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Commercial trucks and I-40 travelers are piled-up along the closed highway at I-40 and Soncy Road in Amarillo Monday, Feb. 25, 2013. A blizzard packing 50 mph wind gusts and more than 11 inches of snow blasted Amarillo and Texas Panhandle Monday, Feb. 25, 2013, making travel nearly impossible. Interstate 40 and many major highways in the Panhandle have been closed. (AP Photo/The Amarillo Globe News,Michael Schumacher)

Another blizzard blasts Midwest

Last updated Monday, February 25, 2013 - 11:29am

LUBBOCK, Texas -- National Weather Service officials in Kansas and Oklahoma issued blizzard warnings and watches through late Monday as the storm packing snow and high winds tracked eastward across West Texas toward Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri. Forecasters warned of possible tornadoes in the southeast.

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U.S. has plenty of medal prospects in smaller sports

Betsy Blaney The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, June 23, 2012 - 11:21pm

Matt Emmons is a cancer survivor hoping to atone for a pair of costly blunders in Olympic shooting events. Teenager Race Imboden is seeking the first men’s foil medal for the U.S. since 1960. World No. 1 Brady Ellison is hoping for the country’s first archery medal in 12 years.

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Archery hits pop culture's bull's-eye with movie

Betsy Blaney The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, May 29, 2012 - 3:34pm

Two-time Olympian Jennifer Nichols' eyes light up with she talks about her sport finally climbing out of the shadows.

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Ex-NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf arrested in Montana

Betsy Blaney, Matt Volz The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, March 31, 2012 - 8:17am

HELENA, Mont. — Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf was arrested Friday in his Montana hometown of Great Falls on burglary and drug possession charges, police said.

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(The Associated Press) This undated handout photo provided by the National Nuclear Security Administration shows the United States’ last B53 nuclear bomb. The 10,000-pound bomb is scheduled to be dismantled Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011 at the Pantex Plant just outside Amarillo, Texas. It’s a milestone in President Barack Obama’s efforts to reduce the number of nuclear weapons and their role in the U.S.

US’s most powerful nuclear bomb being dismantled

Betsy Blaney The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 11:37am

AMARILLO, Texas — The last of the nation’s most powerful nuclear bombs — a weapon hundreds of times stronger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima — is being disassembled nearly half a century after it was put into service at the height of the Cold War.

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In this photo taken July 28, 2011, Bubba Bennight, center, signals a bid during a cattle auction at the Lockhart Livestock Auction arena in Lockhart, Texas. The drought has left ranchers with the choice of either buying hay to feed their herds or selling them early. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

Drought forces Texas, Okla. ranchers to cut herds

Betsy Blaney The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, August 3, 2011 - 5:14pm

McALLEN, Texas — Texas cattle rancher Charles Kothman is down to six calves and their mothers after selling off 80 animals in recent months.

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Ryan Leaf quietly returns home to build a life

Betsy Blaney, The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, September 13, 2010 - 5:04pm

Ryan Leaf is up early each day and often out the door before his parents get up. He wants to stay busy, see people if he can. It's a routine he needs.

Life hasn't turned out the way Leaf expected.

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FLDS leader of YFZ Ranch to pay $148K in back child support

Betsy Blaney, The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, August 7, 2010 - 12:23am

LUBBOCK, Texas -- A polygamist leader in West Texas has agreed to pay child support dating to 2003, when his then-wife left the sect with their eight children.

Frederick Merril Jessop, the bishop of the Yearning for Zion Ranch, signed the order in court Thursday. He will pay his former wife $148,000 for seven years of back child support.

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Leach expects to return to college football

Betsy Blaney The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, March 21, 2010 - 10:25pm

LUBBOCK, Texas -- Mike Leach is far from the world he knew in landlocked Lubbock.

Instead of preparing for spring practice at Texas Tech, the former Red Raiders coach is enjoying fishing, exploring and meeting the people in Key West, Fla., where he and his family moved after he was fired in late December.

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