Hale Center News

Cotton farmers on the High Plains are always looking for ways to improve their farma s profit potential, and two of the biggest opportunities for farmers to that are to increase yield potential and produce better quality fiber.

Six local agencies battle a grassfire north of Lubbock. The fire broke out about three miles north of the Lubbock County line on Farm to Market 2825.

After a young Plainview woman is killed by a suspected drunk driver, her family speaks out.

A fund has been set up for a Plainview woman killed over the weekend. Ashleah Richards, 21, died when a pickup collided with her vehicle head-on near Hale Center, early Sunday morning.

Ashleah Richards liked to do things that stereotypically interest many girls - fix up hair, put on makeup and the like.

A Wayland Baptist University student was killed in a head-on collision early Sunday morning on Interstate 27.

Mr. Short has donated his body to the Texas Tech University Medical School to help the advancement of science.

Wilson Maurice Bourland, 91, of Pflugerville, Texas passed away on Sept. 23, 2009.

Rural health care, water, and economic development, they're issues State Representative Joe Heflin plans to address Thursday and Friday during town hall meetings in Hale County.

As a young woman, Susan Anthony thought her education would end with the bachelor's degree in English she received in 1980 from Berry College in Georgia.

Lubbock physician Hugh Wilson was disciplined last week by the Texas Medical Board after an investigation confirmed he failed to recognize acute renal failure and refer a patient to a nephrologist or admit the patient to an intensive care unit.

A 21-year-old Brownfield woman was killed in a one-vehicle rollover Thursday morning in Hale County.

A young Brownfield mother of three died early Wednesday morning about an hour after her SUV rolled over on I-27 south of Hale Center.

Tom Schieffer announced that his campaign has raised almost $800,000 in contributions and loans for this reporting period.

When the owners of property a few miles north of Lubbock County refused to give up their land believing there was hidden gold, prospectors hoping to start a new town had to look somewhere else.

Battle lines are being drawn for the next redistricting fight in Texas, even before the 2010 Census.

If you see an overcast day in the 1300 block of Plainview's Ennis Street, snow-covered lawns in the 900 block of Hale Center's Avenue G, or Snyder's White Buffalo lit by the setting West Texas sun, you might be on a drive around the South Plains.

The West Texas town of Hale Center will see more paramedics instead of just medical technicians by thanks to the generosity of its residents.