{"id":182073,"date":"2026-02-27T00:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/182073\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T00:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:07:10","slug":"lubbock-county-cuts-ribbon-on-expanded-medical-examiners-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/182073\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock County cuts ribbon on expanded medical examiner\u2019s office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) -Lubbock County officials cut the ribbon on an expanded medical examiner\u2019s office Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Voters approved funding for the medical examiner\u2019s office in 2023 through a bond election. The facility is located northeast of Lubbock, near the Lubbock County Detention Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The county is contracting with University Medical Center for forensic pathology and autopsy services. Those services were previously outsourced to Tarrant County until 2023, when they were brought in-house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Thursday\u2019s ribbon cutting marked the expansion of the medical examiner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) -Lubbock County officials cut the ribbon on an expanded medical examiner\u2019s office Thursday. Voters approved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[319,66,168,72988,30331,72987,170,169,20373],"class_list":["post-182073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-kcbd","tag-local","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-county-bond-election-2023","tag-lubbock-county-detention-center","tag-lubbock-county-medical-examiner","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-umc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}