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Liv Sev, left, Alice Paulino, center, and Pollyne Almeida, right, play in the snow on the campus of Texas Tech on Sunday.

Under the desert sun at the Paso del Norte bridge between Ciudad Juarez in Mexico and El Paso, Texas, hundreds of pedestrians stand in line for up to two hours to reach the immigration booths.

Many roads across West Texas are slick from the sleet and ice Sunday. Multiple accidents are being reported in the Midland and Odessa area.

Most of East Texas will receive rain, but some folks in our northern counties could see a wintry mix between Midnight and 6am.

Country singer/songwriter Trent Willmon was born March 6, 1973, in Amarillo, TX, the son of Dean Willmon, a schoolteacher and cattle rancher, and Billie Willmon.

Wintry weather is on tap for the southern Plains today with snow, sleet, freezing drizzle and even some ice from western Texas to the Mississippi Valley.

A Winter Storm Watch has been issued from 6AM-6PM Sunday for the following counties: Gaines, Dawson, Borden, Scurry, Andrews, Martin, Howard, Mitchell, Reeves, Loving, Winkler, Ector, Midland, Glasscock, Ward, Crane, Upton, Reagan, Davis/Apache Mountains, and Upper Trans-Pecos, TX & Guadalupe Mountains, Eddy County Plains, and Lea County, NM.

When a software program for viewing the agenda book and other documents on a tablet computer or other device was demonstrated, he described the positive impressions thusly: "This will be a game-changer." And in a discussion of investment policy for the multibillion-dollar endowment during a time of volatile financial markets, Stillwell summed up ... (more)

Federal officials say a pilot program designed to make it quicker for pedestrians to enter the U.S. from Mexico has reduced wait times by 26 percent at a West Texas crossing.

I'm making my debut - my very first day of teaching in my hometown, situated on the moors of West Texas.

Luis Truijillo,72, passes through the newly installed radio frequency card reading gates Friday Feb.10, 2011 in El Paso, Texas.

U.S. Department of Justice U.S. Attorney's Office Western District of Texas Press Release February 10, 2012 United States Attorney Robert Pitman announced that 45-year-old Roberto Reyes, of McAllen, Texas, pleaded guilty today to one count of using the internet and cell phone to promote his business of prostitution in the Midland/Odessa area.

An Upshur County commissioner announced today he recently met with Texas Railroad Commission officials about dangerous abandoned and unplugged oil wells on the county's "school land" in West Texas and that he discovered the county apparently "is not receiving the proceeds it is due from the oil and gas operations" on the property.

Six months ago Warren Jeffs, the imprisoned leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , was hospitalized in critical condition, prompting speculation both inside and outside the breakaway Mormon sect about his survival and his successor.

Federal officials say a pilot program designed to make it quicker for pedestrians to enter the U.S. from Mexico has reduced wait times by 26% at a West Texas crossing.

A nationwide general strike hits Greece. The country's labor unions called the 48-hour strike to protest new austerity measures taken in exchange for a 130-billion euro bailout from Greece's creditors.

Odessa Police continue to search for a driver who might have caused a fatal wreck along Interstate 20 last month.

One thing Texas legislators learned long ago - and they are seeing it again with the yearlong redistricting battle - is lawsuits against the state can take a long time, even years, to decide.

West Texas may be far from the coast, but shrimp will be plenty in Odessa on Feb.

Jazz vocalist Sarah Charles and her bandmates, the group Manner Effect, delivered a stunning performance at the Vermont Jazz Center last Saturday night.