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Trump speaking at his desk in the Oval Office while Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins stands behind him during an announcement about federal support for farmers in 2025.
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The Guy Who Set the Barn on Fire Offers a Free Cup of Water to Help Put it Out

Our local tractor-enthusiasts gathered on the White House lawn Friday to hear the Big Boss…

March 28, 2026
Mugshot of Daniel King, 28, looking like the human personification of why we tell you to stay off 98th Street after midnight; he sports messy hair and the blank stare of a man who just realized ‘render aid’ isn't just a polite suggestion.
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98th Street: Now Offering Complimentary Hit-and-Runs with Every 3 A.M. Walk

Remember our previous warning about 98th Street being the local equivalent of a Mario Kart…

March 27, 2026
A 3D digital rendering of several COVID-19 virus particles with red protein spikes floating in a dark, particle-filled void—strikingly similar to the average air quality in Lubbock during a late-March dust storm.
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Lubbock’s “Cicada” Strategy: If We Don’t Test the Poop, the Virus Doesn’t Exist

The CDC is sounding the alarm on yet another variant, BA.3.2, nicknamed “Cicada.” While the…

March 27, 2026
Bo French, Republican candidate for Texas Railroad Commissioner, clutching a microphone while looking like he's mid-sentence explaining how deporting 100 million people will definitely help regulate gas pipelines.
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Bo French Wants to Deport 100 Million People, Because Clearly the Railroad Commission Wasn’t High-Stakes Enough

Just when you thought the Texas Railroad Commission was a boring-as-dirt agency that handles oil…

March 27, 2026
A mugshot of Camilo Reyes Castillo, a bald man with a salt-and-pepper goatee wearing a bright orange inmate jumpsuit. His face is superimposed over a bleak, gray background featuring a prison facility and a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire—the upscale real estate he'll be occupying for the next six decades.
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Levelland ISD’s “Employee of the Month” Trades the Classroom for a 60-Year Residency in Federal Prison

Ah, Levelland. The crown jewel of the South Plains, where the horizon is flat, the…

March 26, 2026
A deeply focused Dustin Burrows raises a giant wooden gavel high in the air, looking like a man who is about to heroically strike down a fly or perhaps just finalize a plan to turn eastern New Mexico into Lubbock’s newest, dustiest suburb.
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Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows Proposes Manifest Destiny 2.0: The New Mexico DLC

Lubbock’s favorite son and current House Speaker, Dustin Burrows, has released his “interim charges” for…

March 26, 2026
An emergency scene under a concrete Lubbock overpass (labeled with a '16 FT 5 IN' sign). A marked police SUV with flashing lights, a fire engine, and responders stand on the shoulder. On the on-ramp lane above them, a lone motorcycle lies on its side, the site of a single motorcycle crash, on a clear day. A cell tower is visible in the distance.
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Lubbock Riders Discover Gravity: Now Offering 40-Foot Scenic Drop Tours

Wednesday’s incident on South Loop 289 was your standard Lubbock “I forgot how lanes work”…

March 26, 2026
A weathered brown leather firefighter captain's helmet with a "West Carlisle Fire Dept 106" shield sits on a bright red metal shelf next to a container of Clorox wipes and firefighting gear.
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Lubbock Opts for the ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ Approach to Fire Prevention

In a move that surprises absolutely no one who has ever seen a Lubbock driver…

March 26, 2026
A mugshot of 29-year-old Nicholas Alonzo, a former Frenship ISD fifth-grade teacher, appearing with short dark hair and a beard against a gray and white barred background.
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Frenship ISD’s Latest Extracurricular: 5th Grade Teacher Traded the Classroom for a Jail Cell

Well, Lubbock, it’s time for our favorite local pastime: reading a press release from a…

March 26, 2026