Maverick County News

Minorities won't be in the minority much longer. Racial and ethnic minorities now make up more than half of the people born in this country, according to U.S. Census data released this week.

The Maverick County Sheriff's Department is trying to identify two young men found dead Tuesday in an irrigation canal.

The bodies, both men and both unidentified, have been taken to San Antonio for autopsies.

A medical examiner's report could confirm if remains found near a Lubbock apartment complex last week belong to a man reporting missing and believed murdered 21 years ago.

In what the leader of an environmental group said was a surprising and stunning blow to an effort to stop a Mexican company from mining coal on the border, an American Indian tribe has backed out of the fight.

Ever evolving high-tech gadgets and the Internet have given Big Brother a peep hole into the lives of everyday Americans.

That makes Texas one of five "minority-majority" states in the country. The release of new population estimates reveals that trend will continue to spread nationally, as 50.1 percent of babies younger than one in 2011 were a minority race.

For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S. Four states - Hawaii, California, New Mexico and Texas - as well as the District of Columbia have minority populations that exceed 50%. Nine U.S. counties in five states saw their minority populations across all age groups surpass 50% last year.

In what the leader of an environmental group said was a surprising and stunning blow to an effort to stop a Mexican company from mining coal on the border, an American Indian tribe has backed out of the fight.

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