department of transportation as a condition of his five-year probation. Dustin Wade Otwell, 37,…
On Tuesday, July 17, 2018, the exhibit for Nicole Brisco, Advanced Placement Art Instructor at Pleasant Grove High School, at Texas A&M library attracted many locals who wanted to see her exquisite and intriguing art first-hand. The opening exhibit was held…
When often thinking of legends, there is a tendency to remember those more well known, but so many legends go forgotten, simply hanging on by word of mouth from those who remember them. Scott Joplin, Texarkana, Arkansas, native, is somewhere…
A former substitute teacher accused of misconduct involving New Boston, Texas, Independent School District middle school students entered pleas of not guilty Monday to indecency with a child by sexual contact and online solicitation of a minor. Dylan Reed Simpson,…
RED RIVER ARMY DEPOT, TEXAS – Due to no additional workload materializing for FY18, Red River Army Depot has to execute phase 2 of our approved FY18 restructuring plan. Phase 2 will be implemented beginning August 31 with the release…
What makes a leader? Is it circumstantial, innate, or is it a learned behavior? With Pondexter, there was no question, she was born to lead. As a black female in America during the peak of the Civil Rights movement, Pondexter…
Miller County, Ark., prosecutors have charged three Texarkana residents with aggravated animal cruelty after finding two dogs dead in their back yard. Joyce Cooper, 61, Debra Maxwell, 58, and Antonious Maxwell, 37, each face up to six years in prison…
Governor Asa Hutchinson hosted a roundtable discussion with local leaders from government, education, and law enforcement in the Texarkana community on Friday, July 13, 2018, to discuss school safety and teacher recruitment and retention in Miller County. Representatives from all…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A Bowie County jury deliberated for about three hours Thursday before handing down an 18-year sentence for a Texarkana woman who was drunk when she collided with a motorcycle on New Boston Road in Texarkana last year.…
A 1939 Pullman lounge train car that was located behind the Texarkana Regional Airport is being transported to Front Street where it will permanently sit. The train car is owned by David Peavy, who also runs 1894 Ritchie Grocery, Second…
