High Plains regional news
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Two dads helped lead Camp Mystic parents to advocate for new camp rules in the Texas Legislature. What they wanted most was to have their daughters back. -
A group of eight state and national media organizations want the records in Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's divorce case released to the public. -
Republicans note that some of the districts they intend to flip were redrawn to become majority-Hispanic. Democrats say the GOP made sure to add Hispanic Texans who are unlikely to vote. -
Oklahoma County District Attorney Vicki Behenna will not seek criminal charges against Ryan Walters after nude images appeared on his television during a state board meeting. -
Dr. Peter J. Hotez, a Texas-based vaccine researcher, is a professor of pediatrics and molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine and played a key role in developing the covid-19 vaccine. He talked with Think host Krys Boyd about how anti-science factions have hijacked the conversations about health and his many failed attempts to change Kennedy's mind about vaccines.
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Regional Features
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Vincent van Gogh, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons/Hi, everyone. This is Mildred Rugger from Canyon, Texas, for the 2025 Fall Read of HPPR Radio Readers Book Club. Late Migrations: A Natural History of Loss and Love by Margaret Renkl is about grief, but not exclusively. We often learn about grief indirectly within a broader context. -
Gorgeously illustrated by the author’s brother, Billyl, Renkl offers observations on the world surrounding her suburban Nashville home. Ringing with rapture and heartache, these essays convey the dignity of bluebirds and rat snakes, monarch butterflies and native bees. -
Luke ClaytonIn this week's show, Luke recaps a bear hunt that occurred earlier this week at the Choctaw Hunting Lodge (www.choctawhuntinglodge.com) in southeastern Oklahoma. Luke's good friends Edgar and David Cotton each took a bear with their crossbow from the same ground blind on the same afternoon hunt. Click the blue Listen button above to hear Luke tell all about their hunt! -
This week Classical Music Amarillo plays music by two composers whose works will be featured at the upcoming Chamber Music Amarillo concert!
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