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Sunday, November 15, 2026
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Dense fog advisory covers Lubbock and 11 other South Plains counties until noon Sunday
The National Weather Service in Lubbock issued a dense fog advisory at 3:13 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 15, for Lubbock, Hockley, Lamb, Hale, Crosby, Floyd, Cochran, Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Parmer and Swisher counties, in effect until noon. Forecasters said visibility could drop to a quarter mile or less, making driving conditions hazardous.
A second dense fog advisory issued at the same time covers Lynn, Garza, Terry, Yoakum, Dickens, Kent and six other counties to the south and east. The National Weather Service urged drivers to slow down, use their headlights and leave plenty of distance from the vehicle ahead.
Sources National Weather Service
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Lubbock Housing Authority opens public comment Monday on its proposed 2027 plans for public housing and Section 8
The Lubbock Housing Authority will take public comment starting Monday, Nov. 16, on its proposed 2027 Admin Plan, which covers changes to its public housing admissions and continued occupancy policy and its Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher administrative plan, KCBD reported Sunday. The agency says most of the proposed changes have already been approved by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The plan will be available for review until Dec. 30, and residents can submit written comments in person, by letter or by email to todd@lubbockha.org. A public hearing is set for 5 p.m. Jan. 4, 2027, at 1708 Crickets Ave. Executive Director Mike Chapman can be reached at (806) 776-2300 for information or accommodations.
Sources KCBD
Police identify pedestrian killed Friday on Milwaukee Avenue as Nathan McIntire, 49
The Lubbock Police Department on Saturday, Nov. 14, identified the pedestrian killed Friday evening in the 6700 block of Milwaukee Avenue as Nathan McIntire, 49, EverythingLubbock reported. Officers were called at about 6:05 p.m. Friday and found McIntire lying in the roadway, where he was pronounced dead.
According to LPD's initial investigation, McIntire was standing in the northbound lanes of Milwaukee Avenue when he was struck by a pickup truck driven by Cody Dorsey, 36. Police have not announced any charges, and the department's Major Crash Unit is still investigating the collision near 66th Street.
Sources EverythingLubbock
Texas Tech routs Oklahoma State 52-27 in Stillwater to move to 9-1
Texas Tech beat Oklahoma State 52-27 late Saturday night, Nov. 14, in Stillwater, staying on track for a return to the Big 12 championship game and the College Football Playoff. Malcolm Simmons returned the opening kickoff 97 yards for a touchdown, and Thomas Castellanos threw for 263 yards and four touchdowns as the Red Raiders built a 21-0 lead.
Oklahoma State answered with 17 straight points behind quarterback Drew Mestemaker, but Tech led 28-20 at halftime and shut out the Cowboys in the second half of a cold, rainy game. The Red Raiders (9-1, 6-1 Big 12) play at Baylor next Saturday, Nov. 21; kickoff time has not been set.
Sources Texas Tech Athletics · EverythingLubbock · KCBD
Advanced GraphixRed Raiders beat Stonehill 88-37, extending a 50-game non-conference home winning streak
No. 16 Texas Tech beat Stonehill 88-37 Saturday, Nov. 14, at United Supermarkets Arena, extending the program's non-conference home winning streak to 50 games, KCBD reported. Freshman DaKari Spear scored a game-high 22 points, 18 of them in the second half, and six Red Raiders finished in double figures.
Amari Barrett, a freshman from Oklahoma City, posted his first career double-double with 13 points and 10 rebounds, and Jamichael Stillwell added a double-double of his own. Tech held Stonehill to 24.1% shooting, forced 18 turnovers and won the rebounding battle 59-24. Coach Grant McCasland is now 27-0 in non-conference home games.
Sources KCBD
Police pursuit ends with a car crashing into a home on 42nd Street; driver arrested
A driver who fled a Lubbock police traffic stop crashed into a home in the 3400 block of 42nd Street, KCBD reported early Sunday, Nov. 15. An officer tried to pull the car over for a traffic violation at 42nd Street and Canton Avenue before it sped away, starting a pursuit.
The driver ran from the crash on foot but was caught and taken into custody, and suffered moderate injuries, police said. No one inside the home was hurt. LPD's Major Crash Unit is investigating near 42nd Street and Indiana Avenue, and police had not released further details.
Sources KCBD
Free Christmas tree giveaway sends more than 150 Lubbock families home with trees
More than 150 families went home with free Christmas trees from a Difference Maker Project giveaway, KCBD reported Saturday night, Nov. 14. Organizers said 90% of the trees were claimed within 30 minutes of opening, and every tree had found a home by the end of the day.
Organizer Missy Hall said the group had no idea how many families needed trees, and that the giveaway was about helping families build Christmas memories. Some people donated to support future projects, and Hall is asking families to share photos of their decorated trees.
