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Alex Driggars

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Plainview, TX, United States

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Lubbock County Expo Center boasts milestone in slow road to new venue

Leaders involved in developing the Lubbock County Expo Center are feeling optimistic after securing a significant naming-rights sponsorship. → Read More

Lubbock City Council to transfer land to state for veterans cemetery

The Lubbock City Council on Tuesday took the next significant steps toward a future veterans cemetery. → Read More

Wolfforth commission begins drafting city charter

Wolfforth is on track to become a home rule municipality by the end of the year after a Charter Commission held its first meeting Monday night. → Read More

Seminole man killed in rural Gaines County rollover

A Seminole man was killed in a single-vehicle rollover near the New Mexico state line early Saturday, the Texas Department of Public Safety said. → Read More

In milestone move, Lubbock City Council designates safety-net retail electric providers

The Lubbock City Council designated safety-net providers who will serve in a default capacity once LP&L makes the switch to customer choice this year. → Read More

Mayor Payne stresses public safety, key services in first state of city speech

The mayor's event, sponsored by the Lubbock Apartment Association, comes nine months after Payne was sworn into his position. → Read More

Reminder: Lubbock City Council to hear controversial Tech Terrace zone case Tuesday

The Lubbock City Council will decide if a controversial proposed student housing development in the Tech Terrace neighborhood will move forward. → Read More

Road-rage shooting suspect charged

Lubbock police say tips from the public helped them identify and charge a suspect in connection to a December road-rage shooting. → Read More

Officials share what led to standoff with suspect in south Lubbock home

Lubbock County Sheriff's Office responded to a barricaded subject in a house Wednesday afternoon in south-central Lubbock. → Read More

Lubbock-Cooper leaders join advocates calling for reform in state assessments

Lubbock-Cooper ISD officials are calling on Texas state legislators to fundamentally reform the way the state measures public school performance. → Read More

Flying Queens Museum opens, celebrates legacy of legendary women's basketball program

A museum chronicling a historic collegiate women's basketball program is officially open at Wayland after a ribbon-cutting ceremony Saturday morning. → Read More

City Council names downtown plaza after late Councilman T.J. Patterson

The Lubbock City Council unanimously voted Tuesday to honor their late colleague by naming a portion of the downtown municipal campus after him. → Read More

Czech it out: Lubbock Symphony hosting renowned orchestra at Buddy Holly Hall

Lubbockites will have a chance to experience the "beautiful Czech sound" of Filharmonie Brno when the acclaimed European orchestra makes a stop at Buddy Holly Hall next week. → Read More

'Trouble-makingest lawyer in West Texas': Jeff Blackburn remembered for advocacy, reform

Amarillo attorney Jeff Blackburn, noted for his efforts advocating for civil rights and criminal justice reform and once called the "trouble-makingest lawyer in West Texas," died Tuesday at age 65 af… → Read More

Student with gun, ammo at Lubbock-Cooper Middle School arrested

Lubbock-Cooper Independent School District police arrested a middle school student after staff found the student with a firearm and ammunition Tuesday afternoon. → Read More

These Lubbock-area students are performing this week in Texas All-State band, choir, orchestra

Each fall, more than 70,000 Texas high school musicians audition for a spot in one of the All-State instrumental and vocal ensembles. → Read More

Time-honored traditions: Students, organizations caretakers of Tech's legacy, spirit

With so many traditions at Texas Tech, here are the stories behind a few students and organization that are tasked to take care of Tech's legacy. → Read More

'The birth of a movement': One of first Global Methodist conferences launches in Lubbock

For the first time Friday and Saturday, hundreds of clergy and laypeople from dozens of churches in West Texas gathered as Global Methodists. → Read More

Lewis and Tepper make nice; retired colonel drops suit against state rep.

A retired Air Force colonel has dropped a defamation lawsuit against a Lubbock state representative, his attorneys announced late last week. → Read More

North Lubbockites opposed to concrete plant permit near Cavazos Middle School

North Lubbock residents are speaking up in an effort to stop a Texas agency from issuing a permit for a concrete plant in the Jackson-Mahon neighborhood. → Read More