The FBI and U.S. Attorney will investigate allegations of $162,275 missing from the Lafayette County, Ark., Tax Collector’s bank account and questionable accounting in the collector’s office and sheriff’s department. The federal officials will investigate instead of the Arkansas S...

Staff photo by Cecil Anderson • Response workers begin the clean-up of a wreck that occurred around 11 a.m. Tuesday in the westbound lane of Interstate 30, just past the Nash exit. The tractor-trailer slammed into the back of another 18-wheeler after entering into traffic slowed by road work o...

NEW BOSTON, Texas—Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed legislation last week to allow TexAmericas Center to promote and support Red River Army Depot in the event of a Base Realignment and Closure. Senate Bill 1879 updates TexAmericas’ legislation to allow it to fund a project designed to preven...

Texarkana, Ark., School District’s licensed employees received one of their biggest wage hikes of the last decade after the Board of Education on Tuesday unanimously approved a pay raise. Nonlicensed employees also received a raise.  Business Manager Frank Coleman made the administratio...

LifeNet Air landed on the grounds on Northridge Country Club on Tuesday evening to a celebration.  LifeNet employees, patients who’ve been helped by the service and those involved in its creation were on hand to celebrate 30 years of service. “Today marks the 30th anniversary of the...

“The Price is Right” for Joel Williams of Hope, Ark., and maybe a script can be developed if things continue to go right. The episode of “The Price is Right” on which Williams won the Chevrolet SL Camaro Coupe was broadcast Tuesday.  Williams and his appearance on tele...

Jaykwon Roberts, 9, knows it is not every day you get to meet a legendary former Harlem Globetrotter. So Tuesday morning when Tree Gordon called Jaykwon up to join him on the basketball court at Southwest Center, he had a big smile on his face. His smile got even bigger when Gordon let him wear his...

A Texarkana appeals court has affirmed the conviction and 14-year prison sentence of a Bowie County man who shot holes in and flooded his sister’s home. Jimmy Don Matthews, 60, was angry because he had been disinherited by his family, and his sister had inherited their land. At trial, two wit...

A federal judge will conduct a hearing next month to address ownership claims to six properties associated with Tony Alamo Christian Ministries. In April, U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry Bryant ruled six properties in Fort Smith, Ark., can be sold to partially satisfy a $30-million judgment Tony Alamo...

The 4-H Fishing Derby is slated for June 27 at the Four States Fairgrounds, Bobby Ferguson Park. Registration will be from 8:15 a.m. to 9 a.m. and will not be extended. The competition will begin at 9 a.m. The competition is open only to 4-H youth age 9-19. Clover bud youth age 5 to 9 may fish if...

Pleasant Grove Independent School District’s Board of Trustees will meet in special session at 4:30 p.m. Thursday at Central Services, 8500 N. Kings Highway.  The board’s only agenda item is a budget workshop for the 2013-14 school year. 

Valedictorian Nicholas Nance Cockerell is the son of Greg and Melanie Cockerell. He completed the Distinguished Achievement Program and is a member of the President’s Education Awards Program, the Texas Scholars Program and a UIL Scholar. Nick is a member of the National Honor Society and the...

A lunch and dinner fundraiser benefiting the family of fallen officer William Jason Sprague will be held Monday at Texas Roadhouse at 4002 St. Michael Drive. Sprague, a Texarkana, Texas, police officer, died Saturday from injuries he received Friday in the line of duty. From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. patr...

Riverbend Water Resources District will consider an insurance policy when it meets Thursday. The Board of Directors will meet at noon at the district’s office, 28 Morris Lane in Texarkana, Texas. Among the agenda items is to consider accepting a proposal from either Texas Water Conservation...

The new Texarkana, Ark., School District conversion charter school, Washington Academy, is accepting applications for the 2013-2014 school year.  Officials said Washington Academy is a charter school within TASD and is held to the same high teaching and testing standards as other schools in th...

Law enforcement and fire department dispatch reports for Sunday.   Bowie County Sheriff’s Office 10:31 a.m., shooting, 213 Exit Interstate 30 12:37 p.m., theft, 5235 Farm to Market 991  2:31 p.m., vandalism, 5490 Highway 59 South 5:12 p.m., theft, 4615 South Lake Drive  ...

DALLAS—Health authorities in North Texas will begin spraying for West Nile virus after detecting a significant increase in the type of mosquito that primarily carries the virus. The city of Dallas will spray from trucks through early Wednesday morning. Neighborhoods being targeted are ones wh...

Today is Wednesday, June 19, the 170th day of 2013. There are 195 days left in the year.  Today’s Highlight in History: On June 19, 1953, Julius Rosenberg, 35, and his wife, Ethel, 37, convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, were executed at Sing Sing Pr...

Staff photo by Curt Youngblood • Danny Woodcock, left, and Gary Horton serve themselves an afternoon breakfast Tuesday in the Four States Auto Museum. The museum is serving as a base for the film crew that is in Texarkana working on the remake of “The Town That Dreaded Sundown.” Th...

