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A mugshot of Seth Moore, a man with short blonde hair and a blank expression, appearing over a blurred background of the Lubbock County Detention Center.
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Headline: Local “John Wick” With a BB Gun Discovers That Real Life Isn’t a Steven Seagal Movie

Meet 36-year-old Seth Moore, Lubbock’s latest self-appointed vigilante and a man who clearly has a…

March 23, 2026
The aftermath of a 125-degree "learning experience": a middle schooler’s hands and wrists heavily wrapped in medical bandages after being forced to bear crawl across the Evans Middle School track while the district looked the other way.
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Burned Cheerleaders Get the Cold Shoulder: LISD Escapes Lawsuit for ‘Brutal’ Track Torture

Remember back in late 2024 when an Evans Middle School coach decided the best way…

March 23, 2026
A nighttime scene in South Lubbock where multiple police SUVs with flashing lights and yellow crime tape have successfully blocked off a residential street, because nothing says "Friday morning" like a Metropolitan Special Crimes Unit investigation.
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South Lubbock’s Newest Curfew: Get Home Before the Drunks Treat 98th Street Like a Bowling Alley

Well, Lubbock, we’ve done it again. While most of the city was safely tucked away…

March 20, 2026
A grainy TxDOT traffic camera image showing a backup of vehicles on the Marsha Sharp Freeway overpass at Slide Road in Lubbock, Texas, during the morning commute where an emergency baby delivery took place on the shoulder.
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Welcome to the World! Now Here’s Your Speeding Ticket and a View of the Slide Road Overpass

In a city where the most exciting thing to happen on a Friday morning is…

March 20, 2026
Nexstar Media Group logo on a smartphone screen with stock market charts in the background, symbolizing media consolidation and corporate growth.
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One Newsroom to Rule Them All: Nexstar Swallows TEGNA While the FCC Looks the Other Way

In a move that surprises absolutely no one who has ever tried to find a…

March 20, 2026
The Chick-fil-A logo mounted on a generic brick wall, representing the $3.5 million in 'Project Ranger' incentives the city is gifting to a multi-billion dollar company instead of fixing local roads.
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Praise the Lord and Pass the Tax Breaks: Lubbock Bribes Chick-fil-A with $3.5 Million for a Nugget Bunker

Lubbock has finally achieved its final form. We aren’t just a city that happily spends…

March 19, 2026
Rows of dormant or dying grapevines and fruit trees under a bleak, overcast Idalou sky, featuring a lone figure standing among the skeletal branches contemplating the futility of agriculture in a dust bowl.
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Mother Nature Clearly Hates Idalou, Local Peaches Scheduled for Early Execution

In today’s edition of “Why Do We Even Try to Grow Things Here?”, our friends…

March 19, 2026
An aerial view of a massive, elongated white industrial building surrounded by dirt lots and parked trucks in the middle of the West Texas desert.
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Silicon Prairie or Just a Really Expensive Space Heater? Dickens County Gets a $3.5 Billion ‘Upgrade’

Oh, joy. While the rest of us are wondering if the Lubbock wind is going…

March 19, 2026
A portrait of Cesar Chavez on a red protest sign featuring sketches of United Farm Workers strikers, standing next to an American flag.
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Lubbock Scrambles to Scrub the Name of a Guy We Barely Liked Anyway

In a rare moment of bipartisan harmony, Lubbock’s political scene is currently a frantic blur…

March 19, 2026