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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.

Oktoberfest at Fort Bliss will go on despite the loss of some German Air Force personnel who for more than 40 years organized the event.

Matador Resources Company , an independent energy company engaged in the exploration, development, production and acquisition of oil and natural gas resources, with an emphasis on oil and natural gas shale and other unconventional plays and with a current focus on its Eagle Ford operations in South Texas and its Permian Basin operations in ... (more)

The Brazos River as it flows past Glen Rose on Aug. 2, 2013. Drought conditions have led to a significant decrease in water levels in the river.

Today's Easter service was an important one for those in West, Texas, who this week marked the one year anniversary of the explosion that rocked the town.

If Texas Tech University's numbers are any indication, the race for Texas governor won't be all that competitive.