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	<title>Breaking News &#187; Lubbock</title>
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		<title>Family injured in Texas natural gas pipeline explosion files lawsuit</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy Blaney</dc:creator>
		
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Family hurt in Texas pipeline explosion files suit

LUBBOCK, Texas — A family whose members suffered burns when a natural gas pipeline exploded last week in the Texas Panhandle filed a negligence lawsuit Thursday against the companies that own and operate it.
The Torres family filed the suit in Potter County against the pipeline&#8217;s owner, El Paso [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas, leading cotton producer in US, on track to have 10 percent more than in 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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Texas expected to harvest 4.9 million cotton bales

LUBBOCK, Texas — West Texas cotton producer Steve Smith continued to harvest Wednesday, happy that the weather on this end of the growing season is far better than its beginning.
A cool September gave way to perfect harvesting weather, with little rain last month to keep producers out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farmers prevail over US&#8217;s most expensive pest; boll weevil gone from 98 percent of US cotton</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
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US cotton almost clear of voracious boll weevil

LUBBOCK, Texas — For more than a century, small green beetles ate through U.S. cotton crops, costing growers $20 billion and making the boll weevil the most expensive agricultural pest in the nation&#8217;s history.
But finally, good has prevailed over the weevil.
U.S. agricultural officials declared victory this year in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP Interview: Former AG Gonzales says he&#8217;d &#8216;do some things over,&#8217; including &#8216;quaint&#8217; memo</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy Blaney</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LUBBOCK, Texas — Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday he wishes he could &#8220;do some things over&#8221; from his years with the Bush administration, citing a memo he wrote that human rights groups contended led to the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq.

Gonzales said he made a mistake by using the words &#8220;quaint&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP Interview: Former AG Gonzalez says criminal probe of CIA interrogations could be dangerous</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LUBBOCK, Texas — Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says a criminal investigation into whether CIA interrogations after 9/11 crossed legal lines could have a chilling effect on U.S. anti-terrorism efforts.

In an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday, Gonzales said a Justice Department investigation &#8220;could discourage&#8221; CIA operatives from &#8220;engaging in conduct that even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prairie grouse&#8217;s listing as threatened, endangered could slow wind development in 5 states</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy Blaney</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LUBBOCK, Texas — A little prairie grouse could give the wind energy industry big fits.

Should the lesser prairie chicken become listed as threatened or endangered — and it&#8217;s close now — there would be significant restrictions on companies hoping to plant towering turbines across a five-state region believed to have some of the nation&#8217;s best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Correction: Texas Tech-Gonzales</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LUBBOCK, Texas — In a July 30 story about a Texas Tech faculty petition opposing the hiring of former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, The Associated Press reported erroneously that university Chancellor Kent Hance was a Republican former congressman. Hance served in Congress as a Democrat for three terms. He switched parties after leaving office [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dozens of Texas Tech faculty sign petition to oppose hiring of ex-AG Alberto Gonzales</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/dozens-of-texas-tech-faculty-sign-petition-to-oppose-hiring-of-ex-ag-alberto-gonzales-126022/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy Blaney</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LUBBOCK, Texas — A small group of Texas Tech University faculty members is objecting to the school&#8217;s hiring of former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and is trying to gather signatures for a petition that claims he has &#8220;demonstrated significant ethical failings.&#8221;

But Chancellor Kent Hance said Thursday that the petition targeting the hire won&#8217;t deter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas drought, scorching heat bring $3.6 billion in agriculture losses; tally could top record</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy Blaney</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LUBBOCK, Texas — Drought in Texas has led to an estimated $3.6 billion in crop and livestock losses, and without ample rains, the year&#8217;s final tally could top the state record set in 2006, Texas agriculture officials say.

Crops and rangeland are scorched from lack of rainfall and record triple-digit temperatures throughout parts of Texas — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas has driest regions in the US; major cities baking in heat, rainfall chances slim</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy Blaney</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LUBBOCK, Texas — If not for the triple-digit heat, central Texas rancher Debbie Davis could almost think it was a different season entirely.

&#8220;The (pasture) grass looks like it&#8217;s the dead of winter,&#8221; said Davis, who raises beef cattle and Texas Longhorns northwest of San Antonio. The region is enduring its driest 22-month span going back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former US attorney general to teach political science at Texas Tech</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/former-us-attorney-general-to-teach-political-science-at-texas-tech-102218/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LUBBOCK, Texas — Alberto Gonzales, who resigned as U.S. attorney general two years ago, is coming to Texas Tech this fall to teach political science.

Texas Tech Unversity System Chancellor Kent Hance confirmed the hiring on Tuesday.
It was first reported on the Austin American-Statesman in its online edition. A senior business assistant in Tech&#8217;s political science [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Town welcomes PCB-tainted Hudson River sludge to Texas disposal site; critics fret about water</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy Blaney</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LUBBOCK, Texas — Later this month, the first trainloads of PCB-tainted sludge dredged from the Hudson River will arrive and, in the eyes of critics, will turn a stretch of West Texas into New York&#8217;s &#8220;pay toilet.&#8221;

They argue that burying dirt so toxic that General Electric Co. will spend at least six years and an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas mom who kept fetus in refrigerator of filthy home gets 10 years in prison</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 09:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LUBBOCK, Texas — A mother of nine who was charged after a dead fetus was found in the refrigerator of her filthy home was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison.

Gloria Ramirez, who is eight months pregnant, was convicted Thursday of child injury and endangerment. The 28-year-old was ordered to serve 10 years on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ballot measure could bring package alcohol sales to Lubbock, Texas&#8217; largest dry city</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 17:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy Blaney</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LUBBOCK, Texas — When Prohibition was lifted way back in 1933, Texas was a little reluctant to go along with the trend.

The state didn&#8217;t repeal its own alcohol ban until two years later, and even then Texas allowed local governments to remain booze-free. While many areas to this day remain &#8220;dry,&#8221; the biggest teetotaling town [...]]]></description>
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