Syrian gunners pounded an opposition stronghold where the last dispatches from a veteran American-born war correspondent chronicled the suffering of civilians caught in the relentless shelling. An intense morning barrage...
Wednesday, February 22 2012 4:57 PM EST2012-02-22 21:57:24 GMT
KILLEEN, Texas - Police have determined that a 4-year-old boy found his mother's gun and fatally shot his 3-year-old brother at their Central Texas home.
Wednesday, February 22 2012 3:33 PM EST2012-02-22 20:33:45 GMT
DAYTON, Texas - The eight children confined in a small, dark bedroom with a piece of plywood over the window included two 2-year-olds tied to a bed and a 5-year-old girl "in a restraint on a filthy mattress," the child welfare worker who discovered them said in a court document.
Clashes between Afghan troops and protesters angry over the burning of Muslim holy books at a U.S. military base left at least seven people dead and dozens wounded Wednesday as anger spread despite U.S. apologies over what...
Wednesday, February 22 2012 2:40 PM EST2012-02-22 19:40:11 GMT
Clovis, New Mexico - There will now be severe restrictions on open fires in Curry County. Commissioners voted to implement a fire danger emergency resolution.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration plans to take a second look at the weight loss pill Qnexa on Wednesday, after initially rejecting it because of concerns about heart problems and possible birth defects.
Breast cancers in women aged 40 to 49 that are diagnosed by mammograms have a better prognosis than those detected by doctors or the women themselves, a new study indicates.
Wednesday, February 22 2012 11:43 AM EST2012-02-22 16:43:53 GMT
New York - For the first time in almost four years, the Dow Jones Industrial Average broke 13,000 and it could be the turning point for the struggling U.S. economy.
Officers on horseback cleared Bourbon Street early Wednesday, declaring an end to Carnival 2012 in New Orleans as Mardi Gras revelers began to prepare for the beginning of Lent, the period of fasting and repentance before...
Tuesday, February 21 2012 7:49 PM EST2012-02-22 00:49:40 GMT
A Saudi man accused of trying to make a weapon of mass destruction and targeting former President George W. Bush's home in Dallas is mentally competent to stand trial, a federal judge in Texas ruled Tuesday.
Tuesday, February 21 2012 3:02 PM EST2012-02-21 20:02:57 GMT
DAYTON, Texas - Texas authorities have removed 11 children from a home after finding some restrained by harnesses and discovering other signs of abuse.
The U.S. apologized Tuesday for the burning of Muslim holy books that had been pulled from the shelves of a detention center library adjoining a major base in eastern Afghanistan because they contained extremist messages or...
Tuesday, February 21 2012 12:34 PM EST2012-02-21 17:34:45 GMT
One local clinic is growing to help meet the growing demands of the community. Amarillo's Hillside Family Health Clinic is accepting Medicaid meanwhile many are not.
Newt Gingrich is asserting that President Barack Obama pursues an "outrageously anti-American" energy policy that snubs the Keystone oil pipeline and puts too much stock in electric car technology to wean the country from...
An unmistakable dynamic is playing out in the money game among Republican presidential candidates: New "super" political action committees are growing more powerful than the campaigns they support.
Whitney Houston was laid to rest Sunday at a brief private ceremony in New Jersey, the end of a weekend that saw the pop star's family and friends gather at a star-studded funeral to mourn her loss while celebrating her...
A small but growing number of teens and even younger children who think they were born the wrong sex are getting support from parents and from doctors who give them sex-changing treatments, according to reports in the...
Tuesday, February 21 2012 12:02 AM EST2012-02-21 05:02:37 GMT
Canyon, TX - Before going into combat soldiers are able to go through special training, but parents do not have that luxury. When their kids hit the war front, they are left to figure things out for themselves.
John Glenn made his historic spaceflight alone in 1962 but celebrated its 50th anniversary Monday among hundreds of people within his orbit, from fellow headline-making astronauts and NASA's administrator to family,...
Monday, February 20 2012 9:39 PM EST2012-02-21 02:39:02 GMT
High winds created a sandstorm that brought on an 11-vehicle accident which hospitalized four and shut down a section of Highway 287 for several hours.
Monday, February 20 2012 4:50 PM EST2012-02-20 21:50:30 GMT
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The nation's largest protestant denomination will remain "Baptist" but it's thinking about whether to stay "Southern" for much longer.
Monday, February 20 2012 12:51 PM EST2012-02-20 17:51:16 GMT
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Officials at Sandia National Laboratories say decontamination foam developed more than a decade ago by lab scientists is now being used to clean up methamphetamine labs.
Monday, February 20 2012 12:24 PM EST2012-02-20 17:24:47 GMT
BOSTON — U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials plan to investigate whether inhalable caffeine sold in lipstick-sized canisters is safe for consumers and if its manufacturer was right to brand it as a dietary supplement.
