Randall County News

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.

National Adoption Month isn't a household holiday, but Darla Trammell of Tulia knows all about it.

Officials say this isn't the first time he's impersonated an official. They say he had a vehicle similar to an ambulance and it was stocked with what looked like legitimate medical equipment.

A 21-year-old Panhandle man was sentenced to eight years' deferred adjudication for indecency with a child.

An Amarillo man was indicted by a Randall County grand jury Wednesday on nine felony counts of inappropriate behavior with a child.

Thursday was a day to be remembered in Canyon. The Randall County courthouse, which stopped giving the time of day to the countya s residents almost 70 ago, is catching up with the times and keeping time to the coming music.

An Amarillo man involved in a prolonged feud with his brother is expected to recover after being stabbed over the weekend.

A brotherly feud turned violent early Sunday morning around midnight on the 2700 block of Curtis Street.

Darkness seems to be a time when fevers rise and the aches that accompany the flu increase.

Dale Davis, the police chief in Canyon, has been with the department since July 1980.

A 55-year-old man was sentenced Monday to five years in prison and 10 years of probation after a Randall County jury found him guilty of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

A woman accused of seriously injuring a child in a July 4 collision near the city's annual fireworks show was indicted Wednesday by a Randall County grand jury, according to records released by the county Thursday.

Several men were indicted Wednesday by a Randall County grand jury on charges of sex crimes against children, according to court records released Thursday.

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.

A Randall County jury heard testimony Tuesday on whether a Canyon man is guilty of intoxication manslaughter and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Prestridge is a registered sex offender, and is also facing probation revocation for not registering after moving to Randall County.

Title: TEXAS LAW ON CHILDREN'S SEEING PORN BEING CHALLENGED A 1970s-era Texas law that allows parents to show "harmful material" to their children has come under fire after a prosecutor said he couldn't file charges against a man accused of forcing his 8- and 9-year-old daughters to watch hardcore online pornography.

Randall County D.A. James Farren says he wants to prosecute, but a 1973 state law allows parents or guardians to show children explicit images.

A guilty conscience got the best of a 27-year-old Amarillo man Oct. 25 when he turned himself into the Randall County Sheriffa s Office for robbery.

A Texas lawmaker has vowed to challenge a 1970s-era Texas law that allows parents to show "harmful material" to their children.