BETSY BLANEY

July 3, 2016 at 8:17 am

Texas accused of ignoring mentally disabled in nursing homes

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — It took more than 40 years for Leonard Barefield to finally get to choose where he lived. The intellectually-disabled Texas native...

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June 8, 2016 at 4:22 pm

Group to repay $800K missing from El Paso Catholic school

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Two brothers with a religious order who took vows of poverty spent more than $800,000 on a lifestyle that violated their...

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May 30, 2016 at 7:10 am

Texas trying revamped sex offender treatment program

LITTLEFIELD, Texas (AP) — Outside of a struggling West Texas town, about a mile from the high school, sits a one-story brick building, its perimeter...

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May 19, 2016 at 12:56 pm

Texas’ water future: More toilet-to-tap, aquifer storage

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Texas would rely more on treated toilet water and pumping rainwater into aquifers to serve its booming population over the next...

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February 14, 2016 at 10:21 am

Feds seek borehole test for potential hot nuke waste burial

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — The federal government plans to spend $80 million assessing whether its hottest nuclear waste can be stored in 3-mile-deep holes, a...

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September 26, 2015 at 7:57 pm

Texas Christian survives, 55-52, with tipped pass for TD on fourth down

Aaron Green caught a pass that was deflected by TCU’s Josh Doctson on fourth-and-goal from the 4 with 23 seconds remaining and the Horned Frogs...

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June 29, 2015 at 6:11 am

Texas AG says state workers can deny licenses to gay couples

LUBBOCK, Texas — Texas' conservative Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton called the Supreme Court decision giving same-sex couples the right to marry a "lawless ruling"...

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January 15, 2015 at 2:54 am

Federal, state investigators to comb prison bus crash site

Federal and state investigators are set to return to the West Texas site of a prison bus crash that killed 10 occupants and left five...

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September 9, 2014 at 7:09 pm

Ex-NFL QB Ryan Leaf sentenced to 5 years

Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf has been sentenced to five years in prison in Texas for violating terms of his probation.

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July 4, 2014 at 7:07 am

Wash. woman’s ring, lost in 1954, turns up in dry Texas lake

An 84-year-old Washington state woman will soon hold her 1953 university class ring, lost six decades ago, after it was found in a dried-up West...

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