The Lubbock City Council is meeting in regular session at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the council chambers at Citizens Tower. Dozens of items are listed on the agenda, which can be found on the city’s website at mylubbock.us. Here are three big agenda items Lubbock citizens might want to pay attention to. City council will […]
Lubbock police have identified a man killed at a central-Lubbock motel Sunday night. Officers responding to reports of shots fired in the 5200 block of Avenue Q South Drive found 35-year-old Orion Akins dead from an apparent gunshot wound, police said. The call came in just before 8 p.m. Sunday. This embedded content is not […]
The Lubbock Lions Club will host its 72nd annual pancake festival from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center. The Lubbock Lions Club held the 71st Annual Pancake Festival at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023. The event was held from 7am through 8pm. The all-you-can-eat event […]
Monday, Feb. 5, is the last day to register to vote in Lubbock County and across Texas ahead of the March party primary election. The March 5 primary will feature candidates for President of the United States along with party primaries for a variety of federal, state and local elections to determine party candidates in […]
A 32-year-old man and a juvenile are in custody after allegedly leading sheriff deputies on a pursuit in West Lubbock on Monday. According to the Lubbock Sheriff’s Department, around 6:40 p.m., a sheriff’s deputy observed a vehicle nearly collide with another vehicle on 19th Street and Albany Avenue. The deputy attempted to make a traffic […]
Police are investigating after a person was found dead early Saturday in an east Lubbock neighborhood. According to LPD, officers received a call for service at 3:54 a.m. at the 1700 block of East 27th Street regarding an unresponsive subject. Police confirmed one person was found dead at the scene. But police hadn’t identified the […]
Lubbock Police Department A Lubbock teenager reportedly told police Monday night that he was shot in the chest after confronting a suspicious, masked person walking around his neighborhood. No arrests have been made as Lubbock police continue to investigate the shooting, police officials said as of Thursday. The investigation began about 10:50 p.m. Monday, when […]
Texas Tech has issued a weather delay due to “dangerously cold temperatures” Lubbock will see Tuesday morning. According to the university’s emergency alert system, “the Texas Tech campus in Lubbock has delayed campus opening until 11 a.m.,” which means “all in-person and online classes scheduled to start before 11 a.m. are canceled.” The alert directs […]
Ashley Worrell said she was her son Blake’s biggest fan, saying he was good at everything he did, from playing football or just being a brother. Anyone who met him was drawn to him, she remembered. “He just carried that light around him where you just wanted to be his friend,” she said. “I just […]
On a brisk West Texas afternoon, members of the Lubbock County Commissioner’s Court, Medical Examiner’s Office and others gathered to break ground on what’s touted to be the county’s new state-of-the-art Medical Examiner’s Office Building. This comes after Lubbock County voters approved the $35.4 million bond to construct the new facility last year. Members of […]
A 30-year-old man linked to the 2019 abduction and slaying of a 35-year-old mother of three was sentenced Thursday to 40 years in prison for his role in an unrelated carjacking and robbery that resulted in a shooting in Central Lubbock. Paublo Reyes, who has been held at the Lubbock County Detention Center since July […]