Potter County News

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 11:40 a.m. Read more: Local , Business , Economy , Community , Dilla Villa , Potter County Commissioners , Baseball AMARILLO, TEXAS -- N ext Monday, Potter County Commissioners will hear a report from the committee on the lease of the Potter County Memorial Stadium also known as the Dilla Villa.

Potter County sheriff's deputies welcomed a new member to the force Monday. Banny, a 14-month-old male Weimaraner, started at the sheriff's office as a narcotics and tracking dog.

A man was in jail Sunday, charged with robbing an Amarillo convenience store during the weekend.

The 47th District Attorney has released seven additional indictments against a Randall County businessman.

Potter County attorneys filed a motion Friday to seize more than 100 gambling machines and nearly $167,000 in cash seized earlier this year during an investigation into a multilocation eight-liner ring.

An Amarillo man is facing 25 to 99 years or life in prison if convicted of the latest burglary charge against him, which possibly could be his third felony conviction.

Amarillo Police captured a fugitive that Amarillo Crime Stoppers was on the lookout for.

A biplane and a Potter County Sheriff's Department cruiser sit parked Tuesday at North Loop 335 and Broadway Drive.

Some call it a craze that's "bitten" nearly every teen you talk to and almost as many moms.

A little Sesame Street history Yesterday at 2:00 p.m. Sesame Street is celebrating its 40th birthday, but did you know the show was first on Pronews 7 before it aired on KACV? Water meeting Tuesday afternoon Yesterday at 1:25 p.m. The Panhandle Groundwater Conservation District will be holding a public meeting Tuesday afternoon.

Judge Doug Woodburn of the 108th District Court sentenced an Amarillo man to 35 years in state prison for possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, 47th District Attorney Randall Sims announced Wednesday.

A Lubbock man is behind bars in Potter County after police say he fatally shot a British tourist.

Flames blazed more than 400 feet high above a natural gas line explosion that rocked Bushland, Texas about 1 a.m. Thursday Nov.

Thomas Reeve, a "happy go lucky" British tourist on a road trip across America with two friends, was shot dead in a bar in Amarillo by a masked robber.

Police arrested a suspect in the slaying of a British tourist during an Amarillo bar robbery in which a female patron allegedly was sexually assaulted.

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.

At least three people have been hurt today in a natural gas pipeline explosion near Bushland -- about 15 miles west of Amarillo.

Early voters in Potter County have approved each of the 11 constitutional amendments, including one that would create the National Research University Fund and another restricting the state's use of eminent domain.

Three men face decades in prison after pleading guilty in separate cases to multiple crimes against children, and in one case injuries that resulted in death.

He was accused of physically assaulting a 14-month-old, leading to the little boy's death.