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Call it the beginning of the end. The current Lubbock public school board fulfilled its top priority Tuesday when U.S. District Judge Halbert O. Woodard granted the School District unitary status. The much-sought-after and often times hotly debated declaration means that the end of Lubbock’s federal school desegregation case at last is in sight.
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Lubbock Dist. Atty. Alton Griffin Friday afternoon in Austin formally asked Atty. Gen. Waggoner Carr to enter into an investigation on double-contracting of residential loans.
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