Crime
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Lubbock Justice Moves at the Speed of Dial-Up: Snapchat Sleaze Bag Gets 12 Years
Welcome back to another depressing episode of Lubbock Men Doing Terrible Things. Today’s contestant is 32-year-old Mark Landreth, who just booked a 12-year, all-inclusive stay at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. His crime? Possessing child pornography, which he apparently thought was a great thing to handle via Snapchat. Because nothing says “criminal mastermind” quite [...]Read More... from Lubbock Justice Moves at the Speed of Dial-Up: Snapchat Sleaze Bag Gets 12 Years
It Takes a Village: Three Agencies and a Whole Hour to Stop One Guy on Clovis Road
Wednesday morning rush hour in Lubbock is already a soul-crushing experience, but 38-year-old Jerry Marquez decided to spice things up by turning his morning commute into a live-action Grand Theft Auto mission. Around 9:00 a.m., the Lubbock Police Department’s “Crime Suppression Unit” tried to pull Marquez over in the 1900 block of Clovis Road. Evidently, [...]Read More... from It Takes a Village: Three Agencies and a Whole Hour to Stop One Guy on Clovis Road
Indiana Avenue Commute Turns Into a High-Stakes Demolition Derby Because Merging is Hard
Ah, Indiana Avenue at 5:30 p.m.—a dystopian hellscape of loop traffic spillover and drivers who treat turn signals like an admission of weakness. Yesterday evening, 39-year-old Casey Nickelson decided to turn this daily commuter nightmare into a full-blown reality TV episode because someone had the absolute audacity to try and merge into his lane near [...]Read More... from Indiana Avenue Commute Turns Into a High-Stakes Demolition Derby Because Merging is Hard
Guns
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West Texas Chivalry: Suspect Pauses High-Speed Police Chase To Politey Drop Off Passenger Before Fatal Shootout
Ah, Sunday afternoon on the South Plains. Some people go to church, some hit the local buffet, and others decide that a routine traffic stop in downtown Floydada is the perfect excuse to launch a multi-county police chase through the scenic, entirely flat nothingness of West Texas. Because why just sign a speeding ticket when [...]Read More... from West Texas Chivalry: Suspect Pauses High-Speed Police Chase To Politey Drop Off Passenger Before Fatal Shootout
Shocking News: Bored Kids With No Public Pools Turn to “Organized Crime” This Summer
School is officially out in Lubbock, which means city leadership is once again bracing for the completely predictable consequences of their own choices. According to the Lubbock Police Department, summertime historically brings a spike in juvenile mischief. Who could have possibly foreseen that stripping the city of affordable, heat-beating youth activities—like, say, public pools—would lead [...]Read More... from Shocking News: Bored Kids With No Public Pools Turn to “Organized Crime” This Summer
Hub City Genius: Local Custom Gunsmith Traded His Federal License for a Multi-Agency Federal Raid
Leave it to Lubbock to produce a guy who manages to run a licensed, custom firearms business out of his house while simultaneously turning his personal Google account into a flashing neon sign for federal law enforcement. Meet 53-year-old Justin Ables, a man who apparently looked at the vast, desolate landscape of West Texas and [...]Read More... from Hub City Genius: Local Custom Gunsmith Traded His Federal License for a Multi-Agency Federal Raid
Politics
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Runoff Reality Check: Lubbock Welcomes Our New Overlords Chosen By Seven Whole Voters
Well, another primary runoff election is in the books, and to the surprise of absolutely no one who has ever stepped foot in West Texas, the color red reigns supreme. Locally, we can all breathe a sigh of relief knowing that the grueling battle for Lubbock County Commissioner is over. In Precinct 2, Kevin Pounds [...]Read More... from Runoff Reality Check: Lubbock Welcomes Our New Overlords Chosen By Seven Whole Voters
Go Pick Your Favorite Multi-Millionaire at the Sutherlands Lighting Section: The 2026 Runoffs Are Here!
It’s Tuesday, May 26, and the 2026 Joint Primary Runoffs are officially here to drag us back to the polls because nobody could agree on a candidate back in March. Historically, only about 8.2% of registered Texas voters actually bother to show up for these political overtime rounds, meaning a tiny, highly reactive fraction of [...]Read More... from Go Pick Your Favorite Multi-Millionaire at the Sutherlands Lighting Section: The 2026 Runoffs Are Here!
