{"id":272089,"date":"2026-04-29T23:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/272089\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T23:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:35:07","slug":"lubbock-law-enforcement-participates-in-special-olympics-torch-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/272089\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock law enforcement participates in Special Olympics torch run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Law enforcement officers participated in the Special Olympics Texas Law Enforcement Torch Run this morning to mark the start of the Special Olympics Texas Summer Games competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sheriff\u2019s deputies met with members of Special Olympics Texas downtown for the torch run. The event is part of a statewide effort to raise money and awareness for Special Olympics athletes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officers will now head to Melissa, north of Dallas, for the state run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 2026 Special Olympics Summer Games start tomorrow and will feature track and field, soccer, tennis and gymnastics events.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Law enforcement officers participated in the Special Olympics Texas Law Enforcement Torch Run this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[865,66,1739,168,170,169,523,223,30454,101131,101130],"class_list":["post-272089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-law-enforcement","tag-local","tag-lpd","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-lubbock-police","tag-news","tag-special-olympics","tag-special-olympics-texas-summer-games","tag-torch-run"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272089","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=272089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}