The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville recently announced the new Arkansas Transfer Achievement Scholarship program that reduces tuition rates for students who graduate with associate’s degrees from any of the two-year colleges in the University of Arkansas System and then…
Texas A&M University-Texarkana was recently appropriated additional funding that will allow the university to expand academic programs through the university’s Better East Texas Initiative. The Better East Texas (BET) Initiative is an educational strategy designed to specifically address both current…
A male nurse on staff at a Texarkana nursing home in April is accused of injuring an 87-year-old man suffering from dementia. Billy Ray Ramey, 62, appeared before 202nd District Judge John Tidwell for a preindictment hearing Monday afternoon with…
The Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) will host an open house public meeting on Thursday, June 6, to discuss proposed improvements to Farm to Market Road 1397 (Summerhill Road) between University Avenue and North Park Road. The meeting will be…
A magnitude 2.5 earthquake struck the Texarkana area Friday evening according to the United States Geological Survey. According to the USGS the earthquake struck at 6:32 p.m. Friday at a depth of 5 kilometers. USGS shows the epicenter to be…
A Contra Costa, California jury awarded $21.4 million in damages on March 29, 2019 to the families of two brothers who died of cancer following their occupational exposure to benzene, a known carcinogen, at Cooper Tire in Texarkana, Arkansas. The…
UPDATE – Police have confirmed the bag contained the remains of a child who they believe to be Maleah Davis. They will be sent to the crime lab for confirmation. Officials are trying to determine if a bag located along…
Early Wednesday morning a group of 5 juveniles were arrested for vehicle burglary and popery theft by Texarkana, Ark. police. On May 29th, 2019, at 5:00 a.m. The Texarkana Arkansas Police Department responded to the area of Oak Hollow Place…
Texarknaa, Texas Police arrested Donte Henderson, 22, for several charges after a homeowner in the 1700 block of W. 17th Street caught him trying to break into her backyard storage shed about 10:45 Thursday night. When her husband and a…
Miller County Prosecuting Attorney Stephanie Potter Barrett filed a formal charge of murder Wednesday against a man accused of shooting a woman in the face in a Texarkana, Ark., aparment complex in April. Markelle Demetrice Davis, 19, is facing 10…
Graham Slam Bakery became the site of the first ever chamber cash mob Wednesday afternoon. Cash Mobs are flash mobs, but instead of singing and dancing the group spends money at a local business. According to the chamber of commerce,…
Members of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity presented a $5,000 check to the Texarkana College Foundation for the Robert A. Jones Scholarship Fund in the lobby of the Nelson Administration Building at 2:00pm today. “Robert Jones is an important member…
Miller County Prosecuting Attorney Stephanie Potter Barrett formally signed off Tuesday on charges of capital murder and domestic battery for a stepmother accused of beating her husband’s 3-year-old daughter to death and physically abusing her 2-year-old brother. McKenna Faith Belcher,…
A tornado watch has been issued until 8 p.m. Wednesday for the Texarkana area. Thunderstorms will intensify and begin to approach the area later in the afternoon and into the evening. The primary threat with any severe storms will be…
A 54-year-old woman who served time in a Missouri state prison for murder entered a not guilty plea to murder Tuesday before a judge in Bowie County, Texas. Shirley Ann Falkowski, 54, appeared before 5th District Judge Bill Miller for…
