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A short-lived snowfall today covered parts of El Paso, stalling traffic and forcing officials to close a heavily traveled mountain pass.

Another winter storm is headed toward West Texas. It will bring first significant snowfall of the season to the Lubbock area.

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Now that we have Thanksgiving out of the way, I think it high time that we got into a true Holiday Season mood! Granted, over the next 24 hours you will probably be pretty grouchy, what with the cloudy, drizzly conditions that turn into a steady rain late tonight and tomorrow.

A Texan in Hollywood Robert Hinkle with Mike Farris Robert Hinkle was just a "West Texas cowboy turned two-bit actor" when legendary producer-director George Stevens hired him to be Rock Hudson's dialogue coach for the 1956 movie Giant .

For West Texas Democrats, the excitement is gone and reality has set in. Last year, you may recall, local Democrats and Texas Democratic Party Chairman Boyd Richie were so energized by the record turnout in the primary and by the election of President Barack Obama they predicted in 2010 the party would recruit strong candidates to challenge the ...

Growing up in Amarillo, JD Souther never wrote anything other than a few exercises for music composition and theory classes at Amarillo College.

Shelley Childers CBS 7 News November 25, 2009 Odessa, Texas - We're all gearing up for thanksgiving tomorrow, and while many families are preparing big feasts some are finding their meal will come in a box.

Odessa-based company turns a shell game into millions. November 22, 2009 6:14 AM ODESSA AMERICAN Maybe there's something about the vast empty space in West Texas that somehow enhances the vision of some residents.

A silver Dodge pickup and a black Chevy Tahoe were involved in the wreck at the intersection A-street and Michigan near downtown Midland.

Texas and New Mexico Extension agencies will hold their sixth annual Southwest Beef Symposium on Jan.

Eddie Garcia CBS 7 News November 20, 2009 Midland, TX - Ector and Midland County are training to honor America's bravest with a mock funeral.

By STEVE REAGAN Staff Writer A week after a software crash adversely effected service to all its customers, Wes-Tex Telecommunications officials hope to provide fully restored service beginning today.

Terry Johnson, a longtime hunter at Whitehead's Rocking Chair Ranch, pitched a plan to honor wounded troops.

A local tobacco prevention coalition is trying to show Lubbock just how harmful tobacco really is as they get ready for the American Cancer Society's "Great American Smoke-Out" on Thursday.

HOUSTON, Nov. 16, 2009 -- Targa Resources Partners LP announced today that Rene Joyce, Chief Executive Officer, will speak at the RBC Capital Markets MLP Conference to be held on November 19 - 20, 2009 at the Four Seasons Resort and Club, Dallas at Las Colinas.

A former Texas juvenile jail official won't face trial in a sexual abuse case until April.

Ed. Note: This article first appeared on Geoffrey Styles' blog, Energy Outlook .

A look at key issues in the health care debate: THE ISSUE: Will there be enough doctors to provide care to millions of previously uninsured patients if health overhaul is passed? THE POLITICS: With primary care doctors in limited supply, Republicans opposed to sweeping reform say the health care system would be overwhelmed if more than 30 million ...

A $8.6 million industrial rail park will soon be built in the rural West Texas town of Levelland.

The West Texas A&M University Opera Workshop will present a selection of scenes from well-known operas for the Beeville Concert Association on Sunday, Nov.

Jay Hendricks CBS 7 News November 13, 2009 Midland, Texas - A West Texas child predator is off the streets after being sentenced to 30 months in prison for failing to register as an offender.

West Texas cotton producer Steve Smith continued to harvest Wednesday, happy that the weather on this end of the growing season is far better than its beginning.

Texas cotton producers overcame dry conditions and are expected to harvest 10 percent more of the fluffy fiber than last year.

London Leverett, 4, of Odessa won the title of Supreme Queen of the 2009 West Texas Baby Pageant during awards ceremony Nov.

Rickey Bearden, a producer from Plains, TX, and chairman of NCC's Crop Insurance Task Force, participated in a Crop Insurance Roundtable called by House Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management Chairman Boswell and Ranking Member Moran .

