\n\t\tTwo additional suspects wanted for Sunday morning Lubbock murder\t<\/a><\/p>\nMore than 700 employees and family members attended the rodeo this year to cheer on teams and individual competitors as they completed hands-on challenges based on the work they do in the field.<\/p>\n
Four teams and four individual competitors from Texas and New Mexico will go on to represent Southwestern Public Service Company, a subsidiary of Xcel Energy, at the International Lineman\u2019s Rode in Kansas City this coming fall.<\/p>\n
Journeyman Team Standings<\/p>\n
1st Place*: O.J. Zapata \u2014 Littlefield Service Center, Sterling Justus and Sean Williams \u2014 Lubbock SC<\/p>\n
2nd Place: Mark Edwards, Heath Hammond, Chris Carrillo \u2014 Boulder SC, Colorado<\/p>\n
3rd Place*: Guillermo Ramirez \u2014 Seminole SC, Stephen Byrd \u2014 Plainview SC, Eric Paredez \u2014 Levelland SC<\/p>\n
4th Place*: Sebastian Van Slyke \u2014 Amarillo SW Service Center, Israel Gonzales and Adam Kingsley \u2014 Amarillo NE SC<\/p>\n
5th Place*: Christopher Bonham, Dillon Licon, James Doncaster \u2014 Roswell SC<\/p>\n
2026 Top 10 Apprentice Standings<\/p>\n
Zachary Nicholas \u2014 Boulder Service Center, Colorado<\/p>\n
Derek Peiffer \u2014 Arvada CS, Colorado<\/p>\n
Kaleb Donais* \u2014 Amarillo Technical Center<\/p>\n
Austin Taylor* \u2014 Seminole SC<\/p>\n
Korey Moczygemba* \u2014 Seminole SC<\/p>\n
Greg Adame* \u2014 Plainview SC<\/p>\n
Bradley Reed \u2014 Lubbock SC<\/p>\n
Jayson Van Meter \u2014 Mesa County Operations Center, Colorado<\/p>\n
Jaydon Nguyen \u2014 Amarillo SW SC<\/p>\n
Caleb Lusk \u2014 Lubbock SC<\/p>\n
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\n\t\tLEDA CEO talks plans, addresses concerns over data center coming to Lubbock\t<\/a><\/p>\nNOTE: * Indicates competitors or teams that will represent the Southwestern Public Service Company in the International Lineman\u2019s Rodeo.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is always a great day for our crews and their families,\u201d said Brad Baldridge, interim president, Xcel Energy \u2013 Texas, New Mexico. \u201cThe rodeo gives our line workers a chance to challenge themselves, learn from one another and take pride in the work they do for our customers and communities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The above video shows the top local headlines for the morning of July 30, 2026. LUBBOCK, Texas \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-392613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392613","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=392613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}