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Jennifer Samp CBS 7 News jsamp@cbs7.com Many districts are seeing a shortage in housing, which they say translates to a shortage in teachers and with enrollment expected to grow The Ector County Independent School District says they need to do something about it before the issue hits the quality of education.

According to the National Weather Service Office in Lubbock, 1.41 inches of rain fell near the Science Spectrum, with .29 inches near the airport and .59 inches by 90th Street and Slide Avenue.

Scout.com's 7th ranked center in the class of 2014 has seen a big boost in his recruitment over the last couple weeks.

Josh Gray, a Texas Tech basketball transfer who is spending his sophomore season at a Texas junior college following a coaching change at Tech, said Monday that the University of Memphis and Arizona are the two schools hotly pursuing him.

After helping tutor Johnny Manziel to a Heisman-winning season as the Texas A&M offensive coordinator, Kliff Kingsbury was hired to head up the program at his alma mater, Texas Tech.

29-year-old Ross was found guilty of shooting and killing 53-year-old Texas Tech Dean Douglas Birdsall and an 18-year-old Viola McVade on January 31, 2001.

Dr. Samuel Bennett, longtime director of dining services at Texas Tech University until his retirement this past spring, passed away suddenly late last week.

The title of this post is the title of this notable new piece by Tamar Birckhead now available via SSRN.

Sonny Dykes is an accomplished football coach, but he definitely has a lot of work to do to catch up to his father Spike.

The future of the Downtown Historic District and the importance of architectural preservation and building sustainability were the hot topics of the first Texas Trost Society meeting in El Paso on Saturday.

If he wanted to, attorney Dennis R. Burrows, with his vision declining, could be looking at aspens in Colorado instead of judges, juries and litigants in a courtroom.

Mitchell Harris asks a question to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack during a town hall meeting Friday at the Museum of Texas Tech.

A plant is snapped in half at the Texas Tech greenhouse due to last week's hail and wind storm.

Rooster , center, announces the name of the race winner to Pig , left, and Monkey in the original children's musical "The Great Rat Race," which opens today at Lubbock Community Theatre.

The Iowa football team received a verbal commitment today from Texas defensive back Jyaz Jones, according to Rivals.com.

Fair or unfair, it was really never a question of when as much as if with respect to 2014 Irving defensive tackle Brandon Glenn's commitment to Oklahoma.

Workers on Thursday began installing video panels in the north end of Jones AT&T Stadium, and the $11 million scoreboard construction project remains on schedule, Texas Tech athletic director Kirby Hocutt said.

The Lubbock Independent School District board of trustees approved a raise in employee salaries for the next school year at their meeting Thursday morning.

That's always good news for Texas fans. Don't be naive enough to think the Red River Rivalry doesn't overflow into recruiting.

H.S. Football: TCU latest to offer Palestine's Jarrell Owens>> Local Sports>> The Palestine Herald, Palestine, Texas Palestine star senior-to-be Jarrell Owens picked up his fourth college offer on Tuesday, his second from a BCS school.