With the glaring exception of Donley and Collingsworth counties, the first freeze of the year was slated to come last night in the Texas panhandle. It would have come a week later than average, which is October 20.
Luckily for hotblooded Texas, it didn’t exactly freeze, and temperatures are expected to pick back up soon – tonight, lows will be just above freezing. No freezes should occur through this week, either.
Instances of pertussis, or whooping cough, are on the rise in the Amarillo area.
The warning comes from the Amarillo Bi-City-County Health District after three local children were afflicted with the cough. Pertussis causes seemingly interminable coughing bouts with coughs followed by the trademark “whooping” noise. Vomiting, shortness of breath and skin turning shades of blue are other things to watch for. Pertussis is life threatening for younger people and isn’t eased with traditional medicine.
Sometimes, you hate your job so much that you want to make others miserable – or try to kill them.
Such was the case of 20 year old Nwee Lah, who while working at a Tyson meat production plant near Amarillo, stuck saw blades into the meat.
Oh, it’s that time of year again. Leaves, pumpkins, spices and harvests. Police, however, are on patrol for a different kind of harvest – a pot harvest.
The beginning of October marks the start of the pot harvest in Mexico, a harvest which ends in February for Mexican drug cartels – their number one cash crop, naturally. The cartels must make room for the new harvest, so they have to get rid of the old stuff by sending it over the Texas border.
If you heard that a hot air balloon was shot down in a race on Saturday near Amarillo, you were majorly misinformed, according to Swisher County police.
Reports from TV said that someone on the ground shot a hot air balloon out of the sky as it was in a race originating in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The reports said after it had been shot, the balloon had to make an emergency landing near Plainview. When authorities came to the alleged landing area, the balloon was there with the two occupants claiming they had been shot at.
A young Amarillo woman who claims TSA agents humiliated her when searching her at a Corpus Christi airport is now suing the federal government for intentional infliction of emotional distress. The 23 year old college student says that while being frisked in a security check in May of 2008, the agent pulled down her blouse in sight of many onlookers.
She went on to claim that the agents were joking and laughing about the matter during the check. After the search, the humiliated woman continued through the security checkpoint while the agents continued to make fun of the situation.
A local homeowner blasted a man with shots to the face last night, and police are investigating as to whether or not the man’s rearranged face was deserved.
A 33 year old named Carlos apparently drove up to the 37 year old homeowner’s house and started to walk towards it. At that time, the homeowner pulled out a gun and hit Carlos two or three times. One of the shots removed some of his teeth and went through the other side of his head.
It was not a good day to be a driver in Amarillo Wednesday.
Police noticed a truck that had been reported stolen in a parking lot near 11th Avenue and South Grand. When police pursued, three men got into the car and recklessly led police on a chase, leaving a path of damaged cars behind.
Police were told to back off when the truck sped through a residential area, but not before the truck sideswiped three vehicles and forced one into a light pole – this wrecked motorist was giving chase to the men.
The West Nile virus has been detected in the Amarillo area – but don’t start bathing yourself in repellent just yet. There have only been three reported so far in the area – one in Potter County and two others in Randall County.
The disease is far from an epidemic in these parts – only one case was reported from 2007 to 2009 in Potter County, while Randall had eight cases over the same time period.
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today announced that it has completed disassembly and inspection of the first W84 at NNSA’s Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas. This milestone marks the beginning of the disassembly and inspection process for the W84, a thermonuclear warhead that entered the stockpile in 1983. The disassembly and inspection process will confirm that the system, which has not been disassembled since 1998, has not experienced any safety-related aging issues.
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