ABILENE, Texas (BigCountryHomepage.com) - A rarity; crime news did not make up a bulk of this week's Big Country Beat. Instead, our readers have been interested in some good news like a local teenager winning a huge prize in barrel racing and a new business growing from passion. Here's this week's Big Country Beat!

STAMFORD, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) - Stamford Veterans are asking for help as their local VFW reports a decline in membership and participation.

ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) - Writing letters to Santa is a simple pleasure so many children look forward to all year long. On your little ones' lists, you might see requests for Barbies, Nerf guns, Squishmallows, and iPads. But for the lists going through New Horizons, many kids are asking Kris Kringle for a family for Christmas.

What do the orange, green dots on my iPhone mean?

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ABILENE, Texas (BigCountryHomepage.com) – Although it's the post-Thanksgiving holiday week, we had quite a lot of dreadful news this past cycle. We began the week with the death of a Dyess Airman. Each week BigCountryHomepage.com brings you the pulse of the Big Country with a look into what piqued our readers' interests most.

The National Retail Federation released the holiday spending projections for the upcoming holiday season.

A busy Atlantic hurricane season will finally come to an end on Nov. 30.

Tracking the Tropics will return in 2024, when meteorologists begin to make their predictions for the upcoming season. Hurricane season begins in June, but it's never too early to get prepared.

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Showers and drizzle for many of us, but a low tornado risk exists for our eastern counties.

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"Be a Santa to a senior" Holiday gift program brings Christmas cheer to senior citizens in need