Lubbock County News

Lubbock attorney and former City Councilman David Nelson will run for county judge this spring.

With a bad economy plus Thanksgiving and Christmas just around the corner, David Weaver is already seeing what he and the staff of the South Plains Food Bank had long anticipated - a larger number of struggling people looking to the food bank for help.

Authorities say it could be weeks before they know if Paul Allen Brown, 48, was murdered.

Confirmed AIDS cases in Lubbock has seen a shocking rise of nearly 300 percent. Last year Lubbock County had 11 new HIV cases.

A Lubbock County grand jury on Tuesday indicted three people on charges stemming from a fatal stabbing in June.

A Slaton Republican will seek another four years representing southeast Lubbock County in the commissioners court.

A Lubbock County grand jury on Tuesday signed off on multiple indictments against a man accused of killing two people and injuring a third.

Even though it looks like the number of H1N1 flu cases is dropping in the area, four people have now died from the flu in Lubbock County.

A cook's job in the Air Force is not supposed to be dangerous, but in 1942 when the nation's airmen were the U.S. Army Air Forces, a mess sergeant could be shot in a land invasion.

A Lubbock County prosecutor said it is time to replace the status quo when she announced her candidacy for 364th District judge on Tuesday on the courthouse lawn.

County commissioners unanimously approved Monday committing future tax dollars to improvements in a North Lubbock business park.

Judge Brad Underwood on Wednesday announced he will seek a sixth term presiding over the 364th District Court.

It was one of the selling points in the May alcohol election and most customers felt competition would push the price of packaged alcohol and liquor to lower levels.

A Lubbock man died Thursday after his SUV flipped end over end in a one-vehicle crash in north Lubbock County.

The search for a suspect in connection with the death of a Lubbock State School resident is over.

Polls open at 7:00 a.m. today. Across Texas, voters will decide on 11 proposed amendments to the state constitution, and in Lubbock folks will also vote on four proposed bond projects.

Lubbock County Sheriff's Investigators continue to search for the person who held up a Fina station at gun point Friday night.

In the never-ending quest to boost their "tough on crime" and "family values" credentials, politicians and police departments across America have turned this year's Halloween into the scariest one yet.

Six Lubbock teenage girls, on average, became pregnant each week last year, giving the county the fourth-highest pregnancy rate among the most populated counties in Texas - but down from second highest in 2007.

A Lubbock County jury on Friday sentenced a Lubbock man to 20 years in prison for sexually assaulting his stepdaughter in 2007.