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Shhh, Don’t Tell the Grads: Texas Tech Implements ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Research’ Policy

Welcome back to another episode of higher education theater here in the Hub City. Our…

May 6, 2026
Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows and Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick speaking to reporters at a press conference in front of a red fire truck, wearing green awareness ribbons.
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Lubbock’s Own Dustin Burrows Leads the Brave Fight to Keep Texas Summer Camps Incommunicado and Hazardous

Remember last year’s catastrophic July 4 floods? The ones where 137 Texans tragically drowned, including…

May 6, 2026
Surveillance footage capture showing a suspect in a white shirt firing a handgun on a Washington D.C. sidewalk.
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West Texas Sends Its Best: Midland Man Learns D.C. Has Actual Gun Laws the Hard Way

Because life in the Permian Basin clearly wasn’t thrilling enough, 45-year-old Michael Marx of Midland…

May 6, 2026
A Texas State Trooper walking back to his patrol vehicle on a dusty Lubbock roadside under a big West Texas sky.
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Routine Lubbock Traffic Stop Successfully Escalates Into Cross-County Gun Battle

Around 11:35 p.m. on Tuesday night, a Lubbock police officer attempted what should have been…

May 6, 2026
Texas Tech University System Chancellor Brandon Creighton speaking and gesturing during a Board of Regents meeting.
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R.I.P. Thinking: Texas Tech Students Dust Off Their Goth Gear for an Academic Freedom Funeral

Oh look, Texas Tech is making national headlines again, and for once, it doesn’t involve…

May 6, 2026
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Lubbock Man’s Multi-State Road Trip Cut Short by an Entire Army of Law Enforcement

Ah, Lubbock. We really know how to export our finest talent. Take local resident Kory…

May 6, 2026
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Clean Title, Dirty Deals: How Texas Tech and the Feds Scrubbed Bart Reagor’s Mansion for the Chancellor

Remember last month when we told you the Texas Tech University System dropped millions on…

May 5, 2026
A Lubbock Police Department vehicle with flashing blue lights parked at an intersection next to a damaged white pickup truck under the I-27 overpass signs.
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LPD Proves Even Flashing Lights Can’t Protect You From Lubbock Traffic

It’s a beautiful Tuesday morning in the Hub City, which means it’s the perfect time…

May 5, 2026
A four-panel photo collage featuring Texas Republican politicians Ken Paxton, John Cornyn, and other candidates speaking at campaign events.
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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…

May 5, 2026