Lubbock News

UCLA's Pat Valaika and OREGON's J.J. Altobelli are among 14 players named to the latest Brooks Wallace Award watch list, the National College Baseball Hall of Fame announced Sunday.

Keeping a library in Southwest Lubbock and replacing the city's $25,000-per-month leased Godeke Branch Library with a cheaper alternative top the Lubbock Libraries Board's list of recommendations to city leaders.

A new UMC Physicians Network Services clinic is expected to open in November at 42nd Street and Interstate 27 by the east access road.

The city of Lubbock Board of Health voted to approve a resolution for changes to the city's Oil and Gas Drilling Ordinance.

Charlie Hamilton, a serial entrepreneur and champion of Lemonade Day in Lubbock, Texas, knows all about running a successful business.

Our local Red Cross is on standby to be deployed Oklahoma if needed. Many of the North Texas Region volunteers are in Granbury and Cleburn helping with the cleanup from those tornadoes.

Lubbock police blocked off an area around an empty apartment building at North Chicago Avenue and Fordham Monday afternoon as the bomb squad from the Lubbock County Sheriff's Office was called to investigate something found inside.

On Friday May 17 at 11 p.m., Lubbock police officers responded to a burglary in progress at 7302 4th Street at the "Fast Stop" convenience store.

The sight of new oil rigs popping up around Lubbock County seems to suggest that the often talked about oil boom is headed our way.

The Lubbock District TxDOT has officially kicked off its 12th Annual Click It or Ticket campaign with a special news conference this morning outside of the Museum of Texas Tech University.

Eddie Hedges, who has been an advisory director and involved with the bank's asset/liability management committee, was appointed to a seat on the board.

With main draw singles matches already completed, consolation matches took center stage at the USTA National Senior Women's Hard Court Championships at the La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club.

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine invites applicants for the position of Chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience.

Lubbock Independent School District presented six scholarships to LISD seniors at the annual spring awards luncheon on Thursday, May 16.

Justin Berk, MPH, MBA, received the 2013 Texas Medical Association Medical Student Section Student of the Year award at the annual TMA conference in San Antonio.

Community service projects, pride and patriotism and drug and alcohol awareness campaigns are some of the projects taken on by area high schools to qualify as student council of the year by the Texas Association of Student Councils.

This year the Hale County Crime Stoppers will be adding a splash of color to their 5K run to hopefully raise more money for their reward program.

Texas Tech College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources officials announced Zachariah Hurley was selected for an internship in Washington, D.C., for the summer 2013 academic semester.

What once looked like an impending change to Texas legislation regarding end-of-life care fell short Friday morning, May 17.

They were first graders in 1945 in the same neighborhood of Joplin, Mo., and were newly enrolled in Columbia Elementary School, but didn't assume their arresting nickname until they remembered moving anxiously into the first year of junior high school.