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Lubbock’s professional soccer team has been crowned champion of the Lone Star Conference after defeating a Midland-based football club Saturday night. KTTZ's Bishop Van Buren reports the Lubbock Matadors will face the Jacksonville Armada Football Club tomorrow at 6 p.m. The winner will advance to the national semifinals scheduled for next weekend. Replacing the old mosquito hotline, the City of Lubbock's Vector Control Department is now accepting online requests for neighborhood mosquito spraying services. A link to the requests can be found at mylubbock.us/vector-control.

The Lubbock Police Department is investigating an incident involving a police K-9 that escaped its handler's backyard and left two with injuries on Saturday. Our reporter Bishop Van Buren has more on the attack. A bill in the state Legislature could make it harder to protest zoning changes in Texas. If passed, KERA’s Megan Cardona reports it would raise the threshold for a city council to vote on rezoning from 20-percent of property owners protesting, to 60-percent. Tonight, the Groves Branch Library is continuing its Medicare Education program 6-8 P.M. at 5520 19th Street.

Our News Director Sarah Self-Walbrick reports that a new Lubbock spot has been named one of the best breweries in the U.S. KERA's Christopher Connelly tells us how payday and auto title loans have drained $1.6 billion dollars a year from the Texas economy over the last ten years.

We have a recap of the week in sports.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Nicole Auerbach of The Athletic to preview the College Football Playoff and upcoming bowl season games.

As NPR's senior national correspondent, Linda Wertheimer travels the country and the globe for NPR News, bringing her unique insights and wealth of experience to bear on the day's top news stories.

During Jan. 6 hearings, former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone has been described as trying to control the fire that Trump set. He is to testify to the committee behind closed doors on Friday.

Lara Downes is among the foremost American pianists of her generation, a trailblazer both on and off the stage, whose musical roadmap seeks inspiration from the legacies of history, family and collective memory. As a chart-topping recording artist, a powerfully charismatic performer, a curator and tastemaker, Downes is recognized as a cultural visionary on the national arts scene.

Millions are preparing to fill out their NCAA tournament brackets, pondering deep questions such as, "Can Kentucky really run the table?" and "Which No. 5 seed will beat a No. 12 in the first round?"

"We now know that the virus is actively spreading in some communities here in Washington," a state official said, after four more people in the Seattle area died after contracting COVID-19.