Texas A&M University-Texarkana has announced its Program for Learning and Community Engagement (PLACE) fall 2015 schedule of events. PLACE is a faculty-led program designed to create a community of learners comprising A&M-Texarkana students, faculty, staff and the community at large.…
Because of an anonymous donor’s $1 million gift to the Texarkana College Foundation, the Texarkana College Board of Trustees will now consider a recommendation to accept the gift in lieu of approving the proposed tax rate increase for 2015-2016 at…
A man is in custody after leading multiple area police agencies on a chase across Texarkana Saturday afternoon. The pursuit started when a Bowie County Sheriff’s Deputy attempted to stop a car for running a stop light near College Drive…
A former Texas Department of Criminal Justice correctional officer received a 25-year prison sentence from a Bowie County jury Friday afternoon for brutally attacking his former wife in 2013. Richard Greg Turner, called Greg, was taken into custody after 102nd…
A New Boston, Texas man is in critical but stable condition in a Shreveport hospital after being shot by his wife early Friday morning. According to Bowie County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Jeff Neal, deputies were dispatched to the 500 block…
A Domtar employee at the Ashdown, Arkansas mill was killed in an on the job accident Friday morning. “Today Domtar is mourning the loss of one of our employees in a railcar incident at our pulp and paper mill in…
It took about an hour Thursday afternoon for a Bowie County jury to find a former Telford Unit guard guilty of brutally assaulting his former wife during a May 2013 attack that went on for hours. The jury will return…
A man is in custody after leading police on a short chase Thursday afternoon in Nash. According to Nash Police Detective Michael Sutton officers were investigating a burglary on Ashlee Blvd. when they discovered a neighbor smoking marijuana in his…
The Pink Behind the Thin Blue Line will host a community wide rally Saturday morning at First Baptist Church, Moores Lane, in support of law enforcement. The rally will start at 9 a.m. in the parking lot of First Baptist…
A former prison guard’s ex-wife testified Wednesday that she thought she might be killed during a 2013 assault at the hands of her ex-husband. Richard Greg Turner, called Greg by his friends, is accused of attacking his former wife at…
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — A $100,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts will enable the University of Arkansas Community Design Center and Marlon Blackwell Architects to assist the city of Texarkana, Texas, to develop a downtown art park. The…
The Texas A&M University-Texarkana Alumni Association has announced honorees for the 2015 Eagle Roundup: A Celebration of Distinguished Alumni and Faculty set for Thursday, Oct. 1, at 6:30 p.m. at Eagle Hall in the University Center. Distinguished alumni honorees include…
A jury was chosen Tuesday in Bowie County to decide the fate of a former Telford Unit prison guard accused of terrorizing his former spouse. Richard Greg Turner, called Greg, was a sergeant at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s…
A local game warden suffered minor injuries after a suspect ran over his foot while officers were attempting to stop a vehicle during a high speed chase on Richmond Road. Officers attempted to stop a vehicle allegedly involved in a residential…
