The Wake Up Crew

Congratulations to all of our area High School football teams that made the playoffs this year. Be sure you check back here each week to follow along and see how far they all go.

Texas A&M University-Texarkana and the Bowie County Master Gardeners will present a program titled “Growing Cool Season Crops and How to Have Your Own Hoop House” on Monday, November 11th. The event will take place from 6PM until 8PM in University Center room 326.…

Do you love trains? This is one you do not want to miss! It's Union Pacific’s historic Big Boy steam locomotive No. 4014 and it's coming to our area tomorrow Tuesday, November 12. It's all part of the Union Pacific system commemorating the transcontinental railroa…

Texas A&M University-Texarkana and the Texarkana Symphony Orchestra will be holding the second Chamber Music Series concert of the season on Monday, November 11. The concert will take place at 6PM in the Tri-State Iron & Metal Atrium on the 3rd floor of the University Center building…

"But it can buy me a boat, it can buy me a truck to pull it, it can buy me a Yeti..."
You were singing it in your head, I know you were! "Buy Me A Boat" by Chris Janson is one of the better, more catchy songs in the last few years if you ask me. But our resident BritNeck can reall…

Class I Recall108-2019
Health Risk: High
Simmons Prepared Foods, Inc., a Gentry, Ark. establishment, is recalling approximately 2,071,397 pounds of poultry products that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, specifically metal, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety …

The State Fair of Louisiana is entering its final weekend. It all ends this Sunday November 10. It's open today through Sunday from 10AM to 10PM. except on Friday and Saturday nights where the Fair is open until 11PM. Today, Thursday is $2 day. The Fair is free until 3PM on weekdays.

The Texarkana Texas Police are reporting a 41 year old Texarkana man was struck and killed by a vehicle early this morning on 369/Jarvis Parkway, just north of West 7th Street.

November is Gastric Cancer Awareness Month and Hersha Hospitality Management, who manages Holiday Inn Express & Suites Texarkana Arkansas and Candlewood Suites Texarkana Texas, is hosting "Nicole’s November" to help create awareness and honor the legacy of N…

The actual Veterans Day is Monday, November 11, but the Veterans Day Parade is this Saturday, November 9 in downtown Texarkana.

An enthusiastic crowd gathered at Southern Arkansas University’s Alumni Center on Monday, Nov. 4, 2019, to hear Hollywood producer and SAU alumnus Harry Thomason celebrate his first book.

Officials from Texas A&M University-Texarkana and Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO) will gather in TAMUT’s building for Academic and Student Services Friday, November 8th to announce a $250,000 grant from the American Electric Power Foundation to the university’s College of Business, …

If you love Christmas then you are going to love The Texarkana Christmas Tour of Homes. Get into the Christmas spirit with the Quality Hill Neighborhood Association as you tour four beautiful homes that are close to a century-old in the Smith Burke Historic District and the Kelly Bramble Neighborhoo…

Class II Recall107-2019
Health Risk: LowNov 4, 2019
Padrino Foods, LLC, an Irving, Texas establishment, is recalling approximately 1,931 pounds of beef tamales because the products may be misbranded, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The pr…

How wonderful to get a photo of someone serving our country. The organization known as the Navy Office of Community Outreach travels the world and collects photos of men and women serving in the US Navy. Then they distribute those photos to the servicemen's or women's hometown media. Which…

Texas State Proposition 4 - Vote 'YES' If You Don't Want To Pay Income Tax in Texas [Opinion]

Each week the Bowie County Sheriffs Office's Cheif Deputy Jeff Neal sends out a report on Bowie County Sheriffs activities, here is the report for October 28 - November 3, 2019:

This week's featured felon from the Texarkana Texas Police Department 17-year-old Daveon Woods. Woods is wanted for alleged Aggravated Robbery after he used a gun to rob a couple of guys walking down the street.

It's amazing how different a song can sound depending on who is singing it, or in this case, who is speaking it. This week Sir John Cultures-up a little ditty from Blake Shelton and Trace Adkins called "Hillbilly Bone." So, get ready to holler "Yee-Haw" and l…

Texas A&M University-Texarkana’s Psychology lab is looking for adult volunteers to participate in a research experiment on the TAMUT campus that is investigating the jury selection process.