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The city's budget cycle opens today. Amarillo city council starts hearings at eight a.m. — continuing through Thursday and Friday. The proposed budget cuts sixty-three point four million dollars from last year's…
Listen + read script →A hazmat call at a state prison in Potter County. An employee opened mail in the mailroom at the William P. Clements Unit on Monday and became sick. Potter County Fire-Rescue and the Amarillo Fire Department Haz-Mat…
Listen + read script →Español →A woman found dead in the Randall County jail. The Randall County Sheriff's Office says Shaylee Rachels was discovered unresponsive in her cell Friday morning around 6:45 a.m. She was booked into the detention center on…
Listen + read script →Budget season is here. Amarillo City Council starts workshops this week — rescheduled from late July — with the regular meeting Tuesday. Potter County meets today, Randall County tomorrow, and both are looking at tax…
Listen + read script →Español →Water first. The City of Canyon entered stage one drought conditions as of this week. Water demand has topped 65 percent of the city's available production capacity for more than five consecutive days. Canyon is asking…
Listen + read script →Español →Potter County grand jury has indicted three people for felony murder in the May shooting death of George Glen Eggleston. The victim, 61, was found dead May 11th at the Fifth Season Inn. Indicted: Tabitha Pauline…
Listen + read script →Español →Heavy morning in Potter County. Texas DPS troopers, Amarillo police, and the sheriff's office were in a vehicle pursuit around three forty-five Monday morning. The driver, Stacey Lerke, forty-nine, crashed and exited…
Listen + read script →Español →Two arrests in Randall County this week after a theft ring that started in April. Jessica McKillip and Leticia Delgado are booked into the county jail — they were tracked down after the Amarillo Police Department…
Listen + read script →Español →Two people booked into Randall County Jail after stolen trailers turned up on Cemetery Road. Jessica McKillip and Leticia Delgado were arrested following a report filed back in April — two trailers stolen, and when the…
Listen + read script →Español →Two arrests in Randall County after stolen property turned up in April. Amarillo Police stopped a vehicle on the road pulling one of two trailers taken from Cemetery Road weeks earlier. Inside that trailer and the…
Listen + read script →Español →Courts and reentry first. The Legion Project, a Christian nonprofit here in Amarillo, is running one of the harder numbers in criminal-justice reporting — less than half of people released from long-term prison…
Listen + read script →Español →Potter County grand jury has indicted three people on felony murder charges in connection with the death of George Glen Eggleston. Tabitha Pauline Thrasher, 48; Christian Anthony Matthew Eaglin, 31; and Clyde Andrew…
Listen + read script →Español →Teen arrested in the shooting at John Ward Memorial Park back in February. A seventeen-year-old booked on aggravated assault. That case has been moving quietly for six months now, and this arrest closes the first major…
Listen + read script →Español →The city's fiscal year is coming into focus. Amarillo City Council has set budget workshops for next week — August eleventh, thirteenth, and fourteenth, all starting at eight a.m. The first one runs before a regular…
Listen + read script →Español →Governor Abbott ordered a statewide audit of data centers Monday, freezing approvals for projects connecting to ERCOT's grid. The Panhandle, though, sits mostly outside that footprint — the region's tied to the…
Listen + read script →Español →A 17-year-old arrested in a shooting case that's been open five months. Anisten Gracie Bond was booked into Potter County custody in connection with a February 28th shooting near the Don Harrington Discovery Center that…
Listen + read script →Español →Three people indicted this week in connection with a fatal shooting in May on Coulter Street. Potter County court documents show the charges came down after investigators worked the case for months. One person was…
Listen + read script →Español →I-40 is going to be a mess this week. TxDOT has lane closures stacked across the corridor. Bolton, Eastern, and Nelson intersections — both directions — bridge work. That runs through Friday. Same week, the westbound…
Listen + read script →Español →Heavy one to start. Amarillo Medical Specialists and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas settled their contract fight over the weekend. Patients are back in-network as of Saturday after three months out. AMS had been locked…
Listen + read script →Español →An Amarillo police officer is under investigation for alleged misuse of a Flock camera — the automated license-plate reader the department deploys across the city. The Texas Minute is reporting the officer accessed the…
Listen + read script →Español →Don Huffines was sworn in today as Texas Comptroller — that's the state's chief financial officer. He rejected the $150,000 salary and said he's going after spending cuts, more transparency, and what he calls additional…
Listen + read script →Español →Potter County and Randall County law enforcement are looking for a 24-year-old man wanted on burglary charges and a probation violation tied to aggravated robbery. Danzal Kahili Jaheim Jones is Amarillo Crime Stoppers'…
Listen + read script →Español →Road closure coming tonight — both directions of I-40 at BI-40, east of Amarillo, shut down from midnight to 2 p.m. tomorrow for a bridge deck pour. TxDOT's routing traffic to the frontage roads. If you're moving…
Listen + read script →Español →Crime first. Amarillo Crime Stoppers is seeking Danzal Kahili Jaheim Jones, twenty-four, wanted in Potter County for burglary and in Randall County for probation violation on an aggravated robbery charge. If you have…
Listen + read script →Español →Texas is narrowing what you can legally buy and sell tomorrow. Hemp-derived THC products—delta-8, delta-10—get banned starting Friday, July thirty-first. Possession carries jail time and fines. Delta-9 THC, the most…
Listen + read script →Español →Two Pantex employees got a commendation from Amarillo Police this week after they helped arrest someone last year. Alex Rodriquez, a mechanic, and Jarod Harrison from emergency management were driving home from work…
Listen + read script →Español →SNAP enrollment in the Amarillo area has dropped 18 percent since last fall, when the federal government tightened eligibility rules for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The Tribune is tracking how those…
Listen + read script →Español →Bell Textron just locked in three hundred million dollars from the Navy for work at the Amarillo Assembly Center. The contract covers SPINE upgrades to the H-1 helicopter fleet. Work begins mid-2027, first deliveries in…
Listen + read script →Español →m. central. I'm Keli, and Hast is with me. A Randall County woman indicted on two counts — hindering the prosecution of terrorism and tampering with evidence in the Kevin Hunt case. Kristina Maria Partida was charged by…
Listen + read script →Español →m. central. I'm Keli, with Hast. Morning. We're leading with ground movement in the Panhandle. Around five a.m. Thursday, a magnitude five earthquake hit northwestern Roberts County. People felt it across the Texas and…
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