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10:00 a.m. Friday | A two vehicle accident on mall drive near the entrance of spring lake park sent two people to the hospital by LifeNet Friday morning. The accident was a few hundred yards before the spot where a rollover accident…
7:00 p.m. Thursday | A rollover accident on mall drive near the entrance to spring lake park had traffic moving slow Thursday evening. The accident left a car with extensive front end damage and a For Expedition on its side. According…
The Texas Senate gave preliminary approval to a measure Wednesday that would permit concealed handgun license holders to carry weapons on campus. Granbury Senator Brian Birdwell authored the bill, and he argued that the right to bear arms is a…
Texarkana, Arkansas – Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Derrick Estell, age 35, of Hot Springs, was sentenced today on two counts of Use of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of…
Texarkana Independent School District Board of Trustees talked middle school curriculum, construction, election cancellation, snow days and land purchase during their regular session on March 17, 2015. Trustees approved the competitive proposal for construction of the Sixth Grade Center at…
A SWAT stand-off between a man barricaded in a room with a knife and the Bowie County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team ended peacefully around 4 p.m. Wednesday. According to Bowie County Sheriff James Prince a man threatening suicide by cop…
March 18, 2015 | The 2015 Veterans’ Expo sponsored by Red River Army Depot and Texarkana College will be held today (Wednesday, March 18, 2015) at Texarkana College in the Truman Arnold Center. “Usually, we have 5-10 people that leave there…
March 17, 2015 | A Texas Appeals court dismissed a woman’s appeal of eight years’ incarceration because the appeal was untimely, stated an appellate opinion published on Tuesday. Virginia Smith pled to injury to child after allegations of abuse occurred…
The Texarkana, Texas Police Department officer involved in the fatal shooting on December 15, 2014 is set to return to patrol duties on Monday, March 23, 2015. The Texarkana Texas Police Department has been notified that the Texas Rangers have…
Lt. Johnny Weaver, Officer Bo Carter, Officer James Hargrave, Officer Cliff Harris, and BCSO Captain David Grable participated in the 2nd Annual Heroes Ruck Challenge in Little Rock this weekend. Each of them carried a ruck pack weighing at…
Monday, March 16, 2015- Texarkana, Texas- Area superintendents and school officials along with members of the Texarkana College Board of Trustees and Foundation Board met today to approve a new plan for graduating seniors in the top of their high…
A Bowie County jury gave a ma a life sentence for killing his estranged wife’s boyfriend on May 11, 2014. James Austin Friend, 35, entered the guilty plea of murder for killing Larry Gray on February 5, 2015. Friend waived a…
5:00 p.m. Saturday | A two car accident left northbound lanes of East Street blocked just south of Loop 151. Texarkana, Arkansas Fire and Police Department were quickly on scene. No occupants suffered life threatening injures. The cause of…
11:00 p.m. Thursday | A downed street light left Moores Lane closed at Richmond Road Thursday night. Texarkana, Texas Police and Fire Departments have all lanes of Moores blocked due to the pole and electrical lines in the roadway. According…
March 12, 2015 | The wife of James Austin Friend, Traci Friend, described to the jury the events leading up to the death of her boyfriend, Larry Gray, while testifying Wednesday. She described the following events while while testifying: Traci…
