Updated: Apr. 5, 2022 at 4:37 PM CDT
|By Brad Burt
“On behalf of the Big 12 Conference, I want to extend my sincere appreciation to Commissioner Bowlsby for his outstanding leadership over the last decade,” said Chair of the Big 12 Board and President of Texas Tech University, Lawrence Schovanec.
Updated: Mar. 16, 2022 at 4:02 PM CDT
|By Brad Burt
Dr. Cavazos served as the first Texas Tech alumnus and the first Mexican-American president of both the University and Health Sciences Center for eight years.
Updated: Mar. 15, 2022 at 4:55 PM CDT
|By Brad Burt
City and state advocates say this designation is a critical step forward in a project that will be an immense economic win for Texas, and the United States.
Updated: Dec. 16, 2021 at 1:33 PM CST
|By Brad Burt
Abbott cited his series of Executive Orders issued earlier this year, prohibiting entities in Texas from compelling COVID-19 vaccination.
Updated: Dec. 10, 2021 at 7:36 PM CST
|By Brad Burt
The district's lawsuit, alongside the state of Texas, claims the mandate from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services oversteps the department’s authority over “Head Start” programs.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2021 at 6:27 PM CDT
|By Brad Burt
According to the FBI, Webb made six transfers totaling $6,200 in the month of January alone, and more than $10,400 from February 27 to March 2, 2021 on Paypal. Unauthorized transfers exceeded $250,000 from Christ the King cathedral.
Updated: Jun. 2, 2021 at 8:35 PM CDT
|By Brad Burt
Jaeger’s mother filed a lawsuit against The Weather Channel in 2019, seeking $125 million in damages, claiming Williamson and Yarnall habitually ran stop signs, traffic lights and violated other basic traffic safety laws, in attempts to obtain video footage for their show, TWC’s “Storm Wranglers,” and for TWC’s weather programming.
Updated: May. 18, 2021 at 11:58 AM CDT
|By Brad Burt
Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Surgical Health Services has filed a lawsuit against the City of Lubbock, hoping to stop enforcement of the recent “Sanctuary City for the Unborn” ordinance by saying it violates rights to due process according to the U.S. Constitution and Texas law.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2021 at 3:54 PM CST
|By Brad Burt
Shallowater Independent School District has confirmed a school assignment on “chivalry” telling female students to “obey any reasonable request of a male” has been removed following backlash from parents.
Updated: Dec. 3, 2020 at 3:22 PM CST
|By Brad Burt
The legendary 6666′s Ranches, first established in 1870 and now spanning hundreds of thousands of acres across west Texas, are being sold.
Updated: Nov. 20, 2020 at 4:29 PM CST
|By Brad Burt
U.S. Marshals served a writ of execution to Bart Reagor on Thursday to collect $49 million owed to Ford Motor Credit.
Updated: Oct. 9, 2020 at 1:52 PM CDT
|By Brad Burt
The Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo’s executive committee made the decision this week, saying the event "would rank as a “very high risk” for further spread of COVID-19 and potentially impact populations and healthcare systems in Fort Worth and beyond the North Texas area."
Updated: Jul. 17, 2020 at 4:39 PM CDT
|By Brad Burt
One person is in the hospital and two others have been arrested after a chase in a stolen vehicle that reached speeds of up to 112 miles per hour crossed paths with officers from all over Texas, attending Sheriff Abraham Vega’s funeral in Tahoka.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2020 at 4:50 PM CDT
|By Brad Burt
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission has issued a warning to all bar and restaurant operators to follow state protocols in light of COVID-19 concerns, or face their license being suspended.
Updated: Jun. 9, 2020 at 4:22 PM CDT
|By Brad Burt
The current Commander of Pacific Air Forces and 1984 Texas Tech Graduate, General Charles Q. Brown, Jr., has been confirmed to serve as the Air Force’s 22nd Chief of Staff, according to Sec. of Defense Mark Esper.
Updated: Jun. 3, 2020 at 7:43 PM CDT
|By Brad Burt
A coalition of 51 African American Pastors from across the South Plains have issued a joint response in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd.
Updated: May. 12, 2020 at 6:44 PM CDT
|By Brad Burt
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins released his response to the Attorney General’s letter, saying the public health guidelines were based on Governor Abbott’s recommendations; “never imagining he did not want his own guidelines followed,” he said.
Updated: Apr. 28, 2020 at 3:49 PM CDT
|By Brad Burt
Aiden Bruce-Umbaugh, 23, was sentenced to 30 months in prison before U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix. Bruce-Umbaugh was arrested in November 2019 in Post, with drugs and firearms. Later evidence presented in a detention hearing linked Bruce-Umbaugh to a neo-Nazi hate group.
Updated: Mar. 25, 2020 at 1:48 PM CDT
|By Brad Burt
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department says don’t believe it if you read on social media that the 2020-21 hunting and fishing season has been canceled. Stay up-to-date on information by following the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department website at https://tpwd.texas.gov/
Updated: Mar. 6, 2020 at 4:13 PM CST
|By Brad Burt
The City of Austin has cancelled the South By Southwest festival (SXSW) set for March of this year, due to concerns over coronavirus.
Updated: Feb. 26, 2020 at 5:45 PM CST
|By Brad Burt
The man who was driving the car in Garza County in 2019 when neo-Nazi Aiden Bruce-Umbaugh was arrested on gun crimes, has himself been arrested by federal agents, among a group of “racially motivated violent extremists,” who allegedly targeted journalists and activists.
Updated: Jan. 29, 2020 at 4:42 PM CST
|By Brad Burt
The Texas Department of Public Safety issued a thank you for the level of support provided for the trooper who was injured in December when a semi-truck crashed into several emergency officials and stopped cars on Highway 84.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2020 at 2:36 PM CST
|By Brad Burt
USA Boxing’s National Junior Olympics have been set to take place June 21-27 at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center.
Updated: Jan. 14, 2020 at 4:05 PM CST
|By Brad Burt
After the loss of two first responders this weekend, several representatives from various First Responder organizations across the country are asking drivers across the country to “pay attention and move over.”
Updated: May. 6, 2019 at 12:49 PM CDT
|By Brad Burt
Hocutt’s contract includes an increase in compensation to $1.5 million annually with 3 percent increases each year, beginning September 1, 2019, and an extension to August 31, 2027.