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Monday, February 04, 2013  Hale County and the City of Plainview are recovering after the double hit that Cargill laid off 2000 workers and news of the idling of the White Energy Ethanol Plant. Both are the result of the drought that has hit the area for the past year and a half.

Thursday, January 17, 2013  Cargill officials have announced that they will idle the Plainview beef processing facility at the close of business on Feb.1, 2013. They are making the plant idle due to the tight cattle supply from years of drought that have affected the area.

Wednesday, December 28, 2011  Police need the public's help finding a missing elderly man who they say has health problems.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011  A West Texas rodeo worker has died after horses he was tending turned around and stampeded over him.

Thursday, June 23, 2011  In what's being called "an historic day", Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens has sold his water rights in Roberts County to the Canadian River Municipal Water Authority, or CRMWA.

Wednesday, October 06, 2010  Good news for all you who live in the rural parts of the Panhandle. Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center has been awarded a grant that's helping it bring pediatric care to you.

Thursday, August 19, 2010  A federal judge in Virginia is reviewing proposed settlement payments to the families of 53 victims of last year's nationwide salmonella outbreak.

Monday, July 19, 2010  A state canvass has found 355 companies that appear to be producing and selling food products without required state licenses.

Monday, June 14, 2010  Jimmy Dean, a country music legend for his smash hit about a workingman hero, "Big Bad John," and an entrepreneur known for his sausage brand, died on Sunday. He was 81.

Thursday, February 11, 2010  Texas authorities are holding a Carlsbad bail bondsman in the death of an Amarillo man.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010  A man wanted out of Potter County has been shot and killed by a bounty hunter in Plainview.

Monday, February 01, 2010  Dozens of victims of last year's nationwide salmonella outbreak will split about $12 million as part of a settlement.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009  On Friday afternoon, a federal jury in Amarillo found Tyrone Luvoid Hutcherson, 41, guilty on two counts of bank robbery, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas.

Monday, June 08, 2009  The Texas subsidiary of the company at the heart of this year's salmonella outbreak has filed for bankruptcy.

Friday, April 10, 2009  The shuttered Texas plant owned by a bankrupt peanut company at the heart of a national salmonella outbreak was fined a record $14.6 million by the state Thursday.