Alabama poultry growers face devastation after storms
PHIL CAMPBELL, Ala. — Tom Parker shook his head and seemed near tears as he talked about all that he lost in an April 27 tornado that ripped apart the northern Alabama farm where he grew up and had...
View ArticleMargo Dydek, 7-foot-2 ex-WNBA player, dies at 37
BRISBANE, Australia - Margo Dydek, a 7-foot-2 former WNBA player who led the league in blocks nine times, died Friday after being placed in a medically induced coma following a heart attack a week ago....
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Tractor Supply appoints managerBrian Tolbert has been named manager for a new Tractor Supply Co. store to open in June in Lubbock. Tolbert first joined Tractor Supply Co. as a manager-in-training at...
View ArticleCepeda: Money helps but not key to inspiring college dream
Most people fantasize about winning the lottery. And then there are those who don't hope and pray after buying their weekly round of tickets - they plan. That's how Jacki and Gilbert Cisneros came to...
View ArticleSouth Dakotans blame Army Corps for flood threat
FORT PIERRE, S.D. - Sitting atop a 6-foot wall of white sandbags hastily stacked to protect his home from the rising Missouri River, 82-year-old Helmet Reuer doesn't buy the official explanation that...
View ArticleTripoli faces severe shortages of food, fuel as rebels keep fighting
TRIPOLI, Libya — Rebel fighters pushed increasingly leaderless regime gunmen to the outskirts of Tripoli on Saturday, as severe shortages of fuel, water and electricity paralyzed the battle-scarred...
View ArticleRonald McDonald charities help make a house a home
Ronald McDonald House Charities is one of this year’s recipients of The Avalanche-Journal’s Goodfellows campaign, which accepts donations from readers to benefit charitable organizations.Linda Limon,...
View ArticleGet ready for the warrant roundup
Several South Plains cities are among about 200 municipalities participating in the 2012 Great Texas Warrant Roundup, a statewide effort to resolve outstanding citations and warrants locally.Though...
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City Bank Mortgage promotes five City Bank Mortgage has announced five promotions.Cindy Carver has been promoted to vice president for City Bank Mortgage. She has 30 years of experience in the mortgage...
View ArticleGoogle announces expansion at Okla. data center
OKLAHOMA CITY — Google plans to double its server capacity in Oklahoma and add 50 new jobs when it builds a new facility in the state, company officials announced Wednesday.The new facility will be...
View ArticleCorrections facility changes lives
For residents at the Lubbock County Community Corrections Facility, time there is not just about serving probation — it’s about changing lives.Valerie Monteilh, director for the Court Resident...
View ArticleGoogle cameras map Grand Canyon trails
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. — Google and its street-view cameras already have taken users to narrow cobblestone alleys in Spain using a tricycle, inside the Smithsonian with a push cart and to...
View ArticleOwner of plane that crashed, killed Jenni Rivera investigated by DEA
PHOENIX — The company that owns a luxury jet that crashed and killed Mexican pop superstar Jenni Rivera is under investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and the agency seized two of...
View ArticleBright streeak of light reported over California
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hours after a meteor exploded over Russia and injured more than 1,000 people and an asteroid passed relatively close to Earth, residents in California reported seeing an unusual...
View ArticleHelmet water leak aborts spacewalk; astronaut OK
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — In one of the most harrowing spacewalks in decades, an astronaut had to rush back into the International Space Station on Tuesday after a mysterious water leak inside his helmet...
View ArticleRobots revolutionizing farming, helping ease labor woes
SALINAS, Calif. — On a windy morning in California’s Salinas Valley, a tractor pulled a wheeled, metal contraption over rows of budding iceberg lettuce plants. Engineers from Silicon Valley tinkered...
View ArticleVenezuela's government seizes US-owned oil rigs
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela has quietly seized control of two oil rigs owned by a unit of Houston-based Superior Energy Services after the company shut them down because the state oil monopoly was...
View Article11 hurt in explosion at Los Angeles-area building
LA HABRA, Calif. (AP) — An explosion and fire possibly caused by a dust buildup at a Southern California metal-polishing shop injured 11 people Tuesday, including two men who were critically burned,...
View ArticleTurkish miner who survived says company to blame
SAVASTEPE, Turkey — Miner Erdal Bicak believes he knows why so many of his colleagues died in Turkey’s worst mining disaster: company negligence.And he knows one other thing — he’s never going back...
View ArticleNM biofuel plant catches fire
ANTHONY, N.M. — A New Mexico biofuel facility caught fire Tuesday, sending a giant column of black smoke into the air and prompting authorities to briefly evacuate an area that includes about 350...
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