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West Texas police say a former supervisor for state Child Protective Services has been arrested for tampering with evidence as police investigated the 2012 starvation death of a 22-month-old girl.

A West Texas city's tribute to the ranching way of life will feature a $400,000 sculpture of a cowboy on horseback and five steers.

Police say a 12-year-old girl was killed and three other people were injured in a West Texas all-terrain vehicle crash.

The Midland Reporter-Telegram reports 43-year-old Filiberto Baeza was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash Sunday night.

West Texas police say a teenager has died and a person has been injured in a stabbing near Abilene Christian University.

Authorities are considering a bid to build a shelter in West Texas that would be the largest in the U.S. to hold unaccompanied children who enter the country illegally.

West Texas A&M University President J. Patrick O'Brien named Michael Knox vice president for student affairs starting Aug. 11, pending approval by the university system's board of regents.

McKinney Repertory Theatre is hosting an opening night party for the cast and all attendees at the August 1 performance of Carol M. Rice's The Belle of West Texas .

I don't often get any grins from political news these days, but every time I hear that Texas is on the verge of seceding, I roll my eyes and feel a little smile glowing inside.

Gov. Rick Perry has ordered 1,000 National Guard troops to the Mexican border in South Texas.

A century after trying, without success, to land what now is West Texas A&M University, Amarillo might get the next best thing.

That former Texas Tech Vice Chancellor Jodey Arrington poses at least a fundraising challenge to Rep. Charles Perry's early frontrunner status to replace Tech Chancellor Robert Duncan in a Sept.

Whether you called Lubbock home , or spent your formative college years there , an uncommon connection appears to link so many creative and people and eccentrics in West Texas.

Bunch O Balloons by the Plano-based entrepreneurs at Tinnus Enterprises took the internet by storm this summer when its video of a small child simultaneously filling dozens of water balloons in mere seconds went viral on the internet.

The Well will be drilled to an approximate depth of 6,400 feet , to test the Strawn Sands, Caddo Lime, Marble Falls, Barnett Shale and Ellenberger zones.

The Midwestern State cross country squad is picked to finish as runner-up in the race for the 2014 Lone Star Conference Championship according to league coaches, sports information directors and selected media members as released Thursday afternoon.

The market continues to lose ground and is set to snap a seven-day winning streak after miners fall in sympathy with a sliding iron ore price.

Those in attendance of the Mental Health and Substance Abuse discussion break into small groups.

When she was 16 weeks pregnant, a sonogram showed Holcomb's daughter Aarya Mason was going to be born with a birth defect - gastroschisis.

Founded in Seagraves in the early 1900s, the Simpson Inn Alehouse is not only still standing, but it is still operating as originally intended.