Law Enforcement

The number of child abuse and neglect cases reported in Lubbock County has decreased for the first time in a decade. This could be following a nationwide trend, but some say it’s only because of a definition change.

A 22-year-old is now in custody after repeatedly firing shots that killed one law enforcement officer and injured four others from a Levelland home he was…

S2N3: Jafar Abdullah brought three books to read lakeside at his neighborhood park. The top about the history of Islam, the bottom about poverty. In the middle is “The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander—a book that came highly recommended by one of Abdullah's mentors. The 2012 book equates the mass incarceration of Black Americans to a class system that can affect generations—an issue Abdullah thinks about often—especially when he’s working with kids through the mentorship program he started.