Ark-La-Tex

The 2025 Geminids peak December 13 - 14 with almost ideal dark skies and up to 150 meteors per hour. Here’s when to watch around Texarkana for the best view.

Having grown up and worked in the Houston area for many years, I can vouch for some of these findings, but I'm scratching my head on some others. The three Texas cities listed below have come up in a survey of the best and worst cities to have a picnic, and they were not on the "best" side of the ledger if you know what I mean. Bear with me here.

Do you have a piece of carpet lying around the house or in your garage? How about a small shovel? Then you might be able to get your vehicle out of a "stuck-in-the-snow" situation, all by yourself. Let's dig in Ark-La-Tex.

We love celebrating discounted and free food here in the Ark-La-Tex and since today is National Chicken Sandwich Day, naturally we thought it might be fun to find some Chicken Sandwich deals around town to tell you about. You hungry yet?

Are you ready for actual fall weather next week in Southwest Arkansas and East Texas? Do you know where your jackets and hoodies are? You might want to locate them and get ready because Halloween is going to be much cooler in the Ark-La-Tex than we have seen so far.

A few foods make up what I call the perfect food, meaning that you can create them using most (if not all) of the major food groups. They are the hamburger, pizza, and the humble taco. Welcome to National Taco Day, the day we salute that oh-so-humble and simple-ish food, the taco.

This actually happened to me a couple of years ago, right about this time of year I was sweeping up the leaves that had collected on the sidewalk leading up to my front door, when much to my surprise, I uncovered a small copperhead who was apparently snoozing in the middle of that pile of dead leaves. Luckily he was either stunned by my broom or just too sleepy to comprehend what was happening to

The first full week of December is in the books, Holiday shopping is underway in the Ark-La-Tex, and so is Holiday theft. Bowie County arrests stayed pretty much the same last week with 61 total arrested in Bowie County. Sheriff's Office Deputies arrested 26 of those, 35 arrests were by other area law enforcement agencies and turned over to the BCSO. Here is last week's report from the Bowie Count