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Scott Richardson
Dale Buckner Inc.
Richardson has been promoted to vice president of trading, research and service. He has also recently been appointed to the Technology Advisory Committee. He has been with Dale Buckner Inc. for 9 years.
Benjamin Egel
AGN Media & Amarillo Globe-News

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Chris Hatfield’s latest business is just eight months old, but he has been in the Amarillo marketing and website world for 16 years. He put together TopZone Media Group in February when the company he was working for closed.
“Not being ready to let it go, and not wanting close to 300 customers to be in a position to lose their websites, I decided it was time to jump back into the ownership role,” he said.
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As the corn harvest progresses through the end of October, Texas Panhandle farmers are feeling the pinch of a shrinking beef market and a dip below normal precipitation levels.
Whereas Wesley Spurlock’s annual corn harvest brought in about $4.20 to $4.50 per bushel last year, the Stratford farmer and National Corn Growers Association president now expects to earn $3.30 to $3.70 per bushel because of a worldwide commodity downtrend.
“It has to do with amount of corn produced in the U.S. and Brazil and Argentina,” Spurlock said, referencing three beef production hubs.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture began making safety net payments Tuesday “due to market downturns during the 2015 crop year,” The payments will total more than $7 billion, and more than 1.7 million farms are enrolled in the Agriculture Risk Coverage or Price Loss Coverage programs, including many in the Texas Panhandle.
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Grieving mother Jackie Bolden was among a group of survivors and supporters who gathered Friday afternoon at Southeast 10th Avenue and Taylor Street for the Family Support Services sponsored March Against Violence.
Bolden knows first-hand how important it is for a community to put a spotlight on domestic violence because of the lasting impact it has on victims and their families.
In the worst cases the impact of domestic violence-related homicides, the loved ones left behind seems to go on and on, a never-ending hurt.

Despite being more than 25 members short of a fully staffed unit, Amarillo Police Department remains committed to serving and protecting the streets of Amarillo, even if that means frequently having to work extra shifts, APD Public Information Officer Jeb Hilton said Friday.
The lack of available officers means that, according to APD officials, officers are notified on almost a daily basis that help is needed, and asked to cover shifts around the clock.
“We’re about 26 short of where we’re supposed to be,” Hilton said.

Amarillo Independent School District announced Friday it is collecting thousands of laptops issued to students after three of them caught fire this week.
In all, the district asked students to return about 4,000 Acer 720P Chromebooks. Roughly half of those were issued to Palo Duro High School students as part of a 1:1 computing program. Students were allowed to use the touchscreen devices inside and outside of school to access course materials, textbooks and library books.

The Amarillo Police Department is searching for a suspect in relation to an armed robbery committed Thursday night.
At 10 p.m. APD officers were dispatched to a robbery in the 1000 block of N. Buchanan where the victim said the suspect approached him from behind while he was painting a door. The suspect then spoke to the victim and struck him in the face when he turned around. The victim fell to the ground, at which point the suspect pointed a handgun at him and demanded all of his belongings.

The Caprock High School Class of 1966 is celebrating its 50 year reunion Friday and today, the first Caprock graduating class to hold a golden anniversary gathering. Members of the 1966 football team made a special presentation on Friday at the school’s pep rally in memory of two classmates killed in Vietnam, Dee Hyden and Vance Berry.
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