Lubbock News

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.

Two women were reported to have robbed a man at 19th Street and University Avenue on Friday Morning.

Lorraine , left, and Dean , son of the town's ultra conservative mother, find themselves falling for one another in the jukebox musical "All Shook Up," on stage at the Cactus Theater.

An Amarillo man has been indicted on federal money laundering and multiple weapons charges linked to illegal gambling operations and $7,500 in bribes paid to an unidentified law enforcement officer.

With more than 70 years as a Boy Scout under his belt, Arlan Womble cherishes the life lessons the organization instilled in his life.

While primarily a gala benefit for KLRU, our local PBS affiliate, last night's three-hour ACL Live at the Moody Theater concert celebrated Austin music master Lloyd Maines .

Chuy's at 4805 S. Loop 289 had 9 critical violations. * Ground beef and shredded chicken were not at least 135 degrees.

Typically you'd think you're electric bill is all about the amount of electricity you consume.

A national survey referenced by the CDC indicates that up to one in five children in the U.S. suffers from a mental disorder.

Ethan Oliver Wynne-Wade and Michael Paul Gallanter were arrested on April 17. Lubbock police and federal agents seized 200 pounds of marijuana and 3 pounds of mushrooms after responding to a report of a suspicious plane at Aero Lubbock.

Minister John Knox was at the Granbury Church of Christ, attending Wednesday night services, when the storm blew in.

Lubbock knows first hand the damage a major tornado can do to a city. It was 43 years ago on May 11 when an F5 tornado swept through downtown.

Donnie Wright, 53, of Lubbock, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 37 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $385,356 in restitution following his guilty plea in February 2013 to one count of bank embezzlement by a bank employee.

In City Councilman Floyd Price's 33 years with the Lubbock Police Department, he never cut a dead person wearing a seat belt out of a flipped automobile.

Lubbock Parks and Recreation is holding a job fair Thursday for part-time summer positions.

The driver of a semitrailer was taken to a hospital with serious but non-life threatening injures Wednesday when the tractor-trailer separated from its trailer.