Deaf Smith County News

While voters in Potter and Randall counties on Tuesday will decide among a series of constitutional amendments, other voters in the Panhandle have some local questions they must decide.

There's an assortment of local ballot questions that voters in the region must decide.

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.

Take a trip with me today. No, not around Anna, Melissa or Van Alstyne, but back in time, sort of like the Time Traveler playing on the big screens around town.

A Deaf Smith County jury deliberated for a little more than a hour Friday afternoon before finding a Hereford man guilty of killing of murdering a 17-month-old girl, officials said.

Sygourney Grajeda, 16, will be tried as an adult if indicted in the death of Grajeda's 73-year-old grandmother in Hereford.

Ashley Cramblet gets the attention of her 20-month-old son, Kyler, so that Kayla Plumlee of Student Crime Stoppers can get a photo for his identification during an event by Amarillo Crime Stoppers at Clayton Homes .

Several fire departments in the southwest corner of the Panhandle are battling a large grass fire just outside Hereford.

HEREFORD, Texas - A worker with the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad was killed Wednesday near Hereford.

It is among the nastiest substances on earth: more than 14,000 tons of highly radioactive waste left over from the building of the nation's nuclear weapons arsenal.

Thanks to rain, irrigated cotton looked good in most of the state, but whether dryland cotton will make a crop is still an iffy proposition in many areas, according to reports from Texas AgriLife Extension Service personnel.

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the Texas AgriLife Extension Service have scheduled three waste pesticide collections in September around the Panhandle.

The Camp Hereford Prisoner of War Camp Memorial Chapel, on the border between Deaf Smith and Castro counties, looks about the same as it did sixty-five years ago.

The Camp Hereford Prisoner of War Camp Memorial Chapel, on the border between Deaf Smith and Castro counties, looks about the same as it did sixty-five years ago.

The Camp Hereford Italian Prisoner of War Camp Memorial chapel is being re-dedicated Saturday morning.

Hereford police said Monday the elderly woman killed in her home last week was attacked by her teenage granddaughter.

Detective Chad Stephens carries evidence Thursday with Chief David Wagner as Hereford police investigate a homicide in the 200 block of Greenwood Street in Hereford .

Rain turned streets near Ridgecrest Park on Southwest 37th Avenue into a river Wednesday afternoon, allowing best friends Preston Adams, 10, front, and Garrett White, 9, to enjoy summer fun.

Department of Public Safety Trooper Chad Brooks runs Wednesday on U.S. Highway 287 approaching Washburn.

A 38-year-old Clovis woman was killed early Friday morning in fiery crash north of Hereford.