A 26-year-old man who molested a 12-year-old boy suffering from autism and other medical conditions was sentenced to 35 years Monday as part of a plea bargain. Javier Perez appeared before 202nd District Judge John Tidwell with Clayton Haas of…
Farmers Bank & Trust is bringing actor, author, economist, and pop culture icon Ben Stein to Texarkana as a part of its Distinguished Speaker Series. The April 4th event is being organized to raise funds for scholarships for Texarkana College…
MONDAY Theft Over $750 and Under $2500 – Lone Star Drive Hooks, taken: two scissor lift control boxes Assault with Bodily Injury – Highway 59 Texarkana Criminal Mischief – B. K. Pickering Texarkana TUESDAY Assault by Contact – Farm to…
Mark your calendars! The 8th Annual Railfest is coming to Texarkana on May 11, 2019. The festival will take place at Festival Plaza in downtown Texarkana and will feature excellent food, crafts, contests, play areas, and an evening concert. Daytime…
A woman who was convicted of murder in Missouri in 1998 is now facing a murder charge in Bowie County, Texas. Shirley Ann Falkowski, 54, was arrested in February in connection with the August 2015 stabbing death of James Earl…
Since its beginnings in Shreveport in 2003, the Brother’s Keepers Motorcycle Club (BKMC) has grown to become an international organization. The club has 36 chapters that span across the U.S., Canada and Australia. The Texarkana chapter of BKMC is a…
A Texarkana, Texas, man is one of three defendants accused of using stolen identities to file phony tax returns in a scheme that defrauded the U.S. government of more than $1 million. A federal indictment unsealed Tuesday in the Texarkana…
Congratulations to Sergeant Devin Warner for receiving the Criminal Investigation Division Bulldog of the Year Award. Sgt. Warner was selected after being nominated by peers, subordinates, and supervisors alike for the leadership role he has taken since assigned to the…
The Pleasant Grove High School Encore Theater Company placed second in the District One Act Play competition on Friday, March 8 after performing Les Miserables at Texarkana College. They will compete in Bi- District in Sulphur Springs on Tuesday, March…
Redwater Elementary School was evacuated Tuesday morning due to a phoned in bomb threat. There was no threats to the other campuses. Parents can pick up kids using the High School entrance.
In a response filed Friday to a federal civil rights lawsuit involving a 17-year-old who lost vision in his left eye when his face was struck with pepper spray from a police JPX gun, the City of Texarkana, Texas, alleges…
UPDATE – The El Dorado bomb squad removed the package. Bi-State Justice building has been evacuated due to a suspicious package near the building. According to police the bomb squad from El Dorado is en route. This is a developing…
Officials from Texas A&M University-Texarkana and Northeast Texas Community College recently signed a new articulation agreement between the two schools. The agreement will combine the Associate of Science Degree in Business Administration from NTCC with the Bachelor of Business Administration-…
Texas A&M University-Texarkana’s annual community service project “The Big Event- Eagle Pride City Wide” was recently named National Service Project of the Year at the National Conference of the Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities conference in Orlando. TAMUT’s…
A New Boston, Texas, man who possessed hundreds of images depicting the sexual exploitation of children was sentenced Thursday to six and a half years in federal prison. John Matthew Emerson, 35, appeared with Longview, Texas, attorney Jason Cassel appeared…
