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Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, with help from state Reps. Todd Hunter and Jared Patterson, has gotten past a key hurdle with the adoption of new rules governing committees in that ...

If you’re not ready to admit that just yet, check out the debut of episode of YouTube golfluencer Grant Horvat’s new series, 2v2, which pits Horvat and Phil Mickelson against Dustin Johnson ...

Popular sportswriter Dustin Schutte has been named publisher of the ''Purdue Boilermakers on SI'' site, and will continue outstanding coverage of men's basketball, football and much more from West ...

State Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, addresses the House after being sworn in as House Speaker on the first day of the 89th Texas Legislative Session, in Austin. (Eddie Gaspar/The Texas Tribune ...

Continue to keep tabs on the icy and snow-covered roads into the afternoon and evening as temperatures will struggle to get out of the lower 30s with overcast skies. The only good news about today ...

The Texas House on Thursday voted to ban members of the minority ... Democrats sided with Speaker Dustin Burrows, a Lubbock Republican, because the other candidate in the race, Mansfield Republican ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Texas Tech Athletics is celebrating National Girls and Women in Sports Day. It hosted what has become a traditional clinic at the Womble Basketball Center on Saturday. The ...

The Texas Rangers are investigating after a deputy-involved shooting stemming from a vehicle and foot chase Friday evening in Lubbock County. The Lubbock County Sheriff's Office engaged in a ...