Ted Cruz to make another campaign stop in Lubbock Saturday

Ted Cruz, the junior senator from Texas and incumbent facing off against Congressman Beto O'Rourke in the midterm elections, will make another campaign stop in Lubbock on Saturday. The rally is scheduled from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. inside the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center, located at 2521 17th St., according to the Cruz campaign website.

O’Rourke draws crowds in tour through Lubbock, West Texas

There weren't enough seats inside the Cactus Theater to accommodate everyone who showed up Tuesday morning to hear from U.S. Senate Candidate Beto O'Rourke. People packed into the aisles, lined the staircases and poked their heads in from the outside lobby to catch a glimpse of the Democratic candidate in the conservative town of Lubbock as he challenges Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz in the November election.

Two Frenship ISD Teachers Win Beaumont Foundation of America’s 2018…

Frenship Independent School District is honored to announce that two teachers, Brianne Katilus from Frenship HS Ninth Grade Center and Honey Segrist from Bennett Elementary, have been selected as winners of the Beaumont Foundation's 2018 Newton Excellence in Education Award as part of the Foundation's ongoing commitment to support education. Katilus, an English teacher at FHS NGC, has served the students of FISD for the past three years and has taught school a total of 15 years.

Lubbock man arrested on federal child pornography charge

Eugene Martinez, left, was arrested Thursday in connection with a federal task force investigation into child pornography. Members of a federal task force targeting child predators arrested Thursday a 20-year-old Lubbock man who admitted to investigators he traded images and videos online of child pornography he found "unsettling."

Student fatally shoots campus officer after drugs found in room

A student at Texas Tech University is accused of shooting dead a campus police officer on Monday night after drugs were found in his room, a school official said. The 19-year-old suspect, Hollis Daniels, was captured near the Lubbock, Texas, campus after evading police for almost two hours, briefly sending the school into lockdown.

Man who stuffed Lubbock woman’s body into luggage set to die

Attorneys for a Texas death row inmate known as the "suitcase killer" have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his scheduled execution this week for the slaying of a Lubbock woman whose body was stuffed inside a suitcase dumped in the trash. Rosendo Rodriguez III, of San Antonio, was condemned for the 2005 killing of 29-year-old Summer Baldwin, identified in court documents as a prostitute.

Some Lubbock County Detention Center officers getting ICE training

A group of officers at the Lubbock County Detention Center will be trained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement to identify illegal immigrants booked into custody, Sheriff Kelly Rowe said Tuesday in announcing a new LSO policy in working with federal immigration officials. Rowe said he'll send up to eight officers to the four-week training program at an ICE Academy in South Carolina.

Lubbock airport banning Samsung Galaxy Note 7, per DOT decision

The Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport is asking people who still have Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones to not bring them to the airport, as they've been banned from airplanes. A nationwide ban on all Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone devices from airplanes went into effect on Saturday.

Estate of late doctor, UMC deny fraud allegations, agree to pay nearly $3.3 million settlement

UMC Physicians and the estate of a Lubbock doctor who died last February in a plane crash have agreed to pay nearly $3.3 million to the United States and the State of Texas to settle allegations they submitted false Medicaid and Medicare claims. The estate of Dr. Kenneth Michael Rice, who was 60 at the time of the deadly crash, agreed to pay $2 million and UMC Physicians agreed to pay $1,280,000 to settle the matter, according to an announcement Monday by U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.

TTU Regent, Vista Bank CEO wants to introduce Lubbock to Donald Trump

Donald Trump is stepping up his fundraising efforts as he prepares for a general election battle against Hillary Clinton - and Texas Tech University System Regent and Vista Bank president and CEO John Steinmetz is on a list of "bundlers" helping him do it. A bundler is a kind of super fundraiser, who can collect lots of individual donations, up to $2,700 per person, and "bundle" them for the campaign.