Slaton News

Lake Meredith Sunday, June 28, 2009. Omar Galavan, Juan Maldonado and Eddy Galvan, all of Cactus, use an umbrella for shade while fishing at Lake Meredith.

Buffalo Springs Lake is inviting people to come to the lake Friday for the annual Independence Day celebration and enjoy a patriotic summer night that will end with a booming fireworks display over the water.

Slaton, TX, June 27, 2009: For those in the know the sounds of motorcycles rumbling across the roadways of West Texas means it is the middle week end of July which is to be spent in the small West Texas town of Goldsmith at the Black Gold Rally.

City of Lubbock crews are working on a major water main break at 34th street and Avenue M. The break happened at 6:30 Monday morning.

A cement truck that overturned at a major Lubbock intersection on Thursday snarled lunch hour traffic, while the effort to resurrect it entertained about a dozen onlookers.

The Sense Corp Texas 4000 for Cancer team started their 70-day journey from Austin to Alaska and their fight against cancer on June 6th, and will be biking their way through Lubbock on Wednesday.

A young man rode his bike to see his ailing grandmother in Slaton. He wasn't riding across the neighborhood or even across town.

Selling insurance wasn't cutting it for Rex Whitfield. He wanted to return to coaching football.

First responders used the jaws of life to cut a woman free from her wrecked car Saturday afternoon.

The South Plains Air Show at the Slaton Municipal Airport is inviting you to the Saturday event.

War planes of the past and aerobatics aircraft of the present will roar through the skies of southeast Lubbock County on Saturday during a four-hour run of the 2009 South Plains Air Show.

A new kitchen facility that will allow South Plains Food Bank to provide food for up to 1,500 children a day, has passed its preliminary production tests and is ready for sustained operations.

Retailers edged toward legal alcohol sales anywhere in Lubbock County on Monday as officials clarified rules in and outside of Lubbock.

Fort Worth-born horn player Jim Price is usually a footnote in most Rolling Stones histories; his contributions to the canon -- he appears on Sticky Fingers , Exile on Main St.

Concerns over seat belt usage heightened among law enforcement officials Wednesday after a second fatal crash this week.

A weekend accident has now claimed the life of a Slaton man. The collision happened just after 5 p.m. Saturday.

With the alcohol election just two days away, NewsChannel 11 is clarifying a question that many viewers have asked.

Fifth-grade teacher Shay Troutman of Murfee Elementary School and social studies teachers Kay Moore of Lubbock High School and Corey Butler of O.L. Slaton Middle School were named as the Lubbock Independent School District Educators of the Year on Thursday by the LISD Council of Parent Teacher Associations.

5/3/09 Early voting in Lubbock County nears 30,000 Another day of early voting and another impressive number of voters.

In 1960, the City of Slaton voted against allowing packaged alcohol sales in city limits.