Deaf Smith County News

With few exceptions, much of the state continued to dry out after the drenchings received by Hurricane Ike and other storm systems a few weeks ago, according to reports from Texas AgriLife Extension Service ...

Cotton producers in the Northern High Plains Boll Weevil Eradication Zone have until Sept.

Many Texas counties received substantial rains, greatly alleviating drought conditions, greening up pastures and benefitting many late-planted crops such as soybeans, according to reports from Texas AgriLife ...

I have just returned from a trip of several weeks. After forty-four hundred miles and many a rest stop I have reached several conclusions based upon what I observed.

Friday, August 22, 2008 at 5:53 p.m. Most of the time the playa in San Jose, just south of Hereford, is dry, but the downpours of six inches and more in Deaf Smith County last week have filled the natural ...

A Deaf Smith County grand jury has indicted a Hereford man in the June 8 stabbing death of his wife.

Storms dumping free irrigation on the Lubbock area devastated farms in the northwest Panhandle.

When was the last time you heard anyone complain about "too much rain" around the Panhandle? Maybe, um, never? Well, if Mother Nature keeps the spigot turned on much longer after the weekend we've just been ...

Marcos Ortiz, left, 6, and his cousin, Alexis Ortiz, 10, ride bikes Saturday in floodwaters at the Hereford Aquatic Center Park.

The Amarillo Fire Department has new ground to cover now that Randall County gave the Osage Fire Department the boot yesterday.

If you live in rural Randall County, you're getting new firefighters. As of today, Amarillo Fire Department will be taking over responding to fires if you live North of Mccormick, West of Deaf Smith County or ...

Residents of a neighborhood near Hereford were drying out Monday after a weekend thunderstorm left many of their homes flooded.

Deaf Smith county and the Red Cross are teaming up to help people who have suffered from flooding this weekend in Hereford.

The Hereford man accused of fatally stabbing his wife June 8 has been released from the hospital and is incarcerated in Deaf Smith County Jail.

A criminal complaint filed Thursday in Deaf Smith County District Court alleges a Hereford man murdered his wife.

Randall County on Tuesday joined a quickly growing list of communities cracking down on aerial fireworks in response to drought-like conditions.

Hereford is home to nearly twice as many sex offenders as other Texas Panhandle communities its size, state records show.

“In fact, I didn't even have to convince the commissioners, and they didn't know what I was going to put on it at that point”

Deaf Smith part of larger mission Henry Bargas / Amarillo Globe-News Nort Mowery holds up a sample T-shirt at the Carson County Courthouse. via Amarillo.com

“If I was reasonably comfortable with our legal position in it, I'd very much be in favor of us doing it”

Potter County won't be tempting legal fate by allowing the placement of a monument with the Ten Commandments and various quotes inscribed on its surface at the Potter County Courthouse. via Amarillo.com

A Panhandle-area family is asking for your help . The Deaf Smith County Sheriff's Department says 51-year-old Martha Jean Brorman has been missing since as early as 2 a.m. Wednesday morning. via KVII-TV Amarillo