Kerns: Sunday night will find young cast shaking up Cactus stage
Filmmaker Alan Parker is no stranger to working with music. His musicals included the original “Fame,” “Pink Floyd — The Wall” and “Evita” — and in fact he began his motion picture career with a...
View ArticleSummer jobs taught city, county leaders early life lessons
They started by waiting tables, loading turkeys into trucks or picking cotton in the blazing West Texas summer heat.Now they’re passing resolutions, creating ordinances and setting multi-million-dollar...
View ArticleOfficial: Woman killed in San Antonio flooding
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A woman has been killed in flooding in the San Antonio area.San Antonio Fire Department spokesman Christian Bove says the 29-year-old woman was trapped in her car, got on the roof...
View ArticleGroups planning festivals, and run
Running club to honor former leader As a tribute to Levelland High School biology teacher and a longtime race director, the West Texas Running Club is sponsoring the Bobby Birdsong Memorial Levelland...
View ArticleLetter of the Day: Coke Hopping's last Texas Tech ride
My son, Coke Hopping, who was Texas Tech’s Masked Rider in the 1979-1980 school year, died May 2 at the age of 55. He had a fatal heart attack while riding as a pickup man for bronc riders at the...
View ArticleLetter: Stray dog experienced a happy ending
Stray dog experienced a happy ending A very special thank-you should be extended to one of Lubbock’s finest organizations, the South Plains SPCA. The time, effort, compassion and determination to aid a...
View ArticleOur View: Regents' decisions to keep costs down will help families manage...
Parents of current college students have noticed — many with frustration and alarm — how more expensive a college education is today compared to their own college days. And the costs of tuition and...
View ArticleGreenberg: Why front page said 51 died when it was 24
Every time I look at Tuesday’s front page I’ll have mixed feelings.The headline with the Oklahoma City tornado story says: More than 50 dead.I’m thrilled the death toll turned out to be much less —...
View ArticleCommunity Service
Hospital awards Elk Lodge members pins Jimmy and Billie Yates, two members of the Lubbock Elks Lodge No. 1348 of the Benevolent Protective Orders of Elk, were awarded 500-hour pins from the Texas...
View ArticleDeath Notices
Jose B. Adame, 79, of Lubbock died May 24, 2013. Services are pending with Calvillo Funeral Home.Jesus Arenas Castro Sr., 80, of Loraine died May 24, 2013. Services will be 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 28, at...
View ArticleTexas & Region
Texas & RegionOLNEYNorth Texas authorities Saturday were searching for a prisoner who escaped from a van transporting him and others from Louisiana to Florida.Olney Police Chief Barry Roberts said...
View ArticleTexas Legislature briefs
Texas LegislatureAUSTINHouse and Senate negotiators have reached a deal to overhaul high school standardized testing and curriculum standards while increasing the number of charter schools in...
View ArticlePerry, Texas Legislature honor fallen soldiers
AUSTIN — 1st Sgt. Russell R. Bell was a week and a half from coming home from his fourth and final deployment to Afghanistan. The U.S. Army veteran of 16½ years didn’t have to head out on a foot patrol...
View ArticleTeens of the month
Victor Backus, an eighth-grader at Trinity Christian, is the son of David and Jane Backus. He is involved in football, basketball, track and Spanish Club and was named the eighth-grade prayer warrior....
View ArticleNM man accused of selling tusks of elephant
SANTA FE, N.M. — A Santa Fe businessman is in trouble with federal authorities for allegedly selling two African elephant tusks.The U.S. Department of Justice said a grand jury in Pensacola, Fla.,...
View ArticleFrom the A-J's Pages
25 yearsThe United Way of Lubbock will hold its annual community leaders meeting at noon today in the Memorial Civic Center. More that 150 leaders will discuss the goal for the annual fund-raising...
View ArticleMemorial day events
Today■ Memorial Day Celebration and Concert— 6 p.m. Henry Huneke Park, 4001 82nd St. 45-minute tribute. Bring lawn chairs. 747-0281.Monday■ Meadow Cemetery Association Memorial Day Service— 10:30 a.m....
View ArticleTech adds four qualifiers for NCAA meet
AUSTIN — Texas Tech on day two of the NCAA West Preliminary qualified four athletes to the NCAA outdoor track and field championships for the second day in a row Friday.Christen Rivers and Cierra White...
View ArticleSearch continues for teen boy missing after floodwaters near San Antonio
SCHERTZ, Texas — The search intensified Sunday for a teenage boy believed to have been swept away by floodwaters as he tried to swim across a swollen creek near San Antonio, authorities said.read more
View ArticleLegislature amends Texas Open Beaches Act
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Land Commissioner will have new discretion for making decisions regarding public beaches in a bill on its to the governor's office.Lawmakers voted on Sunday to allow the...
View Article