Covid-19 and Coronavirus News

We have been granted more time to renew our license, registration etc in Texas.

After the new players moved in and a few additional staff members showed up, Texas Tech athletics tested everyone.

3 people are in critical condition and one person is blind in New Mexico after drinking hand sanitizer that contained methanol.

A Frenship ISD student in the summer UIL girl basketball program has tested positive for the coronavirus.

According to a press release from the Texas Tech Athletics Department, there are recent positive COVID-19 tests among the men's basketball team.

The City of Amarillo announced today they have reduced our Coronavirus (COVID-19) level to status "orange."

"People are starting to get back in the habit of going out, and I think that's good. It's not a lightswitch kind of thing. I don't think we thought it would be, and I think we know it was not. You know, it's more of a gradual rebuild," Pope said.

Governor Greg Abbott made the decision last week to open some Texas businesses on May 1st. He announced at a press conference Tuesday that he's adding more to the list.
Barbershops, hair salons, tanning salons, and nail salons will all be allowed to reopen Friday, May 8th...

It's been almost two months since the initial shelter in place was ordered and since then, thousands of people, men, and women, boy and girl haven't had their hair serviced.
Good news to those people!
Also to those who own hair salons, barbershops, things may start to get back to normal.
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With the April 21 arrest of an El Paso sex offender in Amarillo, Texas officials are on the hunt to catch offenders.

The Internal Revenue Service has launched an online tool for non-filers, or people that don't normally file taxes, to register quickly and receive stimulus checks.

There's another issue plaguing the state of Texas that's seem to go by the wayside; that's the number of children reported missing.