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Human trafficking is modern-day slavery, keynote speaker Brianna Gehring told the Unite As One Domestic Human Trafficking Conference in late October, even while she acknowledged that many in attendance are already working on the front lines in an international push to end human trafficking.
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Week of Oct. 17-23
Intents to drill
OCHILTREE (PAN PETRO, Marmaton) Remnant Energy, Inc., #1H Stephenson, (640 acres) 330’ FNL & 990’ FWL, Sec 55, Blk 13, T&NO Surv, A-385, 10 mi SW from Perryton TD 8000’, (BHL: 330’ FSL & 990’ FWL) (sgd. Rebecca Dunn 806-665-0338) Horizontal
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■ In 1766, St. Paul’s Chapel, Manhattan’s oldest surviving house of worship, was consecrated in the Episcopal Diocese of New York.
■ In 1864, Helena, Mont., was founded.
■ In 1921, the silent film classic “The Sheik,” starring Rudolph Valentino, premiered in Los Angeles.
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Madison Hernandez sent her boyfriend Hunter Wright a text — Hey, I’m pregnant. Hunter could feel the knots in his stomach.
“A lot of emotions go through your mind,” he said. “It one was one of those classic ‘I-can’t-believe-this-is-happening’ things. You really think this could not happen to you.”
Wright was 16. Hernandez was 15. They were sophomores at Canyon High School in 2009. Seemingly another teen pregnancy, another statistic.
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While much of the voting public zeroes in on the candidates’ leaked emails or claims of sexual assault, Amarillo business leaders are dissecting the United States presidential race with an eye toward maintaining their economic livelihood.
Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have promised to cut business regulations in certain areas. Clinton said she will make occupational licensing easier, while Trump has vowed to repeal both the Dodd-Frank Wall Street regulation bundle and the Affordable Care Act.

CACHE, Okla. — The weeds are tall in the former Eagle Park, an amusement park shuttered in 1985, where about a dozen historic buildings sit together like an old town square. The skeleton of a wooden roller coaster — The Wild Mouse — barely stands taller than the trees that have grown up beneath it, and the remnants of a small stage and viewing stands aren’t much more than a pile of rusty metal and broken wood.
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Academic Spotlight
Ethan Bryant,
17

Class: 12th,
Amarillo High School
Nominated by: Kay Sherwood,
Latin teacher
From the nominator:

Name: Kay Sherwood

How are you associated with the student: Ethan is my student in Latin IV-AP and was my student in Latin I.
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The Harmon family moved out of their home in Canyon on Saturday. Friends filled the mint-green home and carried boxes out the door, under falling leaves to a U-Haul parked out front. Hugs were doled out, and best wishes were offered to John and Rebecca Harmon and their three children.
The Harmons’ youngest child, Sam, ran through the yard and the house, excited by the day’s events.
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“To the early settlers of this county, this building is respectfully dedicated,” reads a plaque above the entrance to the Potter County Courthouse in Amarillo. The words continue, “Their courage was undaunted.”
Vannessa Chavez stood under these timely words Saturday and welcomed Christians who had assembled around the steps to “courageously pray” for the United States during the Community FOR Country prayer gathering.
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