Amarillo News

Amarillo residents have two more chances to join a conversation that will drive city parks and recreation priorities for the next five years.

America's newest veterans are filing for disability benefits at a historic rate, claiming to be the most medically and mentally troubled generation of former troops the nation has ever seen.

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Warren Mills is about to take office as a Skellytown City Council member. He also has admitted to committing sex crimes involving children.

A two-car accident at approximately 8:15 a.m. Wednesday, sent a 41-year-old Hispanic woman to Northwest Hospital in critical condition and the 58-year-old Hispanic man in the Nissan Quest with her, to the hospital for examination.

A 7-year-old Amarillo boy was taken to a local hospital with non-critical injuries Friday after a drunk man driving a pickup struck him, authorities said.

For many of the hundreds of mourners who bid farewell this week to Monsignor Joseph Tash, the sense of loss was deeply personal.

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Joe Ed Coffman of Amarillo is, to name a few, a musician, songwriter, an activist in the prevention of prostate cancer, and the adopted great-grandson of legendary Comanche chief Quanah Parker.

Over the past two months, Laura Hernandez has tried to help the 200 workers from the Beef Products Inc.

The Pantex security guard union and plant contractor B&W Pantex agreed late Thursday to a new collective bargaining contract for the next five years, according to a Pantex news release.

Amarillo police on Thursday arrested a woman on a charge of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon, Cpl.

For more than two years, the parents of the toddler who died in a north Amarillo house fire Wednesday shared custody of the boy with his mother's friend, according to family interviews and court records obtained Thursday.

A Potter County jury sentenced an Amarillo man to 50 years in prison Thursday after convicting him of aggravated sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl.

Michael Barnes is the Austin American-Statesman's social columnist. He lives in South Austin with his partner, Kip, two dogs and two cats.

Motel 6 wants three road-trip fanatics to travel and report on some of the best stretches of American highways, including Route 66 from Amarillo to Santa Monica.

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FOX's "So You Think You Can Dance" returns for a ninth season with some fairly big format changes.

On Wednesday, I wrote on John Alpar, 86, an Amarillo opthalmologist who received his masters degree in history earlier this month at West Texas A&M. Alpar has practiced in Amarillo since 1959.

Tempting as it is to endorse an Amarillo Traffic Commission recommendation on banning cellphone use by motorists, the proposal creates too many concerns.