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MULESHOE — Gov. Greg Abbott has appointed Kathryn Gurley of Friona as judge of the 287th Judicial District Court in Bailey and Parmer counties for a term set to expire Dec. 31, or until her successor shall be duly elected and qualified, the governor’s office announced Wednesday. Gurley is the district attorney of the 287th Judicial District in Bailey and Parmer Counties. Previously, she served as the Parmer County attorney. Gurley is set to fill out the remainder of the ter...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A good many game watchers tuned in to the Liberty Bowl on Tuesday night expecting to see one team run up the score. And sure enough. Texas Tech folded, spindled and mutilated Mississippi State, 34-7, just the opposite sort of runaway from the one so many were forecasting. Mississippi State came in with the No. 3 passing offense in the Football Bowl Subdivision, and the Red Raiders held the Bulldogs to their lowest point total of the season. Only Alabama...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Shortly after the Texas Tech football season ends Tuesday night at the Liberty Bowl, many of the staff members will immediately pivot to duties at their next jobs. Sonny Cumbie will be head coach at Louisiana Tech, Jake Brown will serve him as a co-offensive coordinator, Keith Patterson will be head coach at Abilene Christian University and Derek Jones and Joel Filani have jobs lined up at Virginia Tech and Washington State, respectively. They all got off the bus, however, when the Red Raiders pulled up to th...
LUBBOCK — Police arrested a 15-year-old boy Monday afternoon in connection with a shooting Sunday night that left two people injured at the South Plains Mall. Investigators believe the shooting stemmed from a dispute between two juveniles in a common area of the mall between Dillard's and the movie theater, according to police officials. One person was grazed by a bullet while another person suffered minor injuries while trying to flee, officials said. The shooting prompted an evacuation of the mall, though stores also s...
What was a Clovis-based horse selling event organizer is getting an incentive from the state of Texas for moving its events to Levelland in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Clovis Horse Sales made its home at the Mallet Event Center and Arena in Levelland in 2020 after 20 years of it being held in New Mexico. The move came during the COVID-19 shutdown when Texas had fewer restrictions than New Mexico for hosting big events. Levelland now hosts four sales a year, which...
LUBBOCK - New Texas Tech football coach Joey McGuire announced Wednesday he's retaining Sonny Cumbie as the Red Raiders' offensive coordinator. Cumbie's symbolic motivational tool isn't going anywhere either. "Oh, the pumpjack's stayin', man," McGuire said. After Cumbie was appointed interim head coach upon the Oct. 25 dismissal of Matt Wells, he thought of ways to keep the players engaged. He remembered former Snyder coach Chad Rogers' use of a pumpjack to symbolize an...
LUBBOCK - The time to play for real is almost here. The Texas Tech men's basketball team has gone through a pair of secret scrimmages, reportedly against Wichita State and New Mexico State, which allowed the coaching staff to acquire some learning lessons for the players. After seeing several weaknesses exposed, head coach Mark Adams feels like his squad is poised to start the regular season in less than a week. The Red Raiders are scheduled to face off against North Florida...
Lubbock legend Mac Davis was remembered by family and friends during a monument dedication last week at the city of Lubbock Cemetery. Davis was a Lubbock native who made a national name for himself as a star of music, stage and screen, writing songs performed by the likes of Elvis Presley - including "In the Ghetto" and "A Little Less Conversation" - and performing a number of his own hits including "Baby, Don't Get Hooked On Me." His entertainment career lasted more than 50...
LUBBOCK — With Matt Wells' dismissal Monday midway through his third season at Texas Tech, the Red Raiders are back in the market for their fourth football coach in the past decade. Since Tech fired Mike Leach in December 2009, Tommy Tuberville, Kliff Kingsbury and Wells have been unable to restore the program's winning ways. Tech athletics director Kirby Hocutt has enlisted four men to assist in the upcoming search: deputy AD Tony Hernandez, Tech Regents and donors Dusty Womble and Cody Campbell and former Tech and NFL r...
LUBBOCK ‚ Two weeks from today, the Texas Tech football team will be in game-week preparation mode for the Sept. 4 season opener against Houston. The Red Raiders have gone through multiple August workouts and Saturday was their first full-pads scrimmage, the first of only two such scrimmages the NCAA now permits during the preseason. There's still time for players to make moves on the depth chart, but training camp is far enough along for Matt Wells and his staff to have f...
Lubbock’s health department is offering expanded COVID-19 vaccination opportunities — including some gift card incentives — as the city’s vaccination rate lags behind the rest of the state. The city will host a COVID-19 vaccine clinic to coincide with the Texas tax-free back-to-school shopping weekend from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the South Plains Mall at 6002 Slide Road, according to a city of Lubbock news release. The clinic will be located inside the mall, near the main entrance by Barnes & Noble Bookstore. The fir...
Lubbock’s Chamber of Commerce has joined the chorus sharing concerns about impacts from the University of Texas’ and Oklahoma’s potential departure from the Big 12 conference. The Chamber last week announced it sent a letter to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, voicing concerns about the future of the Big 12 and what it could mean for both Texas Tech and the local economy. “The potential demise of the Big 12 — and of major college athletics in Lubbock — could devastate not just Texas Tech itself, but the local economy that is accustom...
A father and daughter were killed while the man's wife was seriously injured when their car was struck by a tractor-trailer Tuesday near Littlefield. The crash, which also involved a Bailey County EMS Ambulance whose crew suffered minor injuries, was reported about 4:50 p.m. on at U.S. Highway 84 and Loop 430 near Littlefield, according to a statement from the Littlefield Police Department. Investigators believe a 29-year-old man was driving a white Honda Accord on Loop 430 when he disregarded a stop sign at the intersection...
LUBBOCK — Mark Adams is staying home. The former lead assistant, and associated head coach, will be sitting at the front of the bench as he was named the Texas Tech head basketball coach late Monday night. Texas Tech athletic director Kirby Hocutt, who informed the team of the news through Zoom, confirmed the news with the Avalanche-Journal. Following the news, former players Norense Odiase, Tariq Owens and Matt Mooney praised the hire. “He was someone I could always go talk to through the year,” Mooney said. “He helped...
U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix on Thursday told Juan Anthony Cordero that the facts of his case outweighed the lenient punishment both his defense attorney and federal prosecutors requested. However, the judge acknowledged Cordero's role - after his arrest - in the capture of the man he helped escape from a Muleshoe jail and reconsidered the heavier punishment he planned to dole out and sentenced Cordero to 14 months in a federal prison. Cordero, 25, has been held at the Lubbock County Detention Center since August...
W hen talk turns to regulations, it's all too frequently only the extremists — those braying for more or those bellowing against any — whose voices are heard. But occasionally it's the common sense of those in the middle that advances or slows the rule-making, as was the case with the U.S. Department of Labor's reluctant but wise abandoning of plans to essentially bar children younger than 16 from farm work. "Under pressure from farm groups and lawmakers from rural states, the Labor Department said it is withdrawing pro...
