Texarkana News

By Bob Unruh

© 2008 WorldNetDaily

The U.S. Senate soon could be debating whether you, your spouse and each of your children – as well as your in-laws, parents, grandparents, neighbors and everyone else in America – each will be spending $2,500 or more to reduce poverty around the world.

The plan sponsored by Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee for the office of president, is estimated to cost the United States some $845 billion over the coming few years in an effort to raise the standard of living around the globe.

WASHINGTON Asked if he thinks he has the votes to block legislation lifting the moratorium on offshore oil drilling, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said: "We will have to wait and see." Wait and see? Reid ...

One of two brothers facing criminal charges in connection with the beating of an Alcohol Control officer in an Arkansas nightclub last month entered a plea of not guilty Tuesday morning.

The U.S. Forest Service and Ad Council's new public service announcement featuring Smokey Bear targets all-terrain vehicles in a way recreationists claim represents more of an environmentalist witch hunt than ...

WASHINGTON A Democratic senator on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee inadvertently explained why her colleagues have no intention of ending the moratorium on offshore oil drilling or increasing the ...

Texarkana College trustees will decide at a special meeting Aug. 5 what they will do about President Frank Coleman's continuing employment, officials say.

A work release inmate from Arkansas Department of Corrections was arrested about 6:30 p.m. Saturday after he escaped, allegedly robbed a couple at a local restaurant and got into a life or death struggle with ...

Members of the military classified as prisoners of war or missing in action will be honored next month during two ceremonies.

The purported Certification of Live Birth published by the Daily Kos left wing blog and claimed as genuine by the Obama campaign features a security border that differs dramatically from security borders on COLB documents before and after the one supposedly printed out for Obama in 2007. Barack Obama may be on a world tour surrounded by a fawning media, but Sunday an expert in electronic document forensics released a detailed report on the purported birth certificate -- actually a "Certification of Live Birth" or COLB -- claimed as genuine by his campaign. The expert concludes with 100% certainty that it is a crudely forged fake: "a horrible forgery," ...

Chuck Mitchell, of the Texarkana, Texas, Fire Department, speaks with relatives of 3-year-old Tre Veon who was hit by a vehicle while riding his bike in front of a house on Dodd Street.

A Texarkana, Texas, man was killed in a car-motorcycle accident about 7 p.m. Saturday near Loop 151 and U.S. Highway 59 South, officials said.

James Cory Hicks has been acquitted of criminal charges by a Texas appeals court.

The City of Wake Village has responded to a civil lawsuit filed against it by former Wake Village Police Chief Tony Estes in reference to his April 9 termination.

This site post the gas prices over town. Just type in your zip code and it gives you who is selling gas and for what price.

A 22-year-old New Boston, Texas, man was taken to a local hospital after the car he was riding in struck a tree early Sunday off U.S. Highway 59 South.

Herbert Hicks' divorce was scheduled to be final Oct. 27, 1973. But the night before, at 11 p.m., he was killed by a sniper, police said.

A judge in Marshall Wednesday placed 83 rescued dogs with the SPCA of Texas. The ruling involves dogs removed on July 10 from a property near Lone Star, about 60 miles southwest of Texarkana.

Some of the biggest tire retailers in the U.S. are selling tires that are well beyond the age limit recommended by consumer groups and some automakers, according to the results of a hidden camera investigation ...

Sen. Barack Obama, speaking to the annual conference of the National Council of La Raza yesterday, pumped up the crowd by describing how Hispanic communities are "terrorized" by government immigration officers.

One of six Miller County jail escapees continues to elude authorities. The sheriff's office says deputies are still looking for 23-year-old Bennie Ray Johnson of Bradley.