NewsTalk 940 AM

Buckle up, I got a story for you. I do a lot of digging around for story ideas. As you may have already noticed, I'm quite the fan of true crime--especially true crime and Texas Panhandle history. There's something to be said about unearthing a nugget of forgotten events. And this time, I've got some events that involve a little-known serial killer named Benjamin Herbert Boyle.

Today we have another edition of Amarillo Cursed Buildings. Keep in mind when we say cursed we don't mean haunted or anything really negative, it's just buildings that have had multiple businesses in them over the years. Today we are looking at 3130 S. Soncy, for as young as this...

Unusual and, frankly, adorable news coming out of Plano, Texas. Texas man Bryan Hughes captured footage of a bobcat mother and her "kittens" playing and hanging out on a fairway at the Gleneagles Country Club in Plano. Even though we see bobcats in the state of Texas, it is certainly...

One of my favorite lines from the movie Annie Hall is when the main character quips, "I don't want to move to any city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light." Recently, I began to wonder if there's ever a...

Recently, I wrote about the town of Picher, OK. Picher is infamous for being an incredibly toxic place. No one lives there anymore, and there aren't any businesses left. Thanks to the Internet, we can take a tour of this highly toxic ghost town without having to go ourselves. The...

A train derailment was reported to have occurred in Hereford Wednesday, August 17, 2022. The incident happened in the early morning hours. According to MyHighPlains, the derailment took place in the area of Highway 60 and Road DD around 5 am. Officials with BNSF Railway confirmed that 17 freight train cars were involved in the accident. There have been no reports of injuries to the train crew. The exact cause of the derailment is currently under investigation.

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department wants you to know about zone boundaries and more so that you have a great Dove hunting season in 2022 & 2023 as boundaries and laws are subject to change from year to year. Below are some specifics you need to know about Zone...

Nothing excites us more than hearing the words "football is back"!. The atmosphere, the stadium, the crowd, it's all just electric. For several hours, you forget about all the worries in your life and root for your team like it's the only thing happening in the world at that time.

So usually when you are going to commit a crime, your hope is that you're going to get away with it, right?. Whether it be something like jacking a candy bar from the gas station, all the way up to a violent crime we won't speak into existence. Kinda makes...

Class is back in session for most of our youth and one North Texas mom is sending a message to legislators in Texas. She has created a "bulletproof' dress, the dress is a symbol of how gun violence has left parents scared of sending their kids to school. Meet Cassie...

I know there are some people out there who are amazing law-abiding citizens who never speed. Most of us have the ever-living fear of seeing those red and blues in our rearview mirrors. Everyone is in such a hurry these days, if we can get somewhere three minutes faster we will hammer down on the pedal.

It's Back to School time in Amarillo, which means, let's do a refresh on what to do when you are around school buses. I know most of us know what to do when we're around school buses and see flashing red lights. However, there are still some people that just don't get it, and think they can zoom around a bus because they are in a hurry.

On September 11, 1874, a band of Southern Cheyenne Indians led by Chief Medicine Water massacred John German, his wife, and three of their children near Fort Wallace in western Kansas. Four daughters were spared and taken captive. Subjected to exposure, malnutrition, and cruel treatment, the sisters were eventually taken into the Texas Panhandle where the two youngest girls were abandoned. Surviving on their own for six weeks, the two sisters were found by Grey Beard’s band, which was camped north of McClellan Creek, about 14 miles south of Pampa, Texas. “The Contested Plains” is a poignant recreation of the four girls’ struggles for survival and their subsequent recapture by U.S. Army.

It seems like a daily conversation. When did things get so expensive? It's next to impossible to leave the grocery store without spending at least one hundred dollars. That is just for the basic stuff you need. No luxuries. Of course, the gas prices have been crazy for a while....

We have all sorts of farms and ranches here in the Texas Panhandle. We grow all sorts of crops. We raise all sorts of animals. Texas is good for that. When I was looking around the area there was one farm I wasn't really expecting. Oh, but I am glad that I found it.

Josh Jung missed the first several months of this season recovering and rehabbing from a shoulder injury and subsequent surgery. When Jung was done rehabbing, ahead of schedule mind you, they shipped him to Arizona to play in some warm-up contests at a lower level. He dominated. Then the Texas Rangers brought him up to AAA, the highest level of the minor leagues. He's dominating that too.

A Lubbock woman was arrested for assaulting another woman with her vehicle. The Lubbock Police Department received a call Saturday, August 13th, from 24-year-old Kiyanna Hightower stating that someone had busted her windows with a bottle. KAMC news reported that moments later after that first call dispatchers then received another call from a woman claiming that Hightower had hit her physically with her car.

The Texas Department of Public Safety has increased the reward in a 1977 cold case out of Winkler County and Kermit. According to the Midland Reporter-Telegram, the reward is now $6,000 for any information that leads to an arrest in the case of 73-year-old S.A. "Champ" Weaver who was murdered in 1977.

Amarillo's problem with "pet overpopulation" is no secret. Find anyone with a soft spot for cats and dogs and they'll tell you all about it. Luckily, there's some good news on the horizon. Soon, there might be more hope for Amarillo's misplaced four-legged friends. The Shelters Are Packed. Which is...

A recent study was done just in time for the start of the fall semester. Wallethub decided to find out which community colleges were the best, and they did it by state. Congrats to Amarillo College. They landed in the top five in the Lone Star State. It Really Should...