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The City of Amarillo is recycling its recycled goods. To cut down on solid waste, the city said it will give away items like “consumer quantity and strength pesticide, herbicide, paint, automotive related products and other miscellaneous items” from 1 to 4 p.m. today at a parking lot next to the softball field at 4001 S. Osage St.
According to the city, “All available items have been classified as items in usable condition and subject for reuse.”
Call Jim Gabler at 806-342-1528 for more information about Amarillo’s Consumer Recycling Rodeo.

The opportunity to support an Amarillo Police Department officer, should the occasion ever arise, through the APD Benevolence Fund happens today at the Amarillo Civic Center Complex.
A $7 ticket gets a hamburger, hot dog, sausage wrap, chips plus a drink, with the proceeds going to the fund. Tascosa Road Fellowship Church and Interstate All Battery Center of the High Plains are among the partners supporting the fund this year.
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For the first time in Amarillo, an organization might soon be able to offer 30-day inpatient residential treatment for a wide selection of Texas Panhandle residents who are trying to recover from alcoholism and drug abuse.
Amarillo Area Foundation, along with the Don & Sybil Harrington Foundation, has donated $375,000 to Amarillo Recovery from Alcohol and Drugs, a local group whose goal is to open a co-ed, inpatient residential recovery treatment program in Amarillo.

Sunday’s Plemons-Eakle Historic Home Tour will include some of the city’s oldest homes, including the Barfield House and one of Amarillo’s oldest churches. The tour is set from 2 to 6 p.m., and those who attend will be ferried from stop to stop via street trolley.
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All it took was a trip to New York City two years ago. Virginia and Mike Nowak, both 45, had not been in the toy business since 2009 when they closed their Great American Toy Co. store at 3333 S. Coulter St. after 17 years.
But on a spring break trip in 2014, they found themselves browsing through a small toy store in Grand Central Station.
Virginia said when she met up with her husband several minutes later, they both had that same familiar feeling.

Bret Barnard will be on the Stratford High sidelines tonight in street clothes for tonight’s nondistrict game with Littlefield. As a senior, he likely would be starting, either as a tight end or outside linebacker — or both.
But like he has for the last two years, Barnard will be only supporting his teammates, not playing with them. There was a time that on-the-outside-looking-in would have crushed him, but not any longer.
“Oh, it was extremely tough,” he said.

One of the first issues high on the to-do list of new Amarillo Police Chief Ed Drain is improving response times.
Drain assumed command of the department as its interim leader in July, just days after the public release of an 86-page report by an independent auditor, Colorado-based KRW Associates, which found that APD’s response times for high-priority calls were roughly twice the average of similarly sized departments.
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TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Prosecutors charged a white Oklahoma police officer with first-degree manslaughter Thursday, less than a week after she fatally shot an unarmed black man on a city street and just days after police released videos of the shooting, saying in court documents that the officer "reacted unreasonably."
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Law enforcement has evacuated Walmart in Canyon as a precaution after a bomb threat was discovered on a bathroom wall, according to police sources.
Canyon Police Department is asking people to avoid the area for the time being as a search is conducted.
According to police, the note was discovered by an employee and then reported to a manager.
Canyon police and Randall County Sheriff’s Office are at the scene.
The store is located at 1701 N. 23rd St., in Canyon.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists used radar from satellites to show that five Texas earthquakes, one reaching magnitude 4.8, were caused by injections of wastewater in drilling for oil and gas.
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