Lubbock Mayor’s Endorsed Congressional Candidate Proves “Biblical Values” Usually Involve Grindr Receipts
Remember back in February when our freshly re-elected Mayor, Mark “No Pride Proclamations in My Town” McBrayer, proudly endorsed Abraham Enriquez for Congress? McBrayer praised the 31-year-old candidate for having the “courage and conviction” to uphold West Texas conservative values. Well, it turns out Enriquez has been holding onto those values real tight—right alongside his [...]Read More... from Lubbock Mayor’s Endorsed Congressional Candidate Proves “Biblical Values” Usually Involve Grindr Receipts
Economics
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Don’t Blame Solar: Texas Tech’s New Gas-Guzzling AI Overlord is the Real Nightmare
The local media loves a good, safe distraction. Recently, our local news channels have been wringing their hands over how young West Texas farmers are being priced out of agricultural land, pointing the finger squarely at big, bad solar farms. Even the American Farmland Trust is crying foul, predicting Texas will lose 2.2 million acres [...]Read More... from Don’t Blame Solar: Texas Tech’s New Gas-Guzzling AI Overlord is the Real Nightmare
Google Invites Lubbock to Discuss Data Centers, Forgets to Leave Any Seats for the Actual Community
Nothing says “grassroots community transparency” quite like an exclusive, sold-out luncheon held at a stadium club. This Friday, the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce is hosting a totally unbiased, definitely-not-one-sided discussion at the Texas Tech Club to educate us simple folks on what data centers are, how they definitely won’t collapse our fragile power grid, and [...]Read More... from Google Invites Lubbock to Discuss Data Centers, Forgets to Leave Any Seats for the Actual Community
Texas Tech’s Multi-Million Dollar AI Pipe Dream Is Currently an Absolute Tech-Bro Cage Match
Because regular old West Texas wind and dust weren’t exciting enough, the Texas Tech University System decided to lease out 5,000 acres of land near Amarillo to a company called Fermi Inc. The goal? Project Matador, a sci-fi-scale AI data center that promises to consume gigawatts of power and—if we are all very lucky—might eventually [...]Read More... from Texas Tech’s Multi-Million Dollar AI Pipe Dream Is Currently an Absolute Tech-Bro Cage Match
Education
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Awkward: John Cornyn Comes to Lubbock for a Photo-Op, Leaves with a Dagger in His Back
U.S. Senator John Cornyn rolled into West Texas on Tuesday for what should have been an easy day of political theater: standing around at the Reese National Security Complex, nodding solemnly about “cybersecurity,” and helping Texas Tech break ground on its new Critical Infrastructure Security Site. Local bigwigs like Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows and [...]Read More... from Awkward: John Cornyn Comes to Lubbock for a Photo-Op, Leaves with a Dagger in His Back
Texas Leaders Scramble to Protect Our Kids from the Dangers of “Accomplished Teaching”
National Board Certification—the “gold standard” of teaching that’s reportedly harder to get than a Master’s degree—is currently on the chopping block in Austin. Why? Because it turns out being an “accomplished teacher” involves things like “self-reflection” and “not traumatizing children,” which apparently doesn’t sit well with the Texas brand. Our brilliant state leaders are worried [...]Read More... from Texas Leaders Scramble to Protect Our Kids from the Dangers of “Accomplished Teaching”
Frenship Aide Thought a 7-Year-Old’s Body Was Apparently Up for Discussion
A former Legacy Elementary special education aide has been fired, arrested, and charged with voyeurism after making lewd comments about a seven-year-old student’s chest — then physically exposing the child to another staff member, apparently just to drive the point home. The April 29 incident was witnessed by four colleagues and caught on classroom security [...]Read More... from Frenship Aide Thought a 7-Year-Old’s Body Was Apparently Up for Discussion
Public Health
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Covenant Hospital’s Elite Diagnostic Team Takes Four Days to Realize a Stroking Teenager Isn’t Just High
Welcome to Lubbock, where if a 17-year-old athlete collapses and starts vomiting profusely, our premier local medical minds at Covenant automatically assume he’s just on a wicked teenage bender. Britton Voss, a high school junior and baseball pitcher, suffered a literal stroke last Saturday. But instead of getting immediate, life-saving imaging, he spent four whole [...]Read More... from Covenant Hospital’s Elite Diagnostic Team Takes Four Days to Realize a Stroking Teenager Isn’t Just High
Texas Medical Board Decides ‘Death’ is Just a Teachable Moment (With a Very Short Quiz)
