Panhandle News

Panhandle authorities say a Lubbock man shot and killed a British tourist during bar robbery in Amarillo.

Posted on Thursday, November 05, 2009 at 2:56 p.m. The U.S. Army says 12 people have been killed and 31 wounded in a shooting rampage on the Fort Hood Army base in Texas.

A Some sad news from the Amarillo art scene, Mardy Lemmons, a very popular artist and instructor at Amarillo College diedA unexpectedly at the age of 50.

Posted on Thursday, November 05, 2009 at 10:12 a.m. A natural gas pipeline exploded in the Texas Panhandle on Thursday, shaking homes, melting window blinds and shooting flames hundreds of feet into the air, authorities said.

Originally published November 5, 2009 at 5:53 a.m., updated November 5, 2009 at 5:54 a.m. BUSHLAND, Texas a ' A natural gas pipeline explosion west of Amarillo shook homes and melted the blinds in windows as fire shot hundreds of feet into the air.

Four years ago, Gov. Rick Perry traveled to Dalhart to announce that the Hilmar Cheese Co., the largest single-site cheese and whey products manufacturer in the world, would build a state-of-the-art plant in town.

As folks across the Panhandle we're getting ready for costumes and candy one group of walkers and runners hit the streets of Amarillo for cancer patients.

Susan Rogers and David Currie talk about where the wind power transmission line will cut across the canyon at Currie Ranch near the north end of Palo Duro Canyon.

Plenty of sunshine was on tap for the Lone Star State on Saturday. Sunny skies were expected in Dallas-Fort Worth with a high near 72 degrees.

Texas' devotion to protecting parental rights allows moms and dads to provide pornography to their children.

Teel Bivins, a former state senator, U.S. ambassador to Sweden and descendent of a pioneer Panhandle family, died Monday after a long illness.

State Rep. John Smithee, dean of the Panhandle delegation in the Texas Legislature, was honored Wednesday for his work on legislation that helps Texans 50 and older.

Originally published October 23, 2009 at 2:01 a.m., updated October 23, 2009 at 3:06 a.m. AMARILLO, Texas a ' The tiny Texline school district is the latest in the Texas Panhandle to cancel classes because of illnesses including the flu.

Last year, 58 heaters were given out over the winter months to the elderly, young, or disabled and this year, 2-1-1 Director Kelly Stephens says, they will have even more in need because of low paying jobs, fixed incomesA or layoffs.

Drum major Bethany Lankford leads the Childress High School band in the Division I University Interscholastic League marching band contest Saturday at Dick Bivins Stadium.

Amarillo will save more than $20 million in interest on financing a new source of water.

A Dalhart man whoa s suspected of shooting his wife to death while two of the couplea s grandchildren watched remained at large Friday as police investigate whether he fled to Mexico.

The Fall 2009 Amarillo Job Fair is on Tuesday, October 13th. Bell Helicopter, Pantex, WT and Amarillo College are just a few of the nearly 80 employers that will be giving out information at the event.

A school district in the northern Panhandle announced Tuesday it will close for the rest of the week, making it the third district in the region to shutter schools due to an outbreak of flu and other illness.

Cloudy skies and more rain were forecast across Texas on Tuesday. National Weather Service forecasters gave a 100 percent chance of rain for the Dallas-Fort Worth area with temperatures in the 60s during the day and overnight.