Five Pleasant Grove Middle School students were arrested this afternoon after surrendering to officers at the Juvenile Detention Center. All were involved in an assault that occurred on a school bus while returning from a basketball game in Paris on…
Priority registration for the spring 2018 semester at Texas A&M University-Texarkana is open through Monday, Jan. 15. Students should register according to their classifications as follows: Graduate/Doctoral Students Seniors (90+ hours) VA/Athletes/Honors Students Juniors (60-89 hours) and Post…
A former New Boston, Texas, high school coach has been indicted by a Bowie County grand jury for alleged sexual misconduct with a 15-year-old male student. Zachary Moody, 40, was arrested in April when allegations of inappropriate conduct in the…
TEXARKANA, TEXAS – Texarkana, Arkansas Officers were dispatched to 4300 N. Stateline Ave (Motel 6) in reference to a disturbance. Shortly after arrival TAPD officers announced over the radio suspects were fleeing the scene in a Silver Suburban and had…
A Texarkana man who became a fugitive when he failed to show for jury selection at his own trial in May was in court Monday for the first time since his arrest. Demontrous O’Keith Witcher, 31, was dressed in jail…
Now is the time to register your child for Kindergarten at Morriss Elementary in Texarkana, Texas. Children enrolled in Morriss learn at an accelerated academic standard, following the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, and receive daily instruction in engineering and…
A group of concerned citizens has filed a lawsuit against the City of Texarkana, Ark. over police pay parity with the Texas side. “Repeated attempts by concerned citizens have been made to the Mayor and City Manager to account for…
A federal judge in Texarkana sentenced an 84-year-old man to 262 months in federal prison Wednesday for sexually exploiting a girl under 16. Jay Earl Anderson of Winnsboro, Texas, coerced the girl into performing sexual acts and then shared photographs…
Temple Memorial Rehabilitation Center held a meet and greet with Santa on Thursday, December 14, 2017. Santa arrived in style on a Texarkana Texas Fire Department fire truck as approximately one-hundred children waited jubilantly for the chance to embrace him.…
A 74-year-old Texarkana, Ark., man was arrested earlier this month for seven counts of rape involving a female relative. A 25-year-old woman now living in Oregon reported to Texarkana, Ark., police that she was repeatedly abused by William Troy Sisco…
Texarkana baker Emily Graham won Good Morning America’s Christmas Cookie showdown Friday morning. Celebrity chef and “So Good” cookbook author Richard Blais was joined by four kid testers in determining which cookie was tops this holiday season. “You could wear…
A forklift certification training class will be held at the University of Arkansas Hope campus on Saturday, January 27, 2018, from 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Technical & Industrial Building room 160. The class is $75 per person…
Texas A&M University-Texarkana will celebrate its fall 2017 commencement ceremony Friday, Dec. 15, at 6:30 p.m. at the Perot Theatre in historic downtown Texarkana, Texas. Approximately 203 students from December 2017 will receive master’s and baccalaureate degrees, with approximately…
Two Texarkana residents were killed in a head-on collision in Howard County Thursday afternoon. According to an Arkansas State Police crash report 25-year-old Marcus Fortman and 52-year-old Clarence Sims, both of Texarkana, were pronounced dead on scene. The crash happened…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: One of four men accused in the March 2016 murder of a Texarkana father was found guilty of capital murder Thursday and sentenced to life without the possibilty of parole. Anthony Wilson Jr., 20, was convicted after…