ARDMORE, Pa.—The U.S. Golf Association is not opposed to inflicting cruel and unusual punishment at its premier championship, so here’s something it might want to consider. Award the “Phil Mickelson Medal” to the runner-up in the U.S. Open. There is precedent. The U.S. Open...

Acupuncture The Northfield Acupuncture & Alternative Medicine Clinic will hold workshops dealing with health topics including cancer, hepatitis and cardiovascular disease at 1 p.m. Thursdays at the clinic located at 619 E. Sixth St. Topics of discussion will vary and the public is welcome. Regi...

Monthly club or community activity announcements will appear the Wednesday before the next meeting. Announcements must be submitted to the Gazette by 5 p.m. Friday. Weekly club meetings and Self Help runs every other week.   ACTIVITIES  Subies Summer Reading Club is open for children th...

NEW YORK—Katy Perry “goes there” with Vogue about two of her high-profile relationships in the magazine’s July cover story. The singer says of ex-husband Russell Brand that she “was in love with him when I married him” in 2010. She adds that she hasn’t hear...

Fran Wyatt of Atlanta was recently installed as president of the Texas Association of Healthcare Volunteers. The association serves some 258 hospitals across the state. Wyatt said she may be from a small town and hospital, but she’s found volunteers are alike all across the state. She’s...

Daniels Chapel United Methodist Church is hosting a morning full of events Sunday and a community picnic. Breakfast is 9 a.m. with worship scheduled at 9:30 a.m. Singing will be at 10:45 a.m. with the picnic scheduled for noon. The church will provide the fried chicken, and those attending are ask...

NEW BOSTON, Texas—Bowie County Veterans Service officer Ken Kunkel has attended many workshops and training programs since taking on the job 10 years ago. There are changes in the federal laws affecting veterans virtually every week and he wants to stay on top of them. There are also programs...

DALLAS—Texas has received a $750,000 federal grant to help returning U.S. Army veterans find civilian jobs. Texas is one of four states to receive the U.S. Labor Department grants to help integrate veterans with the civilian job market.  The State of Texas Soldier Employment Initiative...

A project to interview Cass County World War II veterans and preserve their stories for a local history book gave Calvin Capps of Marietta a reason to hold his Purple Heart medal once again and recall how he earned it. The history research is a project of the Trammels Trace Chapter of Daughters of...

A dozen flamingos prance around Mandy Wise’s yard along Texas Highway 43 as it heads toward Bivins. Each week, the pink, leggy birds turn up in different places. Her friends and neighbors tell her it’s fun to look for them. Recently, they were at the driveway turnoff and hard to miss....

LITTLE ROCK—Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe said Tuesday he doesn’t have any immediate plans to schedule executions for seven death row inmates, even though the attorney general has asked him to do so. The governor’s decision to hold off on setting execution dates comes as the Department...

FAIRPORT, Mich.—A wooden beam embedded at the bottom of northern Lake Michigan appears to have been there for centuries, underwater archaeologists announced Tuesday, a crucial finding as crews dig toward what they hope is the carcass of a French ship that disappeared while exploring the Great...

WASHINGTON—The U.S. foiled a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange because of the sweeping surveillance programs at the heart of a debate over national security and personal privacy, officials said Tuesday at a rare open hearing on intelligence led by lawmakers sympathetic to the spying. T...

OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich.—The latest possible resting place of Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa is an overgrown farm field where the normal calm of chirping crickets is being drowned out by a beeping backhoe, the chop of an overhead news helicopter and the bustle of reporters and onlookers. Over near...

WASHINGTON—Medicare begins a major change next month that could save older diabetics money and time when they buy crucial supplies to test their blood sugar—but it also may cause some confusion as patients figure out the new system. On July 1, Medicare opens a national mail-order progra...

NEW YORK—A Roman Catholic religious order released an unusually candid report Tuesday outlining how its leaders failed for decades to stop sex abuse in its schools and other ministries.  The Capuchin Franciscan Province of St. Joseph, which spans 10 Midwestern states, asked experts in cl...

KABUL, Afghanistan—The Taliban and the U.S. said Tuesday they will hold talks on finding a political solution to ending nearly 12 years of war in Afghanistan, as the international coalition formally handed over control of the country’s security to the Afghan army and police. The Taliban...

NEW YORK—Starbucks has a new way to wake up its customers: showing the calories in its drinks. The Seattle-based coffee chain says it will start posting calorie counts on menu boards nationwide next week, ahead of a federal regulation that would require it to do so. Calorie counts on menus a...

WASHINGTON—The Republican-led House on Tuesday passed a far-reaching anti-abortion bill that conservatives saw as a milestone in their 40-year campaign against legalized abortion and Democrats characterized as yet another example of a GOP war on women. The legislation, sparked by the murder c...

ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland—President Barack Obama, Russian President Vladimir Putin and other G-8 leaders attempted to speak with one voice Tuesday on seeking a negotiated Syrian peace settlement—yet couldn’t publicly agree on whether this means President Bashar Assad must go....

WARSAW, Poland—Prosecutors in Poland and Germany said Tuesday they are reviewing files on a Minnesota man who was a commander of a Nazi-led unit to see if they have enough evidence to press charges and request his extradition from the United States.  An Associated Press investigation rev...