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Jury selection begins next week in a Canyon manslaughter case. Ulise Delao, 31, faces two felony counts in the death of Brittany Torres, 27, the mother of his child. Torres died May 27th of last year following a crash…
Listen + read script →Español →Morning. ICE operations are reshaping labor costs in the Panhandle cattle industry. The Texas Cattle Feeders Association, along with the Kansas Livestock Association and the Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association, issued a…
Listen + read script →Español →Texas education spending is in the crosshairs of the Comptroller's race, and the numbers are getting real. Glenn Hegar's administration reported in August that 101,600 Texas students are now funded through education…
Listen + read script →Español →A Randall County jury sentenced a man to life in prison this week for continuous sexual abuse of a child. John Jacob Wilson, 42, was found guilty by the jury in the 47th District Court. Judge Dee Johnson imposed a life…
Listen + read script →Español →We're leading with the State Capitol. Texas lawmakers are about to pocket a ten-thousand-dollar annual pay raise, effective next session. The Salary Commission voted to bump legislative compensation from just under…
Listen + read script →Español →Budget day in Amarillo. The City Council met this morning and votes on a tax rate ceiling later today. Here's what's moving underneath: the city's taxable property value growth is slowing. Deputy City Manager Andrew…
Listen + read script →The Amarillo City Council meets twice today — a budget workshop at 11 a.m., then the regular meeting at 3 p.m. The council's been frustrated over tax rate discussion, and today's sessions are where those conversations…
Listen + read script →Español →Amarillo schools and the state budget first. Comptroller Janet Yellen is pushing to double the school choice budget in the next session — we're talking a major shift in how education dollars flow across Texas. The…
Listen + read script →We're light on hard local news this hour, so we'll move through what's in the stack and land on state. The Texas Comptroller is pushing to double the school choice budget. That's vouchers and education savings accounts…
Listen + read script →Español →Blood shortage ahead of the holiday. The Coffee Memorial Blood Center in Amarillo is running low heading into Labor Day weekend and asking for donors today and tomorrow. Anyone who gives gets a hot dog and a…
Listen + read script →Español →West Texas A&M's campus police are fielding a surge in electric scooter thefts as the semester opens. University Police say the volume is higher than usual — bikes and scooters vanishing from residence halls, bike…
Listen + read script →Español →Texas Game Wardens and Parks and Wildlife are pushing boating safety hard across the state this Labor Day weekend. The numbers tell you why — on Texas lakes and waterways, drowning is the leading cause of death for kids…
Listen + read script →Español →Labor Day weekend starts today across the Panhandle. Texas Parks and Wildlife and Game Wardens are moving fast on boating safety — the push matters because the lakes fill up hard this time of year, and so do the…
Listen + read script →Español →Governor Abbott ordered state agencies to freeze funding for Flock cameras this week, and Amarillo City Council is now reviewing the surveillance system. Eighty-seven license plate readers are running in and around the…
Listen + read script →Español →A charge in Potter County, then the state's school-voucher push. Potter County Sheriff's Office charged a Bushland ISD student, a juvenile, with third-degree felony terroristic threat after the student posted threats…
Listen + read script →Español →West Texas A&M University police are tracking a spike in electric scooter thefts across campus. The University Reports dozens of incidents since the start of the fall semester — scooters taken from bike racks, residence…
Listen + read script →Canyon's city commission is running a $365,000 budget deficit after they cut the tax rate. On Tuesday they adopted a combined rate of just over 50 cents per hundred dollars of property value — that's down nearly…
Listen + read script →Español →Potter County Sheriff's Office is investigating a threat targeting juveniles in Bushland ISD connected to a social media trend. The office says more details will come as the investigation moves forward. Parents in the…
Listen + read script →Heavy hour on the roads. An Ochiltree County teen is now serving 30 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice after being sentenced last week for a 2025 murder. Roque George Bozeman was 17 at the time of the…
Listen + read script →Español →Heavy local hour. A murder sentence out of the Panhandle, then school threats, and water trouble across the state. Roque George Bozeman, 17 years old, was sentenced last week in Ochiltree County to 30 years in the Texas…
Listen + read script →Español →Heavy rescue weekend in the canyons. Randall County Fire Department and Canyon Fire pulled a person out of Ceta Canyon who'd fallen about 75 feet. Crews used rope rescue equipment to reach them and bring them up. The…
Listen + read script →Español →The Amarillo Fire Department released unit reports Monday on the Potter County landfill fire that burned 2,335 acres, destroyed 52 homes, and forced evacuation of over a thousand county residents. The fire threatened…
Listen + read script →Murder charge over fentanyl. A 24-year-old man named Garrett Daniel Keltner is being held in the Randall County Detention Center on a $250,000 bond after investigators say he sold fentanyl to another Amarillo man who…
Listen + read script →Español →County treasurers and tax assessors across Texas are asking lawmakers for guidance on a problem that's about to hit their offices hard: the end of penny production. The U.S. Mint is phasing out the penny, and that means…
Listen + read script →Español →Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, will pay one billion dollars to Texas and implement new child safety controls on its platforms. The settlement came down from the state attorney general's office after…
Listen + read script →Español →Texas Panhandle Pet Savers is running short on foster homes. The rescue organization says it's holding dozens of dogs and cats right now, and the need keeps climbing — more animals coming in than the network can place.…
Listen + read script →Español →Texas Panhandle Pet Savers is running short on foster homes. The rescue group is holding dozens of dogs and cats right now and says the need keeps climbing — more animals coming in, fewer volunteers stepping up to take…
Listen + read script →Español →A man sentenced to seven years in federal prison Thursday in Potter County on an illegal re-entry charge—this after he pleaded guilty to crossing the border after deportation back in November. The case originated in…
Listen + read script →Español →Four people indicted this week on solicitation charges after a June undercover operation in Randall County. Travis Jordan Brooks, thirty-five; Braiden Sellers, thirty-four; Kody Dick, thirty-eight; and William Bradley,…
Listen + read script →Español →Water first. The City of Amarillo triggered Stage 1 drought restrictions on August 17th after its emergency reservoir — 500 million gallons from the Canadian River Municipal Water Authority — dropped below 60 percent…
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