Morton News

Mary Lois Ledbetter, 92, died September 20, 2009 at her home of 70 years in Morton.

District 5 City Councilman Benjamin Velasquez is expected to nominate optometrist Dr.

Plano Senior High School student Samuel Scott has won top honors and a $3000 scholarship for his speech in the Drug Awareness Speech Contest during the Texas Lions Clubs State Convention in Lubbock on June 6, 2009.

Conditions will come together to create a slight threat of severe thunderstorms later today.

A hit-and-run in Cochran County leads to a murder investigation. Jaime Andrew Soliz is charged with murder Monday, after investigators say he hit and killed a woman with his vehicle just after midnight in Morton.

A car accident in New Mexico takes the life of a Morton, Texas teen. Myra Hernandez, 18, died at a Lubbock hospital after she was ejected from the car she was riding in near Tatum, New Mexico 10:00 p.m. Friday.

A Texas teen lost her life in a fatal crash near Tatutm, N.M. on Friday night. The car was on State Road 125 northeast of Tatutm around 10:00 p.m. when the driver swerved to avoid a deer.

In this part of the state, woman school superintendents are not yet common. When Karen Garza begins work as the Lubbock Independent School District's new top administrator, she will be the third female superintendent in West Texas.