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AUSTINTexas lawmakers are advancing proposals to help sexual assault victims.State Sen. John Whitmire is chairman of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee. The Houston Democrat expressed support...
View ArticleLawmakers consider Railroad Commission name change
AUSTIN — Senators discussed changes to the Texas Railroad Commission on Tuesday, considering a name change for the agency and limiting when the three elected commissioners can accept political...
View ArticleBill aimed to end 'double dipping gets hearing
AUSTIN — When state Rep. Chris Turner started looking for other states that allow their politicians to retire without leaving their jobs, he could only find one: Texas. At a public hearing Monday...
View ArticleFrom the A-J's Pages
25 yearsOut there in Lubbock and the adjacent eight counties are hundreds of residents who received telephone calls last fall and agreed to participate in a study. They were told only that Belden...
View ArticleAssumed names
■ Assumed Name: Kingsgate Animal Hospital; Owner: Jamie L. Whittenburg■ Assumed Name: Enterprise Recycling Ltd. Lubbock Wrench-A-Part; Owner: Daniel Snyder■ Assumed Name: Enterprise Recycling Ltd....
View ArticleSenate approves bonds for campus construction projects
AUSTIN — Billions of dollars in bonds for construction projects at higher-education campuses across Texas would get the go-ahead under legislation approved Tuesday in the state Senate.read more
View ArticleDeath notices
Billy Joe Boggs, 80, of Lubbock died April 18, 2013. Funeral services will be Thursday, April 25, at Community Christian Church. Agape Funeral Chapel.Kenneth Wayne Dilbeck, 55, of Lubbock died April 4,...
View ArticleTexas Parks and Wildlife Department to recognize JA Ranch for conservation...
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is planning to recognize the JA Ranch in Armstrong and Donley counties as one of five entities in the state making extraordinary efforts to rejuvenate native...
View ArticleHereford man dies after Castro County rollover
AMARILLO — A Hereford man died early Tuesday, April 23, after the SUV he was driving rolled over in northeast Castro County, Department of Public Safety trooper Daniel Hawthorne said in a news...
View ArticleThousands in Texas Panhandle without power Monday night
AMARILLO — High winds and icy conditions left as many as 10,000 Xcel Energy customers without power overnight, spokesman Wes Reeves said Tuesday morning, April 23.Power was restored at 4:45 p.m. to...
View ArticleOil lobbyists oversee protection of threatened lizard in Permian Basin
AUSIN — When Texas promised to protect a threatened lizard in the oil-rich Permian Basin, state officials entrusted the day-to-day oversight to a nonprofit that sounds like an environmental group: the...
View ArticleLaw school professors, student honored by TTU Parents Association
Two professors and a student from Texas Tech University School of Law received awards at the Texas Tech Parents Association 2013 spring awards breakfast earlier this month.Professor Patrick Metze won...
View ArticleOn eve of dedication at SMU, Lubbock remembers bid to get Bush library
As the George W. Bush Presidential Center is set to debut at Southern Methodist University, area leaders recalled the Lubbock area’s $100 million offer to host the center near the former president’s...
View ArticleRep. Randy Neugebauer slated to speak at Day 2 of Texas Tech spring...
When Rep. Randy Neugebauer graduated from Texas Tech in 1972, he never thought he would be back on campus as a commencement ceremony speaker.Neugebauer, R-Lubbock, will address the spring 2013...
View ArticleLate high school baseball roundup: Amarillo SJ edges past Lubbock Christian, 9-8
PLAINVIEW — Evan Ruiz drove in two runs and Amarillo San Jacinto took advantage of four errors to beat Lubbock Christian High 9-8 Tuesday night in a TAPPS District 1-3A playoff for a No. 1 postseason...
View ArticleTexas Tech golfers finish seventh at Big 12 golf championships
Tech golfers seventh at Big 12s PRAIRIE DUNES, Kan. — The Big 12 Conference golf championships concluded Wednesday after enduring poor weather conditions all week, but Texas Tech couldn’t make up...
View ArticleRemembering some of the victims in West fertilizer plant explosion
WEST — On April 17, a massive explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, leveled part of that small town located some 20 miles north of Waco. Most of the victims were first responders from fire...
View ArticleAmarillo police identify standoff suspect
AMARILLO — Amarillo police have identified the man who spent more than six hours in a southwest Amarillo home in a police standoff Tuesday, April 23, that followed burglaries under investigation by...
View Article3 injured in Amarillo nightclub shooting
AMARILLO — Three men were injured in a shooting early Thursday, April 25, at a nightclub near South Georgia Street, Amarillo police said.Officers said a fight broke out about 2 a.m. inside Rounders...
View ArticlePlans for wind farm near Vega announced
AMARILLO — One wind farm led to another Wednesday, April 24, with the announcement of Spinning Spur II during the dedication of Spinning Spur I just north and west of Vega.“Spinning Spur II will bring...
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