For the 16th consecutive year, Alan Shawn Feinstein will divide $1 million among hunger fighting agencies nationwide using it to help them raise funds this March and April.

Harvest Texarkana plans to participate in the challenge in order to raise much needed funds.  Funds raised from this challenge will go to help support the Harvest Texarkana Regional Food Bank with daily operations to serve more than 100 agencies in 9 Southwest Arkansas Counties and Bowie County, Texas.

Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization, is worried that millions of low-income families are choosing between heat and hunger this winter season. The Energy Information Administration, which tracks and analyzes energy data, has projected1 that households will spend 19 percent more on average for heating oil and 15 percent more for natural gas from Oct. 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013.

If you have an outstanding warrant in Texarkana, then you might be interested in an amnesty program offered by the municipal courts on both the Texas and Arkansas sides of the city.

The program allows those with outstanding warrants to pay the warrant, in full, without being arrested.

Officials with the Texarkana, TX city court say they have hundreds of unpaid warrants in the city dating back to 2006.