Oaklawn Rotary Club donated $600 to 11 local organizations. The money was raised during the October drawdown held at the Elk’s Lodge. The organizations are: Bikers Against Child Abuse Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Domestic Violence Prevention For the Sake…
At about 4:30 a.m. Tuesday, Texarkana, Texas Police answered an alarm call at the Colonial Cleaners in the 2100 block of N. Robison Road. As Officer William Young arrived, he saw Devion Henson walking from the back of the building…
Nurses at CHRISTUS St. Michael Health System are being honored with The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses®. The award is part of the DAISY Foundation’s mission to recognize the extraordinary, compassionate nursing care they provide patients and families every day.…
The cases of a man and woman accused in the November gunpoint robbery of Ellis Pottery in Texarkana, Texas, have been referred to the Bowie County grand jury for possible indictment. Brandon Lee Staggs, 25, and Toni Jo Works, 37,…
TEXARKANA, TEXAS – The Texarkana Texas Police Department is investigating the suspicious death of Anthony Ray Mathis, 54, of Texarkana Texas on January 4. Officers were dispatched to an assist the ambulance call at the Randy Sams Outreach Shelter, 402…
Dr. Corrine Hinton, Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University – Texarkana, and three university alumni and current educators, Stephanie Chickadel, Kristen Childress, and Amanda Nix recently published an article in Currents in Teaching and Learning, an online education…
More than 124,000 people visited Crater of Diamonds Park in 2018 and found 405 diamonds, weighing a total of 77.12 carats. Visitors from Arkansas registered 82 diamonds, while travelers from 31 other states and Japan registered 323 gems. Of all…
The Bowie County Sheriff’s Office arrested a woman last month for the alleged abuse of a young girl in 2008. Casie Rian Sparks Switzer, 35, was arrested Dec. 27 on a charge of aggravated sexual assault of a child under…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: The defense attorney representing a man accused of dragging a police officer with his car during a traffic stop last year brought up his client’s alleged mental health problems at a pretrial hearing Thursday at the Bowie…
An Arkansas State Trooper has been hospitalized from injuries he sustained in a single-vehicle motor vehicle crash in southwest Arkansas at approximately 12:50 PM today (Thursday, January 3, 2018). Corporal Clayton McWilliams, 32, of Little River County, was initially transported…
TEXARKANA, TEXAS – The Texarkana Texas Police Department arrested Britt Dalton, 17, Alyssa Shew, 20, and Joevon Williams, 22, for vehicle burglary early Wednesday morning. Dalton was also charged with Evading Detention with a Vehicle. At approximately 3:00 am. Wednesday…
LifeNet, Inc. has earned its accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services (CAAS) for the fifth time since first becoming accredited in 2000. “Receiving accreditation is one of the highest honors an EMS agency can earn, and we…
A psychologist has found a man accused of trying to steal a commercial jet from Texarkana Regional Airport is competent to stand trial. Zemarcuis Devon Scott, 18, was arrested by members of the Texarkana, Ark., Police Dept. in the early…
Texarkana, Texas Police is asking for help in identifiyng a man that stole a woman’s purse. On December 10, he walked into the McDonald’s on W. 7th Street, looks around briefly, and then grabs a woman’s purse from the back…
Mardi Gras season is right around the corner. The Texarkana Mardi Gras parade is scheduled for March 2, 2019 in downtown Texarkana. Organizers are looking for teams to come have some fun in the parade by building a float, or…
