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Amarillo High School went into lockdown this afternoon before dismissal. The school issued a ParentSquare alert to families but hasn't released details on what triggered it or how long it lasted. We're working to get…
Listen + read script →Español →Potter County's jail is running hot. The Sheriff's Office is holding 608 inmates right now — 533 in the local detention center, 75 shipped to other facilities. That's 89 percent capacity. The trend line is up, and…
Listen + read script →Español →Texas school funding broke again. A rural district that's growing fast is short millions because the state caps how much it sends to fast-growing systems — and that gap keeps widening. The counter-read here is simple.…
Listen + read script →Español →Texas school funding first. The state has a structural problem: it caps how much money goes to fast-growing districts, even when enrollment jumps. Rural districts in particular are hitting million-dollar gaps between…
Listen + read script →Español →Curry County Sheriff's Office is investigating a death in a field after an arrest. A man reported finding his wife dead with serious injuries. The sheriff released details after taking him into custody, and…
Listen + read script →Español →Patrick Farmer, fifty-nine, was sentenced two weeks ago in Randall County to forty years in prison for indecency with a child. He's now booked into Potter County Detention Center on two separate additional charges of…
Listen + read script →Español →A man is in custody in Curry County for murder after his wife was found dead in a field Friday afternoon. The Curry County Sheriff's Office says Jon Quezada, thirty-nine, from Plainview, called deputies to the…
Listen + read script →Español →Morning. We're tracking government transparency and a Texas campaign flare-up this hour. About forty government employees, attorneys, and journalists gathered Thursday at the Amarillo Area Foundation for the Freedom of…
Listen + read script →Español →A man arrested here in Potter County on three child sex crime warrants. Jesse Mosqueda, forty-four, is in custody this afternoon. The Lubbock County Sheriff's Office brought him in on charges involving alleged crimes…
Listen + read script →Español →West Texas A&M University landed the largest federal grant in its history — nine point seven-five million dollars from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to expand its beef cattle research operation. The money funds…
Listen + read script →Español →Amarillo courts are moving fast on a serial case. Patrick Farmer, fifty-nine, was sentenced two weeks ago in Randall County to forty years in prison for indecency with a child. This week he was booked into Potter County…
Listen + read script →Español →A Randall County man is going to prison. He entered a plea agreement in a manslaughter case — five years, according to court records. He'd been accused of killing the mother of his child. The case was set for trial…
Listen + read script →Español →Deputies in Randall County have booked a suspect on three counts of aggravated assault, one count of deadly conduct, and one count of manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance. They recovered the firearm…
Listen + read script →Español →Texas governor's race is burning money fast. Greg Abbott outraised Democrat Gina Hinojosa six-to-one between July and late September, but his polling lead stayed narrow. The governor tapped a war chest that once topped…
Listen + read script →Español →Randall County Sheriff's Office has a man in custody after a shots-fired call on Gettysburg Road. No other details on injuries or the circumstances yet, but the arrest came fast on that one. The local angle underneath:…
Listen + read script →Español →Potter County Detention Center is running at 92 percent capacity this week. Six hundred and thirteen people in custody — 543 held at the PCDC itself, 69 booked into facilities outside the county. That's up slightly from…
Listen + read script →Español →The Potter County Sheriff's Office is warning people to stay away from the Canadian River. Water levels are elevated after recent rainfall, and the sheriff says do not cross flooded roads, trails, or waterways —…
Listen + read script →Español →We're starting with a death in Dumas that raises questions about how the Panhandle reports and honors its people. Paul Toliver, Jr., eighty-five, passed on September twenty-eighth. He was born in Plainview in nineteen…
Listen + read script →Español →West Texas A&M University opened a new University Police Department headquarters this week at 2 Monty Platt Drive. The ribbon-cutting marks the move out of the old Student Union Building, which will be demolished later.…
Listen + read script →Español →A man is dead after a motorcycle and pickup collision in Hutchinson County. The Texas Department of Public Safety says a 61-year-old from Fritch was killed Saturday afternoon around 2:46 p.m. on State Highway 136 near…
Listen + read script →Español →Road work and fuel. Texas first. TxDOT Amarillo released its weekly closure report this afternoon — State Loop 335 and I-40 both seeing lane closures and detours throughout the week of October fifth. The department's…
Listen + read script →Español →We're leading with a Panhandle education win and a Texas statewide race that's surfacing old statements. The United States Tennis Association has awarded a grant to Perryton Independent School District to build new…
Listen + read script →Español →The city just locked in federal money that fills a hole that census data opened up. In 2020, the Census Bureau counted Amarillo's population above 200,000 for the first time. The Federal Transit Administration used that…
Listen + read script →Español →Amarillo Crime Stoppers is asking for help locating Christopher Carrillo, forty years old, wanted on multiple counts of child sexual abuse and failure to comply with sex offender registration requirements. If you have…
Listen + read script →Español →West Texas A&M University opened a new police department headquarters today at 2 Monty Platt Drive. The university cut the ribbon on the facility this morning — it will house the University Police Department and public…
Listen + read script →Español →The city council locked in Amarillo's tax rate Tuesday — same as last year at forty-three cents per hundred dollars of valuation. But the real hit is coming to water and sewer bills. The city approved an eight percent…
Listen + read script →Español →Center City of Amarillo has made the finals for the 2027 Great American Main Street Award. Out of more than 200 cities that applied nationwide, eight finalists remain. Only 118 Main Street Programs have ever won this…
Listen + read script →Español →A gray 2026 Mitsubishi Outlander with Texas plate YCK0787 was stolen from an Amarillo apartment complex Monday. Amarillo Crime Stoppers is asking the public for help locating it or identifying who took it. Call…
Listen + read script →Español →Jury selection starts next week in a manslaughter case out of Canyon. Ulise Delao, thirty-one, faces two felony counts in the death of Brittany Torres, twenty-seven. She died May twenty-seventh, twenty twenty-four,…
Listen + read script →Español →The city council meets at three p.m. today with final votes on the 2026 budget and tax rate. Public hearings are scheduled first. The counter-read here: when a council votes a budget the same day it holds hearings, the…
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