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Tuesday, July 17, 2012  Del Taco is setting its sights on Abilene, Amarillo, Lubbock, Midland and Odessa as the next growth targets in Texas as it continues its steady, fast-moving march through the state. Since first announcing plans to open its popular restaurants in Texas in 2010, Del Taco now has more than a dozen locations throughout the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex and Houston.

Monday, July 16, 2012  Every four years immigration is a hot-button topic among presidential candidates, so a recent move by the Obama Administration closing the local border patrol station could be putting Amarillo at risk.

Tuesday, July 10, 2012  A spokesman for the Border Patrol says it is shutting down nine stations, six of them in Texas, and plans to relocate the 41 agents who work at those outposts to positions nearer the borders.

Thursday, February 23, 2012  Retail gasoline prices have jumped another 7 cents in Texas, the ninth straight week with an increase.

Monday, August 08, 2011  Parents and players are pushing the Amarillo City Commission to build a fastpitch softball complex at which to play and host tournaments.

Thursday, May 27, 2010  A 63-year-old Abilene man is dead after a car struck the motorized wheelchair he was using.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010  Texas dealt with its second winter storm in as many weeks as scores of flights were canceled and snow fell as far south as Austin and San Antonio.

Thursday, March 19, 2009  Two teenagers are blamed for more than $200,000 in vandalism to Bonham Elementary School in Abilene.

Thursday, January 15, 2009  Louis Corona Barrientes last fall pleaded guilty to murder in the death of 35-year-old Cindy Jan Cortinaz Diaz. Her body was discovered in a vehicle belonging to the Barrientes family.

Tuesday, December 30, 2008  Firefighters have contained a fire that burned four mobile homes and two recreational vehicles at the House of Yahweh compound in West Texas.