Mike Hendren

Today is election day!  Below are links to a list of polling locations and the League of Women Voters guide on the amendments on today’s ballot.  There 10 proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution on the ballot today.  Pleas

The man who confronted officers from the Wichita Falls Police Department last night in the 100 block of Becky has been identified.  21 year-old Jeffrey Cole Royal was shot and killed in what started out as a response to a 9-1-1 call about an attempted s

UPDATE: Possible aftershocks already occurring.  USGS has upgraded quake to a 5.6 magnitude

The United States Geological Survey has reported that a 5.6 magnitude quake rattled Oklahoma and parts of Texas, Kansas and Arkansas Saturd

What should have been just another routine flight from LA to Kansas City turned out quite differently in the skies over Amarillo yesterday.  According to media reports, the 135 passengers and 5 crew members aboard Southwest Airlines flight 3683 got a scare when Ali Reza Shahsavari, 29, stood at the back of the plane and shouted “You’re all going to die.  Allahu Akba

Dust, wind and more dust is what the folks in Lubbock had to contend with on Monday afternoon as a powerful front pushed into Texas.  Winds gusting up to 60 MPH kicked up the West Texas sand, reducing visibility and making most any task nearly impossible for a time

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It’s easy to sit around and play armchair quarterback all day long.  It’s easy to watch the carnage and think it doesn’t affect you.  The hard part is to get your mind and body into the ‘game’ and actually do something about the problems at hand.  Too many American’s have simp

I’ve never been much on protests of the 60′s hippie type, but a public gathering of people who’ve just had all they can take is healthy from time to time.  I firmly believe that the First Amendment and the Second Amendment are the ones that give the other eight and, in fact, the entire constitution, teeth.  Without them, wha

Wichita Falls Police and first responders were called to the scene of a one car accident on East Scott near Hwy 79 at around 6:37 pm Wednesday.  First responders discovered that a black Mercury had struck a concrete pylon.  31 year-old Brian Scott Siegfried was pronounced d

Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, Inc., and the man behind everything from the Macintosh to the iPad, has died at 56.  Beginning in the early 1970′s, jobs vision and innovative style led the way for the development of the personal computer.  Jobs,

Wichita Falls Fire Department Haz-Mat crews responded to call about a chemical spill and possible fire at Texas Recreation Corporation in the 900 block of North Beverly Drive at around 9:00 am.   Wichita Falls Traffic Control also responded and diverted traffic off of North Beverly Drive while officials assessed and contained the chemical spill. 

President Obama is clearly a desperate man.  With straw poll numbers putting Republican hopefuls such as Ron Paul and Herman Cain ahead of him if the election were held today, he must feel the strain of desperation that comes from knowing your 15 minutes of fame are just about up.  And I st

A four-alarm blaze broke out at the former Vetrotex/CertainTeed plant on Allendale Road shortly after 1pm this afternoon.

An individual working inside the plant placed the 9-1-1 call at 1:21pm.  19 uni