Welcome to Texas, the only state where “standard of care” has been replaced by “consulting a lawyer while the patient bleeds out.” The Texas Medical Board has finally broken its silence on the deaths of Nevaeh Crain and Porsha Ngumezi, and their solution is exactly what you’d expect from a state that considers a 99-year [...]Read More... from Texas Medical Board Decides ‘Death’ is Just a Teachable Moment (With a Very Short Quiz)
Shallowater: Come for the Small-Town Charm, Stay for the Radioactive Kidney Failure
Our neighbors in Shallowater just got some glowing news from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. It turns out the local tap water has officially surpassed the EPA’s “try not to grow a third arm” limit for combined uranium. While the feds suggest 30 micrograms per liter is the maximum acceptable amount for human survival, [...]Read More... from Shallowater: Come for the Small-Town Charm, Stay for the Radioactive Kidney Failure
Police
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Lubbock PD’s Guide to Crime Fighting: Ignore the Chain-Smoking Serial Rapist, Arrest the Innocent Asthmatic
Back in 1985, a serial rapist was terrorizing the Texas Tech campus. According to survivors, the predator was a chain-smoker who threatened them with a knife. Naturally, Lubbock’s finest locked their sights on Timothy Cole—a decorated Army veteran, Texas Tech student, and severe asthmatic who didn’t smoke. Why? Because an undercover cop saw him offer [...]Read More... from Lubbock PD’s Guide to Crime Fighting: Ignore the Chain-Smoking Serial Rapist, Arrest the Innocent Asthmatic
Hub City Driving: Where You Can Manage a Fatal Wreck on a Completely Empty Road
Leave it to Lubbock to prove that you don’t even need other cars on the road to cause a catastrophe. Around 4:15 a.m. last Friday, May 22, while normal cities were sleeping, the Texas Tech Police Department and the Lubbock PD Major Crash Investigation Unit were dragged out to the 1300 block of Texas Tech [...]Read More... from Hub City Driving: Where You Can Manage a Fatal Wreck on a Completely Empty Road
Operation Hub City Shield: Feds Descend on Lubbock to Remind Us We’re Safe (While Listing a Million Crimes)
Well, look who finally put down the donuts and held a press conference. Turns out our scanner-traffic guess of “Operation Tejas” was wrong, because the feds have officially branded their latest summer PR push “Operation Hub City Shield”—or “Operation Red Car,” depending on which bureaucrat you ask. U.S. Attorney Ryan Raybould stood shoulder-to-shoulder with a [...]Read More... from Operation Hub City Shield: Feds Descend on Lubbock to Remind Us We’re Safe (While Listing a Million Crimes)
Local Government
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Great News, Commuters: Broadway Is Getting Torn Up For Two Years (And It’s Already Over Budget!)
Lubbock has finally decided to solve our city’s most pressing crisis: having a street with actual historical character. This summer, the city is officially moving forward with its plan to rip up the historic brick on Broadway between Avenues Q and E. Because why enjoy a unique, bumpy piece of local heritage when you can [...]Read More... from Great News, Commuters: Broadway Is Getting Torn Up For Two Years (And It’s Already Over Budget!)
Lubbock’s Finest Introduce Hot New Trend: Creative Birth Certificate Forgery
Leave it to the Hub City to turn a basic custody dispute into a high-stakes, first-responder crossover episode of Maury. Meet April Mora, a 38-year-old Lubbock police officer, and Jonathan Forkner, a 39-year-old Lubbock firefighter. This dynamic public-service duo is currently enjoying some forced time off after being arrested by the Lubbock Metropolitan Special Crimes [...]Read More... from Lubbock’s Finest Introduce Hot New Trend: Creative Birth Certificate Forgery
TxDOT Finally Remembers That Concrete Lawn Ornament South of Town is Supposed to Be a Bridge
Welcome back to the graveyard of progress, Lubbock. After three years of staring at concrete pillars that did nothing but provide shade for confused tumbleweeds, TxDOT has finally decided to finish the U.S. 87/FM 41 overpass. You know, the project that was supposed to be wrapped up in 2024 but is now aiming for “late [...]Read More... from TxDOT Finally Remembers That Concrete Lawn Ornament South of Town is Supposed to Be a Bridge
Environment
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Don Quixote Wins: Feds Freeze West Texas Wind Projects to Protect Our Precious Radar (and Oil)
The U.S. Department of Defense has apparently decided that the greatest threat to American national security isn’t cyber warfare or geopolitical rivals, but giant, stationary metal pinwheels. In a move that surprises absolutely no one who tracks the federal government’s ongoing crusade against renewable energy, the DoD has put 54 wind projects across Texas on [...]Read More... from Don Quixote Wins: Feds Freeze West Texas Wind Projects to Protect Our Precious Radar (and Oil)