Monday, February 20 2012 10:29 AM EST2012-02-20 15:29:59 GMT
Austin, Tx - In the first 16 days since abandoning his presidential campaign, Governor Rick Perry has been to his office just three times and stayed no longer than three hours each time.
Newt Gingrich slammed his Republican rivals Friday for refusing to appear in a nationally televised debate from his home state of Georgia, a state the former House speaker has made central to his strategy of getting his...
Sunday, February 19 2012 10:56 PM EST2012-02-20 03:56:16 GMT
Amarillo, Tx - A federal court's decision to delay the Texas primaries means the candidates for U.S. Senate have a long and potentially expensive slog ahead of them. A judge has said the soonest Texans
Sunday, February 19 2012 5:25 PM EST2012-02-19 22:25:10 GMT
SEATTLE (AP) — Authorities say two people are reported dead and as many as eight more are missing after an avalanche near a Washington state ski resort. King County sheriff's Sgt. Cindi West says
Sunday, February 19 2012 5:21 PM EST2012-02-19 22:21:20 GMT
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — A fight among inmates led to a prison riot in northern Mexico that killed 44 people Sunday, a security official said. Nuevo Leon state public security spokesman Jorge Domene
With the popularity of the Back to the Future franchise spawning new products, Mattel is the latest company to jump in the Delorean and race up to 88 miles per hour.
Saturday, February 18 2012 10:59 PM EST2012-02-19 03:59:56 GMT
New Mexico - Governor Susana Martinez has signed a bill that will provide special permits for hay haulers. Current law only allows for the transport over oversized hay loads on national highways but not
Saturday, February 18 2012 10:58 PM EST2012-02-19 03:58:14 GMT
Cape Canaveral, Fl. - Veterans of NASA's Project Mercury have landed in Cape Canaveral this weekend to celebrate 50 years of orbital flight. This Monday will mark the golden anniversary of John Glenn's
Saturday, February 18 2012 5:02 PM EST2012-02-18 22:02:49 GMT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Within the last week, authorities say, Amine El Khalifi's plan was proceeding as hoped: An al-Qaida associate handed him an automatic weapon to kill security officers inside the
Saturday, February 18 2012 4:56 PM EST2012-02-18 21:56:57 GMT
NEW YORK (AP) — Gasoline prices have never been higher this time of the year. At $3.53 a gallon, prices are already up 25 cents since Jan. 1. And experts say they could reach a record $4.25 a gallon
Saturday, February 18 2012 3:03 PM EST2012-02-18 20:03:20 GMT
Amarillo, Texas - It's something you certainly wouldn't expect to see in the Texas panhandle, but it's here and it's drawing in big crowds and making big bucks.
Three weeks before Josh Powell killed himself and kids in a violent inferno, Utah authorities disclosed to social workers for the first time that his computer once contained some 400 images of cartoon sex and incest.
Most Americans don't share Rick Santorum's absolutist take on abortion. He's out of step on women in combat. He questions the values of the two-thirds of mothers who work. He's even troubled by something as...
President Barack Obama on Friday called for more steps to help U.S. companies compete overseas, standing in front of an enormous Boeing Dreamliner to summon a bright future for American manufacturing and exports.
Friday, February 17 2012 6:54 PM EST2012-02-17 23:54:34 GMT
MIDLAND, Texas - Federal prosecutors on Friday asked that a judge dismiss the criminal charge against a soldier who was arrested at a Texas airport in December after trying to bring military-grade explosives on a cross-country flight.
Americans are getting an election-year tax present. Congress voted with rare speed and cooperation Friday to extend a Social Security payroll tax cut for 160 million workers and to renew unemployment benefits for millions...
Friday, February 17 2012 5:37 PM EST2012-02-17 22:37:36 GMT
NORMAN, Okla. - Investigators say DNA has linked a Colorado inmate suspected of being the "Ether Man" serial rapist to a string of sexual assaults that roiled the University of Oklahoma campus from 1985 to 2005.
Friday, February 17 2012 5:08 PM EST2012-02-17 22:08:28 GMT
ARLINGTON, Texas - A train derailment in the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth area has led to the evacuations of 5 buildings, although initial fears of hazardous materials have eased.
Friday, February 17 2012 4:52 PM EST2012-02-17 21:52:55 GMT
WASHINGTON (AP) — A 29-year-old Moroccan man was arrested Friday near the U.S. Capitol as he was planning to detonate what he thought was a suicide vest, given to him by FBI undercover operatives, said police and government officials.
Friday, February 17 2012 3:03 PM EST2012-02-17 20:03:40 GMT
TRENTON, N.J. — Recall-plagued Johnson & Johnson is pulling all infant Tylenol off the U.S. market because some parents have had problems with redesigned bottles.
Friday, February 17 2012 2:47 PM EST2012-02-17 19:47:31 GMT
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A federal jury has awarded more than $3 million in damages to three former inmates raped by a prison guard at a New Mexico prison for women.
