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1. CHRISTMAS IN THE GARDENS PREVIEW PARTY: Enjoy strolling through Amarillo Botanical Gardens with family and friends gazing at the glowing foliage. (Friday)
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2. WEST TEXAS POLAR EXPRESS: Dancing chefs, singing elves and a special gift from Santa himself – departing from Wolfforth. (Opens today)
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A GoFundMe account has been set up to help pay for the funerals of three young members of the Richard “Rick” Stone family who were laid to rest on Tuesday.
The young siblings — Ricky, 8, Audrianna, 6, and Keagan, 4 — died Nov. 10 along with their mother, Michelle Stone, 34, inside their family’s RV trailer home on Brook Hollow in what police now say was a triple-homicide and suicide.

Friday was a chilly, chili day for Amarillo. The Amarillo Veterans Affairs Center hosted its 31st annual Chili Cook Off to benefit the Combined Federal Campaign, while across town the Chili Thrown Down at Amarillo Civic Center Complex was also taking place, raising funds for the United Way.
Crockpots everywhere were bubbling traditional hot and odd recipes.
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After raiding five Amarillo massage parlors, a bank branch and two homes on Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security Investigations division Friday confirmed it has now seized one of the homes and more than $300,000 in cash from bank safe deposit boxes.
The raids and seizures were the result of a two-year investigation into the massage and spa locations that culminated Thursday in the arrest of Xiaoyao Wang, 52, of Amarillo.
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Property values in a stretch of downtown Amarillo have gone up 40 percent over the past decade.
But it hasn’t always been that way.
In 2006, Amarillo citywide property values were steadily increasing largely due to record numbers in 1990 and again in 2000, property values from 1985 to 2006 grew 168 percent, according to appraisal records.
But downtown wasn’t following the upward trend.
During that same time period property values in Center City decreased about 21 percent.

A Pampa man died Thursday night following what police described as a two-vehicle versus pedestrian crash on US-60 in Carson County near Panhandle.
Pedestrian Jesus Torres Jr., 30, of Pampa, was pronounced dead at the scene by Carson County Justice of the Peace Jean Hardman.
The Texas Department of Public Safety reports that at approximately 7:48 p.m. Thursday a Dodge Charger and a Honda Civic were headed west on US-60 roughly four miles outside of Panhandle. Investigators say a man was walking near the road, in the dark.

Amarillo College students won’t have to go hungry this Thanksgiving, thanks to the generosity of the school’s faculty and staff.
Nonperishable food donations from AC employees have filled 200 sacks with holiday goodies such as canned corn, green beans, yams, french fried onions, gravy mix, cranberries and pie crusts.
AC faculty and staff donated enough food to fill 100 sacks in 2015, and the AC Food Pantry expected the same size donation this year. But doubling that amount shows the campus’s giving spirit, AC spokesman Joe Wyatt said.

Teddy Jack’s Hub City Grill, a popular no-frills Lubbock restaurant, will open a new location at 5080 S. Coulter St. in August 2017.
The property is valued at $1.6 million and can hold 451 people in 7,890 square feet, according to city permits. And it will also include an outside patio capable of seating about 100 people, Teddy Jack’s managing partner Reed McClellan said.