South-Plains News

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.