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Lubbock area community news in brief Lubbock Avalanche-Journal Area law enforcement agencies are joining efforts to continue enforcing safe driving in Lubbock. Continuing Wednesday, the Lubbock Police Department and Texas Department of Public Safety will partner their enforcement actions to focus on speeding violations and the failure to move over or slow down when a stationary emergency vehicle, tow truck or TxDOT vehicle have lights activated on roadways. The areas of focus will be on major thoroughfares, including the Marsha Sharp Freeway, Interstate 27 and Loop 289. If there is a stationa...

BELTON — For Maj. Shane Sowell, the new jail administrator for Bell County, the move to the area is both about family and about a new challenge. Sowell, who is coming from Laredo, will take over the management of the county’s two jails and coordinate the officers who handle local courts and inmates. Before joining the Bell County Sheriff’s Department, which oversees the jail, Sowell worked all around Texas. He has served as a jail administrator in Lamb County as well as an inspector for the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, covering 60 counties and 64 facilities. Jeff Buuck, ...

Study estimates true number of COVID-19 deaths by U.S. county Every country has been affected by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that has spawned a pandemic. For several factors, the United States has been hit hard by the number of coronavirus cases and death. The country currently leads the world with over 32.4 million infections and more than 577,000 COVID-19 deaths. But not all states have been equally affected by the coronavirus, with certain U.S. counties — Los Angeles, California, Maricopa, Arizona, and Cook, Illinois — having a higher number of case...

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 respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China in 2019. The illness caused by this virus has been...

Studies show that a virus variant surging in California is more contagious. The U.S. East Coast remains a hot spot as new coronavirus cases have declined elsewhere. Around the world, new cases have declined to half their peak.