Amarillo, Texas

===Outside media attention===
The city gained national media attention in 1998 when local cattlemen unsuccessfully sued television talk show host [[Oprah Winfrey]] for comments made on [[The Oprah Winfrey Show|her show]] connecting American beef to [[bovine spongiform encephalopathy|mad cow disease]], costing them and their industry millions of dollars.<ref>{{cite news|author=Frankel, Daniel |title=Ranchers Say Oprah Created Lynch Mob Mentality |date=January 21, 1998 |work=[[E!|E! News]] |url=http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,2414,00.html |access-date=January 25, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041205144423/http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0%2C1%2C2414%2C00.html |archive-date=December 5, 2004}}</ref> In order to attend the trial in Amarillo, she temporarily relocated her show to the Amarillo Little Theatre for nearly a year. During the trial, Winfrey hired Dallas-based jury consultant [[Phil McGraw]] to aid her attorneys on selecting and analyzing the members of the jury.<ref>{{cite news|author=Donald, Mark |title=Analyze this |date=April 13, 2000 |work=[[Dallas Observer]] |url=http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues/2000-04-13/news/feature.html |access-date=January 25, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050415135131/http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues/2000-04-13/news/feature.html |archive-date=April 15, 2005}}</ref> McGraw would later become a regular guest on Winfrey's television show and subsequently started his own talk show, ''[[Dr. Phil (TV series)|Dr. Phil]]'', in 2002. Another notable trial in Amarillo includes the [[Fort Worth, Texas|Fort Worth]]-area murder case of [[T. Cullen Davis]], which involved one of the richest men in the United States, his former wife, and her daughter and boyfriend. The trial was moved from Fort Worth to Amarillo in 1977 on a change of venue.<ref>{{cite web |author= [[Court TV]]'s Crime Library |url= http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/not_guilty/t_cullen_davis/7.html |title= T. Cullen Davis: The Best Justice Money Can Buy |access-date= May 25, 2006 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060516151611/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/not_guilty/t_cullen_davis/7.html |archive-date= May 16, 2006 |url-status= dead }}</ref> The 1997 murder of [[Brian Deneke]] and subsequent trial also brought national attention because it highlighted social divisions in the community that mirrored those in America as a whole. The defendant in the trial was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and received a light sentence.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Colloff |first1=Pamela |title=The Outsiders |url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-outsiders/ |access-date=15 June 2019 |issue=November 1999 |magazine=Texas Monthly}}</ref> The movie [[Bomb City]] is based on the events surrounding Deneke's murder. The small town of [[Tulia, Texas]], approximately {{convert|47|mi|0}} south from Amarillo, was the scene of a controversial drug sting in 1999. Local civil rights attorney Jeff Blackburn took up the case of the Tulia defendants, which became a ''[[cause célèbre]]'' and resulted in the exoneration and pardon of the defendants.<ref>Nate Blakeslee. Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town. New York: PublicAffairs. {{ISBN|1-58648-454-0}}</ref> A federal lawsuit directed at the officials responsible for the sting operation was held in Amarillo. In the final settlement, the City of Amarillo agreed to pay $5&nbsp;million in damages to the former Tulia defendants; disband the Panhandle Regional Narcotics Task Force that it set up to oversee the sting operation; and require early retirement for two Amarillo Police Department officers who were responsible for supervising the sting's sole undercover agent.<ref>{{cite web |author= Court TV's Crime Library |url= http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/cops_others/tom_coleman/6.html |title= The Tulia Sting |access-date= July 30, 2006 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20061022120153/http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/cops_others/tom_coleman/6.html |archive-date= October 22, 2006 |url-status= dead |df= mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=[[NAACP]] Legal Defense and Educational Fund |url=http://www.naacpldf.org/content.aspx?article=277 |title=Bad Times In Tulia, TX |access-date=July 30, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060213202445/http://www.naacpldf.org/content.aspx?article=277 |archive-date=February 13, 2006}}</ref>

On May 5, 2020, Amarillo ranked 13th in the nation for Highest Average Daily Growth Rate of COVID-19 cases by the New York Times.<ref>{{cite news|author=The New York Times |title= Five Ways to Follow the Coronavirus Outbreak for Any Metro Area in the U.S.|date=May 5, 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/23/upshot/five-ways-to-monitor-coronavirus-outbreak-us.html|access-date=May 7, 2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200505220740/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/23/upshot/five-ways-to-monitor-coronavirus-outbreak-us.html |archive-date=May 5, 2020}}</ref>