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The Lubbock Police Dep. has arrested three individuals connected to the April 4th shooting deaths of 17-year-old Mia Altamirano and 20-year-old Michael Bean, and the injury of two other victims.
Read moreIn every city across the country, gas prices are plummeting. The decrease in the price one pays at the pump is due to the cost of crude oil and the most significant decline in demand for gasoline since 1993.
Read moreThe shooting deaths of two individuals in Lubbock on Friday have ties to Brownfield. Around 2:00 a.m. on April 4th, the Lubbock Police Department responded to a shots fired call in the 2100 block of 49th Street in Lubbock. As officers arrived they found four victims who had been shot. Mia Altamirano, 17, and Michael Bean, 20, were pronounced dead at the scene. The two other victims were transported with serious and life threatening injuries to UMC, their names have not been released at this time.
Read moreWith the COVID-19 virus spreading across the South Plains there have been some issues with the proper authorities not knowing if the confirmed cases are necessarily in certain counties or towns. Hockley County Judge Baldridge recently had a visit with Region 1 Texas Dept. Of State Health Services and one issue that was of concern is how the release of confirmed cases are done. According to Judge Baldridge county judges were told testing would be done through the public health lab. However, now most tests are being done by private labs.
Read moreCovid-19 has caused a lot of uneasiness in our world. My parents are in their seventies, and I’ve asked them if they’ve ever seen a quarantine like what we’re seeing in our world today, and of course they answered no, never.
Read moreIn Brownfield the past few days there was both a shooting and an armed robbery.
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