Family injured in Texas natural gas pipeline explosion files lawsuit
Family hurt in Texas pipeline explosion files suit Texas, leading cotton producer in US, on track to have 10 percent more than in 2008
Texas expected to harvest 4.9 million cotton bales Farmers prevail over US’s most expensive pest; boll weevil gone from 98 percent of US cotton
US cotton almost clear of voracious boll weevil AP Interview: Former AG Gonzales says he’d ‘do some things over,’ including ‘quaint’ memoLUBBOCK, Texas — Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday he wishes he could “do some things over” 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. AP Interview: Former AG Gonzalez says criminal probe of CIA interrogations could be dangerousLUBBOCK, 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. Prairie grouse’s listing as threatened, endangered could slow wind development in 5 statesLUBBOCK, Texas — A little prairie grouse could give the wind energy industry big fits. Correction: Texas Tech-GonzalesLUBBOCK, 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 in 1985. Dozens of Texas Tech faculty sign petition to oppose hiring of ex-AG Alberto GonzalesLUBBOCK, Texas — A small group of Texas Tech University faculty members is objecting to the school’s hiring of former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and is trying to gather signatures for a petition that claims he has “demonstrated significant ethical failings.” Texas drought, scorching heat bring $3.6 billion in agriculture losses; tally could top recordLUBBOCK, Texas — Drought in Texas has led to an estimated $3.6 billion in crop and livestock losses, and without ample rains, the year’s final tally could top the state record set in 2006, Texas agriculture officials say. Texas has driest regions in the US; major cities baking in heat, rainfall chances slimLUBBOCK, Texas — If not for the triple-digit heat, central Texas rancher Debbie Davis could almost think it was a different season entirely. Former US attorney general to teach political science at Texas TechLUBBOCK, Texas — Alberto Gonzales, who resigned as U.S. attorney general two years ago, is coming to Texas Tech this fall to teach political science. Town welcomes PCB-tainted Hudson River sludge to Texas disposal site; critics fret about waterLUBBOCK, 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’s “pay toilet.” Texas mom who kept fetus in refrigerator of filthy home gets 10 years in prisonLUBBOCK, 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. Ballot measure could bring package alcohol sales to Lubbock, Texas’ largest dry cityLUBBOCK, Texas — When Prohibition was lifted way back in 1933, Texas was a little reluctant to go along with the trend. |