Festival includes art media ranging from traditional to chainsaws
Just where does one go after pouring literally three tons of sand on the floor of the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center Exhibit Hall’s for use by visiting Team Santastic, and finding artists whose media...
View ArticleFull-time volunteer at Hope Lodge honored for service
After four years of dedication to the American Cancer Society’s Hope Lodge, Sherry Thomas has been named Lubbock’s Outstanding Senior Volunteer of 2014 by the Salute to Senior Service program.Thomas...
View ArticleSouth Plains College names Dukatnik winner of Levelland service award
Jim Dukatnik of Levelland has received South Plains College’s 13th Jerry Barton Service Achievement Award.SPC presented Dukatnik with the award at its service club luncheon on Wednesday, April 9. “Each...
View ArticleSouth Plains College Choir and Brass Ensemble to perform
South Plains College’s Choir and Brass Ensemble will perform at 3 p.m. April 27 at Christ United Methodist Church in Levelland.The concert is free and open to the public.For more information, contact...
View ArticleLubbock City Council budget work session rescheduled from Friday
The Lubbock City Council budget work session scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday, April 11, has been canceled.The meeting, the second budget work session this year, will be rescheduled for a future date,...
View ArticleRed Raiders open key home Big 12 series against defending Big 12 champions
It would be easy to say that, with the Texas Tech baseball team starting the second half of Big 12 Conference play and the schedule flipping to their favor, the Red Raiders would have an increased...
View ArticleLubbock sheriff's office calling death of 6-month-old boy suspicious
Lubbock County Sheriff’s investigators are questioning four people in the death of a 6-month-old boy Thursday afternoon at a home south of Lubbock.Lubbock County deputies responded to a call about the...
View ArticleTRUE-PLUMLEE
David and Linda True of Lubbock are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Larissa Kay True, to Eric Alan Plumlee, son of Alan and Terri Plumlee of Stamford, Texas. The bride-to-be...
View ArticleAnnual Champions for Children Banquet scheduled
Annual Champions for Children Banquet The Early Learning Centers of Lubbock will honor award recipients during its Champions for Children Banquet at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 16, at the Lubbock...
View ArticleLubbock Habitat will benefit from tournament
Tournament to benefit habitat A Rock Paper Scissors tournament scheduled at noon April 19, in the South Plains Mall parking lot, will apportion 20 percent of its proceeds to Lubbock Habitat for...
View ArticleFrom the A-J's Pages
25 years ago:Conditions will turn cold and windy across the South Plains today.50 years ago:Different kinds of reading require a different pace.75 years ago:Several hundred women attended post-Easter...
View ArticleFort Bliss soldier arraigned for infant death
EL PASO (AP) — A Fort Bliss solider has been arraigned on capital murder charges for the death of his 11-month-old son.Pfc. Adam Keith Jackson has pleaded not guilty to the February slaying. He’s been...
View ArticleLubbock fire marshals investigating cause of early morning blaze
The Lubbock Fire Marshal’s office is investigating a fire that started early Friday morning, April 11, at a home in north Lubbock.Lubbock Fire Rescue deployed a standard structure response of three...
View ArticleTech police arrest student for choking woman
Texas Tech police calls for April 99:41 a.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated a domestic violence assault at Talkington Residence Hall. A male student choked a female student who was an...
View ArticleUT suspects sabotage after A&M-created maroon flowers pop up near tower
President Barack Obama’s visit to the University of Texas in Austin could be overshadowed by the emergence of a scandal of potentially epic proportions.Maroon bluebonnets are taking over flowerbeds...
View ArticleLubbock County investigators turning to public to ID man in connection with...
Lubbock County sheriff’s investigators are asking the public Friday, April, 11, to help them identify a man in connection with a March 29 robbery at a convenience store north west of...
View ArticleChainsaw sculptures, abstract paintings among displays at Lubbock Arts Festival
Baron Batch’s paintings aren’t quite expressionism. They’re not quite pop art.Batch, a returning artist to the Lubbock Arts Festival, has an approach to his painting that is all his own.“I describe my...
View ArticleGUINN-JORDAN
Brianna Guinn and Chance Jordan were united in marriage at 4:00 pm on April 12, 2014 at the Cotton Creek Barn in New Home. The ceremony was officiated by Ryon Price of the Second Baptist Church....
View ArticleRoadwork on TX 114 west of Lubbock to start Monday
Road improvements will make driving through a segment of TX 114 west of Lubbock safer, according to Texas Department of Transportation officials.A $1 million road work project on a portion of TX 114...
View ArticleCampbell tapped as Lubbock's new airport manager, replacing Loomis
The city of Lubbock announced Friday that Kelly Campbell has been named the executive director of Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport, replacing former director James Loomis, who now is the...
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