The first full week of the new year and the Bowie County Sheriff’s Office was as busy as ever … Assaults, death investigations, criminal shenanigans, burning and illegal dumping. Here’s this week’s Bowie County Sheriff’s Report prepared by Deputy Chief Robby McCarver. This report is for the week of 1/3 – 1/9, 2022. MONDAY Family … Read more
It was another busy week for your busy Bowie County Sheriff’s Office … Assaults, death investigations, cruelty to livestock, robberies, criminal shenanigans and more. Your BCSO is, as always, at work. Here’s this week’s Bowie County Sheriff’s Report prepared by Deputy Chief Robby McCarver. This report is for the week of 12/27 to 1/2 of … Read more
Happy New Year! By the way, if you’re keeping score, last week’s long-term forecast said we’d have snowfall on January 2nd, right? Let the log show that it did, snow and sleet actually, but very little made it to the ground as it blew in very cold temperatures over the weekend. The tipsters weren’t wrong, … Read more
Look, in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane … no, it’s a Shad, I think. In fact, it was a fish, lots of fish fell from the sky Wednesday night in Texarkana, Texas / Arkansas. Did you get something? We didn’t get any at our home, which we’ve found anyway, but we saw … Read more
This is one of those questions that comes up from time to time and some people are pretty adamant that driving with your interior lights on is illegal. Is it illegal in Texas and Arkansas? Let’s find out. I think we can all safely agree that driving with an interior light on is not safe, … Read more
Christmas week, you would like to think, would be slow for law enforcement, unfortunately that would be wrong. The Bowie County Sheriff’s Department spent the week working on multiple cases of sexual assault, credit card abuse, theft, cruelty to livestock, forgery, dog bite and much more. Here’s this week’s Bowie County Sheriff’s Report prepared by … Read more
We’ve been checking the long-term weather forecasts trying to get ahead of any nasty weather forecasts, and this weekend, yes, the first weekend of 2022, would you think there is snow in the forecast? It’s true. It depends on which forecast center you look at because they vary slightly, but from Saturday night to Sunday … Read more
The Hobby Lobby announcement made a lot of people cheer up the other day when they set their new minimum wage at $ 18.50 an hour. Apparently T-Mobile said, yes? Well, how about a minimum of $ 20 per hour for all employees? Are we now seeing a bidding war for the best employees? In … Read more
For those of us who like to make our own pizzas, enhance other people’s pizza, or just grab one and slice a few for your own enjoyment, pepperoni is a way of life. This, however, is being removed from national and area store shelves due to possible contamination. Smithfield Packaged Meats, DBA Margherita Meats of … Read more
Governor Asa Hutchinson signed the largest tax cut in the history of the Greater State of Arkansas on Thursday. The current maximum tax rate is 5.9% by the time it goes into full effect in 2025, the maximum tax rate for Arkansans will be 4.9%. A statement issued by the Governor’s Office on Friday said … Read more
How do Nash and New Boston end up on this list? The 20 Most Dangerous Cities in Texas? Each year, the FBI and the Texas Greater State Department of Public Safety publish crime statistics for every city and county in the state. If you combine those statistics with population figures, you can get rudimentary figures … Read more
The Texarkana Arkansas School District is proud to welcome former NFL star linebacker and Super Bowl champion turned Hollywood writer / producer, Spencer Paysinger, this coming Thursday, December 9, to speak with students from both the high school as well as high school. Paysinger brings his own story of growing up in South Central LA, … Read more