Moving a water line for the widening of U.S. Highway 82, and determining how to fund it, is causing a widening rift between Texarkana, Texas, and Bowie County officials. Bowie County Judge Sterling Lacy said he blames the lack of money for the water line relocation on the city of Texarkana, where h...

Texarkana honored its veterans Saturday in Front Street Festival Plaza with the second annual Armed Forces Day Celebration. The festival was presented by the Texarkana Area Women Veterans Outreach Group and Hamiltone Music Group. The purpose of the the festival was to recognize veterans for their...

The number of homeless people in the area is decreasing, according to a January 2013 Point in Time Homeless Count conducted by the Texarkana Homeless Coalition. “I was surprised that obviously the count is going down. I think it’s an indication that organizations in this community are d...

WASHINGTON—There’s an irony in the Internal Revenue Service’s crackdown on conservative groups. The nation’s tax agency has admitted to inappropriately scrutinizing smaller tea party organizations that applied for tax-exempt status, and senior Treasury Department officials w...

LITTLE ROCK—The owner of a pipeline that supplies diesel and jet fuel to three locations in Arkansas—El Dorado, North Little Rock and Jonesboro—has notified a federal agency that it plans to make changes in the pipeline. The changes could affect the central Arkansas economy by as...

WASHINGTON—The Internal Revenue Service is feeling the sort of heat that targeted taxpayers feel from the tax agency. It’s the sense that a powerful someone is breathing down your neck. Republicans in Congress are livid with the IRS over its systematic scrutiny of conservative groups du...

The Arkansas and Texas-side school boards of education will meet in regular session at 6 p.m. Tuesday. Texarkana Independent School District’s Board of Trustees will meet at the district services building, 1600 Waterall St. The board will immediately enter closed session and is expected to re...

More than 100 International Free and Accepted Modern Masons and Order of Eastern Star members gathered this weekend at the Clarion Hotel LaCrosse for the 25th annual Gulf Coast Jurisdiction Convention.  Gulf Coast National District Grandmaster, the Illustrious Kenneth Manley of Dallas, said co...

The 32nd annual Sevier County Senior Citizens Appreciation Day will be Friday on the Sevier County Courthouse lawn.  More than 30 vendors have signed up to participate, said Sevier County Judge Greg Ray. The Sevier County Sheriff’s Office will also be conducting a drug take-back event....

Area high schools will hold graduation commencements between Thursday and June 8. • The Arkansas High School’s Class of 2013 will graduate at 7 p.m. Thursday at Razorback Stadium. In the event of rain, the graduation will be cancelled and rescheduled for Friday in the AHS Gymnasium. AHS...

The Texarkana, Ark., Police Department will be out in full force over the Memorial Day weekend enforcing the traffic laws as needed to ensure the safety of the  public.   In addition to the normal violations encountered, officers will keep a keen eye out for drivers under the influen...

Retiring Arkansas High School art teacher Jeannie Knod-Edwards will host multiple art classes this summer. The classes are as follows: • From 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. or noon to 2 p.m. from June 10 to June 20, Monday through Thursday at Skylar’s, the old Stanhopes, on State Line Avenue. Ages 9...

ARKANSAS City of Texarkana Board of Directors meets at 6:30 p.m. Monday at City Hall. Agenda includes: • adopt a resolution approving the request by the Vietnam Veterans of American Inc., Texarkana Area Chapter No. 278 for a Memorial Day Walk on Monday, May 27. • adopt a resolutio...

LITTLE ROCK—Arkansas House Speaker Davy Carter’s decision against a run for governor next year is a boost for Republicans hoping to avoid a messy fight for the party’s nomination next year. It also offers a warning sign for the GOP’s future.  After flirting briefly with...

Staff photo by Evan Lewis  Cindy Morehead of Texarkana, Texas, packs boxes with meal packets made of rice and dehydrated vegetables Saturday at One Day, a missionary event hosted by Hardy Memorial United Methodist Church. This is the second year for the event and the first time Hardy has partn...

The Ross Perot Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Academy at Texas High School will showcase “Imaginations at Work” for the academy’s end-of-the-year Open House. The event is from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Monday in the THS Math & Science Center’s grand foyer, 40...

HOUSTON—The Star Trek shuttlecraft Galileo is landing in Houston to be displayed not far from NASA’s Mission Control, which may have been able to help Mr. Spock all those years ago. The Galileo is the shuttlecraft that crash-landed on a hostile planet in the 1967 episode “The Gali...

With its ranks deeply divided, the Boy Scouts of America is asking its local leaders from across the country to decide whether its contentious membership policy should be overhauled so that openly gay boys can participate in Scout units. The proposal to be put before the roughly 1,400 voting member...

Associated Press  People attend to a victim who was hit by a car Saturday during the Hikers Parade at the Trail Days festival in Damascus, Va. About 50 to 60 people were injured when a driver, described by witnesses as an elderly man, drove his car into a group of hikers marching in the parade...

CAIRO—The pale, young Christian woman sat handcuffed in the courtroom, accused of insulting Islam while teaching history of religions to fourth-graders. A team of Islamist lawyers with long beards sang in unison, “All except the Prophet Muhammad.”  The case against Dimyana Ab...

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.—A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch’s brew of cancer-causing chemicals. But no one responsi...

MINEOLA, N.Y.—A New York college student being held by an armed home intruder was shot and killed by a Nassau County police officer who had responded to a report of a home invasion at an off-campus home, police said Saturday. Andrea Rebello was shot once in the head Friday morning by an offic...

Emergency workers arrive Friday at the scene of a train collision in Fairfield, Conn. Seventy-two people were sent to the hospital Friday evening after a Metro-North train heading east from New York City derailed and was hit by a train heading west from New Haven. Most were discharged Saturday. Offi...

SEARCY, Ark.—Authorities in White County have charged a man in the death of a fetus after he allegedly ran over his girlfriend and she lost the baby she was carrying. Police arrested 30-year-old Robert Jones of Searcy for DWI, domestic battery and negligent homicide after the Wednesday night...