Lubbock

A Texas homeless man will likely spend the rest of his life in prison after a jury sentenced him for the murder of a 79-year-old man in 2016. The homeless man killed the senior citizen with tree trimming shears.

A commissioner of Manatee County, Florida, received unanimous approval from his colleagues on the board to move ahead with a plan to explore a local county “heartbeat” abortion ordinance, even though such a ban would be more restrictive than the state’s current abortion law.

A judge dismissed Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit against the city of Lubbock, Texas, where citizens voted to ban abortion within the city’s limits.

Planned Parenthood said it will stop abortions in its Lubbock clinic as a “Sanctuary City for the Unborn” ordinance takes effect.

The Texas legislature passed a bill that will outlaw abortions in the state once a fetal heartbeat is detected and sent it to the governor.

Lubbock, Texas, became the largest city in the U.S. to become a “sanctuary city for the unborn,” the 26th in the nation to outlaw abortion.

A Lubbock, Texas, investigative news team discovered groups of Mexican tourists flying to the West Texas city to obtain COVID-19 vaccinations. The tourists fly to the U.S. in a private jet to travel to a CVS store in Lubbock for their previously set vaccination appointment.

For the second time in three weeks, thousands of people took to the streets of Lubbock, Texas, to show their support for the re-election of President Donald Trump. An estimated 5,000 motorcycles, cars, pickup trucks, and tractor-trailers occupied the fast lane of Lubbock’s Loop 289 freeway.

Officials of Lubbock are weighing whether their city should become the 15th “Sanctuary City for the Unborn” in the state of Texas.

Federal law enforcement agents arrested a Vietnamese refugee in Lubbock, Texas, after he allegedly threatened to carry out a mass shooting at a church. The refugee now faces a federal charge for being a felon in possession of firearms.

The man arrested by police in Lubbock, Texas, after he brandished a semi-automatic rifle in front of a George Floyd protest posted a threat on Facebook saying he wanted to “off racists and MAGA people,” officials stated. He allegedly shouted, “President Trump must die” and “this is a revolution” as authorities took him into custody.

Police and protesters teamed up to tackle an armed man who showed up across the street from a George Floyd protest in Lubbock, Texas. The man appeared to be brandishing a semi-automatic rifle in a threatening manner before he dropped the weapon on the sidewalk.

A news photographer narrowly missed being hit by a semi-truck when it careened off a highway Friday in Lubbock County, Texas. 

A Texas high school football announcer was deeply moved by a kind gesture from the opposing team after a game in Lubbock November 29. 

A grandmother in Lubbock, Texas, stopped a possible mass shooting by convincing her grandson to get medical help after he told her he planned to kill people with his rifle.

A former teacher in west Texas pleaded guilty Wednesday before a federal judge on child porn charges.

A leading voice for Texas agriculture producers is making a familiar case against one of the conservative movement’s foremost think tanks.

Federal authorities have arrested a suspected member of a Mexican drug cartel living in Lubbock. The man was wanted on federal drug trafficking charges.

A Lubbock, Texas delivery driver at a local carniceria thwarted a robbery of his vehicle when he shot a suspect he believed to be reaching for a weapon upon being discovered. The driver was licensed to carry a concealed firearm by the State of Texas.

Four Texas Tech University students were found safe in the Belgian capital of Brussels following Tuesday’s explosions in the city’s airport and metro station. The Islamic State claimed credit for the terror attacks, which killed at least 30 people and wounded 230 others. In response to this crisis, the university decided to halt their study abroad program in Belgium.

The Jerusalem Post reports: A West Point graduate, a Army Field Artillery officer who served in Afghanistan and Iraq and was an Eagle Scout, Taylor Force left behind a legacy of service when his life was cut short Tuesday night

Lubbock Christian School (LCS) Superintendent Peter Dahlstrom has been named the 2015 recipient of the Vaughn Luster Award, as the outstanding administrator of a member school of the National Christian School Association (NCSA). LCS is the oldest private school in the greater Lubbock area.