Congratulations to the students on the “Robot Rescue” team at Morriss Elementary. The team took top honors at the recent First Lego League Round II Super Qualifier in Grand Saline, TX.
Author: Jeff Easterling
Jeff Easterling
After more than 40 years with commercial broadcasting, I decided to do my own thing by blogging, and taking "unconsultant" gigs. It affords me the ability to stay super involved in the community, but still, have plenty of time with my 3 granddaughters and other projects.
The Texarkana Arkansas Police Department has released surveillance video from the recent Home Invasion in the College Hill Area. One man was shot in the incident and the thieves made off with the home owner’s dog.
The Texarkana Texas Police Department has arrested two 14-year-old boys in connection with an armed robbery that occurred in the parking lot of the Walmart Neighborhood Market on Richmond Road on Sunday.
The Texarkana Texas Police are searching for information in a robbery that occurred in a residential driveway at the victim’s home.
With the big game going down on Sunday, February 5th folks are getting their plans together for Superbowl Parties. Here are some of the best places in Texarkana to watch “Super Bowl LI” with friends.
Get ready for A&M – Texarkana Eagles Baseball beginning on Thursday, February 2 in Texarkana on George Dobson Field at Spring Lake Park in Texarkana, Texas. Now is the time to get your season passes!
Since opening in 1996, Healthcare Express has truly become a leader in Urgent Care for the Texarkana region. So much so that officials with Texarkana, Texas, Texarkana, Arkansas, Wake Village, Texas and Nash Texas have officially proclaimed January 23, 2017, “HealthCARE Express Day”.
The Miller County Sheriff’s office has announced that eleven new detention officers have graduated from Basic Jailer’s Training and will be working in the Miller County Detention Center.
The Texas Department of Public Safety outlines threats to the public for 2017 in their “2017 Texas Public Safety Threat Overview”. Dangers from gangs, Mexican Cartels, and of course the threat of terrorism is always looming.
Our friend Eric Etheridge has produced a new drone video of Texarkana and it is awesome!
The Texarkana Texas Police Department is offering these safety tips for people after seeing a surge in fraud crimes resulting from stolen debit cards. Police are seeing teams of thieves working together to steal wallets, purses and such.
The Hope Arkansas Police Department has released the results of their investigation into a student brawl in the campus office of Hope High School. Some of the students involved have been charged with Riot, Battery and Disorderly Conduct.
The Texarkana Arkansas Police Department is investigating a shooting incident that occurred in the College Hill Area just before noon Thursday.
Texas High coach and athletic director Barry Norton turned in his retirement letter to officials with T.I.S.D. and is now the new head coach and athletic director for the Arkansas High Razorbacks.
The annual Valentine’s Party for area special needs children and adults will be the “Very Belated Valentine’s Party” and take place on Tuesday, February 21 at the American Legion New Boston located at 1950 W. Highway 82 in New Boston Texas.
Saturday January 21, the band Strangelove performs at Scottie’s Grill in Texarkana. Bringing some of the finest musicians in Texarkana together in one band, for good times and fun, join Strangelove Saturday night at Scotties!
The University of Arkansas Hope – Texarkana Staff and Faculty members participate in an awesome program called “Bridge Builders” where they give back to area students by funding scholarships, gas card programs for students, and other beneficial student programs.
With reports of more than 200,000 bikers heading to Washington D.C. for Donald Trump’s Presidential Inauguration. Local representatives of the Christian Motorcyclist Association are traveling to the nation’s capital to minister to the bikers planned to be gathering there.
Video posted to social media this afternoon of a fight in the school office of Hope High School in nearby Hope Arkansas is viral with almost 500 shares at the time of this post.
The citizens of Maud Texas will be voting yes or no for liquor sales in the small east Texas community on May 6, 2017. Citizens collected enough signatures in November of 2016 to get the item added to the upcoming ballot. So we wanted to ask you, should alcohol be sold in Maud Texas? Sound off in our opinion poll!
Officials at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro Arkansas report that 501 diamonds were discovered at the park in 2016. Of those found, 339 were white, 85 brown, and 77 yellow diamonds, weighing a total of 96.6 carats.
The news story out of Horatio, Arkansas that has made national headlines. “Eight dogs are found shot dead at the home of a woman who ‘rescued’ more than 100 animals from a Texas animal shelter”. I was surprised to hear it involved Ark-La-Tex Animal Rescue Group of Texarkana. So we reached out to the executive director of the group for a response.
Donald Ray Coleman, 34, of Texarkana, Texas has been convicted by a Bowie County jury and given 45 years in prison for three counts of indecency with a child by contact involving a girl who was 12 and 14 years old when the incidents occurred in 2014 and 2016.
Recently a post on social media spread like crazy regarding a police stop on Highway 67 in Texarkana. The person stopped felt suspicious of the officer, but that officer was indeed a DPS Sergeant on-duty. This brought to mind some basic safety tips that the police want you to know.
After more than 6 months on the run, 26-year-old Denickolas Brown of Texarkana Arkansas was arrested in Dallas on a warrant for failure to appear on a rape charge in Miller County Arkansas. Brown is accused of assaulting a woman he met on Facebook.
Local A&M Texarkana History Professor Dr. Craig M. Nakashian has released a new book that focuses on Warrior Churchmen of Medieval England. His book “Warrior Churchmen of Medieval England, 1000-1250 Theory and Reality” has received top billing in some of the most prestigious academic publications on history in the world.
Time for the Fourth Annual Texarkana Homeless Coalition’s 2017 Bridge City Project and here is the event information to get involved with the event activities including the cardboard camp out, and chili cook-off.
Here is a magical opportunity for all little princesses to put on their prettiest dress and have tea with Cinderella, Fairy Godmother, and other characters of Rogers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella” on Saturday, January 21st from 2:00 p.m to 4:00 p.m.
The Texas High School Tiger Theatre Company presents the magic of Rogers & Hammerstein’s “Cinderella” at the Sullivan Performing Arts Center January 20th through the 23rd.
With flu-like symptoms and highly contagious, Doctors in Texarkana are seeing an increase in the RSV Virus among children. RSV is not new, but there is a rise in the number of children being treated for the virus this year.