Friona News

A recent University of Texas study shows that by age 12, twelve percent of middle school students have had sex.

Justin Johnson, front, Panhandle Fire Protection, gets ready to solder a copper line for a sensor line for a fire pump at the new Palmer Medical Center in Friona Thursday, October 22, 2009.

If River Road beats Olton today at home, it will mark the first time since 1994 that the Wildcats have started a football season 4-1. After losing to Canadian in this year's opener, River Road has defeated West Texas High, Friona and Dimmitt.

This morning was chilly across the Texas High Plains, with some weather stations in the Panhandle and northern counties reporting temperatures at or near freezing.

Sonny & Becky Mays, of Friona, are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, LaFawnda Mays, of Lubbock, to Anthony J. Kubacak, also of Lubbock.

The nominees for Region Teacher of the Year were announced today. A reception honoring the nominees will take place at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug.

Bobby Braun, left, a board member of the Museum of North Texas History, and Lita Watson, executive director, look over the Nat's Hats exhibit at the museum.

They've got the perfect ingredients for a cheeseburger: milk, wheat and plenty of beef.

The Cal-Maine Foods egg farm near Oklahoma Lane in Parmer County, Texas, is on fire.

Clifford Webber's badly decomposed body was discovered on Tuesday morning in an abandoned home on Clovis' West 14th Street.

A line of strong thunderstorms moved through the area Thursday night and knocked out power in parts of Amarillo.

Conditions will come together to create a slight threat of severe thunderstorms later today.

Sergio Correa is a 35-year-old Amarillo College student with plans to graduate in May with a criminal justice degree.

New Monterey football coach Todd Pearson hugs players Austin Spencer and Miles Kelly after a press conference at the school on Friday.

A Clovis man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for driving two jail escapees, hiding in the trunk of his car, to Texas.

A 15-year-old Amarillo girl died in a predawn crash in Canyon Wednesday that touched off another wreck caused allegedly by a drunken driver.

A New Mexico district attorney has concluded a Texas Department of Public Safety officer was justified in shooting and wounding a Clovis man after a pursuit.

The district attorney's office has concluded the shooting of a Clovis man by a Texas Department of Public Safety Officer in November was justified and has obtained an indictment against Jawayne Helfferich for fleeing officers.