"Not that one," she said, untwisting her features. "Too sweet." The dessert wine was one of five she and a group of locals tasted at Llano Estacado winery near Lubbock during a recent tour of West Texas wineries hosted by Odessa College's continuing education program.

Posted 3 hours, 38 minutes ago at 11:59 am. The day before Halloween the Wall Street Journal trumpeted news that a Chinese firm will be the exclusive supplier to one of the largest wind-farm developments in the United States.

Relieved, excited and even more ambitious. That's how Fort Worth oil man Jason Hoisager, 29, felt when it became clear he had hit a small oil show - " his first as president of his own operation - " on a West Texas prospect in Jones County.

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Sacred Story Tellers Donna Ingham is a storyteller from Spicewood. At the Texas Storytelling Festival in 2007 Donna Ingham received the John Henry Faulk Award "for outstanding contributions to the art of storytellinga which is the highest recognition given for storytelling in the Southwest.

With giant modern windmills visible on the horizon, during a day with ample sunshine, Grady was a site most apropos for presentations on renewable energy.

A New Mexico border collie that helped find bodies at the Pentagon after the attacks on Sept.11, 2001 is now in a fighting for life against cancer.

Gov. Rick Perry is bashing Washington-style health care fixes, but he isn't saying whether Texas should refuse federal incentives for insuring more people if given the chance.

Taking candy from a baby: A consortium of Chinese and American companies goes to Washington and announces plans to build a $1.5 billion windmill farm in West Texas using $450 million in U.S. Stimulus funds, which will create 2,330 jobs - " 2,000 of them in China.A The baby - " Washington -- doesn't cry or whine or spit in the consortium's face.

The first polygamist sect member to face criminal trial after last yeara s raid at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in West Texas was convicted Thursday of sexually assaulting an underage girl with whom he had a a oespiritual marriage.a Raymond Jessop, 38, didna t visibly react when the verdict was read after just more than two hours of jury ...

Midwestern State beat Abilene Christian again, but this time it was much harder.

Grim avengers of the night, space knights from a distant galaxy, radioactive arachnid-powered teenagers and barbarian swordsmen battling undead sorcerers.

After days of meticulous plodding through photos and records seized from a polygamist sect's West Texas ranch, jurors could begin deliberating the sexual assault case against one its members as early as Thursday.

A Democratic senator is calling on the Obama administration to reject an expected request for economic stimulus money for a $1.5 billion West Texas wind energy project.

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The most common deals under the government's $3 billion Cash for Clunkers program involved trades of old Ford or Chevrolet pickups for new ones that get only marginally better gas mileage, according to an Associated Press analysis of new federal data.

Highs in the mid-70s under sunny skies were forecast Wednesday across parts of Texas.

Bigamy charges against the leader of the House of Yahweh religious sect in West Texas have been dropped as part of a plea agreement.

By THOMAS JENKINS Staff Writer While the Crossroads area has enjoyed an unusual amount of moisture in recent months, local fire officials say the boon of those rains could mean a rough, fire-laden winter.

The Riverhawks are a D2 program that is part of the South Central region, where they are ranked 5th behind West Texas A&M, Midwestern State and Truman State .

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A birthing center was set up in a log cabin-style home at a polygamist group's West Texas ranch.

Jose Spencer's small motel is bustling with business, and that makes him worried about the future.

Late last week, a Chinese-U.S. consortium announced it was building a 600 megawatt wind farm in Texas costing $1.5 billion.

Wherever Jeannette Walls traveled to promote her 2005 memoir The Glass Castle - and with more than 2 million copies sold she made plenty of stops - fans would inevitably ask about her mother.

Elias Hernandez CBS 7 News October 26, 2009 The November 3rd constitutional amendment election is just around the corner, but many people are casting their ballots early.

Four years ago, Gov. Rick Perry traveled to Dalhart to announce that the Hilmar Cheese Co., the largest single-site cheese and whey products manufacturer in the world, would build a state-of-the-art plant in town.

After two and a half days of jury selection, a 12 member panel has finally been selected to hear evidence against Raymond Merril Jessop, who is the first of those West Texas polygamists to go on trial.