Amarillo News

The Amarillo Travel Information Center off I-40 is staying busy this Memorial Day Weekend thanks to visitors from across the country.

In the 1980s every teenager in Amarillo was hanging out at Harvey's Pool Hall and Arcade on the weekends.

He was a Navy man who became a man of the cloth. It wasn't a typical road to priesthood but it's now over for Deacon Scott Schwind.

The city of Amarillo, which bans all use of hand-held cellphones while driving, will keep its tough ordinance for the next two years because a texting-while-driving ban the Texas Legislature considered is officially dead, the bill's author said.

More than 60 percent of the Boy Scouts of America's National Council members voted Thursday to lift a ban on openly gay members during their annual meeting in Grapevine.

Amarillo Police were called out early this morning to Amarillo Blvd West and N Washington on a report of shots being fired.

At 2:15 a.m. Friday, officers responded to reports of shots fired at Amarillo Boulevard West and North Washington Street, police said.

A man was hospitalized Thursday morning after he was hit by a car while crossing an Interstate 40 frontage road, Amarillo Police Department Cpl.

The Mutual of Omaha cross-country Aha Moment Tour rolled into Amarillo on Thursday for the first time, seeking Amarilloans to share their stories for a chance at fame.

Jaedyn Espinosa, 6, from Forest Hills Elementary School plays with a black-footed ferret, a rare Texas Panhandle species once believed to be extinct, during Thursday's grand opening of the zoo's new center.

The latest anthology in the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" series, released this week, features Canyon resident Rory C. Keel.

Amarillo financial services provider Elaine Hays has formed an exploratory committee to consider running against incumbent U.S. Rep.

According to Triple A, travelers will spend about $659 over Memorial Day Weekend.

A marillo Crime Stoppers is asking for the public's help to locate this week's Fugitive of the Week: Luis Jasso Rodriguez.

City prosecutors won't pursue misdemeanor charges against a state trooper accused of threatening the son of witness in a civil suit filed against him over the 2010 fatal shooting of a Tulia man during a high-speed chase.

Most of the Texas Panhandle faces a severe weather threat Thursday, with a 20 to 50 percent chance of thunderstorms from 3 to 10 p.m. and the possibility of damaging wind gusts, hail and tornadoes, National Weather Service meteorologist Nicholas Fenner said.

An Amarillo man suffered life-threatening injuries when the motorcycle he was driving was struck by an SUV about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday near the corner of 45th Avenue and Bell Street, police said.

The Amarillo City Commission approved unanimously to allow the Economic Development Corporation to spend almost four-million dollars to expand and renovate the former Zarges building in the Centerpoint Business Park.

With hopes to relocate and expand, the Texas Air and Space Museum has acquired about 20 acres that would significantly increase the museum's ability to display and store aircraft.

They are also welcoming surrounding area residents the opportunity support the fund with monetary donations at any f their 71 stores.