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South-Plains, Texas is located in Floyd County. Zip codes in South-Plains, TX include 79258.

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Chase ends in gunfire death

The Texas Rangers are investigating a shooting involving two Childress police officers that left a resident dead early Saturday morning.

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Sat Nov 21, 2009

Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Food Fight: Approaching holidays show families' increasing demand for free food

With a bad economy plus Thanksgiving and Christmas just around the corner, David Weaver is already seeing what he and the staff of the South Plains Food Bank had long anticipated - a larger number of struggling people looking to the food bank for help.

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Fri Nov 20, 2009

Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Kenyan student to bring message about hunger to local seminar

A 32-year-old woman from Kenya hopes she can bring to Lubbock a message about a crisis that plagues people in the South Plains and her homeland alike: hunger.

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Wed Nov 18, 2009

Lubbock Avalanche

Enrollment numbers are increasing, but so are the difficulties

Like other community colleges in Texas, the schools in the Panhandle/South Plains region saw dramatic enrollment increases this year compared to 2008.

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Mon Nov 16, 2009

KCBD-TV Lubbock

Cotton production up in Texas, significant growth on South Plains

Despite concerns early in the season, 2009 is turning out to be a fairly good year for cotton.

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Sat Nov 14, 2009

Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Bidal Aguero fought for equality for Hispanics in his words, deeds

Bidal Aguero took a stand for Hispanic equality, the well-being of his family, the voice of his culture through his newspaper, El Editor, and for other humanitarian causes, until his death Nov.

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Thu Nov 12, 2009

KCBD-TV Lubbock

South Plains man finally sentenced for child abuse

A South Plains man with a history of child abuse is finally sitting behind bars after pleading guilty Monday to a first degree felony of injury to a child.

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Wed Nov 11, 2009

Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Mary Ann "Annie" Wheatley

Mary Ann Wheatley passed away on Sunday afternoon, Nov. 8, 2009, at Heritage Oaks Nursing Home in Lubbock, Texas.

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Mon Nov 09, 2009

Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Investment in early childhood good use of stimulus dollars

Closing the gap between pre-school care and school-age services could greatly improve the educational futures of many children in Lubbock and the South Plains.

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Sat Nov 07, 2009

KCBD-TV Lubbock

Donating blood a good way to help in times of tragedy

Following the tradegy at Fort Hood, many people across the South Plains have called and wondered what they can do to help out.

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Thu Nov 05, 2009

Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Barnes & Noble opens at South Plains

Shoppers were treated to the aroma of brewing coffee and that distinctive new-book scent Wednesday when they walked into Lubbock's newest book store.

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Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Annual book sale benefits libraries

A 120,000-book treasury will be opened to South Plains readers Friday through Nov.

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Tue Nov 03, 2009

Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Roberta "Bobbie" Seiter

A celebration of the life of Roberta "Bobbie" Seiter will be held at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at First United Methodist Church with Reverend Jay Horton officiating.

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Sun Nov 01, 2009

Lubbock Avalanche

Students still search for wayward experiment

East Texas students still searched for their wayward weather experiment last week.

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Fri Oct 30, 2009

Lubbock Avalanche

Rural revitalization on South Plains legislators' agenda

Four years ago, Gov. Rick Perry traveled to Dalhart to announce that the Hilmar Cheese Co., the largest single-site cheese and whey products manufacturer in the world, would build a state-of-the-art plant in town.

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Thu Oct 29, 2009

Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Texas Crop Report

Texas A&M Agrilife Extension regional crop reports for Oct. 21: SOUTH PLAINS: Soil moisture was short to adequate.

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Tue Oct 27, 2009

KCBD-TV Lubbock

$700 million city debt concerns watchdog group

The city's debt has nearly doubled in just three years and that has one local watchdog group concerned.

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Sun Oct 25, 2009

Lubbock Avalanche

South Plains second per-capita in child abuse

Law enforcement officers and social workers have seen all kinds of child abuse in their careers.

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Fri Oct 23, 2009

Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Reservist graduates early from LCU before deployment

Air Force Staff Sgt. Ramiro Hernandez dabbed his eyes after hundreds of people stood in his honor Thursday morning at a special graduation ceremony at Lubbock Christian University.

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Wed Oct 21, 2009

Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

CNN Money rates Lubbock 12th best for small businesses

Lubbock's current success as a small business incubator may say more about the rest of the country than the city's own strengths, business owners said Monday.

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