Scurry County News

One of the games most children play at the splash pad involves figuring out which self-filling bucket is going to dump water from its tower first.

Police say there was a homicide early Wednesday morning in Snyder. Wednesday afternoon police arrested 21-year-old Jamie Olivarez and 18-year-old Josh Pesina.

My dad, a retrospective: Arthur Vaughn Bullock was the ninth and last child of John Calhoun Breckenridge and Mary Rebekah Nichols Bullock.

Cleanup: A citywide cleanup day will be held Saturday in Anson. Large rollaway trash bins will be available.

Hollywood might have learned its art of depicting blizzards from a snowstorm in the Lubbock area in February 1940.

Two city liquor elections failed in the Big Country, all three area school bond elections passed, and the Coleman police chief kept his office during Saturday elections.

YAHOO! The Reporter-News Editorial Board Sunday, April 26, 2009 The Abilene Reporter-News editorial board is made up of Publisher Kim Nussbaum, Editor Barton Cromeens and six members of the community -- Lisa Blackwell, Brent Casey, John Davis, Tracey Serrell, Greg Varner and Jerilynn Yungblut.

Winston Field airport in Snyder will get a makeover, and Scurry County will save about $400,000, thanks to a $4 million stimulus grant.

Reporter-News Photo by Ronald W. Erdrich Jerry Holle strips cotton on one of his Runnels County fields in October 2007.

The West Texas Children's Advocacy Center hosted its fourth annual Child Abuse Awareness Banquet where they honored donors and volunteers who have made their work possible over the year.

The grassfires keep burning in the Permian Basin, this time in Howard County as several agencies are just showing up at a large blaze there, Texas Forest Service spokeswoman Mary Dodson said.

The distinct whistle of the quail, once a prominent hallmark across the open spaces of Texas, has softened to a faint echo in many parts of the state.

As the Texas drought diminished soil moisture and dried out pastures and rangeland, wildfires reports have heated up, according to the Texas AgriLife Extension Service and the Texas Forest Service.

Coleman County has commissioned a master plan for the restoration of the exterior of its courthouse.

Billy Dewayne George, 32, of Weed, charged with commercial burglary, larceny . Ramon Guerrero, 25, of the 7200 block of Norris, charged with contempt of court, failure to pay fines.

Several wrecks along U.S. 277, DPS reported. Shackelford County -- Slick stretch along U.S. 180 east of Albany and where it intersects with State 351.

Stearns History Museum has hired a new executive director. Charlene Akers will start as the museum's executive director March 1, said Pete Alexander, treasurer for the Stearns History Museum board and search ...