Snyder News

Jeffrey Longbotham, 50, of Midland, went to be with our Lord and Savior on Sunday, November 8, 2009, at 3:30 PM in Lubbock, TX.

A Port Orchard man traveled to Texas earlier this year to see a man he served with in World War II, but had never met.

Funeral service for Mr. R. J. Rosson age 93, of Snyder, Texas will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Snyder Cemetery, with his son Roy Rosson, minister of the Dunn Church of Christ officiating.

Single moms' dinner: A dinner for single mothers will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday in the family room at University Church of Christ at 733 E.N. 16th St.

Charlene Akers had a wake-up call last year. Akers was the director at Scurry County Museum in Snyder, Texas, when she visited a museum in Michigan.

Robert Marvin Cole and Essie Mae Ratliff were married October 1, 1959 in Roswell, New Mexico.

An afternoon collision involving a school bus outside of Snyder killed a Lubbock couple and injured three children.

Walking under cloudy skies amidst temperatures in the low 80s, music fans trickled into Zilker Park Friday to catch the first day of the Austin City Limits music festival.

Domestic violence awareness: The Noah Project will hold a domestic violence awareness vigil from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday in front of the Veteran's Memorial at the Taylor County Courthouse.

A paratrooper from Fort Richardson died in the Waza Khawa North District of Paktika Province, Afghanistan, Sept.

TOPICS ABC This Week with George Stephanopoulos marks the passings of award-winning writer Larry Gelbart , Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug , and entertainment columnist Army Archerd .

Staff Sgt. Michael Chance Murphrey 25, of Snyder, was killed in action Sunday September 6, 2009 in Afghanistan.

The Department of Defense has identified 809 American service members who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations.

A soldier from Snyder died while serving in Afghanistan this week. According to a news release from Army Maj.

A Snyder soldier, inspired to enlist by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, died Sunday in Afghanistan nearly eight years to the day after the attacks on New York and Washington.

As of Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009, at least 742 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department.

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Public health officials are searching for anyone who may have come in to contact with a horse that has since died of rabies.

State officials have asked NewsChannel 11 to alert the public to a serious health concern.

A Snyder family will lay their twin boys to rest Thursday morning, after they drowned in a Scurry County lake over the weekend.