Wilbarger County News

Mikayla Zayas of Orlando, Fla., takes her turn during the mounted shooting competition Friday at the Wilbarger County Covered Events Center.

Members of the Vintage Vernon Foundation and the Downtown Revitalization Task Force have ghostly plans for the streets of downtown Vernon on Saturday, according to foundation president Carolyn Grimes.

Christopher Shawn Knight, 30 has been sentenced by a Wilbarger County jury to eight years in prison for assault of a public servant.

Officials say a northern Texas middle school student was found unresponsive at home and pronounced dead the morning after going through football practice in triple-digit heat.

If you've got a weak heart, stay out of Wilbarger County. That's because people who die in Wilbarger County are 35 percent more likely to die from heart disease than their neighbors to the east in Wichita County.

Authorities have charged a former Amarillo woman with capital murder, alleging she fatally beat her 5-year-old daughter.

A 22-year old Vernon woman was arrested at 3:40 a.m. Tuesday in connection with the death of her five-year-old daughter.

A new anti-drug program is starting up in Wilbarger County, according to 46th District Attorney Staley Heatly.

Home Instead Senior Care will be at the Sonic located on the corner of Southwest Parkway and Taft Boulevard from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday to raise money for the Alzheimer's Association Memory Walk.

Three people have been charged with intoxication manslaughter in connection with the death of 24-year-old Jordan Eli Ramirez.

The 126th annual Doan's May Picnic will be Saturday on the lawn of the historic Doan's Adobe.

The Nocona Rotary Club's fifth annual UPRA Bull Fest will start at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Chisholm Trail Rodeo Arena.

Terry Smith, 51 of Vernon pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of money laundering involving an oil theft ring that operated in Wilbarger and Hardeman counties from 2003 to 2007, according to 46th Judicial District Attorney Staley Heatly.

A suspect has been arrested in the death of a 42-year-old Vernon woman. A release from the Department of Public Safety says 38-year-old Toby James Armstrong was arrested on suspicion of stabbing and killing Rose Mary Alonzo.

Wilbarger county officials have released new information on a stabbing that has left a resident dead.

The National weather Service in Norman has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for northwestern Wichita County, northeastern Wilbarger County and several counties in southern Oklahoma.

Oil-field workers found an abandoned vehicle parked near a vacant house early Saturday on the Johnson & Ernst oil lease and were shocked when they discovered the body of a 42-year-old Vernon woman lying nearby.

Marissa Millender/Times Record News Ron Myrick looks at the rubble that used to be his home Friday afternoon in Electra.