Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigations Division (CID) Agents working with the FBI and the Texarkana Texas Police Department arrested a Texarkana man for human trafficking. Kenneth D. Nelson, 63, of Texarkana, was arrested Thursday and booked into the Bi-State…
A Freeze Warning has been issued for the Texarkana area for Saturday night by the National Weather Service. Below freezing temperatures are expected tonight and early Saturday morning across the Ark-La-Tex. Tender vegetation may be damage or killed by the…
New Boston, Texas: Texas prison inmate Billy Joel Tracy was found guilty of capital murder Friday morning after a jury deliberated for about an hour at the Bowie County courthouse in New Boston. The jury will return next week to…
New Boston, Texas: The state and defense rested mid-afternoon Thursday in the trial of a Texas prison inmate facing a possible death sentence for killing a correctional officer at the Barry Telford Unit in July 2015. Billy Joel Tracy, 39,…
CHRISTUS St. Michael Health System has been ranked as No. 35 among healthcare providers and insurers by Modern Healthcare’s 2017 Best Places to Work in Healthcare. The complete list of this year’s winner rankings is available here. “Receiving this honor…
Jeff (Cheffery) Loving, owner of Chef on the Run, has had a passion for cooking since he was a young child and has grown with it throughout his life and developed it into a business that he truly enjoys working…
New Boston, Texas: A Dallas medical examiner testified Wednesday in the trial of capital murder defendant Billy Joel Tracy that the correctional officer he is accused of beating to death in 2015 suffered massive skull fractures. Tracy, 37, is facing…
The Texarkana Texas Police Department continues to investigate an incident on Tuesday evening where a one year old girl was mauled by a dog at her residence. The child remains in critical condition this morning with a fractured skull and…
A Texarkana, Texas Police officer shot a killed a dog after it attacked a child Tuesday evening. According to Police, at 6:32 p.m. they received a call of a child who was being attacked by a dog at a residence…
A 19-year-old Texarkana man pleaded guilty to illegal dog fighting Monday in Miller County. Jaquavian Jaqwon Johnson received a sentence of five years probation at a hearing before Circuit Judge Carlton Jones. Johnson must pay a $1,000 fine and $5,240…
A metalsmithing class taught by Jerome Legrand was held Tuesday, October 19, 2017 at Legrand and Son’s Welding and Ironworks in Texarkana, Texas. Jerome teaches his metalsmithing class in partnership with Arts on Main. “ It is a six week…
The City of Texarkana, Texas appointed Shirley Jaster as City Manager at their regular meeting Monday, October 23, 2017. Jaster was previously Deputy City Manager, and then replaced John Whitson as Interim City Manger during the August 04, 2017 meeting…
New Boston, Texas: A video of the beating that killed a correctional officer in July 2015 at the Barry Telford Unit in New Boston was played for the jury Monday morning in Billy Joel Tracy’s capital murder trial. A man…
The Miller County Sheriff’s Office has arrested 34-year-old Dennis Clark on drug and weapon charges. According to a press release, on Saturday Deputy John Beasley initiated a traffic stop on Dennis Clark for violations of Arkansas State traffic law on…
The Texarkana Texas Police Department arrested Clarence Baker, 51, of Texarkana Texas, for Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon today after he stabbed another man. Officers were dispatched to an apartment complex in the 3600 block of Elizabeth Street at…