The Texas Miracle: We’re Trading Our Last Cup of Water for a ChatGPT Server Farm
It turns out the “Texas Miracle” Governor Abbott keeps preaching about is actually just a high-stakes trade: we give Silicon Valley our remaining groundwater, and in exchange, they give us a massive “Stargate” data center that creates three jobs and enough heat to finish off the Panhandle. Rural Republicans like Rena Schroeder are finally realizing [...]Read More... from The Texas Miracle: We’re Trading Our Last Cup of Water for a ChatGPT Server Farm
The Great Texas Thirst: Corpus is Out of Water, and Lubbock is Just One Dust Storm Away from Joining Them
While we’re all busy complaining about the latest pothole on Slide Road, our neighbors down in the Coastal Bend are currently starring in their own real-life reboot of Mad Max. At least six small towns around Corpus Christi have officially declared disaster status because their reservoirs are hitting a pathetic 8% capacity. Corpus Christi, the [...]Read More... from The Great Texas Thirst: Corpus is Out of Water, and Lubbock is Just One Dust Storm Away from Joining Them
Racism
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LPD Chief on SB4: We’re Not Doing Anything Different, We’re Just More Confused Now
Texas has officially decided that every local cop should moonlight as a junior Border Patrol agent, but Lubbock Police Chief Seth Herman isn’t exactly rushing to buy his officers olive-drab uniforms. SB4, the law that turns illegal entry into a state crime, is technically set to go into effect on May 15. However, Herman basically [...]Read More... from LPD Chief on SB4: We’re Not Doing Anything Different, We’re Just More Confused Now
Texas GOP Claims Victory for “Equality” (By Making Sure Your Vote Matters Even Less)
The Supreme Court finally gave the Texas GOP the permission slip they’ve been begging for. In a move that surprised absolutely no one who has paid attention to the last decade of Texas politics, the court decided that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act isn’t technically dead—it’s just been moved to the intensive care [...]Read More... from Texas GOP Claims Victory for “Equality” (By Making Sure Your Vote Matters Even Less)
LPD Officially Joins the Border Patrol (Despite Being a Six-Hour Drive from the Border)
SB4 is back from its brief legal nap, and our favorite local lawmakers—State Rep. Carl Tepper and State Senator Charles Perry—couldn’t be happier. The law finally gives Lubbock police the power to arrest people for “illegal entry.” Because if there’s one thing we’re known for here in the Hub City, it’s our bustling international coastline [...]Read More... from LPD Officially Joins the Border Patrol (Despite Being a Six-Hour Drive from the Border)
Alcohol
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Another Shocking Twist: Lubbock Drivers Still Undefeated by Slight Road Curves
Tuesday evening around 6:30 p.m.—right when normal people are winding down or heading to dinner—the intersection of 55th Drive and Salem Avenue turned into the latest backdrop for Lubbock’s favorite extreme sport: ignoring physics. According to the Lubbock Police Department, 23-year-old Isaiah Wilson was flying west down 55th Drive at a “high rate of speed” [...]Read More... from Another Shocking Twist: Lubbock Drivers Still Undefeated by Slight Road Curves
Mother’s Day in the Hub: Flowers, Brunch, and Window-Side Knifefights
While most of Lubbock was busy overpaying for lukewarm brunch buffets and pretending to like their mother-in-laws this past Sunday, 27-year-old Andrew Ruiz was busy reminding us why we can’t have nice things. According to the Lubbock Police Department, Ruiz decided to celebrate Mother’s Day by turning a casual drinking session on Elkridge Avenue into [...]Read More... from Mother’s Day in the Hub: Flowers, Brunch, and Window-Side Knifefights
Lubbock’s Finest Criminal Geniuses Literally Film Their Own Felonies on the Victim’s Phone
Anthony Jamarillo-Medrano, an 18-year-old resident of our lovely Hub City, was recently treated to a brand new mugshot and a whopping $200,000 bond at the Lubbock County Detention Center. He was arrested on May 4 following a March incident where he apparently decided that committing a sexual assault wasn’t enough—he also needed to make sure [...]Read More... from Lubbock’s Finest Criminal Geniuses Literally Film Their Own Felonies on the Victim’s Phone
Sports
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Tech Shocked to Learn NCAA Rules Actually Apply to Starting Quarterbacks
