Hemphill County News

It looks like the July 31 runoff in Texas House District 88 may be a north versus south contest - or, put another way, between the Texas Panhandle and the South Plains.

The U.S. Geological Survey recorded a magnitude 3.1 earthquake about 10:30 p.m. Sunday 23 miles southeast of Perryton, the agency website said.

Long before the town of Spearman was born, the settlement of Hansford became the county seat with the winning votes for the election swung by "the use of a three-seated hack and liberal doses of Dodge City tarantula juice." Their new frame courthouse was nearing completion in 1891 when a cyclone struck, scattering the building materials across the ... (more)

Hemphill County's 100-year-old courthouse gets a face-lift, thanks in part to tax revenue generated by the gas industry.

A Hemphill County grand jury has indicted a Sanger man on a murder charge stemming from an Oct.