Swisher County News

Ronnie Joe Stowers, 58, of Tulia, Texas, has pleaded guilty to kidnapping his former girlfriend and taking her by force from Castro County, Texas to New Mexico, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas.

A young bald eagle, fallen in the Tulia area of Swisher County Friday evening, died under veterinary care Monday after being transported Saturday to the South Plains Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Lubbock.

John Sharp, who is running for U.S. Senate, is spending time in the Texas Panhandle today.

A 2-month-old boy died in a one-vehicle accident Tuesday in Swisher County about four miles south of Happy.

A storage building and a Dollar General store on Maxwell Street in downtown Tulia were destroyed by fire this morning.

A decade later, the only physical evidence that remains of one of the most controversial drug investigations in state history are whited-out lines in a Swisher County docket book.

Freddie Brookins Sr., left, leaves the Swisher County Courthouse with Randy Credico, who works with the New York-based William Moses Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice , to greet the media gathered outside on June 16, 2003.

The Amarillo Globe-News today has a feature commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Tulia drug stings , which informs us that, to this day: Many Tulia residents and those associated with the July 23, 1999, raid by numerous law enforcement agencies shy away from talking publicly about the incident that catapulted the Swisher County town of about ...

Police investigate a reported kidnapping out of central Lubbock. The victim says he was assaulted and then came to more than 70-miles north of the city.

According to the Amarillo Globe News, prosecutors consider seeking the death penalty against a man accused of killing a Tulia woman in November.

Prosecutors are considering seeking the death penalty against a man accused of killing a Tulia woman in November.