State judge delays execution set for next week
BEEVILLE (AP) — A state district judge has put off next week’s scheduled execution of a Texas inmate condemned for the slaying of a corrections officer at a South Texas prison in 1999.Robert Pruett...
View ArticleWreckem247: Highlights of new Texas Tech basketball commit Alex Foster
Here are some highlights of Texas Tech's new power forward commit Alex Foster of Chicago's (Ill.) Seton Academy.
View ArticleLooking for savings on meals, services and products? Look to A-J's Daily Deals
The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal’s DAILY DEAL is a big hit with consumers and local businesses! Consumers get great savings at local merchants, while businesses get a fun, easy way to reach out to...
View ArticleDeath notices
Guadalupe Baez de Martinez, 98, died May 15, 2013. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Friday, May 17, in the Moore-Rose Funeral Home Chapel in Floydada. Moore-Rose Funeral Home of Floydada.Ray Jefferson,...
View ArticleTexas and region
HUNTSVILLEA Houston man condemned for the slaying of a police officer shot while trying to handcuff him during a car theft arrest 14 years ago was put to death Wednesday evening.Jeffrey Demond...
View ArticleTexas budget leaders remain hopeful of deal
AUSTIN — House and Senate negotiators remained optimistic Wednesday they would finalize a new Texas budget by midnight amid last-minute uncertainty over how much money would be restored to public...
View ArticleTexas Senate votes to weaken university regents
AUSTIN — The Texas Senate gave final approval Wednesday to a measure placing new limits on university regents’ power to fire campus presidents, sending the bill to Gov. Rick Perry in a struggle between...
View ArticleEntertainment briefs
Chicago heads to Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center The Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center, located at 1310 N. FM 1788 in Midland, continues to stay busy booking shows. The most recent three...
View ArticleSmith picks up recruit
Texas Tech picked up a big addition to its basketball program on Wednesday when power forward Alex Foster of Chicago’s (Ill.) Seton Academy made his pledge to the Red Raiders.Foster will rejoin new...
View ArticleWreckem247: Texas Tech beats out Oklahoma, TCU, to add Navarro Junior College...
When Navarro Junior College defensive end Andre Ross recently found out that he would be eligible to transfer this season, his recruitment began to pick back up. Now he's a Red Raider.
View ArticleGO! Theater Box
“All Shook Up” — 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 17; and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 18. An American jukebox musical that premiered in 2004, combining music by Elvis Presley, a book by Joe DiPietro and a story based...
View ArticleTrooper 'reckless' in 2010 killing of Tulia man
AMARILLO — A state trooper violated the Department of Public Safety’s use of deadly force policy, “failed to use proper judgment” and “did not have sufficient legal or factual justification” when he...
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DALLASA second brother has pleaded guilty to robbing the same North Texas bank twice.Prosecutors in Dallas said 45-year-old Johnny Charles Butler on Wednesday pleaded guilty to two counts of armed bank...
View ArticlePerry shrugs off claim he's derailing budget talks
AUSTIN — Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday shrugged off suggestions by top Democrats his office is holding up delicate negotiations on the Texas budget by pressuring Republicans to steer money away from...
View ArticleLetter: Group wants ordinance revised
In regard to recent reports on the City Council’s deliberation over a citizen committee on oil and gas, I would like to clear up some possible confusion.West Texas Accountability Project — Lubbock...
View ArticleOur View: Department of Justice grab of AP phone records is shameful
The Avalanche-Journal's Friday editorial ...The U.S. Justice Department’s seizure of two months’ worth of telephone records of Associated Press journalists is an outrageous assault against the First...
View ArticleDeath notices
Jesus “Jessie” Bermea, 50, of Big Spring, formerly of San Antonio, died May 13, 2013. Services will be 2 p.m. Saturday in Myers and Smith Chapel. Myers and Smith Funeral Home of Big Spring.Terry...
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25 yearsLubbock has a lot to offer — past-present and future — to tourists, according to officials at the city’s Visitors and Conventions Bureau.50 yearsMembers of the Chicago Board of Trade Thursday...
View ArticleCivil Filings
72ND DISTRICT COURTJUDGE RUBEN G. REYESCesareo Melendez against Elva Sepeda, Cesareo Melendez Jr. and David Melendez, suit on other civilLubbock Central Appraisal District against Alan Keith Beyer,...
View ArticleRecovery begins in damaged Granbury
GRANBURY (AP) — A North Texas county sheriff says seven people remain unaccounted for after a massive tornado claimed six lives.Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds on Thursday said emergency responders are...
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