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LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Police are investigating a shooting in north Lubbock that left two people dead Tuesday night. Just before 9:15 p.m., police responded to a shots fired call at a home in the 700 ...

A staple Lubbock event, long touted as the "largest free festival in Texas," will not return this year after more than three decades. Broadway Festivals, Inc. announced Monday the local nonprofit ...

Dustin Burrows of Lubbock clinched the Texas House speaker post and dealt ... defeated Republican Rep. David Cook of Mansfield by cobbling together a coalition of Democratic and GOP House members ...

Dustin Burrows of Lubbock to one of the most powerful positions in state government, Speaker of the Texas House, for the 89th Texas Legislature. Burrows secured 85 votes compared to Rep. David Cook of ...

Lubbock and West Texas lost trailblazers, heroes and others who touched the lives of many across the area and beyond in 2024. Here are some of the stories the Avalanche-Journal shared about people ...

Lubbock Republican state Rep. Dustin Burrows clinched the Texas House speakership Tuesday ... snagging 85 votes to opponent Rep. David Cook's 55 votes in the 150-member chamber; nine members ...

The voters of Texas have spoken loudly and clearly ... On Dec. 7, during the House Republican Caucus meeting, state Rep. David Cook of Mansfield secured the Republican nomination under rules ...

Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, was elected speaker of the Texas House on Tuesday, concluding a bitter and intense power ...

Dustin Burrows, a Lubbock Republican, was elected as speaker of the Texas House on the first day of the Texas legislative session, beating out Rep. David Cook, R-Mansfield, in a hotly contested ...

Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, was voted as next Texas House Speaker after a runoff ... Republicans who supported State Rep. David Cook, R – Mansfield, for the speakership sounded off following ...