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TEXARKANA, Ark. — Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has named Texarkana Arkansas’ “Capital for a Day” on Wednesday, July 15, bringing senior state government officials to the city for meetings with local leaders. Sanders signed the proclamation Monday. Texarkana will be the 19th city to receive the designation under her administration and will “momentarily serve as […]

The Texarkana, Texas City Council received its first briefing Monday night on an ordinance that would grant a specific use permit allowing a skating rink at 2729 New Boston Road, Suite 90, in Ward 2. A public hearing and council vote are set for Aug. 10. The request comes from property owner John O’Shaughnessy and […]

Four residents used the open forum portion of Monday night’s Texarkana, Texas City Council meeting to call on the city to terminate its contract with Flock Safety, the company behind the automated license plate reader cameras installed around the city. The speakers raised concerns about warrantless surveillance, data security and officer misuse, and pointed to […]

TEXARKANA, Texas — When Jackie Rehkopf got married during World War II, she had to borrow a ration stamp from her aunt just to buy a pair of shoes. More than 80 years later, she still has one of those ration coupons. She found it recently, tucked away with her wedding dress and baby clothes […]

The Texarkana, Texas City Council on Monday approved a land trade that will hand the city-owned Texarkana Golf Ranch to the Texas A&M University System in exchange for 138 acres of vacant university land near Bringle Lake. The vote finalizes a deal first briefed to the council by City Attorney Jeff Lewis, who described it […]

TEXARKANA, Ark. — Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders returned to her childhood hometown Wednesday, declaring Texarkana, Arkansas the state’s “Capital for a Day” and delivering remarks at the Texarkana USA Regional Chamber of Commerce’s State of Lithium event at the Hilton Garden Inn. Texarkana is the 19th city to receive the designation under Sanders, who brings […]

TEXARKANA, Ark. — Miller County says the March death of inmate Dominique Rashad Steel Sr. resulted from a “self-induced consumption of drugs” and that jail staff reached his cell within two to three minutes of being alerted, according to the county’s answer to a federal wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother of Steel’s two […]

TEXARKANA — For 25 years, a slim green paperback told Black motorists where they could safely eat, sleep and buy gasoline in a country where choosing the wrong door could be dangerous. And for all 25 of those years, Texarkana was in it — on both sides of the state line. “The Negro Motorist Green […]

TEXARKANA — The Historic Orr School, a 145-year-old landmark tied to ragtime composer Scott Joplin, could take a significant step toward new life after the

TEXARKANA, Ark. — U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton wants to remove federal requirements that young adults with disabilities complete vocational rehabilitation and career counseling before they can work for less than minimum wage — a change one Texarkana provider says can’t come soon enough. Cotton, R-Ark., introduced S.4984 on July 15. It targets Section 511 of […]