Sources KCBD
State
SpaceX catches a returning Starship with its launch tower arms at Starbase for the first time
SpaceX caught its Starship spacecraft with the mechanical arms of its launch tower on Saturday, Nov. 14, the first capture of a Starship returning from space, the Associated Press reported. The ship landed back where it lifted off from SpaceX's Texas launch site 22 hours earlier.
The catch came a day after the rocket's first-stage booster exploded shortly after Friday's liftoff, ending the company's bid for a first-ever double catch. SpaceX said the landing shows Starship can be fully reused. NASA, which is paying billions for Starship to land Artemis astronauts on the moon, welcomed the result.
Sources EverythingLubbock (AP) · PBS NewsHour
Arch Manning's last-second touchdown gives Texas a 22-21 win at LSU
Arch Manning threw a 4-yard touchdown pass to Raleek Brown with 3 seconds left Saturday night, Nov. 14, giving No. 8 Texas a 22-21 win over No. 24 LSU at Tiger Stadium, the Associated Press reported. The Longhorns started the final drive at their own 42, trailing 21-16, with 2:19 to play.
Manning went 19 of 35 for 174 yards with three interceptions but converted three third downs on the winning drive, two of them with his legs. The win keeps Texas (8-2, 5-2 SEC) in contention for a College Football Playoff spot and all but eliminates LSU.
Sources EverythingLubbock (AP)
U.S. & World
FAA says air travel should be back to normal by Sunday night; officials point to a contractor's wiring upgrade
Airlines canceled thousands more flights Saturday, Nov. 14, as they recovered from Friday's nationwide ground stop, and FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said the schedule should return to normal by the end of Sunday, declaring the worst is behind us. Bedford also apologized to stranded travelers.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the outage began when contractor L3Harris was replacing old copper wire with fiber in the air traffic control system, overloading routers and causing communication and radar gaps. Officials are investigating whether installer error or a faulty router was to blame. The union for FAA technicians said its members were not consulted before the work.
Sources EverythingLubbock (AP) · KCBD · PBS NewsHour
Mullin Hoard & Brown, LLPIran claims a strike on a U.S. radar in Bahrain as Israel kills a top Hamas commander in Gaza
Iran's Revolutionary Guard claimed early Sunday, Nov. 15, that it struck a radar system at an American helicopter base in Bahrain, the Associated Press reported. U.S. Central Command did not immediately comment, and Bahrain's military said its air defenses intercepted a number of Iranian projectiles before they reached their targets.
Bahrain issued its first nationwide threat alerts since September. Separately, Israel said it killed a top Hamas commander in an overnight airstrike in southern Gaza, and Jordan sentenced three men to death for last month's deadly shooting at a Greek Orthodox church in Karak.
Sources EverythingLubbock (AP)
Congo's Ebola outbreak passes 11,000 cases and remains out of control six months in
Six months after it was declared in mid-May, Congo's Ebola outbreak has passed 11,000 recorded cases, with nearly half of those infected dying, the Associated Press reported Saturday, Nov. 14. It is the deadliest of Congo's 17 outbreaks and is on track to surpass the 2014-2016 West African epidemic that killed 11,000 people.
The virus has spread to eight of Congo's 26 provinces. The Africa CDC says 80% of new cases are detected outside health surveillance, and a third of deaths happen at home. Health workers have struck over months of unpaid wages, and experts see little chance of containing the outbreak within a year.
Sources EverythingLubbock (AP)
Judge blocks Trump's redevelopment of a public Washington golf course hours before it was set to close
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes on Saturday, Nov. 14, ordered a two-week halt to any work at East Potomac Golf Links, the public course near the White House that was due to close Sunday for 15 months while President Donald Trump redevelops it into a championship venue. The DC Preservation League and two golfers sued in February.
The plaintiffs argue the plan would change the course's character and make it unaffordable, which Trump denies. Reyes wrote that Trump's own social media posts announcing the closure showed the plan was final, which weighed in the plaintiffs' favor. Trump called the course "Trash Island" in a post Saturday.
Sources Fox News · EverythingLubbock (AP)
U.S. measles deaths reach 10 this year as Pennsylvania and Wisconsin report new deaths
The U.S. has recorded 10 measles deaths this year after Pennsylvania and Wisconsin reported additional deaths, EverythingLubbock reported Saturday, Nov. 14. Pennsylvania said its latest death, the state's seventh, was an unvaccinated person; Wisconsin said a child had died but released no other details.
Measles cases nationwide have passed 5,400 this year, more than double the roughly 2,300 reported in all of 2025, according to the CDC, and 96% are in unvaccinated people. Pennsylvania alone has more than 1,500 cases, over a quarter of the national total, and the CDC sent a disease investigator there in October.
