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A pumpjack rocks back and forth as the sun sets Wednesday April 2, 2014 in Stanton, Texas.

Today, former Texas Tech Vice Chancellor, Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush, and lifelong West Texas conservative Jodey Arrington formally announced his candidacy in the Special Election to replace State Senator Robert Duncan .

As much of Texas grapples with lingering drought, a second city in the Lone Star State has begun reusing treated wastewater in a state-approved recycling process to bolster drinking supplies.

Young boys sleep in a holding cell where hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children are being processed and held at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center on Wednesday, June 18, 2014, in Nogales, Ariz.

A jury summons scam in West Texas has gone high-tech with a caller demanding payment of a $1,000 fine via PayPal or the person faces arrest.

Shortly after the anniversary of the 2013 fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 people, wounded 226, and upended a large portion of the small town of West, Texas, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board said the incident was preventable and that it resulted from the failure of a company to take the necessary steps to avert it.

Shortly after Costco announced that it was removing Dinesh D'Souza's book, "America: Imagine A World Without Her," from its stores, it soared to #1 on Amazon.Com .

A recent decision to knock down the original high school building in West, Texas is drawing the ire of a growing number of citizens.

OCTOBER 21: A Royal Mail lorry arrives at a temporary Royal Mail sorting depot on October 21 2009 in Bristol.

Kyle Hemminger has joined the Austin office of the specialty investment banking and mortgage banking firm Lancaster Pollard as vice president.

A tanker truck moves through the Eagle Ford Shale town of Cotulla. Texas' shale plays helped drive the number of U.S. oil rigs to a record number last week.

It looks like what you study is more important than where you do it when it comes to finding a high paying job.

Caza is engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and production of hydrocarbons in the following regions of the United States of America through its subsidiary, Caza Petroleum, Inc.: Permian Basin and Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast .

Keith Bryant was named the lone finalist in the search at a special school board meeting Monday that lasted two minutes.

President and CEO of Hospitality Management Corporation , is pleased to announce the addition of Richard Fisher to its corporate team.

The completion of construction and COD milestone allows the closing of the sale of 50 percent of EDF Renewable Energy's equity interest in the project to commissioned for operation.

First of all let me tell you Democrats in Texas, and some Republicans too, cannot wait for this guy to leave.

At that time, major pre-IPO shareholders, including private equity and energy firms, as well as EPE's executives and directors, may dump some of their outstanding shares.

Jeff Brown has been vice president of sales at the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal and A-J Media , which is part of Morris Communications , for nearly seven years.

The U.S. will remain the world's biggest oil producer this year after overtaking Saudi Arabia and Russia as extraction of energy from shale rock spurs the nation's economic recovery, Bank of America Corp. said.