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TEXARKANA, TEXAS—The City of Texarkana Parks and Recreation Department will open the Rotary Splash Pad on Tuesday, June 1, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. The splash pad hours will be from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. daily. Children must be accompanied…
Today, May 27th, Carry The Load, a non-profit organization designed to bring back the true meaning of Memorial Day, walked through Texarkana, TX. The organization provides an active way to connect Americans to the sacrifices that are made daily by…
On Monday, May 24th the City Council received their first look at a proposal to create a downtown entertainment district on the Texas side of Texarkana, where open alcohol containers would be allowed outdoors. This is similar to the one…
Panda Express will soon be building a Texarkana location. According to information filed in a application for site plan approval, the drive-thru restaurant will be located on a 1.182-acre tract of land located at 311 St. Michael Drive in Texarkana.…
Regarding the deceased forty-year-old male (Earnest Jackson) at the Fox Creek Apartments yesterday, The Texarkana Arkansas Police Department now has two outstanding felony warrants for Mahogany Jashe Palmer twenty-two-year-old female from Little Rock, Arkansas. The first charge is for Capital…
On May 25, 2021, at 9:30am, The Texarkana Arkansas Police Department received a 911 call from the Fox Creek Apartments Manager located at 4303 County Avenue in Texarkana, Arkansas. The apartment manager told the dispatcher that a resident male in…
A man who engaged in sexual misconduct with a 5-year-old girl was sentenced to 12 years in prison for second-degree sexual assault in Miller County. Kevin Eugene Armstrong, 52, of Longview, Texas, assaulted the girl in Texarkana, Ark., and Longview,…
Both the prosecution and defense rested their cases Wednesday in the sentencing trial of a man who caused a fatal crash last year while driving drunk. Kendrick Lamar Sauls, 22, pleaded guilty in April to intoxication manslaughter and intoxication assault…
A jury was selected Tuesday to decide the punishment Kendrick Sauls should receive for intoxication manslaughter and intoxication assault. Sauls, 22, pleaded guilty to both crimes at a hearing in April before 5th District Judge Bill Miller. Sauls’ defense attorney,…
This year, five local students from the Texarkana area received scholarships from The Jaqualyn Light Prevails Foundation after their essays about gun violence in our area were selected. The foundation was created just two years ago following the murder of…
The DEA raided multiple Lansdell Family Clinic locations Tuesday morning. DEA agents and local authorities were spotted at the Texarkana, Ark. and De Queen locations Tuesday morning. Authorities on scene said an active investigation was underway and would provide no…
On Monday, May 17th, Nicholas Watson will have the honor of speaking to his fellow classmates as Valedictorian of Arkansas High School. This year, while playing four sports, he maintained a 4.8 GPA, was accepted into 45 different Universities across…
A Miller County inmate in custody on child sex abuse charges is accused of physically and sexually assaulting his cellmate last month. Charles Anderson, 62, allegedly knocked his cellmate unconscious, tied him to his bunk and sexually assaulted him April…
Having served the Texarkana community for more than 120 years, Wadley Regional Medical Center will soon break ground on a new state-of-the-art hospital northwest of its current downtown location. The $227 million facility – which will feature a Medical Office…
A Texarkana man who was engaged in a standoff with police after barricading himself in his apartment with two young boys in March pleaded not guilty to multiple felonies Monday at a hearing in Bowie County district court. Andrew Justin…
