Come the first of January, Texarkana, Ark., will take over the job of caring for animals housed at the city animal shelter.

The nonprofit Texarkana Animal Shelter Inc. announced recently that it can no longer operate the shelter shared by the Twin Cities.

Since the shelter is on the Arkansas side of town, the task falls to that city. Texarkana, Texas, which had been sharing the facility and the cost, is still working on a plan to handle lost or stray animals from that side of the state line.

The local shelter serves not only Texarkana, but also outlying com...

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