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Case counts remain low in area counties FacebookTwitterEmail This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Note the spikes that adorn the outer surface of the virus, which impart the look of a corona surrounding the virion, when viewed electron microscopically. A novel coronavirus, named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was identified as the cause of an outbreak of r...

Plainview man sentenced after helping Bailey County inmate escape federal custody Juan Anthony Cordero (Source: LCDC) By KCBD Staff | February 26, 2021 at 11:26 AM CST - Updated February 26 at 11:26 AM LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - After pleading guilty on Nov. 4, 2020, Juan Anthony Cordero, 25, of Plainview has been sentenced to 14 months in federal custody for assisting a Bailey County inmate’s escape. He was also sentenced to three years of supervised release. Mark Lucio was in federal...

Plainview man sentenced to 14 months for role in jail escape U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix on Thursday told Juan Anthony Cordero that the facts of his case outweighed the lenient punishment both his defense attorney and federal prosecutors requested.  However, the judge acknowledged Corderos role -- after his arrest -- in the capture of the man he helped escape from a South Plains jail and reconsidered the heavier punishment he planned to dole out and sentenced Cordero to 14 months ...

Several injuries reported after bus crash in Bailey County FacebookTwitterEmail A vehicle driven by Latisha Bibbs struck a Muleshoe ISD school bus driven by Ceferino Sierra, Jr. A preliminary report from the Texas Department of Public Safety shows the crash was reported at 12:51 p.m. at the intersection of the westbound lane of Highway U.S. 84 east of County Road 103 near Progress in Bailey County. Conditions were clear and dry when a GMC Acadia SUV occupied by Latisha Bibbs and Jaynee Bibbs an...

3 adults hospitalized, students monitored after SUV collides with Muleshoe school bus Three adults were injured while several students were being monitored for injuries after an SUV and school bus collided Wednesday afternoon in Bailey County. The crash involving a Muleshoe ISD bus and a GMC Acadia SUV occurred about 12:51 p.m. Wednesday on U.S. Highway 84 east of County Road 103 in Bailey County, according to an initial report from the Texas Department of Public Safety. Four children on the bu...

CUERO — Three weeks after Sandra Brazil received her first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, it was her 90-year-old mothers turn. They drove the 17 miles together from their home in Yoakum to Cuero, where Josephine Brazil got a shot — and a glimmer of hope of seeing her son and other family members again. "It is a blessing," Brazil said as she waited for her mother outside of the Cuero Municipal Park Clubhouse on a recent Friday. "I was praying and asking for a solution for the people so t...

Bailey County EMS has a newly named nonprofit organization to ensure the community has the knowledge to save a life before medics arrive.