Bowie County News

It's another one of those moments a lot of people will remember where they were when they first heard the news.

Exhausted from preparing for a murder trial, a Texas lawyer says, he had an accident en route to court on Tuesday and was charged with driving while intoxicated even though he was sober.

A state district judge declared a mistrial in a murder case and ordered a defense attorney to reimburse Bowie County for jury costs after the attorney was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated on his way to court.

The Moonlight Murderer or, more commonly, the Phantom, was a serial killer that operated in Texarkana, Texas between February 23 and May 4 of 1946.

Under normal circumstances, 57 youngsters age 9 to 19 toting shotguns in one area at the same time might be cause for concern, but at the District IV 4-H shotgun shooting competition Saturday, there was no such cause for alarm.

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A Texarkana man who tried to hire a hit man 17 years ago to kill his wife was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a gun.

The dead, brown pine needles on the footpath catch my eye before the green ones growing 50 feet over my head.

Texarkana, Texas, city officials will honor fallen and current police officers Thursday in a Peace Officers Memorial Day and appreciation ceremony.

NEW BOSTON, Texas-The Bowie County Commissioners Court agreed last week to keep the county involved in the state's Victim Identification and Notification Everyday program.

A former Bowie County jail guard was indicted last week by a grand jury. Amber Hinds, 20, 'turned around and went back to her car when she realized her supervisor intended to search employees that day as they came to work,' according to a probable cause affidavit.

The National Weather Service will be in the Bowie County, Texas, town of DeKalb today to see if a tornado hit the area overnight.

The Wake Village City Council will meet at 7 p.m. today to approve joining an inter-jurisdictional mutual aid agreement.

Emergency management in Bowie County, Texas is reporting that several creeks and rural roads are flooded near the Texarkana area.

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1035 PM CDT SAT MAY 9 2009 TXC037-100345- /O.CON.KSHV.SV.W.0165.000000T0000Z-090510T0345Z/ BOWIE TX- 1035 PM CDT SAT MAY 9 2009 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1045 PM CDT FOR BOWIE COUNTY... AT 1034 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO ...

By CASEY KNAUPP Staff Writer A dozen people were indicted this week by a Tyler federal grand jury.

EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 721 AM CDT WED MAY 6 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN BOWIE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SIMMS... CAMP COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ...

EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 529 PM CDT WED APR 29 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN BOWIE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS... EASTERN CASS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ATLANTA...

It took a jury less than half an hour to find a woman accused of beating her former boyfriend's 2-year-old daughter guilty of capital murder.

Another case of swine flu has been confirmed in Texas -- the third in the state and 41st in the country.