Crime and Courts
ASHDOWN, Ark. -- A man who pleaded guilty to production of child pornography has been sentenced to 360 months in prison without the possibility of parole, acco…
by Gazette Staff March 13, 2023WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. -- Officials in Arkansas say they are investigating the death of a high school senior as a homicide after the 18-year-old was found dead in …
by The Associated Press March 12, 2023HOUSTON -- Authorities on Sunday continued to investigate what led a man to fatally shoot himself just before deputies entered his home and found he had been l…
by The Associated Press March 12, 2023REDMOND, Wa. -- A podcaster and her husband were found shot to death in their suburban Seattle home, along with a man who had been suspected of stalking the po…
March 11, 2023LAKE CITY, S.C. -- It was supposed to be a fun road trip to Mexico, a post-pandemic adventure for a group of childhood friends.
by JULIE WATSON, JAMES POLLARD, and ALFREDO PEÑA, The Associated Press/Report for America March 11, 2023SAVANNAH, Ga. -- Three white men serving prison sentences in the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery are asking an appeals court to throw out their federal hate crim…
by RUSS BYNUM, The Associated Press March 10, 2023COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The parents of a ninth grade South Carolina student who said she was accosted by a teacher for walking to class instead of stopping and recit…
by Jeffrey Collins, Associated Press March 10, 2023HOPE, Ark. -- A Hempstead County man is charged with knowingly exposing another person to HIV, as well as rape of a person under age 14.
by Lori Dunn March 10, 2023NEW BOSTON, Texas -- A man charged with one count of continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14 and three counts of sexual assault of a child is scheduled for…
by Lori Dunn March 10, 2023TEXARKANA, Texas -- Three people have been arrested on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after a conflict over property in Bowie County spille…
by Gazette Staff March 10, 2023CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico -- A letter claiming to be from the Mexican drug cartel blamed for abducting four Americans and killing two of them condemned the viole…
by Alfredo Peña and Mark Stevenson, Associated Press March 9, 2023TEXARKANA, Ark. -- The Miller County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help in locating Raymond Eugene Griffith.
by Gazette Staff March 9, 2023TEXARKANA, Texas -- A woman charged with child endangerment after her young daughter was found walking down College Drive in the middle of the night has a Marc…
by Lori Dunn March 9, 2023TEXARKANA, Texas -- Texarkana ISD officials are investigating a Texas Middle School student allegedly bringing a firearm to campus Wednesday.
by Mallory Wyatt March 9, 2023NEW BOSTON, Texas -- A man accused of fatally assaulting a fellow Bowie County jail annex inmate has a pretrial scheduled Monday.
by Lori Dunn March 8, 2023