Carson County News

A 29-year-old Amarillo woman has been charged with manslaughter linked to the weekend shooting death of her boyfriend.

It was a lovers quarrel that ended, with one person dead. The Carson County Sheriff's office got a desperate 911 call Sunday afternoon that lead them to a cornfield west of Groom.

Officials said an Amarillo woman shot and killed a man Sunday in a rural Carson County cornfield.

The Carson County Sheriff's Office is investigating an afternoon shooting. We're told the call came in just after 12 p.m. When police arrived they found a man who had been shot in a cornfield.

T wo California women have been arrested for possession of a controlled substance, after DPS troopers find several drugs in their possession.

Members of Palo Duro Metro Chorus of Sweet Adeline, from left, Ninja Turtle Glennis McAlister, Blue Fairy Natalie Stephenson, Peter Pan Loretta Martin and SpongeBob SquarePants Sandra Jenkins perform as part of Window on a Wider World program for the kindergartners at Will Rogers Elementary.

Rep. Mac Thornberry meets with residents of Panhandle during a town hall meeting Tuesday at the Carson County War Memorial.

A myth popped like a champagne cork in Panhandle on March 28, 1949. Judge J. Sid O'Keefe, clamping down on his cigar, opened the copper box found on top of the Carson County Courthouse.

Two drug traffickers were sentenced to lengthy prison stays in an Amarillo federal court Thursday.

A Texas parole violator was set to be executed Wednesday night for beating and using kitchen tools to kill a 67-year-old woman in her Lubbock apartment.

A parole violator and former Colorado man convicted of beating and stabbing a 67-year-old Texas woman to death faces execution tonight in Huntsville.

A A late night car chase led officers all the way from Carson County to the outskirts of Amarillo Wednesday night.

Gov. Bill Richardson says he is signing a bill repealing New Mexico's death penalty.

H ere are some lane closures around Amarillo that you might be on the lookout for! On I-27, the south frontage road from 34th to Washington will be closed for drainage repair.

Owners of the 6666 Ranch in Carson County have won part of their appeal of a ruling that previously determined they should not receive compensation for damage to the ranch caused by the massive March 2006 ...

A Stroudsburg man was arrested in the Texas panhandle Sunday when he was found with 730 pounds of marijuana.

As a public service to all my drug-running friends packing pot and carrying cocaine from one coast to another, here's a little unsolicited advice: Avoid Interstate 40 in the Texas Panhandle.

TXDot is getting a chunk of change from the President Obama's stimulus plan to help fix some roads.

Two big drug- busts to tell you about tonight. Both were on I-40 in Carson County.

Traffic stops have netted law enforcement more than $500,000 worth of drugs. Troopers with the Texas Department of Public Safety made two separate stops Tuesday on Interstate 40, seizing nearly 500 pounds of ...