Author: Jeff Easterling

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.

We love to learn of the history of our hometown Texarkana, while searching through the Facebook group “Remember in Texarkana” I saw the pics of Johnnie Pecorella on his last day as the Barber of the Grim.

Sunday, February 26th Texas-based  Contemporary Christian recording stars Mercy Me will perform at the Historic Perot Theatre in downtown Texarkana with their highly acclaimed “Texas Takeover Tour.”

It is time to get your floats ready for Mardi Gras 2017 in Historic downtown Texarkana. The city’s Mardi Gras 2017 celebration will take place at Front Street Plaza on February 25, 2017. In just 5 years, the Texarkana Mardi Gras celebration is one of Texarkana’s favorite downtown events.

The Texarkana Arkansas Police Department are seeking information leading to the identification of this man caught on camera as he robbed the Bancorp South location at 2200 Stateline Avenue in Texarkana, Arkansas.

Authorities are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at the Bancorp South location at 2200 N. Stateline. Just before 9:30 a.m. Texarkana Police responded to a robbery call, where the alleged thief made off with two Walmart bags of money of an undetermined amount.

The Liberty Eylau Fire Department reminds those outside of the city limits to use extreme caution when burning. L.E.F.D. responded to an out of control trash fire at 2:00 p.m. today, saving a trailer home.

It was December of 1983 when the temperatures remained below freezing for more than a week resulting in the Red River freezing over from bank to bank. Here are some photos that were taken near Fulton, Arkansas in December of 1983.

Texarkana Arkansas Fire Department units responded to a fire inside the Denny’s Restaurant at 5104 N. Stateline. The restaurant was heavily damaged. No injuries reported.

Firefighters with the Texarkana Texas Fire Department were able to rescue and revive an unconscious dog as they were working a house fire on Magnolia Street.

A Balloon Release to remember the lives of inmates who have died while in custody of the Bi-State Jail in Texarkana is scheduled for  2:00 p.m. Sunday, January 8 on the steps of the Bi-State Building at 100 Stateline Avenue.

A terribly tragic accident happened on N. Bishop this afternoon around 1:30 p.m. involving a log-hauler that was stopped on the roadway. The semi-truck was struck from behind by a pick-up truck hauling a utility trailer. The driver of the pick-up was pronounced dead at the scene.