Lubbock County News

The final 2012 cotton numbers released by National Agricultural Statistics Service show an increased yield over the 2011 crop, but the harvest is still below average.

Texas High Plains cotton producers face a plethora of weather and pest problems as they finish planting the 2013 crop.

Federal agents on Monday, May 13, arrested a California man on identity theft and other charges in connection with a scheme to steal money from another man's bank account.

Currently, Lubbock County has more than 600 children in the foster care system. However, because of the lack of available certified foster homes, many of those children are having to be relocated to other counties, where foster homes are available.

Lubbock County is in talks with a potential buyer to purchase the city's original federal courthouse, 800 Broadway, and a vacant downtown lot where a brothel once stood.

Motorists traveling on I-27, in Lubbock County, over the next few months can expect traffic to be reduced to one-lane and other main lane closures on several bridges as the Texas Department of Transportation begins work on a $209,630 routine maintenance project.

The Humane Society of West Texas has taken in twenty cats after a resident in Lubbock County was found to have more than they could take care of.

A Lubbock County jury sentenced Cristobal Juan Torres on Thursday, May 9, to 70 years in prison for killing a 16-year-old boy almost two years ago after a nightclub shouting match.

It seems like everyday I hear of 12 y/o girls who divide their after-school time between having sex in the park and going to the drug store when they buy condoms and lubricant.

A Lubbock County jury took only 37 minutes Wednesday, May 8, to convict Cristobal Jose Torres of murdering a teenage boy 19 months ago following a confrontation at an Avenue Q nightclub.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rejected convicted murderer Rosendo Rodriguez III's attempt to win a new trial in his death penalty case.

Calvin Trostle, extension agronomist with Texas A&M AgriLife Extension called the series of freezes between late March and early May much worse for wheat than a normal year.

A pilot arrested last month at Lubbock's airport after federal agents found marijuana, hashish and hallucinogenic mushrooms aboard his rented airplane has been freed on bond.

This billboard, located at the Dallas North Tollway and Trinity Mills Road in Dallas, began displaying Save Plano's anti-package liquor sales platform April 24.

The crime: Rosales was burglarizing the home of a 60-year-old woman. He maintained he did not know she was home, but she discovered him during the burglary.

The man accused of killing an 89-year-old Slaton woman 16 months ago has been found incompetent to stand trial and has been sent to a state hospital for evaluation and treatment.

Lubbock police have released the name of a motorcyclist killed Monday night in a five-vehicle wreck at 19th Street and Quaker Avenue.

A Lubbock County grand jury indicted a 17-year-old Plainview youth on Tuesday, April 30, on charges of retaliation and making a terroristic threat to impede government operations.

Three Dallas men arrested in early April after a string of Sunday morning business burglaries have been indicted on organized crime charges.

A Lubbock County grand jury on Tuesday, April 30 indicted a man on charges of aggravated sexual assault on a 6-year-old girl.