On Saturday May 22nd, the Habitat for Humanity celebrated their Grand Opening of their ReStore with a ceremony and ribbon cutting. Before the event started the parking lot was packed with cars and large furniture items were being brought out…
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…
Country music hitmaker and piano-pounding powerhouse Phil Vassar will headline the concert at the 45th Annual Hope Watermelon Festival on Saturday, August 7, at 8:30 p.m. The show will be held on the CMC Stage inside Hope Fair Park. Gates…
Texarkana College announced its recipients of the annual National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) Excellence Awards at the Board of Trustees meeting held Monday. Each year TC recognizes two individuals as NISOD nominees, one staff member and one…
Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) will be closing FM 1397 (Summerhill Road) this week to replace a culvert crossing underneath the highway. The closure will be north of I-30 just south of Forrest Brooke Lane. Work will begin Monday, May…
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,…
WHAT: The Clay Eichler Memorial Fund will host its annual fundraiser, Clay’s Golf & Guitars, to raise funds for Haven Homes, a Texarkana, Texas nonprofit organization that provides safe housing, work and service programs, counseling, and spiritual guidance to those…
Each year the Adult Learning Alliance (ALA) presents six awards to outstanding adult learning programs in Arkansas, and this year, the Literacy Council of Bowie and Miller Counties has earned two of the six awards. Leaders from ALA presented those…
On Friday, May 14th Thelma J. Evans became a Centenarian. Born in 1921 in Ashdown, AR, Evans remembers growing up in our area where she later moved to Texarkana, AR in 1944. She lived through the Great Depression, World War…
The Interscholastic League Press Conference (ILPC) released their 2020-2021 spring awards on May 8, 2021. The Edge newspaper editors Delaynie Keeney, Delia Tuttlebee, and Alex Norton were named 2021 Student Leaders of the Year. The Hawk yearbook was one of…
The University Interscholastic League of Texas (UIL) announced the Theatre State Championship on Wednesday, May 12. The UIL Theatre State Championship is determined by scores from UIL One Act Play, Theatrical Design, and Film competitions throughout the school year. Pleasant…
Friday Twisted Fork: Danny Maxey & Randy Altenbaumer The Arrow Bar: Karaoke, 8:30 Whiskey River: Texarkana Native Jed Harrelson, 9 Redbone: “Two Old Guys” Joe Dale & Pete La Fogata: Richard Walker Saturday Twisted Fork: Trivia, 7p.m. The Arrow Bar:…
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…
The purpose of a will is simple: once a person dies their assets are distributed to surviving heirs, relatives, charity groups, and other institutions according to the deceased person’s wishes that are detailed in a will. Without a will, the…
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,…
