Crosbyton News

The 2010 race for Texas House District 85, which Joe Heflin of Crosbyton has represented for the past three years, is officially on.

Crosbyton residents are now able to drink the water after the boil notice was lifted.

State Rep. Joe Heflin, D-Crosbyton, was presented today with the Texas Rural Health TORCHbearer Award by the Texas Organization of Rural and Community Hospitals.

A consumer watch group has released the ten worst toys for your kids this year. The organization, "WATCH" or "World Against Toys Causing Harm" says these ten toys are the most harmful for your children.

Bueford Nelson Owens, Jr. Bueford Nelson Owens, Jr., of Wortham, passed away November 11, 2009 at Parkview Regional Hospital in Mexia.

State Representative Joe Heflin announced a new aide for his office. Heflin chose Robbye Appling as his district administrative aide in the Crosbyton office.

As expected, Texas voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved all constitutional amendments on the ballot, some intended to protect residence homesteads from large tax appraisal increases and to make it difficult for state and local governments to confiscate private property.

As expected, Texas voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a series of constitutional amendments intended to protect residence homesteads from large tax appraisal increases and make it difficult for state and local governments to confiscate private property.

Lawmakers recently took a tour of Borden County that was noteworthy not for all the people they saw but for the wide open spaces.

Shrinking populations in counties across the region didn't slow down South Plains College this year.

Special to the Herald CROSBYTON - State Rep. Joe Heflin, D-Crosbyton, reminded residents of Texas House District 85 to vote in the Texas Constitutional Amendment election.

Lubbock on U.S. 82 soon leaves the fields of cotton and maize behind and enters some of the most desolate country in Texas.

Funeral service will be at 10 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 5, 2009 at St. Elizabeth Church with Father Jim O'Connor officiating.

A senior citizen from Lorenzo was killed in a fire at her home Friday morning. The fire started about 10 a.m. Friday in the back of the house in the 1100 block of North Van Buren Avenue, according to the Idalou Volunteer Fire Department.

Sam Medina was officially sworn in as Lubbock's City Attorney on Thursday morning in a room full of City employees.

Ten Lubbock Independent School District seniors have been named as semifinalists in the 2010 National Merit Scholarship program, which can lead to significant money for college scholarships.

Neoma Lee Jones, who turns 99 on 9-9-09 - isn't greatly impressed by the conjunction of numbers.

Local Democrats and the Lubbock Central Labor Council celebrate Labor Day with a picnic and political rally.

Clayton William Hash, Jr. Avalanche-Journal Clayton William Hash, Jr. went to be with his Lord and Savior on Saturday, August 29, 2009 in Lubbock after a brief illness.

After two months in the works, this week state Sen. Kel Seliger began holding a series of town hall meetings throughout his Senate District 31, which covers 26 counties from the northernmost Panhandle counties to the Permian Basin.