A single-vehicle crash late Saturday in Texarkana left two people dead and one injured, according to an Arkansas State Police preliminary crash report.
A Chevrolet was traveling west on Arkansas 196 when it left the roadway and overturned several times, police said.
The driver, Timothy Fory, 32, and a passenger, Jessie Witt, 18, were pronounced dead at the scene, according to the report. The injured passenger was identified as Ritchie Alvarado, 26.
State police reported that the crash occurred at 11:39 p.m.
Stuttgart, circa 1910: Mae and Ted Barnhart posed with their dog, the only one who seemed happy for the camera. Theodore Barnhart, born 1906, grew up to serve in the Navy during World War II, dying in 1952. Ted’s sister, Mae, born 1903 and passing in 1994, grew up to marry Charles Henry Dobbs.
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Ray Hanley
Ray Hanley is a retired health care and IT executive, historian, producer of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s “Postcard Past” feature and author of 20 Arkansas history books.
Kentucky had a need at wide receiver entering the only transfer portal window of the offseason. The Wildcats addressed the position again on Day 10. UK has added a second transfer to the room. This is a familiar name to those who follow recruiting.
Arkansas transfer Ja’Kayden Ferguson committed to the Wildcats after his visit to Lexington over the weekend. The wide receiver was a former UK commit who flipped to the Hogs during the 2025 recruiting cycle. Now Ferguson has flipped back to the Big Blue.
Ja’Kayden Ferguson was a three-star recruit out of Metro Houston who picked Kentucky following a June official visit ahead of the 2024 season. However, Ferguson decided to open up his recruitment five months later and flipped to Arkansas. The 6-foot-2 receiver appeared in six games for the Razorbacks as a true freshman and burned his redshirt. Ferguson played just 20 offensive snaps.
The SEC transfer becomes the eighth current full-time scholarship player in Kentucky’s current wide receivers room. Some more additions are expected.
