Local law enforcement personnel with the Texarkana Arkansas & Texarkana Texas Police Departments along with Metro Texarkana Bowie County 911 Dispatchers traveled to Dallas, Texas to deliver care packages and pay their respects.
The Texas A&M University-Texarkana Eagles Soccer Academy will host a series of soccer camps this month for youths ages 5-18, along with programs for the High School aged players to get familiar with the college recruiting process.
The City of Dekalb Texas is confirming a case of rabies at the city pound. The animal is believed to be a grey and cream color cat and came into “high exposure” with humans and other cats in the facility.
Social media and mouths are running on overdrive with rumors of planned “Black Lives Matter” protests in Texarkana, but that’s all it is, rumors. There has been nobody to even apply for a special event permit, much less drawn one on either side of Stateline Avenue. However, Police have addressed the rumors.
The fifth annual East Texas Music Awards takes place on Friday September 16 and will feature some nominees from the Texarkana area, including some multi-ETX Music Award winners.
Beginning Spring of 2017 University of Arkansas Texarkana will begin offering a full-time evening LPN program.
Can you identify this person that was witnessed robbing a convenience store on North Stateline Avenue before making a getaway in a white Honda travelling into the Links Apartment complex? If so, get some of that Crimestopper money!
Back when local radio stations had live and local air-personalities .38 Special was one of my favorite bands. They will always be one of my most favorite concerts ever. The band swings back thru the ArkLaTex with a stop at Magic Springs on July 23rd.
The Texas Department of Transportation Social Media Manager needs a raise. The post about “Don’t PokemonGO and Drive” post BLEW UP on social media and very well may become a new campaign for TxDOT.
The Arkansas Citizen Driven group Arkansan’s for Compassionate Care has received word that an initiative to make medical cannabis available by doctor prescription legal in the state will be on the ballot in November.

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