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TEXARKANA, Texas -- Bail has been set at $15,000 for the suspect in Friday's armed standoff with police. Johnny Lee Kinder, 50, of Texarkana, Texas, remained in the Bowie County Detention Center ...

Funeral service for Darrell Nelson, 67 of Texarkana, Texas is pending with Haynes Mortuary, Inc.. He died on Friday, April 18, 2025, in Texarkana, Texas.

Elry Wayne Logan, age 78, passed away peacefully at his home on April 15, 2025. Born on March 5, 1947 in Nashville, Arkansas, Wayne was a life-long Arkansan and remembered his fellow Scrappers fondly.

CAMDEN, Ark. -- Fifty-nine cadets of the Arkansas Law Enforcement Training Academy Class 2025 have graduated as law enforcement officers during a recent ceremony. Over the course of the 13-week ...

EL PASO, Texas -- Maribel Hernandez and her husband, Leonardo Campos, were shopping at a Walmart in a Texas border city in 2019 when a gunman who wanted to stop what he believed was a Hispanic ...

BOSTON -- A rider dressed as Paul Revere eased his horse up to the Boston Marathon finish line and proclaimed, "The runners are coming." And down Boylston Street they came. In record time.

CLEVELAND -- José Ramírez hit a three-run homer and Kyle Manzardo went deep on the next pitch in the third inning, helping the Cleveland Guardians beat the American League-leading New York ...

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Americans suffering from brain tumors, liver cancer and heart attacks may find their medical care disrupted if President Donald Trump's trade war cuts off access to rare earth minerals with health ...

DALLAS -- An effort to give politically connected appointees more control over state universities -- including over what's taught and how schools are following laws -- advanced in the Texas Senate ...

A Texarkana barber is using her skills, clippers and compassion to give back by launching a nonprofit to give free haircuts ...