West News

This week, a couple stories that should cause anyone critically thinking to see that those wearing badges aren't always operating with the best intentions.

Over the weekend, vandals defaced most of "Prada Marfa," a public land art installation on the outskirts of the tiny farming town of Valentine, Texas, about a 2 hour drive southeast of El Paso.

CBS7 News 03/10/14 Law enforcement from all over West Texas are taking advantage of spring break by using empty classrooms to train.

UTSA College of Sciences faculty members Andrew Tsin, Garry Cole and Donald Kurtz were honored recently at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago.

Tending crops spread across three West Texas counties, Nickels often ended up sleeping in the fields and was running himself ragged trying to keep complex irrigation and agricultural equipment running.

CBS 7 News March 9, 2014 The roads out here in West Texas can be treacherous with the increased traffic.

I recently saw a movie, "The American Mustang", documenting the sickening cruelty of the Bureau of Land Management in rounding up the wild horses of the Western plains.

For 30 years, twice a day, Michell Bond has been feeding ducks at Capitol Lake. But, today she noticed a strange film covering the surface of the water.

Macey Meriggi CBS 7 News Mmeriggi@cbs7.com March 8, 2014 It's a historic sporting event here in the basin: the West Texas Relays but even after 70 years, this year marked another first.

If I can be forgiven a little piece of hometown news the halls of power in Lubbock, Texas, are abuzz with the notion that the city has a fair shot at landing Tesla's new $5 billion "Gigafactory" building the lithium-ion batteries that power its cars and those of some other automakers as well.

Conley and Geneva Esmond of Lamesa, who were brought to West Texas as children, remember how the driver of a horse-pulled wagon sometimes had to stop to open a gate before moving across ranchland where there were no roads.

Spring fever stopped by my house this week, but it is not based on the traditional arrival of hayfever, thunderstorms or balmy weather, at least not of this writing.

West Texas A&M coach Mark Kellogg said Friday night's Lone Star Conference Championship women's semifinal game reminded him of a heavyweight fight.

Texas politicians are recoiling after a prominent Lubbock Democrat accused Republican candidate for governor Greg Abbott of "piA ata politics" in a bigoted tirade and allegedly disparaged Abbott's Latina wife.

Welcome to the W&T Offshore Fourth Quarter Earnings Conference Call. . This conference is being recorded today, March 7, 2014.

It has been almost eleven months since a deadly ammonium nitrate explosion and fire at a fertilizer plant changed life forever for the 2,800-plus residents of West, Texas.

Texas Railroad Commission Chairman Barry Smitherman says he believes the shale revolution could drive the state's oil production to record levels before the end of the decade.

Terry County Sheriff Larry Gilbreath says 43-year-old James Croft of Tyler died at the scene Thursday afternoon when a silo tank fell on him.

Quality Carriers, Inc. , the leading North American bulk chemical carrier, has expanded into the West Texas market, with a new terminal in Sweetwater, TX.

High pressure moves east and low pressure develops over West Texas and deepens. This will increase moisture and winds Friday and into Friday night, according to the National Weather Center in Corpus Christi.