Friday, February 17 2012 2:36 PM EST2012-02-17 19:36:11 GMT
CLOVIS, N.M. - The mayor of Clovis says the community needs more rental housing to accommodate Cannon Air Force Base while helping jump start the economy of eastern New Mexico.
In children as young as 6 months old, changes in the brain that can lead to autism spectrum disorder may have already begun, preliminary research suggests.
Millions of Americans will continue to receive long-term unemployment benefits under legislation approved Friday in Congress, but the scope of the program is being scaled back to cover fewer people by the end of the year.
Friday, February 17 2012 2:01 PM EST2012-02-17 19:01:49 GMT
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - An Albuquerque woman who signed away her Chihuahua to be euthanized four months ago after it was viciously attacked by another dog has discovered that her dog is alive.
Friday, February 17 2012 1:35 PM EST2012-02-17 18:35:54 GMT
Amarillo, TX - A juvenile has been booked into the Youth Center of the High Plains after police say he stole a truck and led police on a high speed chase Friday morning.
Germany's president resigned Friday in a scandal over favors he allegedly received before becoming head of state, and Chancellor Angela Merkel moved quickly to try and head off a domestic political crisis as she grapples...
Capitol Hill negotiators Thursday officially unveiled hard-fought compromise legislation to prevent 160 million workers from getting slapped with a payroll tax hike, but it ran into turbulence in the Senate, where...
Thursday, February 16 2012 7:19 PM EST2012-02-17 00:19:01 GMT
Portales, New Mexico - The former Captain of the Portales Police Department was sentenced in court Thursday after pleading No Contest to 3 felony counts of Tampering with Evidence.
Doing away with the U.S. health care reform act's requirement that all Americans must have health insurance would not dramatically increase the cost of buying policies through new insurance exchanges, but would significantly reduce the number of people who get insurance.
It's become standard-operating procedure when a celebrity dies too young - investigators immediately go looking through their nightstand and medicine cabinet.
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum released four years of federal income tax returns on Wednesday night, showing a sharp rise in his personal wealth spurred by his growing work as Washington-based corporate...
The prisoners whose scorched bodies were carried out piece by piece Thursday morning from a charred Honduran prison had been locked inside an overcrowded penitentiary where most inmates had never been charged, let alone...
Congressional negotiators ended a bruising election-year fight and sealed an agreement late Wednesday on legislation to renew a payroll tax cut for 160 million workers and jobless benefits for millions more, a top priority...
Wednesday, February 15 2012 5:25 PM EST2012-02-15 22:25:12 GMT
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Bernalillo County Sheriff's deputies arrested two women on Valentine's Day for refusing to move from the entrance to the marriage license area of the county clerk's office in downtown Albuquerque.
Wednesday, February 15 2012 4:08 PM EST2012-02-15 21:08:56 GMT
SAN ANTONIO - A federal judge has told Republican leaders in Texas to plan as though the state's primary will be May 29 because the long-running dispute over redistricting likely won't allow for it to be held any earlier.
Will you qualify for a piece of the $26 billion settlement to resolve claims against the nation's five largest mortgage lenders? Here are some of the details.
The Child Tax Credit is available to eligible taxpayers with qualifying children under age 17. The IRS would like you to know these eleven facts about the child tax credit.
Tuesday, February 14 2012 11:19 PM EST2012-02-15 04:19:34 GMT
Amarillo, Texas - Today's Amarillo City Commission meeting brought an unexpected turn of events, when officials decided to put a measure to restrict where area sex offenders can live, on hold.
Tuesday, February 14 2012 8:11 PM EST2012-02-15 01:11:50 GMT
Canyon, TX - West Texas A&M students could soon see an increase in tuition and fee's. The Texas Legislature cut nearly three-million dollars of the universities budget.
Whitney Houston's funeral will be held Saturday in the church where she first showcased her singing talents as a child, her family choosing to remember her in a private service rather than in a large event at an arena.
Eve Ensler wants a billion people around the globe to stand together against violence. Actually, she wants them to do more than stand: She wants them to dance.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress Tuesday that the president's new $3.8 trillion spending plan would impose new taxes on only 2 percent of the nation's wealthiest families and the alternative would be...
She's a Florida girl who's comfortable in a bikini, and now 19-year-old model Kate Upton is on the cover of the 2012 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue.
Gov. Chris Gregoire signed into law a measure that makes Washington state the seventh to legalize same-sex marriage, but opponents almost immediately filed a referendum to challenge the new law, meaning voters likely will...
Taking a pass on reining in government growth, President Barack Obama unveiled a record $3.8 trillion election-year budget plan Monday, calling for stimulus-style spending on roads and schools and tax hikes on the wealthy to...
Faith City, Inc. includes Chapel services, Faith City Family Lighthouse, Women's Ministries, Children's Ministries, emergency food boxes, clothing outreach, and the Hope Programs for Men and Women.
In an effort to finally put to rest questions about where he was born, the White House on Wednesday released President Obama's long-form birth certificate. See it here and follow the story.
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