Abernathy News

Dorothy Jo Boggus remembers her grandfather's blacksmith shop as a magical place at a time when horses could be found tethered to a hitching post three blocks east of where the George H. Mahon Federal Building is now.

Sparks Vincent Redinger was born on Dec. 22, 1952 to Nell Marie and Quentin Redinger in Olton, Texas.

Just after 3 p.m., a gas line explosion occurred just northeast of New Deal at FM 2902 and CR 5400.

Lubbock, TX After losing almost everything in a morning fire, a New Deal family says they will start to pick up the pieces when the sun comes up Wednesday morning.

A Lubbock county family appears to now be homeless after a house fire late Tuesday morning.

Wartsila, a leading supplier of flexible power plants for the decentralised power generation market, has been contracted to supply a 170 MW gas-fired power plant to be installed in Antelope Station, located near Abernathy, Texas, USA.

An Amarillo-based utility has announced plans for a $200 million power plant in Hale County.

Jordan Paige Lott and Brent James Eaton were united in Covenant Marriage, Saturday, June 20, 2009 at Beltway Park Baptist Church in Abilene, TX where the couple met and worshiped.

Services for Glenn Reagan, 90, of Abernathy, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, October 30, 2009, in the Abernathy Church of Christ with David Bennett officiating.

Six local agencies battle a grassfire north of Lubbock. The fire broke out about three miles north of the Lubbock County line on Farm to Market 2825.

A single engine plane made an emergency landing around 1:00 p.m. on County Road 5100 just two miles south west of Abernathy after running out of gas.

A small aircraft has landed safely north of Lubbock. Just after 12:30 p.m., the pilot of a small plane contacted air traffic controllers at the Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport, saying he was out of fuel and a crash landing was imminent.

Today is Walk and Bike to School Day which means it is the cutest day of the entire year.

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Salinas of Abernathy celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Sept.

Billowing smoke could be seen in the North Lubbock sky late Monday after a fire claimed several small structures in an agricultural area near New Deal.

A Texas Tech freshman hit his head on a diving board this summer and fell unconscious to the bottom of the pool, convulsing under 12 feet of water.

At the end of last year the small town of Petersburg was forced to give up their EMS license because of a lack of human and material resources.

Lubbock protesters can try to block booze in court but won't have their case heard with the help of state alcohol regulators.

The investigation continues into a grass fire near Abernathy that started on Sunday.

Vista Bank, which has been a part of West Texas since 1912, entered the Lubbock market this morning with the first of three planned branches.