South-Plains News

As the Friday Night Lights are set to be turned on, The South Plains Chapter of Football Officials are looking to add a few good men or women to wear the stripes.

The mission and purpose of the trip to Guatemala is to hand-deliver thousands of shoes that were donated right here on the South Plains to children and families who need them in Guatemala.

The theme of this year's Fourth on Broadway parade may have been "Stand Up For America," but one Lubbock resident said his constitutional rights were violated at the event.

Two recent cases of Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome were confirmed in residents of the Texas Panhandle and South Plains, bringing the years total to three.

CerRx, Inc. today [Thursday] announced that it has been awarded a non-diluting National Institute of Health grant of $1.1M to support a Phase I study combining its two lead investigational compounds intravenous fenretinide and IV safingol.

In fact, Jan Johnson, vice president of TNT Fireworks in Lubbock, told A-J Media about 80 to 90 percent of all the TNT booths are staffed by volunteer organizations.

The recent showers that mean good news to the agriculture world show the same promise for small-scale home gardens.

During the polio epidemic of the late 1940 and early 1950s, a ward for patients was set up at Plainview Sanitarium.

Speaker Joe Straus and the Texas House of Representatives took a giant leap forward in the fight against child abuse last month in creating the House Select Committee on Child Protection.

The ideas of liberty and independence spawned a revolution and the birth of a nation.

The Texas South Plains Honor Flight and KCBD NewsChannel 11 teamed up on Wednesday, July 2, for the 3rd Annual Honor Flight Telethon to help raise funds to send area veterans to Washington, D.C. Wednesday's telethon raised $70,831 for the yearly trip.

Vehicles make their way down Broadway on Wednesday in Lubbock. A storm system brought several inches of rain to the region.

Friday activities include a 10 a.m. parade, team-roping, Do or Dye 5K run, classic car contest, Miss Firecracker pageant, live entertainment, food and craft vendors.

A weather-related outage has left Appears to be effecting about 1216 customers without power Wednesday morning, according to a South Plains Electric Cooperative news release.

Muleshoe High School's sports medicine program placed fourth in the Alert Services division of the third Annual AACI National Sports Medicine Championships in May. Along with the school's top-five ranking, Idali Cruz, Lisett Mojica and Marissa Reyes of Muleshoe achieved All-American status after taking the 300 question online exam.

The chance of precipitation remains until Thursday but has been delayed due to Tuesday morning's rain showers across the South Plains.

The Texas South Plains Honor Flight and KCBD-NewsChannel 11 will conduct a fundraising telethon from 6 a.m. until 11 p.m. on Wednesday, July 2, to help raise funds for the Honor Flight's annual trip to Washington, D.C. The local Honor Flight is an organization of volunteers committed to sending our armed forces veterans to our nation's capital to ... (more)

An estimated 350 people came out to sort donations at the final event of the Summer of Sharing Food Drive at Lowe's Supermarket on 19th Street and Frankford Avenue Monday evening.

Incoming Texas Tech Chancellor Robert Duncan has yet to leave the Texas Senate, but another hopeful has thrown his hat into the ring.

The Lubbock Chamber of Commerce has announced that South Plains Mall has been awarded the Water-Smart Business Award for summer quarter 2014.