Sources EverythingLubbock
Fetterman says Democrats electing Van Hollen as Senate leader would be troubling, hinting he could leave the party
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., said in a Fox News interview that it would be troubling if Senate Democrats elected Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., as majority leader, citing Van Hollen's stance on Israel, The Hill reported Saturday, Nov. 14. Asked whether that would be a red line for leaving the party, Fetterman said, "Yeah, absolutely."
Van Hollen said Thursday he would challenge Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., for the post after Democrats won control of both chambers in the midterms. Schumer says he expects to have the votes, but Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elissa Slotkin and several incoming senators have said they will not back him.
Sources EverythingLubbock (The Hill)
NATO scraps next year's leaders' summit in Albania and scales back ministerial meetings
NATO will not hold its planned 2027 leaders' summit in Albania and is cutting back other high-level meetings amid tension in the alliance over defense spending, Iran and the war in Ukraine, the Associated Press reported Saturday, Nov. 14. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said a summit would not happen in 2027 and, if held in 2028, would be in Tirana.
Secretary-General Mark Rutte told the AP the alliance holds summits when it needs them. Defense ministers skipped their usual October meeting this year and none is planned for October 2027, and foreign ministers will meet once next year instead of twice.
Sources EverythingLubbock (AP)
D. Williams & Co., Inc.UPS cargo jet and Copa Airlines passenger plane collide while taxiing at Miami International Airport
The wingtip of a Copa Airlines Boeing 737 struck the nose of a UPS Boeing 767 as both taxied at Miami International Airport around 9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, leaving two people with minor injuries, Fox News reported. The FAA said controllers had told the UPS crew, departing for Bogota, Colombia, to give way to the arriving Copa jet.
Greg Chin, communications director for the Miami-Dade Aviation Department, said the planes made contact at the intersection of two taxiways and flights were rerouted around the scene with no impact on airport operations. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue treated the two injured people at the scene. The FAA is investigating.
Sources Fox News
Evacuation lifted in Peoria, Illinois, after authorities find no other devices at the ethanol plant
Peoria police lifted the evacuation order for homes within a mile of the BioUrja Renewables ethanol plant on Saturday, Nov. 14, after state, federal and local officers searched the area and found no other items of concern, the Associated Press reported. A bomb found at the plant Friday afternoon had been rendered safe.
Residents were allowed to return home and roads reopened. FBI Special Agent Ryan Presley said the agency is investigating and will work to identify the person responsible. No arrests have been made and no injuries were reported.
Sources EverythingLubbock (AP) · KCBD
Pope Leo XIV denounces the suffering of enslaved Africans at a slavery memorial site in Peru
Pope Leo XIV on Saturday, Nov. 14, denounced the "suffering and humiliation" endured by enslaved Africans during a visit to Zana, Peru, a UNESCO-recognized memorial site for slavery and a center of the Afro-Peruvian community, the Associated Press reported. The visit followed his historic apology for the Holy See's role in legitimizing the slave trade in the Americas.
Zana is part of the pope's former diocese of Chiclayo, where, as Robert Prevost, he often prayed. The U.S.-born pope, whose own family tree includes both enslaved people and slave owners, expressed his closeness to Peruvians of African descent, who still face discrimination.
Sources EverythingLubbock (AP)
Richard Sterban, the Oak Ridge Boys' bass voice on 'Elvira,' dies at 83
Richard Sterban, the bass singer of The Oak Ridge Boys whose deep bass run anchored the group's classic hit Elvira, died in Hendersonville, Tennessee, at 83, the group's representatives said Saturday, Nov. 14, according to WKRN and the Associated Press. They said he died of complications from bronchitis and pneumonia after a long battle with cancer.
Sterban joined the group in 1972. With Duane Allen, William Lee Golden and Joe Bonsall, he helped carry a Southern gospel quartet into country and pop, placing 34 singles in the country Top 10, 17 of them at No. 1. The group is in the Country Music and Gospel Music halls of fame.
Sources EverythingLubbock · KCBD
Phil Collins, Queen Latifah, Oasis and Wu-Tang Clan join the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Phil Collins, Queen Latifah, Oasis, Wu-Tang Clan, Billy Idol, Sade, Iron Maiden, MC Lyte, Joy Division/New Order and the late Luther Vandross were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Saturday night, Nov. 14, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, the Associated Press reported. Producer Rick Rubin was also honored.
Collins, 75, whose health problems kept him from performing, walked onstage with two canes and wept during a long ovation. Oprah Winfrey inducted Vandross, U2 opened the show with a surprise set, and Run DMC and Aerosmith closed it with "Walk This Way."
Sources EverythingLubbock (AP)
