Lubbock News

It wasn't the usual call Earl Overlie might have gotten from wife, Bonnie, asking him to maybe pick up a few things at the store on his way home from a meeting he was attending.

An International Space Station conducting a low Earth orbit is making its way over Lubbock Friday night and is expected to be visible for about six minutes at 5:54 a.m. Saturday, according to NASA's space station sightings website .

On his first day on the job as superintendent of Lubbock-Cooper Independent School District, Keith Bryant said his goals for the future are to continue building upon what is already in the district.

If this were the 1950s when women could not serve on Texas juries, would Lubbock district court even have enough jurors to try cases? A little more than half of the 68,000 summons the court mailed out last year were delivered to potential jurors eligible to serve.

Lubbock's Red Dirt Country artist, Randall King, grew up on the plains of west Texas in the famous town of Amarillo, influenced by artists both legend and new.

In 1908, two separate entities, Happy State Bank and Crenshaw, Dupree, and Milam, were established.

Lubbock police are asking residents in South Lubbock to check their homes for a signs of a burglary after they caught a 19-year-old man Thursday morning with stolen property they believe came from multiple victims.

State comptroller candidate Mike Collier admits he doesn't have a lot of experience in politics, but hey, that's his whole point.

The "Mini Takes the States Tour" is a bi-annual event that features hundreds of Mini Coopers, and raises money for charity.

After signing a petition in June asking officials to revise the proposed Lubbock Outer Route, Paul Kitchens continues to make sure his voice is heard.

Lubbock police are searching for 40-year-old Benita Rochelle Johnson, who is wanted for fraud and identity theft.

Lubbock police are searching for a man and a woman in connection with a Wednesday morning murder in South Lubbock.

Anonymous Tech fans took out a full-page ad on page A7 of today's Avalanche-Journal for an open letter asking Chancellor Robert Duncan, President Duane Nellis and the Board of Regents to award Leach the rest of his $2.6 million salary for 2009.

Ronald Meadows, an assistant attorney general in the Child Support Division's Lubbock office, was named Assistant Attorney General of the Year for the Child Support Division's Lubbock region, which covers 86 counties.

Over the last three years, Texas country singer/songwriter Matt Kimbrow has worked to get his name out on the local music scene.

Cousins Marie Gonzales and Anthony Aguirre found it is possible to locate many other cousins, with some of them possibly once or twice removed.

When the next municipal budget is implemented, some residents could be saving more than just a buck in stormwater fees while others may see a bigger bill each month.

As of Wednesday afternoon, nine cases of the disease have been reported in Texas.

Five people were indicted by a Lubbock County Grand Jury for on Tuesday, charged with aggravated kidnapping.

Lubbock police are investigating the death of an 18-year-old man stabbed in the chest early Wednesday morning in South Lubbock.