Latest local news, weather and high school sports from Amarillo

Thursday, April 04, 2013  Parents have been arrested on charges they locked thier nine-year-old son in wooden box.

Monday, November 19, 2012  A Southeast Texas man convicted of biting his female roommate as he argued with his girlfriend has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Monday, May 16, 2011  River Road High School students see first-hand the consequences of drinking and driving and its profound impact on someone's life.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011  Texas firefighters who refused to be waived away by people outside a burning house extinguished the blaze, then found a marijuana operation inside.

Saturday, July 17, 2010  Police are questioning an 18-year-old man about the fatal stabbing of another teen after both were found bleeding on a Galveston beach.

Friday, July 02, 2010  Hurricane Alex provided an extra day at sea for passengers on the Carnival Cruise Lines ship Ecstasy as it waited off Texas to dock.

Wednesday, June 09, 2010  A jury in Galveston has acquitted a man accused of hitting a woman with a cantaloupe-size bag of Mardi Gras beads dropped from a second-story balcony.

Tuesday, June 08, 2010  Authorities say a man who was shot and killed by Galveston police approached an officer with a butcher knife.

Monday, May 24, 2010  A federal revision of flood maps in 17 Texas coastal counties based on information from Hurricane Ike could lead to costly insurance increases for some homeowners.

Friday, April 30, 2010  Flies buzz everywhere and the stench is overwhelming as biologist Lyndsey Howell stops to analyze the remains of yet another endangered sea turtle washed up from the Gulf of Mexico.

Monday, April 26, 2010  A priest convicted of molesting children in one of the first of the modern church abuse scandals is out of jail after serving two years for violating the Texas sex offender registration law.

Thursday, February 25, 2010  Six counties will work to protect the Texas coast from another storm surge like the wallop from 2008's Hurricane Ike.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010  Preliminary autopsy results indicate a Texas woman found dead in her room on a cruise ship had no sign of trauma.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009  The Coast Guard says it has contained an oil  spill in the Gulf of Mexico caused when two tankers collided near Galveston, Texas.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009  The Coast Guard says it has contained an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico caused when two tankers collided near Galveston, Texas.