West News

Head west to Marfa, Texas, and you'll find a small community of a couple thousand people that serves as home to not one, but two film festivals: CineMarfa and the Marfa Film Festival.

Should the big guy, John Wayne, be more your cup of bourbon than scary monsters, Dallas offers a chance to dwell in his company this weekend, April 24-27, at the John Wayne Film Festival.

Once again, it seems the chance of rain for Lubbock has passed us by. This continues a prolonged period of dry conditions that have lawns turning brown, plants wilting and homeowners considering drastic water-saving measures.

The No. 16 West Texas A&M baseball team has altered its schedule for Senior Weekend as the Buffs now will play a doubleheader Friday at 5 p.m. at Wilder Park and a single game on Saturday at 1 p.m. The changes were made due to the forecast of extremely strong winds over the Texas Panhandle this weekend.

An official said it was not yet clear if lagging interest from bidders will delay the August completion of the main Parkland Hospital building.

Quite possibly the most horrifying revelations in the Chemical Safety Board's preliminary report on the West, Texas fertilizer explosion were that West Fertilizer Company, the state of Texas and McLennan County failed to implement safety measures that most of us would consider to be Fire and Hazmat Safety 101.

A fired chief financial officer at a West Texas university has pleaded guilty to stealing about $40,000 in school money for his personal use.

In this April 18, 2013 aerial file photo are the remains of a nursing home, left, apartment complex, center, and fertilizer plant, right, destroyed by an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas.

Residents at Windsor Senior Living celebrated Earth Day by practicing horticultural therapy in their garden.

Leonel Monroy, 20, died after being taken to a hospital in Lubbock, Texas. According to an official release, Monroy, along with two other occupants, were in a four-door Cadillac that was pulled over by a female state trooper on U.S. Highway 87, just south of 82nd Street.

Abernathy's Ty Pugh signed a letter of intent Tuesday afternoon to join the West Texas A&M track team.

A deadly 2013 fertilizer warehouse explosion in Texas that claimed at least 14 lives could have been prevented, U.S. safety investigators said on Tuesday.

The 2013 fertilizer plant blast that killed 15 people and wounded another 226 in West, Texas, "should never have occurred," the chairman of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board said Tuesday.

A West Texas driver has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for striking and killing a bicyclist in a 2009 daytime wreck.

On Monday West Texas A&M officially introduced Tom Brown as the new Men's Head Basketball Coach.

But they were on set in Durango, Mexico, more than 1,300 miles away from Los Angeles when the Academy Awards ceremony took place.

The mummified remains of a man found in a Lexington storage unit in January have been identified, and the man's daughter has been indicted for stealing his Social Security benefits.

The cost to clean a West Texas school where a student took a container of mercury he says he found has reached nearly $900,000.

At the state's technical colleges, controversial changes to the state's high school curriculum in House Bill 5 have been met with a sense of excitement - and anticipation that the shift could lead to significant expansion.

US Permian Basin pipeline capacity is slated to soon expand by about 500,000 b/d, matching growing production with takeaway capacity.