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Jacob Swadley, one of three members of his family arrested on drug charges in early November 2020, appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court recently and pled

Six Arkansas Division of Corrections units will benefit from a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant that will go toward the purchase of equipment to provide long-distance learning opportunities.

More than $2 million has been returned over the past couple of months to inmates currently housed by the Arkansas Department of Corrections after a court ruling that the agency had to return any federal relief or stimulus funds that weren't being used to pay prisoners' fines or fees.

More than $2 million has been returned over the past couple of months to inmates housed by the Arkansas Department of Corrections after a court ruling stating

Editor's Note: It is Texarkana Gazette policy to withhold the names of victims of sexual assault. Amy Stanley, who has become an advocate for sexual assault survivors, asked that her name be used.

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One of the men arrested after going armed to the wrong house to retrieve an allegedly stolen rifle was found guilty of aggravated assault by a Baxter County

Photo: Allison Cunningham One of the four people charged with involvement in the murder of then 35-year-old Cody Stradford in late 2020 appeared in Baxter

A lawsuit filed against Harps Food Stores claiming the company illegally sold a handgun that was used less than a day later to murder an elderly Midway couple

Photo: Nicholas Ian Roos Convicted double murderer Nicholas Ian Roos has spent some of his time in prison filing unsuccessful lawsuits seeking post conviction