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Texas Tech hires 33-year-old Kingsbury as coach
New Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury has wanted to be back in Lubbock since he left a decade ago. Late last week the former Red Raiders quarterback ...
Cincinnati hires Tuberville as football coach
Tommy Tuberville wasn't expecting a call from an old acquaintance. A few hours later, he was headed north for a new job. Tuberville left Texas Tech ...
Texas millionaire charged with child molestation
Stanley Marsh 3, the eccentric millionaire artist best known for his "Cadillac Ranch" art display along an interstate in the Texas Panhandle, was ...
Veterans sue railroad over fatal crash in Texas
Two Army veterans and their wives on Wednesday sued the railroad company whose train hit a truck carrying veterans and their spouses during a parade ...
Saudi man gets life in prison in US bomb plot
A former Texas college student from Saudi Arabia was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for trying to make a bomb for use in a religious attack, ...
Texas upends No. 20 Texas Tech 31-22
Texas coach Mack Brown finally got a glimpse of the team he's looked for all season. "I thought it was the best team win we've had all year," Brown ...
Police probe Texas agency in case where child died
Police have launched a rare investigation of the Texas child protection agency after a 22-month-old girl died and her mother claimed her military ...
Texas Tech stuns No. 5 West Virginia 49-14
The matchup between Texas Tech and No. 5 West Virginia featured a quarterback who put up cartoonish numbers, throwing for six touchdowns and 499 yards
Mom's letter: Gillispie verbally abused son often
The mother of a teenager at Billy Gillispie's summer basketball camp claims in a letter to a top school administrator that the former Texas Tech coach ...
Gillispie resigns as Texas Tech basketball coach
Texas Tech fans had pinned their basketball hopes on Billy Gillispie. He had turned around two other flagging programs in the state, and they hoped ...
TT's Gillispie ordered to avoid stress for 30 days
Billy Gillispie said doctors have ordered him to avoid any stress for 30 days in an effort to bring the Texas Tech basketball coach's blood pressure ...
2nd 911 call from home of Tex Tech coach Gillispie
An ambulance was sent to the home of Texas Tech coach Billy Gillispie for the second time in 10 days while he remains on leave as the school ...
Texas Tech coach Billy Gillispie on sick leave
Texas Tech coach Billy Gillispie is on indefinite sick leave while his bosses investigate allegations that he mistreated his players during practices.
Jordan: US missionary stabbed to death by teenager
A Jordanian teenager stabbed to death a Texas missionary living in the kingdom during an argument that broke out when she caught him stealing from her ...
Texas Tech coach Billy Gillispie hospitalized
Texas Tech coach Billy Gillispie was hospitalized for an undisclosed medical issue Friday, the same day the university announced it was scrutinizing ...
Slain Texas doctor's family knew about problems
The family of Dr. Joseph Sonnier III had gathered in Louisiana for his funeral when they heard the news: Police had accused another doctor of paying ...
Lawyer: Texan to fight allegation he killed doctor
A Texas plastic surgeon plans to fight allegations that he paid another man thousands of dollars in silver bars to kill a fellow doctor who was dating ...
Plastic surgeon arrested in Texas doctor's death
A West Texas plastic surgeon paid someone $9,000 — in the form of three silver bars — to kill another doctor who was dating his ex-girlfriend, police ...
Doctor: Lack of sleep prompted pilot's breakdown
A psychologist testified that a JetBlue Airways pilot who screamed about religion and terrorists during a flight had "a brief psychotic disorder" due ...
Both sides rest at Texas bomb plot trial
The Saudi man accused of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction said he would get "maximum satisfaction" and be "smiling" after carrying out ...
Agent: Chemicals found in Saudi man's apartment
Federal agents who searched the Texas apartment of a Saudi man accused of gathering materials to make a bomb found sulfuric acid and nitric acid, ...
Opening statements set in Texas bomb plot trial
Federal prosecutors in the trial of a Saudi man accused of gathering bomb components with the goal of targeting sites across the United States will ...