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TEXARKANA, Texas–A man who was once selling as many as 500 counterfeit pain pills per day was sentenced Wednesday to more than 12 years in prison by a federal judge in Texarkana. Kolton Todd Saulsbury, 35, was given a 151-month…
Texarkana Water Utilities (TWU) will begin a temporary change to the method of disinfecting our drinking water beginning September 16, 2024, and lasting about 4 weeks. The water will remain safe to drink throughout the process. TWU normally uses chloramine,…
HOPE, Ark–A man accused of pouring weed eater gas on his wife and lighting her on fire in July won’t face the death penalty, according to a notice filed Wednesday by Hempstead County prosecutors. Bruce Lee Cockrell Jr., 47, was…
Two local high schools that partner with the University of Arkansas Hope-Texarkana to offer collegiate academies rank number one and two in associate degree producers in Arkansas. According to data released by the Arkansas Department of Education, the top two…
TEXARKANA, Ark–A man who allegedly defrauded investors in a poultry house roof business out of hundreds of thousands while also pocketing thousands more from farm customers who never got what they paid for, is facing accusations of wire fraud in…
Two Texarkana residents were killed in a crash on Highway 196 in Miller County on Saturday, August 31. 18-year-old Jessie Witt and 32-year-old Timothy Fory were both pronounced dead on scene after the vehicle Fory was driving left the highway…
CHRISTUS Health, an international, not-for-profit Catholic health system, announced today that its affiliate CHRISTUS Health Ark-La-Tex has entered into a binding asset purchase agreement to acquire Wadley Regional Medical Center in Texarkana, Texas, from Dallas-based Steward Health Care. CHRISTUS Health…
Texas A&M University-Texarkana has announced that the university has set new enrollment records in numerous categories for the Fall 2024 semester, which began on August 26, 2024. At a time when many colleges and universities are predicting flat or declining…
HEMPSTEAD COUNTY, Ark.–A woman who died in July after allegedly being set on fire by her husband at a trailer home in Fulton, Ark., had told a police officer in Texarkana, Texas, months before that she was “scared” of her…
September is Hunger Action Month and across the nation, food banks are encouraging one million actions across the country to end hunger. Harvest Regional Food Bank kicked off National Hunger Action Month on Tuesday, August 27th, with their annual Hunger…
A Texarkana Physician was sentenced today to 87 months in prison followed by three years of supervised on two counts of Distribution of a Schedule II Controlled Substance Without an Effective Prescription and 12 months in prison followed by one…
On Friday, August 23, the Arkansas Legislative Council approved $16.7 million in funding for infrastructure improvements for the Texarkana Regional Airport (TXK). The infrastructure improvements will include the expansion of the runway and taxiways that will enable the airport to…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A Texarkana man accused of advertising a woman for sale through an online website was arrested Tuesday after arranging a meeting at a local hotel with police working undercover. Christopher Tremayne Harper, 34, allegedly used explicit photos and sexually…
We’ve all heard the complaints about the cost of living in the U.S. Grocery prices, for example, are up a punishing 25 percent from just a few years ago. Not to mention energy prices, housing, and so on. Consumer credit…
TEXARKANA, Texas–An indictment filed Thursday in Texarkana federal court accuses an inmate of escaping from the Texarkana Federal Correctional Institution in April. Matthew Walter Kite, 26, was serving a sentence of over five years for his role in a South…