In a devastating blow to the concept of “football exceptionalism,” the NCAA rudely denied Texas Tech’s request to reinstate quarterback Brendan Sorsby. Sorsby just wrapped up a 35-day stay at an inpatient rehab facility for a gambling addiction and anxiety disorder. While we’re genuinely glad the kid is getting the help he needs, Tech administrators [...]Read More... from Tech Shocked to Learn NCAA Rules Actually Apply to Starting Quarterbacks
Lubbock Forced to Import Out-of-Town Judge Because Finding a Local Who Doesn’t Worship Tech Football is Impossible
God forbid anything interrupts the holy sacrament of Texas Tech football. Our latest savior under center, transfer quarterback Brendan Sorsby, is currently locked in a legal deathmatch with the NCAA because—shocker—the rules against athletes gambling apparently apply to him, too. Sorsby took a leave of absence in April to address a gambling addiction that reportedly [...]Read More... from Lubbock Forced to Import Out-of-Town Judge Because Finding a Local Who Doesn’t Worship Tech Football is Impossible
Tech’s $4 Million Savior QB is Suing the NCAA Because He Couldn’t Stop Betting on Romanian Soccer
Just when Texas Tech fans thought they could finally enjoy something nice—fresh off our first-ever Big 12 Championship and a trip to the College Football Playoff—the universe reminded us that we live in Lubbock. Our shiny new $4 million transfer savior, quarterback Brendan Sorsby, is currently banned from the gridiron. Why? Because the NCAA is [...]Read More... from Tech’s $4 Million Savior QB is Suing the NCAA Because He Couldn’t Stop Betting on Romanian Soccer
Elections
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Choose Your Flavor of Chaos: Paxton Leads Cornyn as the Texas GOP Tries to Out-GOP Itself
Just when you thought Texas politics couldn’t get any more exhausting, the latest University of Houston Hobby School poll dropped to remind us that the May 26 Republican runoff is going to be a absolute knife fight. Attorney General Ken Paxton—a man who carries more legal baggage than a carousel at the airport—is currently leading [...]Read More... from Choose Your Flavor of Chaos: Paxton Leads Cornyn as the Texas GOP Tries to Out-GOP Itself
Silence is Golden: KFYO’s Resident Loudspeaker Finally Hits Mute
In a shocking turn of events for anyone who thought yelling into a vacuum was a recipe for immortality, local AM radio fixture Chad Hasty has passed away at the age of 43. Hasty, who spent over two decades ensuring that every West Texan’s morning commute was seasoned with exactly the right amount of political [...]Read More... from Silence is Golden: KFYO’s Resident Loudspeaker Finally Hits Mute
Lubbock Early Voting Hits 10-Year Low: Local Democracy Officially Less Popular Than a Dust Storm
Lubbock County just recorded its lowest early voting turnout for a May election since 2014. Over the course of eight grueling days, a whopping 7,800 people managed to drag themselves to the polls. To put that in perspective, we probably have more people waiting in the drive-thru at Chick-fil-A on a Tuesday morning than we [...]Read More... from Lubbock Early Voting Hits 10-Year Low: Local Democracy Officially Less Popular Than a Dust Storm
Religion
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Big Brother is Watching You Worship: Israel is Geofencing Lubbock Megachurches for Ad Clout
According to Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) disclosures filed by a California firm called Show Faith by Works LLC , Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is dropping over $4 million on what the firm calls the “largest Christian Church Geofencing Campaign in U.S. history”. Run by conservative political consultant Chad Schnitger , the campaign’s explicit [...]Read More... from Big Brother is Watching You Worship: Israel is Geofencing Lubbock Megachurches for Ad Clout
Paxton Plays Hallway Monitor: LISD Investigated for Not Being “Churchy” Enough
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a man who knows a thing or two about being under investigation himself, has decided to spend his time auditing the interior decor of Lubbock ISD. Paxton is “investigating” whether our local schools are complying with Senate Bill 10, the high-priority law that ensures every child has a convenient stone-tablet [...]Read More... from Paxton Plays Hallway Monitor: LISD Investigated for Not Being “Churchy” Enough
Texas SBOE Solves Literacy Crisis by Deleting Frederick Douglass and Doubling Down on Sunday School
In a move that surprised absolutely no one who has spent more than five minutes in this state, the Texas State Board of Education just gave preliminary approval to a mandatory reading list for 2030. Because if there’s one thing Texas schools are famous for, it’s our love of “mandatory” things—unless it’s masks, vaccines, or [...]Read More... from Texas SBOE Solves Literacy Crisis by Deleting Frederick Douglass and Doubling Down on Sunday School